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honorable settlement. He had an unusuall}'- ex- tended experience in diplomatic affairs, having negotiated conventions with many European governments, and having been a member of three international conferences, and encountered many- leading diplomatists. He was appointed U.S. special commissioner plenipotentiary to negoti- ate reciprocity treaties in 1897, and was also a member of the American-Canadian joint high commission in 1898. In 1899 and 1900 he negotiated reciprocity conventions with France, Italy, Por- tugal, Nicaragua, the Argentine Republic and the various colonies of the British West Indies. Some of these conventions were pending in the U.S. senate in 1901. He received the degree of LL.D. from the University of Vermont in 1890. He de- livered a course of historical diplomatic lectures before the Lowell Institute, Boston, and at Johns Hopkins university. He contributed occasional articles to reviews; is the author of a History of the Formation of the Constitution (1889), and in 1901 was reported to be writing a history of the development of European and American diplo- macy.

KATTE, Walter, civil engineer, was born in London, England, Nov. ,14, 1830; son of Edwin and Isabella (James) Katte. He acquired his early education at King's College school, London, and in 1846 entered a civil engineer's office in London, where he remained until 1849. He then came to the United States and was employed upon the Central Railroad of New Jersey, the Belvidere Delaware railroad and the Pennsyl- vania Central railroad. He was resident engi- neer of the main line of the state canals of Penn- sylvania, 1857-58; resident engineer of the west- ern division of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad, 1858-59, and chief assistant engineer of the Pittsburg and Steubenville rail- road, 1859-61. He was connected with the U.S. military engineering and railroad service in the District of Columbia, Virginia and Maryland, 1861-63; was chief engineer of the Lewiston branch of the Pennsylvania railroad in 1863, and resident engineer, and engineer of bridges and buildings on the Northern Central railroad, 1863- 65. He was engineer, secretary and general west- ern agent for the Keystone bridge company of Pittsburg, 1865-75; had charge of the erection of the " Eads " steel arch bridge at St. Louis, Mo., 1870-74; was city engineer of St. Louis, 1875-76, and treasurer of the St. Louis, Kansas City and Northern railroad, 1876-77. He was chief en- gineer of the New York Elevated railroad, 1877-80; chief engineer of the New York, West Shore and Buffalo, and New York, Ontario and Western railroads, 1880-86, and chief engineer of the New York Central and Hudson River, New York and Harlem, and West Shore railroads.

1886-98. He was elected a member of the Insti- tution of Civil Engineers, London; of the Amer- ican Society of Civil Engineers and of the West- ern Society of Engineers, and in 1901 had retired from active duty — excepting in a consulting ca- pacity — and resided in New York city.

KATZER, Frederick Xavier, R.C. archbishop, was born at Ebensee, diocese of Linz, Austria, Feb. 7, 1844; son of Charles and Barbara Katzer. He removed in infancy with his parents to Gmunden, on Lake Traun, was educated in the Catliolic public schools of Gmunden, and after a prepara- tory course in Latin at home he studied in the Jesuit college at Linz, Austria, 18- 57-64. He came to the United States in that year and was graduated in theolo- gy from St. Francis de Sales seminary, Milwaukee, Wis., in 1866; was ordained priest there by Bish- ^^^^y^W^ ^^^^7ia^,0t^ op Henni, Dec. 21, ^

1866, and was professor of German, mathematics, philosophy and theology in the seminary until 1875. He was secretary to Bishop Krautbauer of the diocese of Green Bay, and pastor of the cathe- dral, 1875-85, and in 1879 was appointed vicar- general of that diocese, and attended the third plenary council of Baltimore as theologian. He was appointed administrator of the diocese, Dec. 17, 1885; nominated bishop. May 30, 1886, and consecrated bishop of Green Bay, Wis., in that city, Sept. 21, 1886, by Archbishop Heiss. assisted by Bishop Vertin and Ireland. He was promoted archbishop and transferred to the diocese of ]Mil- waukee, Dec. 20, 1890, and received the pallium from the hands of the Cardinal, Aug. 20, 1891. He took an important stand against state inter- ference in the parochial schools, in the Bennet Law fight in 1890, believing that it was contrary to law to oppose the liberty of religious eiluca- tion. He died in Fond du Lac. Wis., July 20. 1903.

KAUFFMANN, Samuel Hay, journalist, was born in Wayne county, Ohio, April 30, 1829; son of Rudolph and Jane (Hay) Kauffman. He spent his early days on a farm; received a common- school education, and later learned the printing trade. He afterward obtained employment as a telegraph operator, and at the end of three years returned to the printing business, as editor and publisher in Zanesville, Ohio. He was married, Oct. 12, 1852, to Sarah Clark, daughter of John Tileston Fracker, of Zanesville. He held a posi-