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KILQORE, David, representative, was born in Harrison county, Ky., April 3, 1804. His father settled in Indiana in 1819, making his home in Franklin county. David was admitted to the bar in 1830, and settled in practice in Yorktown, Delaware county. He was a representative in the state legislature, 1833-38 ; president judge of his judicial circuit, 1839-44 ; delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1850 ; representative in the state legislature and speaker of the house, 1855 : representative in the 35tli and 36th con- gresses, 1857-61 ; and a delegate to the National Union convention at Philadelphia iu 1866. He was familiarly known as the " Delaware chief." He died at Yorktown, Ind., in 1900.

KILLEBREW, Joseph Buckner, educator, was born in Montgomery county, Tenn., May 29, 1831 ; son of Bryan Whitfield and Elizabeth (Ligon) Smith Killebrew ; grandson of Buckner and Mary (Whitfield) Killebrew and of Mathew and Judith (Pleasants) Ligon, and great-grand- son of Joseph Ligon, a member of the Vir- ginia troops in the Revolutionary war, who was wounded at Guilford C.H., March 15, 1781. The Whitfields came to Virginia from the Isle of Wight, and the Killebrews (Killegrew) from England about 1690. They both removed first to North Carolina and thence to Tennessee in 1795. The Ligons removed from Halifax county, Va., to Tennessee, in 1814. Joseph Buckner Killebrew was graduated at the University of North Caro- lina, A.B., 1856, A.M. 1859, studied law, 1856-58, and became a planter near Clarksville, Tenn., in 1858. He was married in 1857 to Mary Catharine Wimberly and had four sons and two daugh- ters. He entered journalism in 1871 as part owner and an editor of tlie Union and American, Nashville. He also edited the Rural Sun, Nash- ville, 1872-73; was commissioner and secretary of the Tennessee bureau of education, 1872-81 ; secretary of the National Agricultural association, and state commissioner of agriculture, statistics and mines, 1871-81 ; agent of the Peabody educa- tion fund ; state supei'intendent of public instruc- tion and originator of the liberal public school law of Tennessee. He had charge of the department of minerals and woods in the Atlanta exposition, 1895, and the same year was made industrial com- missioner of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railway. He received the degree of Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina in 1878, and was elected president of the Industrial League of Tennessee. He published reports covering the agricultural and educational history of Tennessee during a formative period, and served as an editor on the Standard Dictionary (1890-93), and prepared Resources of Tennessee and The Culture and Curing of Tobacco for the 10th U.S. census report.

KILLINQER, John Weinland, representative, was born in Annville, Pa., Sept. 18, 1824 ; son of John and Fanny (Slierzer) Killinger. His ances- tors, who were Germans, obtained grants of land from the sons of William Penn. His father was a state senator. John W. Killinger was graduated at Franklin and Marshall college, A.B., 1843, A.M., 1846. He studied law with Thaddeus Stevens at Lancaster, Pa., and practised in Lebanon county, Pa., 1846-86. He was district attorney, 1848-49; editor of the Philadelphia DcnVyA'eies. 1849-50; a representative in the state legislature, 1850-51 ; state senator, 1854-57 ; delegate to the Republican national convention at Philadelphia, June 17, 1856 ;: a representative in the 36th and 37th congresses^ 1859-63 ; assessor of internal revenues, 1864-66 ; representative in the 42d and 43d congresses, 1871- 75, and in the 45th and 46th congresses, 1877-81. He was an incorporator of the Lebanon Valley rail- road and of the Valley national bank, and was engaged in iron manufacturing. He was mar- ried, Nov. 25, 1851, to Mary A. Hittell, of Ohio, and their sons, Charles Hittell (Shefl&eld Scientific school, Yale university, 1874), and John Wein- land (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1886), succeeded to his banking and railroad busi- ness. He died in Lebanon, Pa., June 30, 1896.

KILPATRICK, Hugh Judson, soldier, wa» born in Deckertown, N.J., Jan. 14, 1836. He was. graduated from the U.S. Military academy, May 6, 1861, and was promoted 2d lieutenant, 1st U.S. artillery. He was commissioned a captain in the 5th N.Y. volunteers. May 9, 1861, and on the- same day was promoted 1st lieutenant in the Ist U.S. artillery in garrison at Fort Monroe, Va., May 9, 1861. He was severely wounded in the action at Big Bethel, Jvme 10, 1861, and was on sick leave of absence, June and July, 1861. Upon his return to the army, he was detailed on re- cruiting service, Aug. 1-14, 1861 ; organized a regiment of volunteer cavalry and was commis- sioned its lieutenant-colonel, Sept. 25, 1861. He was appointed additional aide-de-camp to Gen. James H. Lane and prepared to accompany hini on the Texas expedition as chief of artillery with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, but upon tlie ex- pedition being abandoned he returned to his regi- ment at Arlington, Va., in February, 18G2. He participated in the skirmishes near Falmouth, Va., April 16, 1862 ; the movement to Thorougli- fare Gap in May, raids on the Virginia Central railroad in July, skirmishes at Carmel church, July 23, 1862, and during the Northern Vir- ginia campaign, in skirmishes at Brandy Station, Freedman's Ford, Sulphur Springs, Waterloo Bridge, Thoroughfare Gap, Haymarket, and in the second battle of Manassas. He was given command of a cavalry brigade in the ex- pedition to Leesburg, Va., Sept. 19, 1862 ; was