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KEY, Joseph Staunton, M.E. bishop, was born at La Grange, Ga., July 18, 1829 ; son of the Rev. Caleb Witt and Martha (Hauies) Key, and grandson of the Rev. Joshua Hames. The Keys are of English and Welsh origin. Martin Key married a sister of Lady Jane Grey and from him sprang the American family. Caleb Witt Key was for more than fifty years a Methodist min- ister in Georgia. Joseph Staunton Key was grad- uated from Emory college, Oxford, Ga., A.B., 1848, A.M., 1851 ; entered the Methodist ministry, and was active as pastor in Georgia until elected bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, in May, 1886. He removed from Georgia to Sherman, Texas, in 1889 ; visited China and Japan in 1892, and made numerous official visits to Mexico. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from the University of Georgia, Athens, Ga., in 1867.

KEYES, Edward Lawrence, physician, was born in Charleston, S.C, Aug. 28, 1843 ; son of Maj-Gen. Erasmus Darwin and Caroline (Clarke) Keyes. He was graduated from Yale in 1863 and from the medical department of the Univer- sity of the City of New York in 1866, and studied in France until 1863. On his return he settled in practice in New York city, and lectured on dermatology in Bellevue Hospital Medical col- lege in 1871. He was made professor of derma- tology there in 1872, and adjunct professor of surgery in 1875. He was married, April 26, 1870, to Sarah, daughter of Hamilton Loughborough of Washington, D.C. He was a member of the American Academy of Medicine, 1884-92, and was elected a member of various other medical societies. He was connected with Bellevue and Charity hospitals as visiting and consulting sur- geon for many years.

KEYES, Emerson Willard, educator was born in Jamestown, N.Y., June 30, 1828. His father settled in Jamestown about 1820, where he was an ardent abolitionist and agent for the " un- derground railroad " in assisting slaves to escape from their masters. Emerson was graduated from the State Normal school in 1848 ; taught in seminaries and academies in central New York and removed to New York city in 1856. He taught in the evening schools in that city, 1856- 57 ; was deputy superintendent of public instruc- tion for the state of New York, 1857-65, and act- ing superintendent, 1861-62. He was admitted to the bar in 1862. He was deputy superintend- ent of the banking department of the state in 1865 ; acting superintendent, 1865-66, and bank examiner, 1870-73. He practised law in New York city, 1873-82 ; was a member of the New York Bar association, and chief clerk of the Brooklyn department of public instruction, 1882- 97. He is the author of : New York Court of

Appeals Report (4 vols., 1806-69) : History of Sav- ings Banks in the United States (2 vols., 1876-78) ; Neiv York Code of Public Instruction (1879) ; a treatise on Principles of Civil Government Ex- emplified in the State of New York ; and the chap- ter on " Education " in the Greater New York ciiarter. He died in Brooklyn, Oct. 17, 1897.

KEYES, Erasmus Darwin, soldier, was born at Biimfield. Mass., May 29, 1810; son of Dr. Justus and Elizabeth (Corey) Keye?. ; grandson of Edward Keyes of Ashford, Conn. ; a descendant, in the seventh generation, of Solomon Keyes, who came to Massachu- setts Bay colony from England, prior to 1653 ; and also a de- scendant of Giles Corey, the hero of one of Longfellow's poems, who was kill- ed for witclicraft in Salem, Mass., about 1692. He was gradu- ated from tlie U.S. Military academj' in 1832; served the 3d artillery in Charles- ton Harbor, S.C, during the nullifica- tion troubles, 1832-33 ; and was promoted 2d lieu- tenant Aug. 31, 1833. He served on staff duty at the headquarters of the Eastern department, 1833-37 ; was jDromoted 1st lieutenant, Sept. 16, 1836 ; and was aide-de-camp to General Scott, 1837-41, assisting in removing the Indians of the Cherokee nation beyond the Mississippi in 1838. He was promoted captain, Nov. 30, 1841, was on duty in Florida, 1842, in garrison at New Orleans, La., in 1842, and at Fort Moultrie, S.C, 1842-44. He was a member of the board of visitors to the U.S. IMilitary academy in 1844 ; was an instruct- or in ai'tillery and cavalry jDractice, 1844-48 ; was in garrison at San Francisco, Cal., 18^9-51, and in the latter year escorted the Indian commis- sioners in California. He was again in garrison at San Francisco, Cal., 1851-55 ; on frontier duty during the Indian hostilities in Washington Ter- ritoxy, 1855-56 ; in garrison at San Francisco, Cal., 1856-58, and served on the Spokane expe- dition, Washington Territory, 1858, being engaged in the combats of Four Lakes, Sept. 1, 1858, Spokane Plain, Sept. 5, 1858, and the skirmish on Spokane river, Sept, 8, 1858. He was pro- moted major of the 1st artillery, Oct. 12, 1858 ; was in garrison at San Francisco, 1858-59 ; and was lieutenant-colonel of the staff and military secretary to General Scott, 1860-61. He assisted in organizing the expedition to relieve Fort Pick- ens, Fla., in April, 1861 ; was promoted colonel