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merchantmen, besides defeatinoj the Hatteras off Galveston, Jan. 11, 18G3, in a thirteen minutes' fight, after which the boats of the Alabama rescued the drowning crew of the Hatteras. In the fight with the Kearsarge, Captain Winslow, off Cherbourg, France, June 19, 1864, the con- flict was kept up one and one-quarter hours, the Alabama sunk and the crew, surviving, were rescued mostly by the English yacht Deerhound and French pilot-boats, witnesses of the fight. His conduct in this engagement won for Lieuten- ant Kell the rank of captain, C.S.A., and lie was given command of the Richmond, an iron- clad on the James river. He was at home on sick-leave when the army surrendered, and in 1887 he was made adjutant-general of Georgia by Governor Gordon, sei'ving up to the time of his death. Lieutenant Kell was married in 1856 to Blanche Munroe of Macon, Ga., and they made their home at Sunnyside, near Griffin, Ga. He is the author of: Cruise and Combats of the ^'Alabama" in "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War " (Vol. IV., p. 600 et seq.). He died at Sunnyside, Ga., Oct. 5, 1900.

KELLAR, Ezra, educator, was born in Mid- dleton Valley, IMd., June 12, 1812. He was grad- uated from Pennsylvania college, Gettysburg, in 1835, and became a minister of the Lutheran church in 1837. He was sent as a missionary to the western states, and was pastor of the Lutheran churches in Hagerstown, Md., and vicinity. He settled in Sj^ringfield, Ohio, in 1844, and aided in founding and developing Wittenberg college, an institution planned to supply the religious and educational want of the Lutheran church in the west. He was i^resident of the institution from its opening as a seat of learning in 1845, and witnessed three years of steady progress in the affairs of the college. He received the degree of D.D. from Jefferson college, Pennsylvania, in 1845. He died at Sijringfiehl, Ohio, Dec. 29, 1848.

KELLER, Joseph Edward, educator, was born at Kandel, Bavaria, in 1827. He was brought to America by his parents who settled in St. Louis, Mo., and he acquired his education at St. Louis university. He was admitted to the Society of Jesus in 1844, and was subsequently ordained a Roman Catholic priest. He was professor in St. Xavier's college, Cincinnati, Ohio; St. Stan- islaus's seminary, Florisant, Mo.; St. Joseph's college, Bardstovvn, Ky., and St. Louis university. He represented the Society of Jesus at the con- vention held in Rome, Italy, in 1868, and was provincial of the province of Baltimore, 1869-77. He was made provincial of St. Louis university in 1877, and was later president of the Woodstock college of Baltimore county, Md., known as the College of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. He repre- sented the Society of Jesus in America at Rome,

Italy, in 1883, and remained there until his death as assistant to the Jesuit general of the English- speaking peoples of the world. He founded the post-graduate and philosophical departments of St. Louis university. He was an associate fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of: Life and Acts of Leo XIII. (1885). He died in Rome, Italy, Feb. 4, 1886.

KELLERHAN, William Ashbrook, educator, was born at Ashtabula, Ohio, May 1, 1850; son of Daniel K. and Ivy (Ashbrook) Kellerman; gi'andson of John Kellerman, and a descendant of Fredei-ick Kellerman, of Holland, who came to America about 1776. He was graduated from Cornell university in 1874; taught natural science at the State normal school, Oshkosh, Wis., 1874- 79; studied at Gottingen, Germany, 1879-80, and received the degree of Ph.D. froiu the Univei'sity of Ziirich in 1881. He was professor of botany and horticulture at the State College of Ken- tucky, 1881-82; professor of botany and zoology at the Kansas State Agricultural college, 1883- 88, and professor of botanj^ 1888-91. He was botanist to the Kansas state board of agriculture and to the Kansas experiment station, 1885-91; botanist of the Ohio geological survey, 1892-93, and became professor of botany at the Ohio State university in 1897. He was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1893. He lectured extensively, and in 1885 founded the Journal of Mycology, which he edited with J. B. Ellis and B. M. Everhart. He is the author of: Elements of Botany (1883); Plant Analysis {\8Sn); Kansas Forest Trees (1887); Analytical Flora of Kansas (1888); Sjjriiig Flora of Ohio (1882); Botany and Spring Flora (1897), and numerous botanical bulletins.

KELLEY, Benjamin Franklin, soldier, was born in New Hampton, N.H., April 10, 1807. He settled in Wheeling, Va., in 1826, engaged as merchant's clerk, and was freight agent of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, 1851-61. He was commanding officer of a local military organiza- tion, and on the call for volunteers in 1861 he raised the 1st Virginia regiment for the Federal army, and was active in saving western Virginia for the Union. He was commissioned colonel of the 1st West Virginia volunteers, May 25, 1861. He left Wheeling with his regiment for Grafton, May 27, which was then in possession of the Confederates under Col. G.A. Porterfield, who, on Kelley's approach, retreated to Philippi. He at- tacked them June 3, 1861, and after a short engagement won one of the first battles of the war. He was severely wounded in the battle, but after two months he assumed command of a railroad division to which he was assigned by General McClellan, having been promoted briga- dier-general. He fought a successful battle at