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ant, 2d artillery, June 18, 1866. He served with the regiment in garrison at the Presidio of San Francisco, Cal., and Yerba Buena island, Cal., 1866-67, and on frontier duty at Fort Van- couver, Wash. Ter., from February to October, 1867. He was promoted 1st lieutenant, Dec. 3, 1868 ; was under instruction at the artillery school, Fort Monroe, Va., 1869-70, and was an honor graduate of the school in 1870. He was with liis regiment at the Presidio of San Fran- cisco, Cal., and at Fort Stevens, Ore., from May, 1870, to September, 1871 ; acting signal officer at Fort Whipple, Va., September, 1871, to August, 1876, and instructor of the signal corps, 1873-76, He was appointed assistant to the chief signal officer of the army, in August, 1876, and on duty at tlie signal office, Washington, D.C., 1876-84. He joined his regiment at Newport Barracks, Ky., in March, 1884 : was stationed at St. Au- gustine, Fla., from June, 1885, to July, 1887, and was professor of military science and tactics at the Ohio State university, 1887-90. He was ap- pointed captain in the signal corps, Dec. 20, 1890 ; major in the pay department, Nov. 6, 1893 ; served at Chicago, 111., Jan. 1 to May 25, 1894 ; Santa Fe, N.M., May 28 to Oct. 31, 1891 ; Walla Walla, Wash., Nov. ,4, 1894, to Nov. 28, 1895 ; Portland, Ore., Nov. 29, 1895, to May 12, 1898; joined the expedition to the Philippine islands at San Francisco, Cal., May 14, 1898; arrived at Manila bay, July 25, 1898 ; was auditor of public accounts, Philippine Islands, Oct. 1 to Oct. 10, 1898 ; treasurer of the Pliilippine Archipelago and Island ol Guam, Oct. 11, 1898, to Nov. 22, 1899, and on Dec. 28, 1899, was returned to duty at San Francisco, Cal.

KILBOURNE, James, representative, was born in New Britain, Conn., Oct. 19, 1770. He was a poor boy and supported himself by work- ing on a farm and serving as a clerk in a store. Through the instruction of the Rev. Alexander Viets Griswold he prepared for orders in the Protestant Episcopal church, and he was made deacon in 1800 and ordained priest the same j'ear by Bishop Jarvis. He was sent as a missionary and land agent for a company of forty immi- grants desirous of settling in Ohio, and purchased 16,000 acres of land, the site of Worthington, and established St. John's parish. He organized missions and laid tlie foundation for the future diocese of Ohio. He retired from the ministry in 1804, and was appointed a civil magistrate of the newly-admitted state and an officer of the state militia, gaining the rank of colonel. In 1805 he became surveyor of public lands, and as such laid out the city of Sandusky. He was a trustee of Ohio university, 1804-20 ; one of four- teen trustees to fix a site for Miami university in 1809 ; a trustee and president of the corpora-

tion of Worthington college, 1812-27, and a sup- porter of Bishop Chase in founding the Theolog- ical Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal church in the diocese of Ohio, known as Kenyon college, at Gambler, Ohio, in 1827. He was appointed by President Madison in 1812 one of the com- missioners to fix the boundary line between the public lands and the Virginia reservation, and wa& a representative from Ohio in the 13th and 14th congresses, 1813-17. While in congress he drew up a bill proposing the donation of lands to actual set- tlers in the northwest. He invested his fortune in establishing factories for the manufacture of woollens for the army, and continued them at a loss of all his capital, 1812-20. He then engaged in surveying. He was a representative in the state legislature, 1823-24 and 1838-39 ; president of the state convention of 1839 to lay the corner- stone of the capitol at Columbus and of the Whig state convention of 1840, and assessor for Frank- lin county, 1839-45. He was married, Nov. 8, 1789, to Lucy, daughter of John Fitch, inventor of the steamboat, and secondly, in 1808, to Mrs. Cynthia (Goodale) Barnes, daughter of Dr. L. Goodale, of Worthington, Ohio. His son, Lin- coln, was a leading merchant of Columbus, Ohio,, and Ijincoln's son, Col. James, became prominent in banking and railroad affairs, held various im- portant local positions in Columbus, and was a delegate to the Democratic national conventions of 1892, 1896 and 1900. James Kilbourne, Sr., died in Wortliington, Ohio, April 9, 1850.

KILBOURNE, John, publisher, was born in Berlin, Conn., Aug. 7, 1787. He was graduated from the University of Vermont, A.B., 1810, A.M., 1813, He joined his uncle, the Rev. James Kilbourne, in his colony, located at Worthing- ton, Ohio, whei-e he was principal of Worth- ington college for several years. He was admit- ted to the bar and practised at Columbus, Ohio, and later entered the book publishing business- there. He compiled and published : a Gazetteer of Vermont and a Gazetteer of Ohio (1817) ; a map of Ohio ; a volume of Public Documents Concern- ing the Ohio Canals (1832), and a School Geo- graphy (1833). He died at Columbus, Ohio, March 12, 1833.

KILBOURNE, Payne Kenyon, author, was born in Litchfield, Conn., July 20, 1815; son of Chauncey and Hannah C. (Kenyon) Kilbourne ; grandson of Giles and Cliloe (Munger) Kilbourne, of Litchfield, and of Payne Kenyon, of Moreau, Saratoga county, N.Y., and a descendant of Thomas Kilbourne, of Cambridge, England, who embarked with his family in the ship Increase from London, England, April 15, 1635, and on their arrival in Nevv England settled in Wetliers- field. Conn. He was apprenticed to the printer's trade, and having mastered the rudiments, en-