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KINSEY, John, jurist, was born in Philadel- phia, Pa., in 1693; son of a Quaker preacher, and grandson of John Kinsey, who came to America from London in 1677, as a commissioner of the proprietors of West Jersey. He practised law in New Jersey until 1730, meanwhile serving as a member of the assembly and as speaker of that body. He removed to Philadelphia in 1730, and in that year became a member of the Pennsylvania assembly, to which bod}' he was re-elected succes- sively until 17.50, being speaker, 1739-50. He was attorney-general of the province, 1738-41, and chief-justice of the same, 1743-50. In 1737 he was one of the two commissioners sent to Maryland to negotiate for a settlement of the boundary dis- pute, and was a commissioner from Pennsylvania to negotiate a treaty with the Six Nations at Al- bany, N.Y., in conjunction with commissioners from New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut, in 1745. He was one of the original board of curators of the College of New Jersey, 1748-50. He published: Laics of New Jersey {173'd) . He died in Burlington. N.J., May 11, 1750.

KINSOLVINQ, George Herbert, second bishop of Texas, and 162d in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Bedford county, Va., April 28, 1849; son of the Rev. Dr. Ovid A. and Julia Heiskell (Krauth) Kinsolving and grand- son of George "VV. Kinsolving, a friend of Thomas Jefferson, and of the Rev. Dr. Charles Philip Krauth, president of the Pennsylvania college. He was a student at several schools, the academic department of the University of Virginia, 1867- 69, and the Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary of Virginia, where he was graduated in 1874. He was made deacon by Bishop Johns, June 26, 1874, and ordained priest by Bishop Whittingham, May 23, 1875. He was an assistant at Christ church, Baltimore, 1874-75, in charge of the chapel of the Good Shepherd, for colored people; rector of St. Mark's church, Baltimore, 1875-78; of St. John's church, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1878-81; and of the Church of the Epipliany, Philadelphia, Pa., 1881-92. He was married in October, 1879, to Grace, daughter of Walter and Julia Ann (Niles) Jaggar, and sister of the Rt. Rev. Thomas Augustus Jaggar, first bishop of Southern Ohio. He was a member of the stand- ing committee of the diocese of Pennsylvania; a delegate to the general convention in 1892; an overseer of the Divinity school at Philadelphia, and an examining chaplain of the diocese. In 1886 he received a large vote for assistant bishop of Pennsylvania; in 1887 was almost unanimously elected bishop of Delaware, which position he de- clined, and in 1892 he was elected assistant bishop of Texas. He was consecrated, Oct. 12, 1892, by Bishops AVilmar, Whittaker, Wingfield, Dudley, Jaggar, Randolph, Johnston, Kendrick, Davies,

Nichols, Hale and Bishop Jones, of Newfound- land, and he became assistant to the bishop of Texas, and on the death of the Rt. Rev. Alexan- der Gregg, July 11, 1893, he succeeded as bishop of Texas. He received the degree of D.D. from the University of the South and that of S.T.D. from Griswold in 1892.

KINSOLVING, Lucien Lee, first bishop of the Brazilian Episcopal church, and the third conse- crated in America for foreign churclies, was born in Loudoun county, Va., May 14, 1862; son of the Rev. Dr. Ovid A. and Lucy Lee (Rogers) Kin- solving; grandson of Col. George W. and Ann (Barksdale) Kinsolving, of Albemarle county, Va., and of Gen. Asa and Eleanor Lee (Orr) Rogers; and a descendent of Col. Richard Lee through Thomas Ludwell Lee. He was graduated from the Theological Seminary of Virginia in 1889; was ordained deacon bj- Bishop Whittle in June of that year, and advanced to the priesthood, August, 1889. He sailed for Brazil, which mission was under the Episcopal charge of the bishop of West Virginia, and where he was dean of convocation, member of the standing committee and where he worked for nine years as a missionary'. He was elected bishop of Brazil, in October, 1898, " to be su bject to the jurisdiction of the American church until there shall be three bishops in Brazil," and he was consecrated, Jan. 6, 1899, by Bishops Dud- ley, Doane, Scarborough, Peterkin, Potter, Walk- er, Talbot, G. H. Kinsolving, Wells, Lawrence and McVickar. He received the degree of S.T.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1899.

KIP, Leonard, author, was born in New York city, Sept. 13. 1826; son of Leonard and Maria (In- graham) Kip, and a younger brother of Bishop Wil- liam Ingraham Kip. He was graduated from Trin- ity college, Hartford, Conn., A.B., 1846, A.M., 1860; studied law, and was admitted to the bar. In 1849 he went to California by the way of Cape Horn, and on his return settled in Albany, N.Y., in the practice of law, where he remained until his retirement in 1896. He was president of tiie Albany institute, 188.5-98, and was elected a trus- tee of the Albany academj-. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Hobart college and that of L.H.D. from Trinity college in 1893. He was elected a member of the Authors club, and is the author of: California Sketches (1850); Volcano Diggings (1851); u^none, a Roman Tale (1866); The Dead Marquise (1873); HannihaVs Man and other Christmas Stories (1878); Under the Bells (1879); Nestlenook (1880), and contribu- tions to magazines.

KIP, Leonard William, missionary, was born in New York city, Nov. 10, 1837; son of Leonard William and Anna (AVilson) Kip; grandson of Isaac and Sarah (Smith) Kip and of William and Agnes (Kerr) Wilson, and descendant of Isaac