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 KINCAID

KING

the remains of Joel T. Hart, the sculptor, from Florence, Italy, to Frankfoit, Ky. He was pri- vate secretary to U.S. Senator Williams, l«84-85 ; Washington correspondent of the Louisville Times, San Francisco Examiner and New York Journal, 1885-87 : consul agent at St. Helens, England, 1887, and clerk to the house committee on private land claims, 1888. In 1893 he was ap- pointed U.S. revenue officer and in 1896 became a member of the editorial staff of the Cincinnati Enquirer, where he was engaged in 1901.

KINCAID, John, representative, was born in Mercer county, Ky., Feb. 15. 1791 ; son of Capt. James and Sarah (Wilson) Kincaid ; grandson of Capt. John and Margaret (Lockhart) Kincaid, and a descendant of the "Lairds of Kincaid," Stirlingshire, Scotland. The first Kincaid in America probably settled in Virginia in 1707. Captain John was born in the North of Ireland, and his wife, Margaret Lockhart, was born in Scotland, tiie daugliter of a Presbyterian min- ister. Capt. James Kincaid was a soldier in the war of the American Revolution and his wife was a niece of James Wilson, the signer, and justice of the U.S. supreme court. John Kincaid was attorney for the commonwealth of Kentuckj^; a representative in the state legislature from Lincoln county in 1819, 1836, and 1837 ; a repre- sentative in the 21st congress, 1829-31 ; presiden- tial elector, 1845 ; a Henry Clay Whig and an ad- vocate of internal improvements, especially of a post road through the state of Kentucky. He served repeatedly as judge by special appoint- ments. He was married to Mary Garnett, daugh- ter of Maj. Thomas and Mary (Garnett) Wag- gener of Culpeper county, Va., and granddaughter of Robert and Mary (Towles) Garnett. He died at "Bellevue," Sumner Co., Tenn., Feb. 7, 1873.

KINQ, Adam, representative, was born in York, Pa., in 1785. He was educated at the York county academy ; .studied medicine in Baltimore, Md., and practised at York, 1806-19, when he be- came an editor and part jiroprietor of the York Gazette, serving as editor, 1819-35. He was clerk of the courts and prothonotary of York county, 1818-26 ; represented York, Adams and Cumber- land counties in the 20th, 21st and 22d congresses, 1827-33, and was defeated in the election for the 23d congress by George A. Barnitz, a Henry Clay AVhig. He died in York, Pa., May 6, 1835.

KING, Austin Augustus, governor of Missouri, was born in Sullivan county, Tenn., Sept. 20, 1801. He prepared himself for the practice of law, and was admitted to the bar in 1822. He re- moved to Missouri in 1830, and established a practice at Richmond. He was elected a repre- sentative in the state legislature in 1834, and re- elected in 1836. He was judge of the circuit court of Ray county. Mo,, 1838-48 ; Democratic

governor of Missouri, 1848-52 ; a delegate to the Democratic national convention at Charleston in 1860 ; judge of the circuit court of Ray county, 1862-63, and Democratic representative from the sixth Missouri district in the 38th congress, 1863- 65. He was defeated for the 39th congress by Burt Van Horn, and practised law in Richmond, Mo. He died in St. Louis, Mo., April 22, 1870. KING, Charles, educator, was born in New York city, March 16, 1789 ; second son of Rufus and Mary (Alsop) King. He was educated at Harrow, England, and in Paris. France, and be- came a clerk in the banking house of Hope & Company in Amster- dam, Holland. He returned to the United States in 1806, and entered the em- ploy of Archibald Gracie, a merchant, whose partner he be- came in 1810. He was elected to the New York assembly in 1813, and altliough opposed to the war of 1812, enlisted as a volunteer and com- manded a regiment in 1814, He was abroad in the interest of his business, 1815-17, and in 1823 the firm failed, whereupon he pur- chased an interest in the New York American, and thus became associated with Johnston Ver- planck in publishing a Conservative newspaper. Verplanck retired in 1827 and Mr. King became editor and sole proprietor, and made a notable in- novation in political journalism by introducing a literary and review department. In 1845 he be- came an editor of the Courier and Enquirer, which absorbed the American. He was elected president of Columbia college in 1849, as successor to Nathaniel F. Moore, resigned. During his ad- ministration several movements toward univer- sity extension were made, among them, in 1857, a graduate school which continued for one year. The Columbia Law school was founded in 1858, the Medical school, which had been discontinued in 1810, was re-establi.shed in 1858. and the School of Mines began in 1863. He was a trustee of Columbia college, 1825-38, and again, 1849-67. He resigned the presidency in 1865 on account of ill-health, and visited Europe with the inten- tion of remaining abroad several years. He re- ceived the degree of LL.D. from the College of New Jersey and from Harvard in 1850. He was married in 1810 to Eliza, daughter of Archibald Gracie, of New York city, who bore him two daughters and two sons, and died at Havana