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s.vlvania-German riflemen had, by leaving over half tiieir number dead upon tiie field, made pos- sible the masterly retreat of Washington and prevented a total rout and capture of the Amer- ican army. The brave leader and his surviving companions were imprisoned in tiie Britisli i)rison ships on the Jersey shore, where they sutfered un- told agony until exchanged, when they dragged their emaciated bodies back to their Pennsyl- vania homes, or to the Reformed church on Pom- fret street, Easton, which was thrown open for the sick and wounded soldiers. He was a member of the first constitutional convention of Pennsyl- vania ; first chief burgess of Easton, Pa., briga- dier-general of Pennsylvania militia and ruling elder of the German Reformed church. He was married twice, and his wife Margaretta (born Dec. 10, 1720, died, Feb. 20, 1766), was the mother of Lieut. Peter Kichlein, who served in the battle of Long Island, and escaped when his father was captured ; and the maternal grandmother of the Rev. Dr. George C. Heckman (q.v.). General Kichlein died at Easton, Pa., Nov. 27, 1789.

KIDDER, Daniel Parish, author and editor, was born at Darien, N.Y., Oct. 18, 1815. He at- tended Hamilton college, N.Y., 1833-34; was graduated at Wesleyan iiniversityin 1836 and the same year was a teacher in Amenia seminary. He joined the Genesee conference of the M.E. church and was stationed at Rochester, N.Y., 1837-39. He went to Brazil as a missionary and Bible distributer in 1839 and returned to the United States in 18-11. He joined the New Jersey conference and was stationed at Paterson, N.J., 1841-42 ; at Trenton, N.J., 1842-43, and was cor- responding secretary of the Sunday-school Union and editor of Sunday-school publications and tracts, 1844-56, residing in New York city. He travelled in Europe, making special observations upon Sunday-schools and religious education, 1852-53 ; was professor of practical theology in Garrett Biblical institute, Evanston, 111., 1856- 71 ; member of the General Centenary committee of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1865. and professor of practical theology in Drew Tiieo- logical seminary, Madison, N.J., 1871-81, when he removed to Evanston, 111. He received the de- gree of D.D. from McKendree university, 1851, and from Wesleyan university, 1855, and the de- gree of LL.D. from Grant university, Athens, Tenn., 1883. He is the author of: Monaonism and the Mormons (1842); Demonstration of the Necessity of Abolishing a Constrained Clerical Celibacy (1844); Sketches of Residence and Travels in Brazil (1845); Brazil and the Brazilians (18~)7) ; Treatise on Homiletics (1864); Tlie Christian Pastorate (1871); Helps to Prayer (1874), and many reports and Sunday-school books. He died at Evanston, 111., July 23, 1891.

KIDDER, David, representative, was born iu Dresden, Maine, Dec. 8, 1787. He was given a classical education by private tutors. He stud- ied law and settled in practice in Bloomfield, re- moving in 1817 to Skowhegan, and in 1821 to Norridgewock. He was attorney for Somerset county, 1811-23 ; a representative in tlie 18th and 19th congresses, 1823-27 ; returned to Skowhegan in 1827, and was a representative in the Maine legislature in 1829. He was an editorial contrib- utor to the Somerset County Journal. lie died at Skowhegan, Maine, Nov. 1, 1800.

KIDDER, Frederic, author, was born in New Ipswich, N.H., April 16, 1804; son of Isaiah and Hepsey (Jones) Kidder; grandson of Col. Reuben Kidder and of Jonas Jones ; great-grandson of Capt. Ephraini Jones, of Concord, Mass., and a descendant of James Kidder, who came from Sussex, England, to Cambridge, Mass., about 1650. His father, a pioneer cotton manufacturer in New Hampshire, died April 28. 1811. Frederic was educated at the academy in his native town, in the school of Gen. James Poole, of Hanover, and at the ^preparatory department of Dartmouth college. He retui-ned home in 1821, and in 1822- 26 was clerk in a store in Boston. He opened a store in Wilmington, N.C., in 1826, in company with his brother as F. and E. Kidder and returned to his mother's home in Cambridge, Mass., in 1834. He was in the West India trade, Boston, Mass., with B. F. Copeland, 1835-52 ; engaged in business in New York city in partnership with James R. Gilmore, 1854-56 ; again in Boston with B. F. Copeland, 1856-61, and alone, 1861-69. He was married, Jan. 12, 1841, to Harriet Maria, daughter of Jonathan and Lois (Mixer) Hagar, of Cambridge, Mass., and after 1856 resided in Mel- rose, where he helped to establish the public li- brary and to build the Unitarian church. He was a member of the New England Historic Genealog- ical society and its treasurer and member of its publishing committee, 1851-55. He is the author of : History of Neiv Ipswich, 1735-185,2 (with A. A. Gould, 1852); The Expedition of Capt. John Lovewell (1865); Military Operations in Eastern Maine and Nova Scotia during the Revolution (1867); History of the 1st N.H. Regiment in the War of the Revolution (1868) : History of the Bos- ton Massacre (1870) ; Memorial of the Jones Fam- ily (MS.) and various pamphlets. He died in Melrose. Mass.. Dec. 19, 1885.

KIDDER, Henry Purkitt, banker, was born in Boston, Mass., Jan. 18, 1823; son of Tiiomas and Clarissa (Purkitt) Kidder, and grandson of John and Miiry Kidder ; and a descendant of James Kid- der, born in East Grinstead, Sussex, England, 1626, who appears in Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay colony, as early as 1650 as the husband of Anna, daughter of Elder Francis Moore. Their soq