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the building for the Kingsley Scientific academy, Worcester, in 1897, and gave to the academy, to Colby college, Waterville, Maine, to the Newton Theological institution, to the American Baptist Missionary union, to the American Baptist Home Mission societj', to the American Baptist Publi- cation society, to the Massachusetts Baptist convention, and to Brown university, in 1899, $25,000 each, his gifts aggregating $200,000.

KINQSLEY, Elbridge, painter-engraver, was born at Carthage, Ohio. Sept. 17, 1842 ; son of Moses W. and Rachel W. (Curtis) Kingsley, and grandson of Seth Kingsley, of Hatfield, Mass. His parents removed to Oliio, where Elbridge was born, and returned to Hatfield, Mass., in 1843. He studied at Hop- kins academy, Had- ley, Mass., 1856-58, and then entered the office of the Ifamp- shire Gazette at Northampton, where he used his spare mo- ments in drawing, taking his subjects from Bible history and Indian stories. When his apprentice- ship expired he went to New York, where art of engravnig on wood with J. AV. Orr, and drawing and painting at the Cooper institute. He was first employed as illus- trator and engraver by Harper & Brothers and later by Charles Scribner's Sons. In 1882 he made a notable original picture of the Hatfield Woods, which he engraved, and after that time his work appeared regularly in the Century Magazine. In 1884 he was elected a member of the Grolier club of New York, and of the Society of American Wood Engravers, serving on the exhibition com- mittees in Paris, 1889, where he was awarded the gold medal by the International jury. In 1891 a new exhibit was sent to Berlin and prepara- tions made for the exhibition in Chicago. On the return of the pictures he arranged supplemen- tary exhibitions in the Grolier rooms. New York city, the Hamilton club rooms in Brooklj^n and other art centres. In 1890 he determined to let his 300 published plates represent his commercial work and to devote the remainder of his life to art from the painter-engraver's standpoint. He worked upon large blocks for Japan proof alone, and these passed through stages of trial-proofs extending over twelve months, and the wood block was treated as copper-plates are by the painter-etclier, producing a series of trial and finished proofs. To facilitate this work, Mr.

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Kingsley used a sketching car in which he painted and engraved in the region of his sub- jects, in the neighborhood of his home at Hadley. His work was done entirely for art collectors, and the only exhibition of his progressive work during his active life was placed in the Forbes library at Northampton, Mass. In 1901 Mr. Kingsley was engaged in forming a complete col- lection, mounted and framed, with a catalogue and sketch of his life, for the art building, Mount Holyoke college, as a memorial of Clara Leigh Dwight, who commenced its arx-angement.

KINGSLEY, James Luce, educator, was born at Windham, Conn., Aug. 28, 1778. He was a student at Williams college, and was graduated from Yale in 1799. He taught school at Wethers- field and Windham, Conn., 1799-1801 ; was, a tu- tor at Yale, 1801-12 ; librarian, 1805-24 ; professor of ecclesiastical history, 1805-17 ; of the Hebrew, Greek and Latin languages, 1805-31 ; of Latin language and literature, 1831-51, and emeritus professor, 1851-52. He received the degree of LL.D. from Middlebury college, Vt., in 1831. He published a discourse on the 200th anniversary of the founding of New Haven, Conn., A^iril 25, 1838 ; a history of Yale college in the American Quarterly Register (1835); a life of Ezra Stiles, president of Yale college, in Sparks's A7nerican Biography, and translations of the works of Tacitus and Cicero. He died in New Haven, Conn., Aug. 31, 1852.

KINGSLEY, John Sterling, biologist, was born at Cincinnatus, N.Y., AjDril 7, 1854 ; son of Lewis and Julia A. (Kingman) Kingsley ; grandson of Benjamin B. and Rachel (Clark) Kingsley and of Oliver and Betsey (Brown) Kingman, and a descendant of John Kingsley, who settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay colony, in 1635. He was graduated from Williams college, Mass., A.B., 1875, and from the College of New Jersey, Sc.D., 1885, and later studied at the University of Freiburg, Germany. He was professor of zoology at the University of Indiana, 1887-89 ; of biology at the University of Nebraska, 1889-91, and accepted the chair of biology at Tufts col- lege, Mass., in 1892. He was married, Jan. 81, 1882, to Mary Emma, daughter of John Franklin and Caroline Louise (Chase) Read of Salem, Mass. He edited Standard Natural History (6 vols., 1884), and the American Naturalist (1886- 96), and is the author of : Elements of Compara- tive Zoology (1897); Vertebrate Zoology (1899), and contributions to scientific periodicals.

KINGSLEY, William Lathrop, editor, was born in New Haven, Conn., April 1, 1824. He was graduated at Yale, A.B., 1843, A.M., 1846 ; studied theology, and was a Congregationalist minister in Ohio and Connecticut, 1849-50. He travelled in Europe for his health, 1850-51, and