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ceeded in raising over half a million dollars. In July, 1900, he was elevated to the Metropolitan of Dubuque as successor to Archbishop Hennessy, deceased, and was invested with the pallium in St. Raphail's Cathedral, April 17, 1901, by the Cardinal, assisted by the Rt. Rev. Mgr. Ryan, V.G., and the Rev. Clement Johannes, Arch- bishop Ireland delivering the sermon.

KEARNY, Lawrence, naval officer, was born in Perth Amboy, N.J., Nov. 30, 1789; son of Michael Kearny ; grandson of Philip and Isabella (Hooper) Kearny, and of John Lawi-ence, the fatlier of Capt. James Lawrence of the Chesa- peake; great-grandson of Ravaud and Anne (Hude) Kearny ; greats-grandson of Philip and Lady Barney Dexter (Ravaud) Kearny, and of the Hon. James and Mary (Johnson) Hude ; and greats-grandson of Michael Kearny and his first wife, a daughter of Elizabeth Brittain. They came to America from Ireland, resided in IMon- mouth county, N.J., and Mrs. Kearny died in Philadelphia. In 1716 Michael Kearny married Sarah, daugher of Governor Lewis Morris, and purchased land in Perth Amboy, N.J., to which place they removed. Lawrence Kearny was warranted a midshipman in the U.S. navy in 1807, served on the gunboat flotilla under Com. John Rodgers, subsequently on the Constitution,

and Presi- dent, and in 1810 on the Enterprise. He was pro- moted lieu- tenant, on March 6, . 1813, inrec- . -rj^^ ognition of services in

the war of 1812, and in 1814-15 was engaged in suppressing piracy in the West Indies and Gulf. He commanded the Warren in opera- tions against the Greek pirates in the Levant in 1826, and succeeded in breaking up their hiding-places and capturing a large number of prisoners. He was promoted to the rank of captain, Dec. 20, 1832, w^as on shore duty, and in command of the Potomac, 1832-41, and was ordered to the command of the East India squadron in 1841. With the Constitution as flag- ship he sailed by the way of Rio de Janeiro, and when he reached tliat harbor he hoisted Ids flag on the Constitution, the first time an American man-of-war had displayed a commodore's broad pennant at a foreign station. He helped to sup- press opium smuggling in the east and secured from Cliina the promise of extending to Ameri- can merchants the terms of trade to be granted to Europeans, and his communication to the U.S.

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government on this subject led to the treaty, ne- gotiated b}^ Caleb Gushing, ratified, July, 1845. He returned to the United States by way of the Hawaiian Islands, and while thei-e prevented the consummation of a treaty that looked to the transfer of the islands to the government of Great Britain. He commanded the Brooklyn navy yard ; was on the lighthouse board ; was president of the naval board of inquiry ; and was commissioned commodore in April, 1867, and placed on the retired list. He subsequently served as a member of tiie New Jersey board of l)ilot commissioners. He died in Perth Amboy, N.J., Nov. 29, 1808.

KEARNY, Philip, soldier, was born in New York city, June 1, 1814 ; son of Philip and Susan (Watts) Kearny, of New York city ; grand- son of Philip Kearny, who died in Newark, N.J., July 25, 1775; and of John, Jr., and Jane (de- Lancey) Watts of New Y'ork city ; great grandson of Philip and Lady Barney Dexter (Ravaud)

Kearny of Perth Am- bo3% N.J., and subse- quently of Newark, N.J. ; of Peter and Elizabeth (Colden) de Lancey ; of John and Anne (de Lancey) AVatts ; greats-grand- son of Michael Kear- ny, who with his first wife, a daugh- ter of Elizabeth Brittain, came from Ireland to Monmouth county, N.J., lived in Philadelphia Pa., removed to- Perth Amboy, N. J., as early as 1716, where he was secretary of the jirovince, surrogate, clerk of the assembly, and clerk of the court of common pleas, secondly married Sarah, daughter of Gov. Lewis Morris, and was yet living in July, 1738. Philip Kearny was prepared for college at Ufford's school. New York ; at Round Hill school, Northampton, Mass., and at Philipstown school. Cold Spring, N.Y., and was graduated at Colum- bia college in 1833. He accompanied his cousin and future biographer, J. Watts de Pej'ster, to Europe in 1834, and while there was especially impressed by the manoeuvring of the armies. On his return he entered the law office of Peter Au- gustus Jay, but left on the death of his grand- father, John Watts, Sejit. 3, 1836, from whom he inherited property valued at the time at one mil- lion dollars, and he accepted a commission as second lieutenant in the 1st U.S. dragoons, com- manded by his uncle, Col. Stephen Watts Kearny, March 8, 1837. He served at Jefferson Barracks^