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 KILBURN

KILGORE

tered journalism and assisted in publishing a lit- erary paper in Hartford, Conn. He was proprie- tor and editor of tlie Litciifield, Conn., Inquirer, 1845-53. and was private secretary to Gov. Alex- ander H. Holley in 1857. He was married, Aug. 3, 1842, to Elizabeth A., daughter of Warren Cone, of Norfolk, Conn. He is the author of : The Skejjtic cnid Other Poems (1843); Histoid of the Kilbourne Family from 1635 (1845); Biograph- ical History of Litchfield County (1851); Sketches <tnd Chronicles of the Town of Litchfield (1859); appendices to Hollister's History of Connecticut <1855). He died in Litchfield, Conn., Julyl9, 1859.

KILBURN, Charles Lawrence, soldier, was born at Lawrence ville, Tioga county. Pa., Aug. 9, 1819 ; son of Ira and Sally (Ross) Kilburn ; grandson of David and Lydia (Wells) Kilburn, and a descendant of Thomas Kilburn who came from London, England, April 15, 1635. He was -appointed from Pennsylvania to the U.S. Mili- tary academy, July 1, 1838, and was graduated and brevetted 2d lieutenant of the 1st artillery, July 1, 1842. He was transferred to the 3d artil- lery, July 10, 1843, promoted 2d lieutenant, June 27, 1844 ; brevetted 1st lieutenant, Sept. 23, 1846, for gallant and meritorious conduct at Monterej' ; promoted 1st lieutenant, Feb. 16, 1847 ; brevetted captain, Feb. 23, 1847, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Buena Vista ; promoted captain and made commissary of subsistence, Sept. 13, 1853 ; promoted major, May 11, 1861 ; lieutenant-colonel. Feb. 9, 1863 ; and made assist- ant commissar3'-general with the rank of colonel, June 29, 1864. He was brevetted brigadier-gen- eral, March 13, 1865, for faithful and meritorious services during the civil war. During the civil ■war he disbursed, it is said, more than $80,000,000 to the account of the government without once having his records questioned. After the war he •was chief of the commissary. Department of the Atlantic and later of the Department of the Pacific, until retired through age limit, May 20, 1882. He was married to Mary Walcott, who survived him. He died at Germantown, Phila- delphia, Pa., March 17, 1899.

KILDAHL, John Nathan, educator, was born in Norwaj', Jan. 4, 1857 ; son of Johan and Nico- line (Buvarp) Kildahl, and grandson of Nils and Malena Kildahl, and of Anders and Paulina (Vengstad) Buvarp. He came to America in 1866 ; was graduated at Luther college, Decorah, Iowa, in 1879, and studied theology at Madison, Wis. He was married, July 11, 1882, to Bertha Soine. He became a minister of the Norwegian Lutheran Synod of America in 1882, serving a congregation at Holden, Minn., 1882-89; and was pastor of the Bethlehem church of Chicago, 111.. 1889-99 ; this being the most prominent congre- ^tion of the United Norwegian Lutheran church

of that city. In 1899 he was elected president of St. Olaf college, Northfield, Minn., as successor to the Rev. Thorbjorn N. Mohn.

KILQO, John Carlisle, educator, was born at Laurens, S.C, July 22, 1861 ; son of James T. and Catherine (Mason) Kilgo ; grandson of William and Elizabeth (Morris) Kilgo and of Washington and Rebecca (Wyrick) Mason, and a descendant of Isaac Kilgo, and the Virginia family of Masons. He was a student at Wofford college, Spartanburg, S.C, and received the A.M. degree in 1892, but was not regularly graduated. He entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, in 1882, was an agent for Woflford college, 1889-94, professor of philosophy there, 1890-94, and in 1894 was elected president of Trinity col- lege, N. C. He received the honorary degree of DD. from Wofford and Randolph-Macon colleges in 1895.

KILGORE, Constantine Buckley, representa- tive, was born in Newman, Ga.. Feb. 20, 1835. He removed with his parents to Rusk county, Texas, in 1846, and attended the public scliool and an academy. He enlisted in the 10th Texas regiment in the Confederate army and served as private, orderly sergeant, first lieutenant, and captain, and in 1862 was made adjutant-general of Eaton's brigade. Army of the Tennessee. He was wounded at the battle of Chickamauga and was captured and confined as a prisoner of war in Fort Delaware, during the year 1864. He was admitted to the bar after the war and settled in practice at Willspoint, Texas. He was elected justice of the peace in Rusk county, in 1869, was a member of the Texas constitutional convention in 1875, and was a presidential elector on tlie Hancock and English ticket in 1880. He was elected to the state senate for four years in 1884, and in 1885 was chosen president of that body for two years. He resigned his seat in the senate in 1886, on his election as Democratic representa- tive from the third Texas district to the 50th con- gress, and he was re-elected to the 51st, 52d and 53d congresses, serving 1887-95. He was appointed U.S. judge for the southern district of Indian TeiTitory, in March, 1895. He died at Ardmore. Ind. Ty.. Sept. 23, 1897.

KILGORE, Daniel, representative, was born in Virginia. He removed to Cadiz, Ohio ; was a state senator, 1828-32 ; and was elected a repre- sentative from Ohio in the 23d congress in place of H. H. Leavitt, resigned, taking his seat. Dec. 1, 1834. He was re-elected to the 24th and 25th congresses, but resigned in July, 1838, by reason of a toast given at a 4th of July dinner at Cadiz, written by Edwin M. Stanton, but oflFered by an- other, the toast being " The Nineteenth district not properly represented." He died in New- York city, Dec. 12, 1851.