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 KENDALL

KENDRICK

KENDALL, George Wilkins, journalist, was boin in Auiherist, N.H., Aug. 22, 1809. He learned the trade of a printer in Burlington, Vt., and subsequently engaged as a journeyman printer in several states. He settled in New Orleans, La., in 1835, where, with Francis A. Lunison, he established the Picayune, the first cheap daily publication in that city. He joined the Santa Fe trading expedition in 1841 ; was taken prisoner, and carried to the city of Mexico, where he was confined for a period of seven months. Upon the outbreak of the Mexican war in 1816, he accompanied the U.S. forces under Generals Taylor and Scott, as a newsi^aper cor- respondent, using the pony express and steamers to carry the news to his papers. At the close of the war he went abroad and spent two years in Europe, and on his return to the United States he purchased a large farm in Comal county, Texas, and amassed a fortune by sheep-raising. He is the author of: Narrative of the Texan Santa Fe Expedition (1844); The War between the United States and Mexico (1851). He died at Oak Spring, Texas, Oct. 22, 1867.

KENDALL, Paul Raymond, educator, was born in Phillipstou, Mass., Aug. 27, 1822 ; son of Paul Raymond and Jane (Nickerson) Kendall ; grandson of Jesse and Elizabeth (Raymond) Ken- dall and of Capt. Nathan and Sarah (Nickerson) Nickerson ; and a descendant of Francis Kendall, who came from England and settled in Woburn, Mass., in 1640 ; of Capt. William Raymond of Salem ; of John Balch, one of the four "old plant- ers " of Massachusetts Bay colony ; of William Nickerson, who came from Norwich, England, to Boston in June, 1637 ; and of Mayftoiver pilgrims. He was educated at Phillipston and Athol, Mass., and at Norwich university, Vt., where he was graduated with honors in 1847. He taught at Swansea, N.H., before the completion of his college course, and afterward at Marietta, Ohio, and Galesburg, 111., where, in 1852, he became the first president of Lombaixl university. He was regimental quartermaster in the civil war, also serving as 1st lieutenant in the 12th Missouri cavalry and on a military commission at Fort Leavenworth in 1866. He became principal of the Clinton Liberal institute, Clinton, N.Y., in 1868 ; and was instrumental in the removal of that institution to Fort Plain, N.Y., and the erection of new buildings. He was married in 1847 to Abbie Weaver, and their daughter became the wife of Frank N. Cleaveland of Canton, N. Y. His second wife was Caroline S. Woodbury, by whom he had three daughters. He died in Canton, N.Y., April 4. 1897.

KENDRICK, Adin Ariel, educator, was born in Ticonderoga, N.Y., Jan. 7, 1836; son of Dr. Albert Kendrick (M.D., Middlebury, 1833), and

grandson of Dr. Adin Kendrick of Pouitney, Vt. He was prepared for college at Granville acad- emj% N.Y., attended Middlebury college, Vt., studied law and was admitted to the bar, prac- tising in Jonesville, Wis., and St. Louis, Mo. Deciding to enter the ministry he was graduated at the Rochester Theological seminary in 1861, and served the North Baptist church, Chicago, 111., 1861-65, the Second Baptist church, St. Louis, Mo., as assistant to Galusha Anderson, 1865-66 ; and as pastor of Beaumont Street church, 1866- 72. He was elected president of Shurtleff college, Upper Alton, 111., 1872 ; as successor to the Rev. Daniel Read who had resigned in 1870. President Kendrick was succeeded in 1894, by Austen K.de Blois, Ph.D., and he continued at the college as lecturer on Christian evidences, making his home in St. Louis, Mo. He received the degree of D.D., and that of LL.D. from Shurtleflf college.

KENDRICK, Asahel Clark, educator, was born in Pouitney, Vt., Dec. 7, 1809 ; son of the Rev. Clark and Esther (Thompson) Kendrick. He was graduated at Hamilton college in 1831, was tutor in the Literary and Theological institute at Ham- ilton (Colgate university), and was appointed professor of Greek and Latin languages in 1832. He held the chair of Greek until 1850, when he accepted the chair of Greek language and liter- ature at the newly established University of Rochester, which he held until 1888. He spent the years 1852-54 in Europe, where he studied Greek at the University of Athens, and visited several Italian and German universities, investi- gating their educational methods. He was pi'o- fessor of Hebrew and New Testament in the Rochester Theological seminary, 1865-68 ; and was appointed a member of the committee on the New Testament revision, Oct. 4, 1872. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Union in 1848, and that of LL.D. from the University of Lewisburg in 1872. He refused professorships in Hamilton, Waterville and Brown, and the jiresidency of Brown. He is the author of : A Child's Book in Greek ; Introduction to the Greek Language ; Greek Ollendorf (1852) ; a revised edition of the English Translation of Olshausen's " Commentary on the New Testament" (6 vols., 1853-58) ; Echoes (1855) ; Life of Linus W. Peck ; Life and Letters of Emily C. Judson (1860) ; a translation of the Epistle to the Hebrews (1865) ; Our Poetical Favorites (3 vols., 1870, 1875, 1880); an edition of Xenophon's Anabasis (1873) ; a revision of " Bullion's Greek Grammar"; a re- vision of Meyer's " Commentary on John " (1885) ; the greater part of the Life of Rev. James S. Dick- erson (1879) ; The Moral Conflict of Humanity (1894) ; Life of Martin B. Anderson (1895), and many sermons and magazine articles. He died in Rochester, N.Y., Oct. 21, 1895.