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572 in 1783, and established the "New York Gazet- teer," and in 1787 removed to Elizabethtown, N. J., and revived his first journal, which he edited for thirty-one years. He was judge of common pleas thirty-five years and postmaster of Elizabethtown from 1820 till 1829. — His son, Henry, clergyman, b. in New Providence, N. J., 14 Dec, 1778 ; d. in Savannah, Ga., 29 Dec, 1819, was graduated at Princeton in 1794, and was tutor there from 1797 till 1800, at the same time studying theology. He was licensed to preach on 7 May, 1800, and in December he became professor of divinity in Princeton, and pastor of the church there. Prom 1800 till his death he was pastor of the independ- ent Presbyterian church in Savannah, Ga. In 1817 he spent eight months in England to collect materials for a life of John Calvin. Dr. James W. Alexander, in his memoir of Archibald Alexander (New York, 1854), spoke of him as " one of the most ornate yet vehement orators whom our country has produced." Harvard gave him the degree of D. D. in 1806. His sermons were published, with a memoir, by his brother (4 vols., Savannah, 1822). — Another son, Shepard Kosciuszko, clergyman, b. in Elizabethtown, N. J., 29 June, 1795; d. in Philadelphia, Pa., 7 April, 1865, was graduated at Princeton in 1812, studied theology with Dr. John McDowell and his brother, was licensed to preach in 1814, and ordained in 1818 as pastor of a Presby- terian church in Oxford, N. C. He was soon ap- pointed professor of rhetoric and logic in the Uni- versity of North Carolina, and in 1825 called to the Presbyterian church of Norfolk, Va., where he remained ten years. He then returned to New Jersey, and was for three years agent of the Board of domestic missions. He was successively pastor in Burlington, N. J., and Greenwich, N. J., till 1860, and in that year he removed to Philadelphia, where he preached to the benevolent institutions of the city until 1863. Princeton gave him the de- gree of D. D. in 1850. He contributed to the " Princeton Review," and published discourses and " Pastoral Reminiscences," translated into French and issued in Paris (New York, 1849).

KOLTES, John A., soldier, b. in Rhenish Prussia in 1823 ; d. near Gainesville, Va., 30 Aug., 1862. He came to this country in 1846, and served throughout the Mexican war as orderly sergeant. After its close he became an officer of the marine corps, and was subsequently employed in the U. S. mint in Philadelphia. At the opening of the civil war he raised and commanded a regiment of Ger- mans. He was killed at the battle of Gainesville, Va. He had been acting brigadier-general in Gen. Adolph Von Steinwehr's division for four months, and his friends who had secured his promotion to this rank were carrying his commission, when they met his body as it was borne from the battle-field.

KONDIARONK, also known as the Rat, chief of the Tionnontates Hurons, d. in Montreal, Canada, 2 Aug., 1701. He was considered by the French of Canada the bravest and ablest Indian they had ever met. He was constantly at war with the French until 1688, when Denonville, the governor, succeeded in making a treaty with him. In pursu- ance of this treaty, Kondiaronk set out on 26 May, at the head of 100 men, from Mackinaw to attack the Iroquois. He took Catarocouy on the road, and then learned that the French were negotiating with the Iroquois tribes, and that the French governor would not tolerate any hostility on the part of the Hurons. Kondiaronk was surprised at this change of affairs, but made no complaint, and withdrew from the fort, pretending to go to his village. He had learned, however, that Iroquois deputies and hostages were on their way to Mon- treal, and, after lying in wait for them several days at Hungry bay, rushed on them with his kind, killing twenty and taking the rest prisoners. His intrigues after this exploit were marked by clever diplomacy, and had the effect of involving the French and the Iroquois in war, during the course of which he baffled all Denonville's steps for effecting peace. In 1689 he arranged a plan with the Iroquois for exterminating the Ottawas, the execution of which was prevented at the last mo- ment by Nicolas Perrot, who learned of the plot from an Aniez Indian. In 1690 he was instru- mental in prevailing on the Ottawas to treat with the Iroquois without the intervention of the French. He afterward became a firm friend of the French, and did them good service on many occasions. In 1697 he landed at the head of Lake Michigan with 150 warriors, and found that the Iroquois were encamped at some distance to the number of 250, but with canoes for only sixty. He advanced to the spot, but immediately feigned flight, and being pursued by sixty Iroquois in their canoes, turned and routed them. He afterward prevented the Hurons of Mackinaw from following the Baron, one of their chiefs in the English inter- est, to New York. He accompanied De la Motte Cadillac to Montreal in the same year, where Fron- tenac treated him with distinction. He took an active part in bringing about the treaty between the hostile tribes and the French in Montreal in 1700. Kondiaronk was at Montreal again in 1701. and it was by his influence that De Callieres, the governor, hoped to persuade the different tribes to make a mutual interchange of prisoners and to submit their differences in future to the French governor. His death was a heavy blow to the French interest. He was converted by Father de Carheil, and was accustomed to say that the only Frenchmen of talent he had met were De Carheil, De Callieres, and Count Frontenac

KONSCHAK, Count Ferdinand, clergyman, b. in Warasdin, Croatia, 2 Dec, 1703 ; d. in California in 1760. He entered the Jesuit order, 22 Oct.. 1719, and, after teaching in Buda, set out as a missionary for Mexico, where he labored for several years. He was at first superior of the mission of St. Igna- tius in California, and afterward visitor of all the Jesuit missions. His works that he published after his arrival in Mexico are " Vida y muerte del P. Antonio Tempis, Jesuita Misionero de Californias " (Mexico, 1748); "Apostolicos Afanes de la Com- pania de Jesus, etc." (Barcelona, 1754 ; Paris, 1767) ; and " Historia de las Misiones de Californias, nom- bradas: los Dolores del Norte, y la Magdalena," which remained in manuscript, but supplied Vene- gas {q. v.) with nearly all the materials for his his- tory of California. A narrative of Konschak's addressed to the confessor of the viceroy of Naples, dated Vera Cruz, 24 April, 1731, is in the 37th volume of the " Weltbote " (Augsburg, 1728-'50).

KOQUETHAGACHTON, called by the English "White Eyes," Delaware chief, d. in Fort Laurens, Ohio, in November, 1778. He was appointed by Netawatwes, chief of the Turtle tribe, his first councillor, and on his death, in 1776, succeeded him. In Dunmore's war. as well as during the Revolution, White Eyes strove strenuously to keep the Delawares neutral. Failing in this in the latter contest, he joined the Americans, and died when Mcintosh's expedition was about to move against the Sanduskv towns.

KOSCIUSZKO, Tadeusz (kos-se-us'-ko), Polish patriot, b. near Novogrudek, Lithuania, 12 Feb., 1746; d. in Solothurn, Switzerland,