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circuit in 1823; was subsequently pastor of several churclies in the state; was superintend- ent of public instruction in 1839, and a bishop in the Methodist Episcopal church, south, 1854- 84. He died in Columbus, Miss., March 19, 1884.

KAYE, John William, clergyman and author, was born in lludderstield, Yorksliire, England, Jan. 9, 1846; son of Thomas and Lucj' (Cully) Kaj'e. He immigrated to the United Slates with his parents in 1852, and settled in Philadelphia, Pa. He entered the Pennsylvania militia as a private at the age of seventeen and served througli the emergency call of June and July, 1863. He also served as a private in the 3d Pennsylvania volunteers, heavy artillery, 1864- 65; rose to the rank of 2d lieutenant in June, 1865, and was honorably mustered out of the service, Nov. 9, 1865. He was a student in the University of Pennsylvania, 1870-72; was grad- uated at the College of New Jersey, A.B., 1874, and at the Divinity school of the Protestant Episcopal church at Philadelphia, Pa., in 1876. He was ordained deacon in the Protestant Epis- copal church in 1876 and priest in 1877, and was rector of St. Timothy's church. Philadelphia, 1883-88; of All Saints' church at Norristown, Pa., 1890-94, and assistant to Dr. F. A. D. Launt, rector of St. David's church, Philadelphia, 1894- 1900. He is the author of: Luray Cave (1882); Flight, Capture and Imprisonment of Jefferson Davis (1883); Night Ascent of Vesuvius (1887); TJte Royal Tomb at Charlottenburg (1888).

KEAN, John, patriot, was born in South Caro- lina about 1766. He served in the Continental army, was taken prisoner at the capture of Charleston by General Clinton in 1780, and was confined in the prison ship in Charleston harbor in 1780-81. He was a delegate to the Continental congress from South Carolina, 1785-87, and voted against the extension of slavery to the north- western territory. He was employed as cashier of the Bank of the United States at Philadelphia, and was a member of the commission appointed to settle accounts between the United States and the individual states. He died in Philadel- phia, Pa., May, 1795.

KEAN, John, senator, was boi-n at Ursino, near Elizabeth, N.J., Dec. 4, 1852. He was pre- pared for college at private schools; entered ■ Yale in 1872, but left college to devote himself to law, and was graduated from Columbia, LL.B., in 1875. He was admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1877, and settled in practice at Elizabeth, N. J. He was Republican representative from the eighth New Jersey district in the 48th and 50th congresses, 1883-85 and 1887-89. He was chair- man of the Republican state committee in 1891- 92, and defeated candidate for governor of New Jersey in 1892. He was a member of the com-

mission appointed in 1894 to revise the state judicial'}' and practice, and was delegate-at-large to the Republican national convention in 1896. He was elected, in lb99, U.S. senator from New Jersey for the term expiring March 3, 1905, suc- ceeding James Smith, Democrat. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Y'ale univer- sity in 1890.

KEANE, John Joseph, R.C. archbisliop, was born at Ballyshannon, county Donegal, Ireland, Sept. 12, 1839. He was brought to the United States by his parents in 1846; was graduated from St. Charles college, Ellicott City, Md., in 1862; took a course in theology at St. Sulpice and St. Mary's university, Baltimore, and was ordained a priest, July 2, 1866, by Archbishop Spalding. He was assistant to the permanent rector of St. Pat- rick's church, Washington, D.C., 1866-78; was elected bishop of Richmond, Va., before he had been pastor of a church, and was consecrated at Baltimore, Md., Aug. 25, 1878, by Archbishop Gib- bons, assisted by Bishops Kain of Wheeling and Foley of Chicago. He was also administrator of the vicarate-apostolic of North Carolina until relieved by Bishop Northrop, Jan. 8, 1882. He resigned his office in August, 1888, received the titular see of Ajasso, and on Sept. 7, 1888, was made rector of the Catholic University of America

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at Washington, D.C. As rector he held the chair of homiletics. He resigned as rector and pro- fessor of homilectics in the Catholic university, Sept. 29, 1896, in conformity with a rule observed in other Catholic universities, but continued his office as a trustee. He was summoned to Rome and was made titular archbishop of Damascus, Jan. 9, 1897; an assistant at the Pontifical throne; canon of the Lateran and consultor to the Propa- ganda, with residence at the Canadian college, Rome, Italy. In 1898 he was commissioned by the pope to visit the sees in the United States and make personal appeals in behalf of the Catholic University of America, and in 1900 he had sue-