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at Annapolis, Md., to take the place of the monu- ment erected by order of congress in 1780. He died near Camden, S.C, Aug. 19, 1780.

KALBFLEISCH, Martin, representative, was born in Flushing, Holland, Feb. 8, 1804. He was educated in the public schools, and in 1823 went to sea with an American captain and engaged in trading with Sumatra. On account of an epi- demic of cholera on that island he went to Havre, France, where he engaged in business with an American partner for four years. He immigrated to the United States in 1826, and settled as a chemist in New York city. In 1835 he estab- lished a color factory in Harlem, N.Y., which he subsequently removed to Norwalk, Conn., where it was burned. In 1844 he established a chemical factory at Greenpoint, N.Y. He w^as elected as a Democrat mayor of Brooklyn, serving 1861-63; was a representative in the 38th congress, 1863- 65; was again elected mayor in 1866 and 1868, serving 1867-71, and in 1870 was the defeated candidate for mayor on the independent ticket. He died in Brooklyn, N.Y., Feb. 12, 1873.

KALER, James Otis, author, was born at Winterport, Maine, March 19, 1848; son of Otis and Maria (Thompson) Kaler; grandson of Benja- min Thompson, and a descendant of the Count of Rum ford. He acquired his education in the public schools of Winterport and Boston and in 1864 obtained employment on the staff of the Boston Journal. He continued his newspaper work until 1880, after which time, under the pen name " James Otis," he devoted his time to writ- ing books for boys and contributing stories to juvenile periodicals. He is the author of: Toby Tyler (1880); Tim and Tip (1880); Left Behind (1882); Raising the Pearl (1883); Mr. Stubb's Brother (1883); Silent Pete (1885); Jeniiy Wren's Boarding House (1885); Teddy and Carrots {1%S%); Across the Delaware (1886); The Castaways (1886); The Braganza Diamond (1887); When Israel Put- nam Served the King (1887); Little Joe (1888); The Boys of Fort Schuyler (1894); Jerry's Family (1895); The Wreck of the Circus (1896); An Ama- teur Fireman (1897); The Life Savers (1898); The Charming Sally (1898); TJie Boys of '98 (1899), and others, making a total of eighty-two books for young people in print in 1901.

KALISCH, Isidore rabbi, was born at Kro- toschin, duchy of Posen, Prussia, Nov. 15, 1816, son of the Rev. Burnham and Sarah (Tobias) Kalisch. His father was a learned Hebrew scholar, and the son was educated at the univei'si- ties of Berlin, Breslau and Prague. During this time he wrote for the leading German periodicals certain newspaper articles and poems M-hich were condemned as seditious, and in 1848 he was forced to leave the country. He came to America in 1849 and was placed in charge of the Tifireth

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Israel congregation at Cleveland, Ohio, in July, 1850, where he introduced the system of reformed Judaism, out of which grew the first conference of rabbis, held in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1855. He edited a ritual and book of common prayer, which was adopted by the synagogues by the United States. He was rabbi of the Ahabath Achim con- gregation at Cincin- nati, Ohio, 1856-57, and of the Benai Jesh- urun congregation at Milwaukee, Wis., 1857-59. He lectur- ed throughout the United States, 1859- 60; was rabbi of the Hebrew congrega- tion at Indianapolis, Ind., 1860-63, and

rabbi and preacher of the Beth El' congregation at Detroit, Mich., 1864-66, and at Leavenworth, Kan., 1866-68. He was rabbi of the Benai Abra- ham congregation at Newark, N.J., 1871, and of the Ohavey Scholom congregation at Nashville, Tenn., 1871-75, and then, returning to Newark, N.J., he devoted his time to literary work and lecturing. He was married in Krotoschin to Charlotte, daughter of Samuel Baukman, and their sons, Abner, Samuel and Leonard, became able lawyers. He became prominent as a po- lemic writer, and his criticisms of " Leeser's Version of the Bible" and of his " Jewish Belief in a Personal Messiah " occasioned a controversy with the author celebrated in the annals of Jew- ish literature. He edited Muihag American in 1855, and the Guide, 1853-78. His published works include: several poems and hymns in the Hebrew and German languages; a book entitled Wegweiser fiXr rationelle Forschungen in den bihlischen Schrif ten (1853; translated into English by Dr. M. Mayer, 1857); translations into English, including: Lessing's Nathan der Weise, German (1869); Sepher Yezviah, a Book on Creation, Hebrew (1877); Aidobiography of Rabbi Jom Toio, or Lipman Heller, Hebrew (1878); Munk's History of the Philosophy and Philosop)hical Authors of the Jews, French (1881); contributions to Talmudical lexicography published in English and German periodicals; translations, essays and lectures. He died in Newark, N. J., May 11, 1886. KALLOCH, Isaac Smith, educator, was born in Thomaston, Maine, in 1832; .son of the Rev. Amariah and Mercy (Hathorne) Kalloch; grand- son of Alexander and Elizabeth (Truro) Kalloch. He was a student at Waterville college (afterward Colby University) and received the honorary de-