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 788 KENDAL KENDALL Rat Indians, north of the Porcupine, called also Loucheux, Lake Indians, and Quarrellers ; 8, the Natehekutchin, that is, strong people, mi- gratory hunters, called also Gens do Large and Loucheux ; 9, the Kutchakutchin, near the Porcupine and Yukon, called also Lowland people ; 10, the Tenanakutchin or Gens de Butte, on Tenana river; and on the lower Yukon the Unokhotana, Coyukkhotana, and Karyukkhotana, a large tribe called by the Rus- sians Ingaliks, probably an Esquimaux name. These three tribes cannot converse with the Kutchins, though their language is similar. KENDAL, or Klrkby-Kendal, a market town and parliamentary borough of Westmoreland, England, 40 m. S. of Carlisle, situated in a pleasant valley on the E. bank of the Ken ; pop. in 1871, 13,442. Queen Catharine Parr was born here. Kendal is an important manu- facturing town, and one of the oldest in the kingdom, the woollen manufacture having been established there by Flemish weavers, on the invitation of Edward III., in the 14th century. Its green cloth seems to have been celebrated in the time of Shakespeare. On an eminence E. of the town is the ruined castle of the an- cient barons of Kendal. KENDALL. I. A S. W. county of Texas, in- tersected by the Guadalupe river ; area, 1,400 aq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 1,536, of whom 101 were colored. Two thirds of the surface is covered with timber, and the remainder is prairie. It is one of the best counties for sheep raising in the state. The chief productions in 1870 were 51,245 bushels of Indian corn, 8,781 Ibs. of wool, 26,458 of butter, and 381 tons of hay. There were 1,345 horses, 2,337 milch cows, 10,074 other cattle, 4,293 sheep, and 1,734 swine. Capital, Boerne. II. A N. E. county of Illinois, drained by Fox river and the sources of the Au Sable ; area, 324 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 12,399. It has an undulating surface, diversified by woodland and prairie. The soil is uniformly fertile. The Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy railroad passes through it, and the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific touches the S. E. corner. The chief produc- tions in 1870 were 91,930 bushels of wheat, 681,267 of Indian corn, 468,890 of oats, 79,365 of potatoes, 39,884 Ibs. of wool, 386,050 of butter, and 23,740 tons of hay. There were 7,275 horses, 5,988 milch cows, 8,835 other cattle, 12,236 sheep, and 14,892 swine; 12 manufactories of agricultural implements, 9 of carriages, 1 of printing paper, 5 flour mills, and 1 tannery. Capital, Oswego. KENDALL, Amos, an American politician, born inDunstable,Mass., Aug. 16, 1789, died in Wash- ington, D. C., Nov. 11, 1869. Until the age of 16 he worked on his father's farm, and in 1807, after a little more than a year's preparation, he entered Dartmouth college, where in 1811 he graduated the first in his class, although a large part of his time had been occupied with teaching for a support. Having studied law and been admitted to the bar, in the spring of 1814 he emigrated to Lexington, Ky. Finding his pro- fessional labors not immediately remunerative, he again resorted to teaching, and for several months was a tutor in the family of Henry Clay. Subsequently he established himself in Georgetown, where he was appointed postmas- ter, and in the intervals of his practice edited a local newspaper. In 1816 he was attached to the staff of the state journal at Frankfort, called the "Argus of Western America," and showed himself an able political writer. Ho was one of the earliest friends of common schools in Kentucky, and succeeded in procu- ring the passing of an act to district the state, and to set apart one half the profits of the bank of the Commonwealth to constitute a school fund. He was a firm supporter of the election of Gen. Jackson, who in 1829 appointed him fourth auditor of the treasury department. In 1835 he was made postmaster general, and in one year reorganized the financial system of the. department, and freed it from the debt with which it had been embarrassed. In 1836 he procured from congress a reorganization of the department on a plan suggested by himself, which has undergone no essential alteration since. He was retained in office by Mr. Van Buren, but retired from the cabinet in June, 1840, in order to further the interests of the democratic party in the presidential election of that year. He never afterward entered public life, although a foreign mission was offered to him by President Polk, but devoted himself chiefly to his profession. For many years he was embarrassed by a suit instituted against him by certain mail contractors, which was ul- timately decided in his favor in the supreme court. In 1845 he assumed the entire manage- ment of Prof. Morse's interest in the Ameri- can electro-magnetic telegraph. In 1865-'6 he travelled through Europe and visited Egypt and Palestine. He is the author of "Life of An- drew Jackson, Private, Military, and Civil," be- gun in 1843, but never completed. He founded and was first president of the deaf and dumb asylum in Washington, and was a liberal bene- factor to other religious and educational in- stitutions. His "Autobiography," edited by William Stickney, was published in 1872. KENDALL, George Wilkins, an American jour- nalist, born in Amherst, now Mount Vernon, N. H., about 1807, died at Oak Spring, near Bowie, Texas, Oct. 21, 1867. He travelled ex- tensively through the southern and western states, working at his trade as a journeyman printer. In 1835 he went to New Orleans, and not long afterward established there, in part- nership with Mr. F. A. Lumsden, the " Pica- yune," the first cheap daily newspaper issued in New Orleans, which under his direction be- came a leading southern journal. He joined the Santa Fe expedition which in 1841 set out from Austin, Texas, and of which he published an account, embracing his own captivity and sufferings in Mexico, entitled "Narrative of the Texan Santa Fe Expedition " (2 vols. 12mo,