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 KANE

KARGE

thirty-six and thirty-five respectively, while no name in the class was accorded a place. He is the author of : Second Grinnell Expedition (1856). He died in Havana, Cuba, Feb. 16, 1857.

KANE, John Kintzing, jurist, was born in Al- bany, N.Y., May 16, 1795. He was graduated from Yale university, A.B., 1814, A.M., 1817 ; was admitted to the bar in 1817 and practised in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a Federal representa- tive in the state legislature in 1823 ; Democratic solicitor of Philadelphia, 1828-30 ; a supporter of Andrew Jackson in the canvas of 1828 and again in 1832, and the accredited author of some of Jackson's state papers. President Jackson ap- pointed him an indemnity commissioner to France in 1832, and he prepared a report of the commission and was the author of "Notes" on questions decided by the board in 1836, and also of the first printed attack on the Bank of the United States. He was attorney -general of Penn- sylvania, 1845-46 ; and was appointed judge of the U.S. court for the district of Pennsylvania in 1846. He was an original member of the board of trustees of Girard college, and was prominent in the controversy which divided the Presby- terian church into the new and old schools. He was a trustee and legal adviser of the Pres- byterian church in the United States, and in 1856 was elected president of the American Pliilosophical society. He was married to Jane Duval Leiper and had three sons, Elisha Kent, Thomas Leiper and John Kintzing. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 21, 1858.

KANE, John Kintzing, surgeon, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 18, 1833 ; son of the Hon. John Kintzing and Jane Duval (Leiper) Kane. He was a student at the University of Pennsyl- vania in the class of 1853, attending, 1850-52 ; was graduated at the Jefferson Medical college, M.D., 1855, and was surgeon of the Arctic expedition sent for the relief of his brother. Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, U.S.N., 1856. He settled in the practice of his profession at Wilmington, Del., where he was married to Mabel, daughter of the Hon. James Ashton Bayard. He was acting surgeon, U.S.A., in hospitals at Cairo, 111., and Chester, Pa., 1861-65 ; state commissioner to the Conti- nental exposition, 1876 ; and physician to the Pennsylvania Railroad company at Wilmington, Del. He died at Summit, N.J., March 22, 1886.

KANE, Thomas Leiper, soldier, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 27, 1822 ; son of John Kintzing and Jane Duval (Leiper) Kane. He was educated in Paris, France, and upon his re- turn to Philadelphia he studied law, was ad- mitted to the bar, and was a clerk in the U.S. district court until the passage of the fugitive slave law, when he resigned. He visited the Mormon settlement near Commerce, 111., in 1847,

and during the migration to Utah he won the esteem of the leaders to such an extent that when the territory was declared in a state of rebellion in 1858 he went there at his own expense, with letters from President Buchanan, and ai'ranged the amicable settlement of affairs, afterward concluded by the police commissioners. He re- moved to the northwestern part of Pennsylvania and founded the town of Kane, where, in April, 1861, he raised a regiment of huntei's known aa Bucktails. He led the advance at Dranesville, where he was wounded ; and at Harrisonburg he was sent to rescue a regiment that had fallen into an ambuscade, and was again wounded and taken prisoner. He was exchanged in 1862 and brevetted brigadier-general for gallant and meri- torious services in the field. In June, 1863, he carried to General Meade the information that the Confederates were in possession of the national telegraphic cipher, and on the second day of the battle of Gettysburg he joined his brigade and held an important position on the extreme right. He was discharged, Nov. 7, 1863, being disabled by wounds and exposure. He is the author of: Hie Mormons (1850) ; Alaska (1868); Coahuila (1877). He died in Phila- delphia, Pa., Dec. 26, 1883.

KAPPES, Alfred, painter, was born in New York city in 1850. He studied art without a teacher, was a member of the American Water- color society, and in May, 1894, was elected a National Academician. He was a constant ex- hibitor at the National Academy of Design, and in 1880 received the Hallgarten prize from that institution. His works, chiefly genre paintings, include, in oil: His Pipe and His Paper {ISl^) ', Village Oracle (1880) ; Preparing Dinner (1881) ; Is this Life Worth Living ? (18S2) ; T. B. Clarke, New York: an Ltterior (1883) ; Voodoo; Pain; in water-color : Closing Hymn ; My Aunt Sapphira (1884). He died in Yonkers, N. Y., June 17, 1894.

KARGE, Joseph, soldier, was born in Posen, Germany, July 4, 1823. His father was a col- onel of cavalry under Napoleon. Joseph was educated at the University of Breslau and after- ward at the College de France. He continued liis studies at the University of Berlin, joined the German army, and when in 1849 the movement was set afoot for the independence of Poland lie joined the conspirators and took an active part in the rebellion. He was captured with many other Poles and imprisoned, awaiting execution, but dug his way out of the fortress and escaped to Germany, where he was arrested as a deserter and treated with repeated indignities. After being released he sought refuge in France, then in England, and finally in the United States. He went to New York city in 1851, where he sup- ported himself by teaching and soon became the