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LEFT KELLEY 328 XELLS Strassburg in 1735. He gained great dis- tinction in the Seven Years' War, during which he rose to the rank of brigadier. On the breaking out of the Revolution, he was given the command of the army of the Moselle or the North, and in 1792 gained the splendid victory of Valmy over the Prussians, and in 1795 had com- HELEN KELLER mand of the armies of Italy and the Alps. The ascending star of Napoleon superseded Kellermann as an indepen- dent commander, though his services were acknowledged by a marshal's baton in 1804 and the title of Duke of Valmy. He died in 1820. KELLEY, HOWARD G., a Canadian railroad president. He was born in Philadelphia in 1858 and g^raduated from the Polytechnic College, Pennsylvania. He entered railroad service in 1881, be- coming engineer on location bridge con- struction and harbor work. He had charge of the field construction of 250 miles on West and Pacific divisions in Washington, Idaho and Montana of the Northern Pacific railway till 1884. He was superintendent of mines in Montana, 1884-1887, and engineer with St. Louis Southwestern railroad 1887-1898. He was connected with other railroad sys- tems as consulting and chief engineer, and in 1917 became president of the Grand Trunk railway system, president also of Grand Trunk Pacific railway, and chairman of the board of the Central Vermont railway. KELLOGG, CLARA LOUISE, an American opera singer; born in Sum- terville, S. C, July 12, 1842. She ob- tained her musical education in New York City, and London. Her first ap- pearance in opera was in 1861 at the Academy of Music in New York City as Gilda in "Rigoletto." From that time on she held an enviable place in the affections of the American public and was also most cordially received in Eng- land. Her voice was a pure and flexible soprano and her execution brilliant. She had an extensive repertoire, including 45 operas. In 1887 she was married to Carl Strakosch and retired to private life. Published "Memoirs of an American Prima Donna" (1913). Died in 1916. KELLOGG, FRANK BILLINGS, United States Senator from Minnesota; born in Potsdam, N. Y., in 1856. In 1865 he removed with his pareiits to Minnesota, where he received a common school education. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1877. He served as city attorney for Rochester, Minn., and as county attorney. In 1887 he removed to St. Paul. He was special counsel for the United States against the paper and Standard Oil trusts. He was also counsel for the United States in the cases against the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads, and for the Interstate Commerce Commission in the investigation of the Harriman railroads. He was elected United States Senator from Minnesota in 1917. He took an active part in the discussion of the League of Nations Covenant and the Treaty of Peace in the Senate, and was an advocate of "mild reservations." _ He was mentioned as a possible Republican candidate for the presidency in 1920. KELLOGG, VERNON LYMAN, an American geologist and public official; born at Emporia, Kan., in 1867. He graduated from the University of Kan- sas in 1889. He took^ post-graduate courses at Cornell and in France and Germany. After occupying various chairs in the University of Kansas, he was appointed professor of entomology and lecturer on bionomics at Leland Stanford Jr. University in 1894. He was the author of many works on zoo- logical subjects. Among these are "Evo- lution and Animal Life" (1907); "The Animals and Man" (1911); "Beyond War" (1912). In 1915 and 1916 he was in charge of food distribution in Belgium and northern France for the American Commission for Relief in Belgium. In 1916 he was appointed assistant to the United States food administrator. KELLS (originally Kenlis), an an- cient town of County Meath, Ireland; on the Blackwater, 26 miles W. of Drogheda.