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KERN

and editor of the United Brethren Mutual Aid Journal, 1876-83; professor of mental and moral science at San Joaquin Valley college, Wood- bridge, Cal., 1883-85; president of Westfield col- lege, 111., 1885-89, and in 1889 was made editor of the Religious Telescope, the official organ of the United Brethren church, publislied at Dayton, Ohio. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Otterbein university, Oliio, in 1872 and D.D. from Western college, Iowa, in 18-84, and was made a fellow of the Society of Science, Letters and Art of London in 1888.

KEPPLER, Joseph, artist, was born in Vienna, Austria, Feb. 1, 1838. At an early age he de- veloped a taste for drawing and his first effort in this line was the ornamenting of fancy cakes for his father, who was a baker. He entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, where he studied for two years. His first published caricature ap- peared in a humorous journal printed in Vienna, and he soon became a regular contributor to the leading periodicals of that city. He joined a theatrical troupe and appeared as a comic actor and opera singer in the Tyrol and Italy. In the meantime, his father had immigrated to the United States and established a di-ug business in St. Louis. Joseph decided to join him, and in 1868 he went to St. Louis and commenced the study of medicine. Finding this uncongenial he returned to the stage, but finally gave up acting and devoted himself entirely to drawing. He established in St. Louis a German illustrated humorous periodical called at first The Star Chamber, and subsequently Puck. His venture failing, he removed to New York city, where he was employed as a caricaturist on Frank Leslie's Illustrated Xeicspaper, 1872-77. He formed a partnersliip with Adolph Schwartzmann, and in 1875 commenced the publication of a German humorous paper, called Puck, after Mr. Keppler's venture in St. Louis. The paper immediately sprang into notice, the colored political cartoons soon became famous and in 1877 an edition ap- peared in English. An early cartoon of Mr. Keppler's, ridiculing the Stewart woman's hotel, assured the future of the English edition, as ui> wards of 100,000 copies were sold, and the printers could not supply the sudden demand. Mr. Kep- pler was the first artist to introduce cartoons in colors. Much of his success is due to his faculty of adapting mythological and classical subjects to modern social and political life. He was a member of the Leiderkranz society and a de- signer of most of the processions at its annual balls. He died in New York city, Feb. 19. 1894.

KERFOOT, John Barrett, first bishop of Pitts- burg, and 78th in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Dublin, Ireland, ^larch 1, 1816. He was brought to the United States by

his parents in 1819, and settled in Lancaster. Pa, He was graduated from Dr. Muhlenberg's insti- tute at Flushing, L.I., known subsequently as St. Paul's college, in 1834. He was ordained deacon in St. George's church, Flushing, L.I., March 1, 1837, and

priest, March 1, 1840, by Bishop B. T. On- derdouk. He was chaplain and assist- ant professor of Lat- in and Greek at St. Paul's college, 1837- 42; and president of St. James's college at Hagerstown, Md., 1842-64. During tl. civil" war he was i staunch Unionist, while the sympathies of the students of the college were with the south. He continued the school until the buildings were taken for the use of the Con- federate troops, wlien he was arrested and held prisoner until exchanged for Dr. Boyd, a soutli- erner. He was president of Trinity college, Conn., and Hobart professor of ethics and met- aphysics there, 1864-66, and a member of the board of visitors of Trinity college, 1871-81. In 1865 'the western portion of the diocese of Pennsylvania was set apart as the diocese of Pittsburg, and he was elected its bishop and was consecrated in Trinity church, Pittsburg, Jan. 25, 1866, by Bishops Hopkins, Mcllvaine, Whit- tingliam, John Williams, J. C. Talbot, Coxe and Clarkson. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Hobart college in 1843; that of D.D. from Kenyon in 1846, from Columbia in 1850, and from Trinity in 1865, and that of LL.D. from the University of Cambridge, England, at the Lambeth conference in 1867. He was a deputy to the general convention of the Episcopal church in 1865, and was influential in re-uniting the church in the north and south. His published writings consist of sermons and adresses. See Life, With Selections from Jtis Diaries aiid Cor- respondence by Hall Harrison (1886). He died at Meyersdale, Pa., July 10, 1881.

KERN, John Adam, educator, was born in Frederick county, Va., April 23, 1846; son of Nimrod and Eliza (Bentley) Kern and grandson of Adam and Margaret Kern. He was prepared for college at Winchester, Va., 1855-61, and was graduated from the University of Virginia in 1870. He entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, in 1866, and was pro- fessor of moral philosophy and the English Biblo in Randolph-Macon college, Aishland, Va., 1885-