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 KENDRICK

KENLY

bar in New York city in 1858. He served in the Federal array, 1861-63, as private, captain, and as- sistant adjutant-general. He studied for the min- istry at the Divinity school at Gambier, Ohio ; was made deacon, May 31, 1864, and ordained priest, June 28, 1865, by Bishop Mcllvaine. He was a missionary at Put-in-Bay, Ohio, 1865-67 ; rector of St. Andrew's church at Fort Scott, Kan., 1867-69 ; of St. Paul's church, Leavenworth, Kan., 1869-75 ; of the Church of the Good Shep- herd, Columbus, Ohio, 1875-78; superintendent of city missions in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1878-83 ; and general missionary of the diocese of southern Ohio, 1883-89. He was consecrated missionary bishop of New Mexico and Arizona, Jan. 18, 1889, by Bishops Tuttle, Dudley, Knickerbocker and Rulison. The honorary degree of D.D. was con- ferred upon him by Marietta college, Ohio, in 1880.

KENDRICK, Nathanael, educator, was born in Hanover, N.H,, April 22, 1777. He worked on his father's farm until 1797, when he divided his time between teaching a school and attending an academy. He joined the Baptist church with his brother, Clark, in 1798, and after studying theology he was licensed to preach in 1803. He supplied the pulpit at Bellington, Mass., 1803-04, and was ordained at Lansingburg, N.Y., in Aug- ust, 1805, where he served as pastor and teacher, 1805-10. He was pastor at Middlebury, Vt., and also preached at Monkton, Bridgeport and New Haven, Ct., 1810-17, when he was called to the churches at Eaton and Morrisville, N.Y., serving there until 1822. He lectured in the Hamilton Literary and Theological institution, 1820-21, and became the first president and professor of sys- tematic and pastoral theology there in 1822, being elected president in 1836, and remaining as such up to the time of his death, although never for- mally accepting the oflfice. He was an overseer of Hamilton college, Clinton, N.Y., 1825-37; a member of the executive committee and corres- ponding secretary of the New York Baptist Edu- cational society, 1834-48. The degree of A.M. was conferred on him by the University of Ver- mont in 1813, and that of D.D. by Brown in 1823. A sketch of his life appears in " Sprague's Annals of the American Pulpit " (jubilee volume, Madison university). See also Nathanael Ken- drick (Am. Bap. Pub. Soc). He died in Hamil- ton, N.Y.,Sept. 11, 1848.

KENLY, John Reese, soldier, was born in Baltimore, Md., in 1822. His father was a prom- inent merchant of Baltimore. He was descended from an English Presbyterian family that immi- grated to America during the latter half of the seventeenth century and settled in Harford county, Md. Jolm was educated in the schools of Baltimore; studied law with John S. McCulloh :

was admitted to the bar in 1845, and practised in Baltimore, Md., 1845-46. He was a member of the Eagle artillery of Baltimore, rose to the rank of lieutenant, and at the outbreak of the Mexican war he raised a company of volunteers, of which he was made captain, and which was at- tached to Lieut. -Col. William H. Watson's battalion of Baltimore volunteers. This bat- talion was attached to General Taylor's army stationed near the mouth of the Rio Grande, on July 2, 1846. Captain Kenly participated in the three days' battle that resulted in the capture of Monterey, Sept. 24, 1846, and up- on the expiration of his term of enlistment, June 27, 1847, he returned to Baltimore, where he was- commissioned major of a volunteer regiment and sailed for Vera Cruz. He was honorably dis- charged from the volunteer service, July 22, 1848. The general assembly of the state of Maryland voted him the thanks of the state, Jan. 29, 1850. He practised his profession until the outbreak of the civil war, when he was commissioned colonel of volunteers by President Lincoln, June 11, 1861. He was actively engaged in the western part of Maryland, and in the Virginia valley, 1861-62. He was severely wounded and captured at Front Royal, May 23, 1862, but was exchanged, Aug. 15,

1862. He was commissioned brigadier-general for gallant conduct at Front Royal, Aug. 22, 1862, and was given command of all the troops in Bal- tiinore except those stationed in the forts. He joined McClellan after the battle of Antietam, and further distinguished himself at Hagers- town and Harper's Ferry, leading the Marjland brigade at the recapture of Maryland Heights in

1863. He served in the 1st and 8th army corps, until the surrender of Lee, when he was brevetted major-general of volunteers " for gallant and meritorious services during the war." A vote of thanks was again extended to him by the state legislature under date of March 10, 1862, and on Dec. 31, 1865, a sword was presented him by the corporation of Baltimore as the ranking com- manding officer from Maryland during the civil war. He is the author of : Historical Record of the First Maryland Regiment and The Memoirs of a Maryland Volunteer in the Mexican War (1873). He refused to apply for a pension and lost his home in 1890 through inability to pay the taxes. He died in Baltimore, Md., Dec. 20, 1891.