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 KEDNEY

KEELER

was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia, Pa. He was professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, 18'2'3-28, and in 1833 accompanied the Stephen H. Long expedition as scientist. In 1824 he was influential in establishing the Frank- lin Institute, Philadelphia, Pa., in which he was professor of cliemistry. He was married to Elizabeth, daughter of Eric Bollmann. He be- came a member of the American Philosophical society in 1823. He is the author of: Narrative of an Expedition to the Source of St. Peter's River (2 vols., 1824). He died in Loudon, England, May 17, 1840.

KEDNEY, John Steinfort, educator, was born in Bloomfield, N. J., Feb. 12, 1819; son of Henry S. and Maria R. (Algood) Kedney. His greats-grand- father, John Kedney, emigrated from the Island of Barbadoes about 1650, and settled in Albany, N.Y. His great-grandfather, John Kedney, moved to New Jersey and settled at Bloomfield. His grandfather, John Kedney, was a partisan captain during the Revolution. His father re- moved to New York city and engaged in the mercantile business. Jolin S. Kedney was pre- pared for college at the Mount Pleasant academy, Sing Sing, N.Y. In 1835 he entered the law office of James W. Gerard, New York city, but after a year and a half went to Union college, where he was graduated in 1838; tlien entered the General Theological Seminary of the Protectant Episcopal church, in New York city, where he was gradu- ated in 1841. He was ordained deacon in Sep- tember, 1841, by the Rt. Rev. B. T. Onderdonk, of New York, and priest by the Rt. Rev. L. S. Ives, in Lincolnton, N.C., July, 1843, and held various pastorates in North Carolina, New Jersey, New York and South Carolina, until 1871, when he accepted the professorship of divinity in the Seabury Divinity school, Faribault, Minn. Union and Trinity conferred on him the honorary de- gree of A.M. in 1841 and 1856 respectively, and Hobart and Racine that of D.D. in 1873. Dr. Kedney was a deputy to the general convention of the Protestant Episcopal cliurch in 1874, 1889 and 1892, and a member of the special commis- sion appointed by the convention of 1892 to revise and publish the standard edition of the Book of Common Prayer. He is the author of: Cataicba River and other Poems (1855); The Beautiful and the Sublime (1880); Hegel's ^^thetics, a critical exposition (1885); Christian Doctrine Harmonized (1889); Mens Christi (1891); Problems in Ethics (1900).

KEDZIE, Robert Clark, chemist, was born in Delhi, N.Y., Jan. 28, 1823. He was graduated from Oberlin college, A.B., 1847, A.M., 1864, and from the medical department of the University of Michigan. M.D., 1851. He practised medicine, 1851-62, and served as surgeon in the 12th

Michigan volunteer infantry from January 18 to Oct. 8, 1862. He was elected professor of chem- istry in the Michigan Agricultural college in 1863; a representative in the state legislature, 1867 and 1874; was president of the State Medi- cal college, and was for inany years a member of the state board of health. He was instrumental in procuring for the state the effective control of the manufacture and sale of illuminating oils, and his chemical investigation of arsenical wall- papers led to the enactment of measures for the removal of that danger to public health. He published directions enabling farmers to manu- facture liglitning-rods for themselves, and ex- posed many frauds in the business of manufac- turing and selling fertilizers. Upon the organiza- tion of the state experimental station in 1888, he was made chemist. He founded the widely ex- tended system of farmers' institutes. He was married in 1850 to Harriet Eliza Fairchild, and of their sons: William K. (Michigan Agricul- tural college, B.S.. 1870, M.S., 1873), was assistant chemist at the Michigan Agricultural college, 1870-73, professor of chemistry at the Kansas Agri- cultural college, 1873-74, and at Oberlin college, 1878-80, and died April 14, 1880: Robert F. (Michi- gan Agricultural college, B.S., 1871, M.S., 1874), was assistant in chemistry at Michigan Agricul- tural college, 1873-80, jjrofessor of chemistry, 1880- 82, and died Feb. 13, 1882; George E. (Micliigan Agricultural college, B.S., 1873, M.S., 1876), was elected state geologist at Ouray, Col.; Donald H. (Michigan Agricultural college, B.S., 1876). was editor of the Western Liberal, Lordsburg, N.M.; Frank S. (Michigan Agricultural college, A.B., 1877, M.S., 1882), was made adjunct professor of chemistry there; and Willard S. (Michigan Agricultural college, B.S., 1883), became an as- sayer at Ouray, Col., and was elected a fellow in the American Association for the Advance- ment of Science in 1881. Prof. Robert Clark Kedzie contributed numerous elaborate reports on the ventilation of school buildings, water supply, green manuring, and healtliful homes for farmers, to the publications of the Michigan boards of healtli and agriculture.

KEELER, James Edward, astronomer, was born at La Salle, 111., Sept. 10, 1857; son of "William F. and Anna E. (Dutton) Keeler; grand- son of Roswell and Mary E. (Plant) Keeler, and of Henry and Elizabetli E. (Joy) Dutton, and a descendant of Ralph Keeler, an early settler of Hartford, Conn., 1635, who was born in England about 1613. His father was a pay- master in the U.S. navy, and served on the Monitor in the fight with the Merrimac. His paternal grandfather, Henry Dutton (q. v.), was dean of the Yale Law school. James E. Keeler was graduated from Johns Hopkins university