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children, of whom Henry S. became a business man in New York city, Cliarles resided in St. Joseph, Mo., and a daughter murried Western Bascome of St. Louis. Mrs. Kearny died in St. Louis, Mo., in June, 1889, aged eighty-eiglit years. General Kearny is the author of : Manual of the Exercise and Manexivering of U.S. Dragoons (1837) ; Laics for the Government of the Territory of New Mexico (1846). He died at St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 31. 1848.

KEASBEY, Anthony Quinton, U.S. district attorney, was born in Salem, N.J., March 1, 1824 ; son of Dr. Edward and Mary Parry (Aert- sen ) Keasbey ; grandson of Anthony and Hannah (Brick) Keasbey, and of Guilliam and Esther (Parry) Aertsen ; great-grandson of Edward and Prudence (Quinton) Keasbey ; greats-grandson of Edward and Elizabeth (Brad way) Keasbey ; greats-grandson of Edward Keasbey, who came from England in 1694, settled in Salem, N.J., and married Elizabeth Stuart in 1701. His grand- father, Anthony Keasbey, was for many years clerk of Salem county, N.J. ; and his great-grand- father, Edward Keasbey, was a representative in the general assembly of New Jersey, 1763-69, a member of the council of safety, and a deputy from Salem to the provincial congress at Trenton, 1775, and New Brunswick, 1776, at which latter convention a state constitution was adopted. Anthony Quinton Keasbey was graduated from Yale in 1843, and was admitted to the bar in October, 1846. He practised in Salem until 1853, when he removed to Newark, N.J., and formed a partnership with his former pi-eceptor, Cortlandt Parker, which continued, 1855-76. He held the office of U.S. district attorney for New Jersey, 1861-86, having been appointed by five successive Presidents. He was married Oct. 18, 1848, to Elizabeth, daughter of Jacob Welsh Miller (q.v.) and after her death to her sister, Edwina Louisa. In 1876 he admitted into partnership with him his two sons, Edward Quinton and George Maccul- loch, under the firm name of A. Q. Keasbey & Sons. Yale conferred upon him the degree of A.M. in 1863. He died in Rome, Italy, April 4, 1895.

KEASBEY, Lindley fliller, educator, was born in Newark, N.J., Feb. 24, 1867; son of Anthony Quinton (q.v.) and Edwina Louisa (Miller) Keas- bey, and grandson of Jacob Welsh Miller (q.v.). He was graduated from Harvard, A. B., 1888 ; from Columbia, A.M., 1889, and Ph.D., 1890, and from Kaiser Wilhelm university, Strasburg, Germany, R.P.D., 1893, and on his return to America, ac- cepted the chair of political science at the State University of Colorado. He was associate pro- fessor of political science at Bryn Mawr college. Pa., 1894-1900, and in the latter year was advanced to the full chair. His published writings include : The Nicaragua Canal and the Monroe Doctrine

(1896) ; The Institution of Society (1900), and contributions on political and economic subjects to periodicals.

KEATING, John McLeod, journalist, was born in Ireland, in 1830. He learned the trade of printer, and after the failure of the revolution of 1848, in which he participated, he sought refuge in the United States and located in New York city, where he conducted an Irish-American news- paper until his removal to New Orleans on ac- count of ill health. He was state printer at Baton Rouge for two years, conducted the print- ing plant of the Methodist publishing house at Nashville, and in 1858 became the managing editor of the Nashville Neus. In 1859 he became the commercial and city editor of the Memphis Bulletin. He joined the Confederate army, act- ing for a time as private secretary to Gen. Leoni- das Polk. In 1865 lie established the Memphis Daily Commercial and later secured a half inter- est in the Appeal, of which he was managing editor for twenty-one years. During this time Memphis pas.sed through three notable epidemics of yellow fever, during which every issue of the Appeal regularly appeared, even when the force was reduced to the managing editor and one boy. He also assi.sted in the philanthropic work made necessary by the plague, and was a leader in the subsequent sanitary work that, it was believed, secured Memphis against a recurrence of yellow fever in epidemic form. In 1889 he became edi- tor at the Commercial. Besides contributing many articles to magazine literature upon South- ern problems, notably ui)on the condition and education of the negro, Southern sanitation, or- ganized labor and woman suffrage, he is the author of : The Southern Question ; Dirt, Disease and Degradation : A History of the Yellotv Fever ; History of the City of Mempliis ; a portion of The Military Annals of Tennessee, Confederate, besides other valuable works of a public character along lines of history, social science and sanitation. He was for many years a contributing member of the American Public Health association and was elected an honorary member of the Histori- cal Society of Tennes.see and of the Memphis Typographical Union.

KEATING, William Hypolitus, educator, was born in Wilmington, Del., Aug. 11, 1799 ; son of Baron John and Eulalia (Deschapelles) Keating. His father, a colonel in the French army, re- signed his commission at the outbreak of the Revolution and settled in Delaware, later re- moving to Philadeli)hia, Pa. His ancestors, who were Irish, emigrated to Fi-ance, and were raised to the nolulity by Louis XVl. William H. Keat- ing was graduated from the University of Penn- sylvania in 1816, and studied at polytechnic and mining schools in France and Switzerland. He