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caused St. Joseph's college, Philadelphia, to be incorporated, Jan. 29, 1852. In May, 1853, he was appointed apostolic delegate to preside at the first national council in Baltimore of all the arch- bishops and bishops of the United States, and subsequently during his administration the arch- bishops of Baltimore were honored by being in- vested with the primacy of honor in the college of American archbishops. In 1854 he again went to Rome, where he took part in the deliberations leading to the definition of the dogma of the im- maculate conception. He was recognized as a profound Hebrew scholar and theologian. His published works include : Letters of Omicron to Omega (1828) ; Sermons (1829) ; Theologia Dog- matica (4 vols., 1839-40 ; 3 vols., new ed., 1857); TJieologia Moralis (3 vols., 1841-43) ; Letter's on the Primacy of the Holy See (1837) ; The Catholic Doctrine of Justification (1841) ; Treatise on Baptism (1843) ; Vindication of the Catholic Church (1855), and the following translations from the original Rhemish-Douay version of the Bible, edited by Dr. Challoner, with copious notes: The New Testament (1849-51); Psalms, Book of Wisdom and Canticle of Canticles {IShl) ; Job and the Prophets (1859). He died suddenly in Baltimore, Md., July 6, 1863.

KENRICK, Peter Richard, R.C. archbishop, was born at No. 16 Chancery Lane, Dublin, Ire- land, Aug. 17, 1806 ; son of Thomas and Jane Kenrick, and brother of Francis Patrick Kenrick (q.v.). He studied for the priesthood, and was ordained at Dublin by Archbishop Dan- iel Murray, March 6, 1832. He immigrat- ed to the United States, where his brother, who had pre- ceded him, was then bishop coadjutor of Philadelphia. He was made assistant pas- tor of St. Mary's, the cathedral church, serving 1833-35. He was also editor of the Catholic Herald. In 1835 he became pastor of St. Mary's parish, in 1838 president of the diocesan seminary of St. Charles Borromeo, and professor of dogmatic theology, and subse- quently vicar-general of the diocese. At the third provincial council of Baltimore, in 1837, he was theologian to Bishop Brute. He was selected as coadjutor to Bishop Rosati, of St. Louis, in 1841. He was consecrated at Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 30, 1841. by Bishop Rosati, assisted by Coad- jutor Bishop E. P. Kenrick and Bishop Lefevre.

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His title was Bishop of Drasa and Coadjutor to the Bishop of St. Louis. Bishop Rosati died at Rome, Italy, Sept. 25, 1843, and Bishop Kenrick succeeded to the see. He was promoted arch- bishop, July 20, 1847, on the creation of the arch- diocese of St. Louis. His pallium was brouglit to the United States by Bishop O'Connor of Pittsburg in August, 1848, and was conferred on him by the Rt. Rev. Francis Patrick Kenrick at Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 3, 1848. On June 15, 1893, Jie was given a coadjutor in the person of Bishop John Joseph Kain, of Wheeling, W.Va., who was made administrator of the diocese, Dec, 14, 1893, created archbishop of St. Louis on the retirement of Archbishop Kenrick, May 21, 1895, and proclaimed in the cathedral, June 2, 1895. Archbishop P. R. Kenrick, on his retire- ment, was proclaimed titular archbishop of Marcianopolis. He died at the archiepiscopal residence, St. Louis, Mo., March 4, 1896.

KENSETT, John Frederick, artist, was born in Cheshire, Conn., March 22, 1816. He served as an apprentice to his uncle, Alfred Daggett, an engraver of bank-note vignettes, and devoted his leisure time to painting. He studied art in Eng- land, 1840-45. His first picture, exhibited in the Royal academy, London, was a distant view of Windsor castle. He removed to Rome, where he painted several views of Italian scenery, 1845-47. Upon his return to New York, he was appointed a member of the National Art commission to di- rect the decoration of the capitol in Washington. He was elected an associate member of the Na- tional Academy of Design in 1848, and an academi- cian in 1849. His works include : Mount Wash- ington from North Comvay (1849); Sketch of Mount Washington (1851); Franconian Mountains (1853); High Bank on the Genesee River (1857);. Sunset on the Coast (1858) ; Sunset on the Adiron- dacks (ISGO) ', Autumn Afternoon on Lake George (1864); Glimpse of the White Mountains (1867); Afternoon on the Connecticut Shore ; Noon on the Seashore ; Lake Conesus ; Coast of Massachusetts ; New Hampshire Scenery ; Lake George, and Nar- ragansett. Some of his paintings are in the Cor- coran gallery, Washington, D.C., ; several were purchased by the Century association, thirty- eight of his works were presented to the Metro- politan Museum of Art in New York city by his brother, Thomas Kensett, in 1873, and a large number were sold at auction in 1887. He died in New York city, Dec. 16, 1872.

KENT, Charles Foster, educator, was born at Palmyra, N.Y., Aug. 13, 1867; son of William H. and Helen (Foster) Kent ; grandson of James and Sarah (Hotchkiss) Kent and of Joel and Nancy (Reeves) Foster, and a descendant of Elisha (?) Kent, who landed about 1640, and of Christopher Foster, who landed in 1635 and was