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KIRKLAND and brigade-chaplain to Gen. John Sullivan in 1778, and accompanied him in his expedition from Wyoming against the Senecas in that rear. He returned to Fort Schuyler for a time and then to Stockbridge, Mass., and at the close of the war received a grant of land from congress and one jointly from the Indians and the state of New York in 1785, on which was founded the town of Kirkland. He resumed his missionary work among the Indians and in 1740 accompanied a party of Senecas to Philadelphia, Pa. Ee made an Indian census of the Six Nations in 1791, and also founded a school for the education of American and Indian boys, and gave three hundred acres of land for the use and benefit of the academy, which was to be leased and the product applied to the support of an "able instructor." It was incorporated as Hamilton Oneida academy in 1798, and was the beginning of Hamilton college, being known as such from 1912 He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Yale in 1768 and from Dartmouth college in 1773. His name was one of the twenty-one in "Class E. Missionaries and Explorers." submitted for a place in the Hall of Fame for Great Americans, New York university, in October, 1900, and received one vote, none in the class receiving the fifty-one votes necessary to secure a place. His son, John Thornton Kirkland, was president of Harvard, 1510-28. Samuel Kirkland died at Clinton, N.Y., Feb. 28. 1508.

KIRKLAND, William, educator, was born Dear Utica, N.T., in 1800; of Gen. Joseph and Sarah (Bacchus) Kirkland, and a descendant of Samuel Kirkland, the missionary (q.v.). Hamas graduated from Hamilton college, Clinton, NY. 1818; tutored there, 1831-25; was professor Latin language and literature, 182-27, and in 1938 established seminary at Genera, NY. He was married in 1827 to Caroline Matilda. daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Alexander) Stansbury. He resided in Europe for several rears, and was the author of a series of "Letters from Abroad and other contributions to the periodical press. In 1885 he removed to Michigan with his family, where they resided until 1842. He then returned to New York city, and in 1942 commenced, with the Rev. Henry W. Bellows, the Christian Inquirer. a Unitarian weekly, and was editor of the New York Evening Mirror in 18-6. He died near Fishkill, N.Y.. Oct. 19.1846.

KIRKLAND, William Ashe, naval offer, was born in North Carolina, July 3, 1836. He was appointed a midshipman in the US navy, July 2. 1850; was attached to the Pacific squadron, 1851-53; served on the sloop Portsmouth and the frigate St. Lawrence. 1853-55, and in 1856 was graduated from the US. Naval academy. He was promoted passed midshipman, June 20, 1856: master. Jan. 22, 1558; lieutenant, March 15, 1505; Lieutenant-commander. July, 1502 commander, March 2.1849; captain, April 1, 1990: commodore, June 2, 1993, and rear-admiral, March 1, 1996. He served on the sloop Jamestown, 1862-63; the

steam sloop Wyoming, of the East India squadron, 1863-64, and commanded the U.S. gunboat Oswego the iron-clad Winnebago, of the western gulf blockading squadron, 1864-65, participating in the combined army and naval attack on Mobile in 1864 He commanded the steamer Wasp in the South Atlantic squadron, 1966-70; the storeship Girard, 1873; was on ordnance duty, 1874: again commanded the Wasp, 1971-7, and the storeship Supply in 1875. After a leave of absence. 1879-80, he commanded the Shenandoah, 1581-82; was stationed in the Norfolk navy-yard, 1888; commanded the receiving ship Colorado, 1833-84; was stationed at the New York navy yard, 1855-85; commanded the receiving ship Termond, 1887-88; was supervisor of New York harbor, 1889-91, and was subsequently commandant of the League Island navy-yard at Philadelphia. He commanded the European squadron shortly after his promotion to the rank of rear-admiral and was recalled by President Cleveland in October, 1885. for alleged indiscretion in writing a private letter of congratulation to his intimate friend. M. Felix Faure, on his election as president of France. He was reprimanded, and after a short stay in waiting orders, was ordered to Mare Island navy-yard, Cal. He was formally retired, July 3, 1898. but was requested to retain his command until the close of the war with Spain. He died at Mare Island, Aug. 12, 1998.

KIRKMAN, Marshall Monroe, author, was born in Morgan county, Ill. July 1 12 He attended the district school, and when fourteen rears of age entered the service of the Chicago and Northwestern railway, passing through the various grades of telegraph-operator, train-despatcher, auditor, general accounting officer and vice-president. In 1976 he began the publication of books on railway affairs. Besides his railway connection he became a director in various financial institutions in Chicago, and he was B director and president of the board of transportation of the World's Columbian exposition. He was a member of the Evanston club and of the Evanston county club and president of the latter for eleven years. He was married in 1887 to Fazzy