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KEMPER

Kemp. lie attended the grammar school at Aberileen, and was graduated from I\Iarischal college in 178(5, rtMuainiiig in the college for one year after liis giailuation. He immigrated to the United Slates in April, 1787, where he was employed as a private tutor in Dorchester county, Md, 1787-89, at the same time studying theologj' under the Rev. John Bowie, D.D., rector of Great Choptank parish. Although

brought up a Pres- b\terian, he receiv- ed deacon's orders in Christ church, Phila- delphia, Dec. 26, 1789, and he was ordained a priest, Dec. 27, 17- 89. by Bishop White. He succeeded Dr. Bowie in the rectorship of Great Choi)tank parish in August. 1790, and suc- ceeded Dr. Bend as associate rector with the Rev. Dr. Beasley of St. Paul's church, Baltimore, Md., about 1810. He was elected in 1814 by the convention of the Protestant Episcopal church of Maryland to act as suffragan to the Rt. Rev. Dr. Tliomas J. Claggett, first bishop of Maryland, and was consecrated in Christ church. New Brunswick, X.J., Sept. 1, 1814. by Bishops White, Hobart and Richard Channing Moore. He had charge of the churches on the eastern shore, after- ward the diocese of Easton, and comprising about one-third of all the i)arishes in the diocese, 1814- 16. He was the only suffragan bishop elected in the American episcopate. He served as pro- vost of the University of Maryland, 1815-27, and upon the death of Bishop Claggett, Aug. 2, 1816, he succeeded him, being elected the second bishop of Maryland. The degree of D.D. was conferred on him by Columbia in 1802. Among his promi- nent works are: Sermon on the Death of Wasli- ington (1800); Sermon before the Convention of the Church in Maryland (1803); Sermon be- fore the Free Masons (1806); Sermon before the General Convention (1807); Letters in Vindica- tion of Episcopacy (1808); Sermon on Deathbed RejJentanceilSiG); Sermon on the Death of Bishop Claggett (1816); An Address before the Students of the General Theological Seminary (1825). He was severely injured by the overthrow of a stage in which he was returning from the consecration of Bishop Henry U. Onderdonk at Pliiladelphia, Pa., and died at Baltimore, Md., Oct. 28, 1827.

KEflP, James Furman, geologist, was born in New York city, Aug. 14, 1859; son of James Alexander and Caroline (Furman) Kemp; graVid-

son of Jo.seph Alexander and Emma (Biddulph) Kemp and of John and Freelove (Hulse) Furman, and great-grandson of Joseph Alexander Kemp, who immigrated to America from Pertli, Scot- land, landed in New York cit}', 1797, and re- moved to Albany, N.Y. The Furmans were early settlers of Brooklyn, N.Y. James was graduated at the Adelphi academy in 1870, from Amherst college in 1881, and from the School of Mines, Columbia college, in 1884. He studied at the universities of Munich and Leipzig: engaged in practical engineering; was instructor in geology at Cornell university, 1886-88, and assistant pro- fessor there, 1888-91. He was married in 1889 to Kate Taylor. He was elected adjunct professor of geology in Columbia university in 1891, and was advanced to the full chair in 1894. He be- came vice-president of the School of Mines Alumni association; scientific director and mem- ber of the board of managers of the New York Botanical Garden; a member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers in 1886 and man- ager of that body; a fellow of the American As- sociation for the Advancement of Science in 1888, and in IDOO was a vice-president and chairman of the section of geology and geographj' in that bodj'; a fellow of the Geological Society of America in 1889; a fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences in 1891, and its secretary and vice-pres- ident; a member of the Washington Academy of Sciences in 1899, and of other scientific societies. He is the author of: Ore Deposits of the United States and Canada (1894, 3d ed., 1900); H((nd- book of Bocks (1897), and many scientific papers relating to economic and inorganic geology and subjects connected with mining.

KEMP, John, educator, was born in eastern Scotland, April 10, 1763. He was graduated from Aberdeen university in 1781, and was ad- mitted to the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1783. He immigrated to Virginia in 1783, and in 1785 removed to New York city, where he was tutor at Columbia college, 1785-86; professor of mathe- matics. 1786-99; professor of geography, 1795-99, and professor of mathematics and natural history, 1799-1812. He is said to have influenced the views of De Witt Clinton on the subject of in- ternal improvement and the national policj'. In 1810 he inspected the proposed canal from Lake Erie to the Hudson river and pronounced the pro- posed route feasible before a survey had been made. He received the degree of LL.D. He died in New York city, Nov. 15, 1812.

KEMPER, Jackson, first missionary bishop of the American churcli 'and 31st in succes- sion in the American episcopate, was born in Pleasant Valley, Dutchess county, N.Y., Dec. 24. 1789; son of Col. Daniel and Elizabeth (Marius) Kemper, and a descendant of Jacob