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 IIKKKINc:SHAV8 LIHRA^.Y OF AMERICAN niOGHAl'lIY. asHuciation. Hr is now making Htudies and invi'sti^ations in tlu> Mi«>ilic-al iMttany and insect fauna of Arizona at IMioi-iiix. He is tin- originator of tlu* Arizona cactus farm, an'l exporter of caeti to the botanical gardens of the world. He is the autlior of Monographs of Many Species of Cactus; Cardinal I'oints in the Study of Medical H«»tany: ( iertnination and N'itality of Seeds;

and otiier works. Kurtz, Benjamin, clergyman, author, was lie was a Uorn in 17!>."» in Pennsylvania. lutheran elergynuui; and for nearly thirty years the editor of The Lutheran Observer. He was lie author of Lutheran I'rayerIJook Vcar Hpe and Are YfMi a Lutheran? Charity: and Thels of Heading, Pa.; and in IST'i gniduati'*! from the high school of I



that



eity.

He

re<-eived

a

full

collegiate

. Kurtz, John D., soldier, was born about 1822 in District of Columbia. He serve<l

from

as assistant t(» the chief engineer in Washington: and then on harlMir works in New Kngland till the civil war. H«' was pnunoted major in I8(!.'{. brevet lieutenant-colonel and brevet colonel in ISfi.!, and lieutenant colonel in mu. In 1884 8.1 he was commander in ehief of the graiid army of the republic. He died Oct. (, 1877, in (Jeorgetown. D.C. Kurtz, John Daniel, founder, was born in I7<).i in (Jermantown, Pa. He was one of till' founders of the general synod; a ilireetor in the theologic;il si-niinary; anerator. Since 10(18 he has been I'e



'"emlMT of th" Pentisylvania state S4>nate. Kurtz, William H., congressman, was born In |8,"»| in York. Pa. he was a repreM'ntativ*' froM) Pennsylvania to the thirty-

fl

.>.">

».e<*ond

in

and thirty-third

congres.ses.

He

died

Pennsylvania.

Kustermann, Gustav, merchant, congress-

man, was Since

l»orn

18t!8

May

he has

455

1850, in (Jern>any. resided in (Jreen Ray, 24,

Wis., and for thirty years wa.s engaged in In 1802-06 he was the mercantile Imsincss. postmaster of (Jreen Hay. Wis.; and in HMH1>7 was a mi>mb< r of the state board of control, being president of that iMnly for the In 1907-11 he was a last three years. represi-ntative from Wisconsin to the sixtieth and sixty lirst congresses as a republican. Kutz, George Fink, naval onSccr, was born •Inm. 14. ls:{.'i. in Wilkesbarre, Pa. In 18.'> be was appoint"d third assistant engineer; and in |8(W lM>came chief engineer in the In 1806 he was I nited States naval service. retir«>d after forty years of service and was advanced to the rank of rear admiral.

Kuykendall, Andrew

J.,

state senattir. congressman,

soldier, lawyer, lM»rn March

was

Callatin county. 111. In 1842-40 he was a memlMT of the Illinois b'gislature and was in the state senate in 1850-62. He (•nliste7 he was a representative from Illinois t<» the thirty-ninth ctMigrcss as a republican. He died in Illinois. •A.

ISI,-).

in

Kuypers, Gerardus was bi>rn Dec.

ioithor.

Arentse, 10.

clergyman,

1700, in the

West

In 1780 1833 he had charge of a church at New York city. In 1700 he was jippointed a teacher of Hebrew. He was the author of Disi-ourses on the Heidelberg He died .Tune 28. 18.33, in New Cate< liisrn. Indies.

York city. Kyan, John

H.,

manufacturer, was born

He was the first to inin 177.'> in F.ngland. troduce a chemical process for the preservation of w<M)d. This nu-thod was named kyaHe died .fan. 9. 1850, in New York nizing. city.

Kyle, D. Braden, physician, bacteriologist, author. He is a consulting laryngologist at He St. .gnes hospital of Philadelphia. Pa. is the author «)f Diseases of the Nose and Throat. Kyle, John Curtis, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born July 17. 1851. in He attended Hethel c<dlege; .'^ardis. .Miss. and in 1874 graduated from Cumberland university with the He degree of LL.B. Iw'gan the practii-*- of law in .Mississippi. In 1870 he was mayor of Sardis. Mass.; and in 1881 he was eiei'ted to the Mississippi

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He

state

a

member

^I^HH^Pl^m^l man

coni-

missiiui;

and

chair-

democratic executive comIn 1801-07 he was a representative

of Ihe state

nuttee. from Mississippi

to

the

fifty-second,

fifty-