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He was assistant adjutant-general of the Depart- ment of the Missouri early in 1862, receiving promotion to the rank of colonel of the staff and aide-de-camp, Jan. 4, 1863. He resigned from the volunteer service, March 12, 1862 ; was trans- ferred to the Department of the Mississippi and was in the field during the siege of Corinth and its occupation, 1862. He then joined the staff of Gen. H. W. Halleck with the rank of major and assistant adjutant-general, July 17, 1862, remain- ing in Halleck's military family until July 1, 1865. He was brevetted lieutenant-colonel and colonel, March 13, 1865, and brigadier-general " for most valuable and arduous services both in the field and at headquarters," on the same date. He served in the adjutant-general's office at Washington, D.C., 1865-70; on special duty in Europe, 1870 ; in the Division of the Pacific, 1870-85, and at Washington, D.C., 1885-89. He was promoted lieutenant-colonel of staff, March 23, 1866 ; colonel, June 15, 1880, and brigadier- general, June 7, 1889, on which date he w^asmade full adjutant-general. He was retired, June 24, 1890, having reached the age limit, and was gov- ernor of Soldiers' Home, Washington, D.C., 1890- 93. He is the author of : Manual of the Bayonet (1861) ; Fencing ivith Foils (1882) ; Pigeons as Carriers (1882) ; Information for Riflemen (188i); Select Songs for Special Occasions (1884), and ed- ited John Gmce's System of Horse Training (1884). He died near Washington, D.C., July 15, 1893.

KEM, Omer fladison, representative, was born in Wayne county, Ind., Nov. 13, 1855 ; son of Madison and Malinda (Bulla) Kem ; grandson of Joseph Kem, and of Uria Bulla, and a descendant of the St. Julians of France on his mother's side, and of the Kems of England on his father's side. He was brought up on a farm and educated at the common schools of Wayne county. He removed to Nebraska in March, 1882, and settled in Cus- ter county, where he entered land under the homestead act. He removed to Broken Bow in 1890 ; was deputy treasurer of Custer county, 1890-91 ; and was a Populist Independent repre- sentative from the sixth district of Nebraska in the52d, 53d and 54th congresses, 1891-97. He removed to Colorado and settled in Montrose.

KEflBLE, Edward Windsor, illustrator, was born at Sacramento, Cal., Jan. 18, 1861; son of Edward Cleveland and Cecilia (Windsor) Kem- ble ; grandson of John Cleveland and Mary (Whipple) Kemble, and a descendant of John Cleveland Kemble. His father removed to Cali- fornia from New York city in 1846, and founded the Alta California, the first newspaper on the Pacific coast. The sou was educated in the pub- lic schools of New York, and was connected with various periodicals as an illustrator from 1881. He made the negro a special study, and became

well known by his drawings of negro characters. He also illustrated numerous books, including, " Uncle Tom's Cabin," " Knickerbocker's History of New York," " Huckleberry Finn," " Pudd'n Head Wilson," " Colonel Carter of Cartersville." He also published : Kemble's Coons ; A Coon Al- phabet ; Kemble' s SketcJi Book.

KEflBLE, Qouverneur, representative, was born in New York city, Jan. 25, 1786 ; son of Pe- ter Kemble, of Essex county, N.J. He was grad- uated from Columbia college in 1803, and became a merchant in New York eity. During the war with the piratical governments of northern Af- rica, 1814-16, he visited the Mediterranean ports with ordnance supplies for the U.S. squadron. On his return to the United States he established at Cold Spring, N.Y., the first foundry in the country where cannon were successfully cast. He was appointed U.S. consul at Cadiz by Presi- dent Monroe ; was a Democratic representative from New York in the 25th and 26th congresses, 1837-41, and a member of the New York state constitutional convention in 1846. He was a promoter of the building of the Hudson River railroad and of the railroad across the Isthmus of Panama. He was a man of superior literary at- tainments, a patron and collector of works of art, and a friend and companion of Washing- ton Irving, James K. Paulding, J. C. Brevoort and other noted authors and artists of his day. He died in Cold Spring, N.Y., Sept. 16, 1875.

KEMEVS, Edward, sculptor, was born at Sa- vannah, Ga., Jan. 31, 1843 ; son of William and Abby B. (Greene) Kemeys ; grandson of Judge Edward Kemeys, and a descendant of Capt. Wil- liam Kemeys, of Scarboro, England, who was descended from Sir Nicholas Kemeys, of Chap- ston Castle, Glamorganshire, Wales. He was educated in the schools of New York until 1860, and in 1861 joined the Federal.army and served as captain in the artillery throughout the civil war. He farmed in Illinois for a short time as a recreation and to bring him in contact with na- ture, and became a member of the corps of civil engineers of Central Park, New York, in 1868. He took up sculpture, and went abroad in 1877, studying in Paris, though under no master : he was entirely self-taught. He was an exhibitor in London and at the Paris Salon. He was espe- cially successful in depicting the North Ameri- can Indians and the wild animals of the Ameri- can continent. Among his more important works are : Fight Between Buffalo and Wolves, exliib- ited at the Paris Salon in 1878 ; Panther and Deer : Coyote and Raven.

KEMP, James, second bishop of Maryland, and 15th in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Kieth Hall, parish Aberdeenshire, Scotland, May 20, 1764 ; son of Donald and Isabel