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or page so perfect in composition, that every one would be deceived as to its authenticity. He WHS married in 1833 to Elizabeth, daughter of Zebulon S. Willets. Nine children wt-re born to tiiem. He was a member of the " Column," a literary association of New York city, and was for a time the speaker of the club. He edited : The Pods of America (2 vols., 18.j0) ; The Poet- ical Remains of Lucy Hooper, icith a Memoir <18-12) ; Poems by Elizabeth Oakes Smith (1843) ; The Mourner's Chaplet (1844) ; The Wintergreen, an annual (1844) : Tlte Opdl, a Pure Gift for the Holidays, an annual (1846-47) ; The Forest Legen- dary (1848) ; The Floral Keepsake (1850). and also furnisheil some of the text for the quarto North American Scenery from Drawings by White- field (184.1). He was the author of much anony- mous verse published in magazines and news- papers. He died in Brooklyn, N.Y., May 30, 1856. KEESE, William Linn, author, was born in New York city, Feb. 25, 1835 ; son of John and Elizabeth (Willets) Keese. He attended private schools in Brooklyn and New York and pursued a mercantile career. He also gave much atten- tion to literature, contributing prose and vei'seto newspapers and periodicals, and articles to Ac- tors and Actresses of Great Britain and the United States (5 vols., 1886). He was elected a member of the Authors club, and the Players club. New York city, and the Midwood club of Brooklyn, and an associate hereditary member of the New York State society of the Cincinnati. He is the author of : Joint Keese, Wit and Litter- ateur (1884), William E. Burton. Actor, Author and Manager (1SS5).

KEIFER, Joseph Warren, representative, was born ill I'xMliel townsliii). Clark county, Ohio, Jan. 30, 1S30 ; son of Joseph and Mary (Smith)

Keifer ; grantlson of George and Margret (Schisler) Keifer, and of Dr. Peter and Cath- erine (Stout) Smith, and a descendant of Richard and Penel- ope (Van Princess) Stout of New Am- sterdana (now New York city). He work- ed on his father's farm in bojhood, and attended the public schools in his native place, and Antioch college, Ohio. He was admitted to the bar and settled in prac- tice at Springfield in 1858. He was commis- sioned major of the 3d Ohio volunteers, April 27, 1861 ; lieutenant-colonel, Feb. 12, 1862, and

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colonel of the 110th Ohio volunteers, Sept. 30, 1862. He served tliroughout the civil war, was four times wounded, and was brevetted brigadier- general, Oct. 19, 1864, and major-general, April 9, 1885, and was mustered out June 27. 1865. He returned to his law practice at Springfield, and declined a lieutenant-colonel's commission in the 26th U.S. infantry in November, 1866. He l)e- came a member of tiie Military Order of the Loyal Legion ; served in the state senate, 1868- 69 ; was a delegate to the Republican national convention at Cincinnati, 1876; a Republican representative from the eighth Ohio district in the 45th, 46th. 47th and 48th congresses, 1877-85 ; and was speaker of the house in the 47th congress, 1S81-83. He was commissioned major-general of volunteers in the Spanish-American war, June 9, 1898, and served in the 7th corps in Florida, Georgia and Cuba. On July 7, 1898, he as- sumed command of the 1st division 7th corps, later commanding all the United States forces at Savannah, Ga., from which place he shipped for Culxi, Dec. 26, 1898. In Cuba he commanded the 1st division, 7th corps (sometimes the corps) encamped near Havana, and was mustered out of military service, May 12, 1899. He was ora- tor at the unveiling of the Garfield .statue in Washington, May, 1887, and president of the Lagonda national bank at Springfield. Ohio, from 1873. He was married, March 22, 1860, to Eliza, daughter of Charles Stout. She died at Spring- field, Ohio. March 12, 1899, during the absence in Cuba of her husband and their son, Capt. Horace C. Keifer, a member of his staff. General Keifer is the author of : Slavery and Four Years of War (2 vols., 1900).

KEIM, George May, representative, was born in Reading, Pa., April 23, 1805. He received a liberal education, studied law, became a banker, and gave his leisure time to the investigation of the science of mineralogy. He was a delegate to the constitutional convention of 1837-38 and in February, 1838, was elected a representative in the 25th congress as successor to Henry A. I\Iuhlenberg, who resigned to accept the mis- sion to Austria then first created.' He was re- elected to the 26th and 27th congres.ses, serving until March 3, 1843. He was major-general of liis militia district, and U.S. marshal for the eastern district of Pennsylvania, 1841-49. He died at Reailing. Pa., in 1862.

KEin, William High, soldier, was born near Reading, Pa., June 25, 1813. He attended the Mt. Airy ^Military school, and attained the rank of major-general in the state militia. He was mayor of Reading, Pa., in 1848 ; and was elected Democratic representative from Penn.sylvania in the 35th congress, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of J. Glancy Jones, appointed