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Rh was among those who .were interested in the success of the Atlantic cable. Mr. Kitehing spent a large amount of money in the ship "Ericsson," which was intended to demonstrate the superiority of the method of propulsion by air-engines ; but on the trial-trip an accident occurred, causing the sink- ing of the vessel. In 1840 he removed to Brooklyn and was associated in the founding of several banks and in the establishment of the Polytechnic and Packer institutes. Later he was one of the promoters of the Manhattan market and the Gar- field national bank in New York city. In 1873 he was instrumental in founding St. John's school in New York city, which was conducted by his son-in-law, the Rev. Theodore Irving, and since the death of the latter by Mrs. Irving, Mr. Kitching's daughter. — His son, John Howard, soldier, b. in New York city, 16 July, 1840 ; d. in Dobb's Ferry, N. Y., 11 Jan., 1865, was educated in private schools in Brooklyn and New York, and at the beginning of the civil war enlisted as a private in the Lincoln cavalry. Soon afterward he received a captain's commission in the 2d New York artillery, and participated in all the battles of the peninsular campaign. In the autumn of 1862 he was made lieutenant-colonel of the 135th New York volun- teers, which was afterward changed to the 6th artillery, and in April, 1863, he was appointed colonel of his regiment. Subsequently he was almost constantly in command of a brigade, and on 1 Aug., 1864. received the brevet of brigadier- general of volunteers. During 1863-'4 he was stationed with the artillery reserve at Harper's Perry, Brandv Station, and elsewhere in that vicinity. In May, 1804, he joined the Army of the Potomac, and participated in the overland cam- paign until July, 1864, when the 6th corps was detached from the army and sent to Washington, where Col. Kitehing continued to act as a brigade- commander in charge of the defences of the capital. Later he had command of a provisional division in the Army of the Shenandoah, and in the battle of Cedar Creek received wounds from the effects of which he died some months afterward. See " More than Conqueror : or Memorials of Col. J. Howard Kitehing " (New York, 1873).

KITTREDGE, Jonathan, temperance advocate, b. in Canterbury, N. II.. 17 July. 1793: d. in Concord, N. H., 8 April. 1864. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1813, read law in New York city. practised there seven years, and subsequently settling in Canaan, N. H., represented that town in the legislature. From 1855 till 1859 he was chief i'ustice of the court of common pleas, and in the atter year he removed to Concord, where he re- sided until his death. Dartmouth gave him the degree of LL. D. in 1858. Judge Kittredge was an ardent temperance advocate, and delivered, at Lyme, in January. 1827, the first temperance lec- ture ever given in New Hampshire. This lecture was published (Lyme, N. H., 1827), and was long a popular tract on the subject.

KITTREDGE, Thomas, surgeon, b. in Andover, Mass., in July, 1746; d. there in October, 1818. He studied medicine at Newburyport, settling at Andover in 1768. He was appointed surgeon in Col. James Frye's regiment in 1775, and was at the battle of Bunker Hill. Dr. Kittredge was an early member of the Massachusetts medical society, and served in the legislature several terms and in the council in 1810-'11.

KJOEPING, Oläus (kyuh-ping), Swedish explorer, b. in Dalecarlia in 1741; d. in Soroe, Denmark, in 1809. He entered the Danish service as military surgeon, and was stationed for several

years in the West Indies, also visiting Louisiana, Guiana, and New Spain. In 1796 he became rector of the academy of Soroe. His works concerning America, include &ldquo;Beschreibung von Guiana&rdquo; (Soroe, 1797); &ldquo;Neueste Gemälde von Louisiana und Mississippi&rdquo; (2 vols., 1792); &ldquo;Prodromus floræ, sistens enumerationem plantarum cellularium quas in insulas, Santo Domingo, Cuba, Sancti Thomæ et Sancti Bartholomei a Kjoeping collectas describit&rdquo; (Copenhagen, 1799); and &ldquo;Anmärkningar om Planter af Cuba&rdquo; (3 vols., 1807).

KLEEBERG, Minna, poet, b. in Elsmhorn, Holstein, Germany, 21 July, 1841; d. in New Haven, Conn., 31 Dec., 1878. She was the daughter of a physician named Cohen, and was carefully trained by her father, early showing poetical taste. In 1862 she married Rev. Dr. L. Kleeberg, with whom she came to this country in 1866. Her poems soon attracted attention, and her efforts to repel anti-Semitic accusations gained general praise. Most of her poems were published in Dr. L. Stein's &ldquo;Freitag-Abend,&rdquo; at Frankfort-on-the-Main, and they were collected in book-form just before her death (Louisville, Ky., 1877).

KLEIN, Gustav Frederic (kline). German missionary, b. in Mannheim in 1708; d. in Talca, Chili, in November, 1771. He became a Jesuit, and in 1733 was sent to the missions of Uruguay. He was afterward rector of the College of Santiago, dean of the cathedral of Quito, and, after the expulsion of the order in 1767, settled in Talca, where he bought a large estate. Klein devoted most of his time to historical researches, and published &ldquo;Descripción general de la América Española&rdquo; (Buenos Ayres, 1737); &ldquo;Resumen de la historia de Chile&rdquo; (Santiago, 1744); &ldquo;Geographia generalis, seu descriptio globi terrarumque&rdquo; (1749); &ldquo;Documentos ineditos para la historia de Peru&rdquo; (3 vols., Quito. 1752); and &ldquo;Memorias sobre las colonias de España situadas en la costa occidental de América&rdquo; (5 vols., 1754). He left also several manuscripts, which were forwarded to Rome after his death, and published in the &ldquo;Bibliotheca nova Scriptorum Societatis Jesu,&rdquo; including &ldquo;Cronica del reyno de Chile&rdquo; (5 vols., Rome, 1789); &ldquo;Memorias dos estabelecimentos portuguezes na costa do Brazil&rdquo; (6 vols., 1790); and &ldquo;Additamentos a's ditas memorias, emque se referem algumas particularedades acerca dos estabelecimentos portuguezes do Brazil&rdquo; (6 vols, 1792).

KLINGSOHR, John Augustus, clergyman, b. near Dresden, Saxony, 13 June, 1746; d. in Bethlehem, Pa., 5 Nov., 1798. He was graduated at the University of Leipsic, where he studied both theology and law. After serving the Moravian church in Germany in various capacities, and being ordained successively to the grades of deacon and presbyter, he accepted an appointment as pastor of the church at Bethlehem, Pa., where he arrived in 1783, and labored for fifteen years, until his death, with great acceptance and success. He was a learned theologian and distinguished preacher.

KLÜBER, Melchior, German explorer, b. in Dessau in 1713; d. in Gotha in 1764. He entered the ministry and became chaplain of the Prince of Lippe-Detmold in 1752. He had read the pleadings of Las Casas in behalf of the Indians, and induced the prince to send him to South America to ascertain the real condition of the Indians two centuries after the conquest. Sailing from Bremen in November, 1756, he landed in the following January in Santo Domingo, but met there with difficulties and was for some time unable to proceed on his mission. At last he won the friendship of the lieutenant of the king in Les Cayes, who gave him