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Lincoln, daughter of Henry Spencer, of New York. He is the author of the following works on railway transportation: JRailivay Equipment; Railway Organization; Financing, Constructing and 3Iaintaining; Train Service, Safety Appli- ances, Signals, etc.; Passenger, Baggage and Mail Service; Freight Business and Affairs; Disburse- ment of Railways; Economic Theory of Rates- Private versus Government Control of Railroads; Fiscal Affairs— Collection of Revenue; General Fiscal and other Affairs; Origin and Evolution of Transportation; Engineers'' and Firemen's Man- ual. These were republished as The Science of Railways ( 12 vols., 1894). He made a notable col- lection of engravings from all quarters of the globe, illustrating modes of carriage, which he published as: Classical Portfolio of Primitive Car- riers (1895). He is also the author of an historical novel, The Romance of Gilbert Holmes (1900), which was immediately successful.

KIRKPATRICK, Andrew, jurist, was born at Mine Brook, N.J., Feb. 17, 1756; son of David and Mary (McEwen) Kirkpatrick, and a grandson of Alexander Kirkpatrick. a Scotchman, who mi- grated to Belfast, Ireland, and from there to America in 1736, set- tling in New Jersey. He was graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1775, studied theologj' with the Rev. Samuel Kennedy for a short time, became a tutor in a private family in Virginia and then in New York, and la- ter became classi- cal instructor in the Rutgers College

grammar school, and at the same time pursued the study of law. He subsequently entered the law office of William Paterson in New Brunswick, completed his legal studies, and was admitted to the bar in 1785. He set- tled in practice first in Morristown, N.J., and subsequently in New Brunswick. He was mar- ried, in 1792, to Jane, daughter of Col. John and Margaret (Hodge) Baj-ard. He was elected a member of the house of assembly of New Jersey in 1797 and served through one session, resigning at its close to accept a judgeship in the state supreme court. He was elected chief-justice of the state of New Jersey in 1803, as successor to James Kinsey, and was twice re-elected, holding the position until 1824. He spent the few re- maining years of his life at New Brunswick, N.J., in retirement. He was a curator of the College

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of New Jersey, 1807-31. His decisions are re- corded in Pennington's, Southard's, and Vols. I., II. and III. of Halstead's reports. He died in New Brunswick, N.J., Jan. 7, 1831.

KIRKPATRICK, Andrew, jurist, was born in Washington, D.C., Oct. 8, 1844; son of John Bayard and Margaret (Weaver) Kirkpatrick; grandson of Justice Andrew (q.v.) and Jane (Ba- yard) Kirkpatrick. He was graduated from Union college. New York, in 1863, was admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1866, and practised at Newark. He was president judge of the Essex county court of common pleas of New Jersey, 1885-96, and in 1896 was made U.S. judge for the district of New Jersey. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from the College of New Jersey, Prince- ton, in 1872.

KIRKPATRICK, John Lycan, educator, was born in Mecklenburg county, N.C., Jan. 20, 1813; son of James Hutchinson and Ann (Parks) Kirk- patrick, and grandson of Capt. Hugh and

(Davis) Parks of York county, S.C, His paternal grandfather came from county Antrim, Ireland, in 1784; and his maternal grandfather, an officer in the Revolution, participated in the battle of King's Mountain. John L. Kirkj^atrick removed with his parents to Morgan county, Ga., in 1817, and in 1826 went to reside with his uncle, the Rev. John Kirkpatrick, in Cumberland county, Va., and attended a classical school there for two years. In 1830 he matriculated at Franklin col- lege. University of Georgia, and in the following fall entered Hampden-Sidnej' college, Va., and was graduated from there with distinction in 1832. He taught school two years at Charlotte Court House, Va., and in January, 1835, entered Union Theological seminary at Hampden-Sidney, Va. He was pastor at Lynchburg, Va., 1837-41; at Gainesville, Ala., 1841-53; and at the Glebe Street church, Charleston, S.C, 1853-61, and was editor of the Southern Presbyterian, 1856-60. He was president of Davidson college, Davidson, N.C., 1861-65, and professor of moral philosopliy and belles-lettres at Washington university, 1866-85, the institution being known as the Washington and Lee university after 1871. He was a member of the general assembly of the Presbyterian church at Philadelphia in 1846, and at Buffalo, N.Y., in 1854, and was moderator of the second southern assembly at Montgomery, Ala., in 1862. He received the degree of D.D. from the Uni- versity of Alabama in 1852. He died in Lexing- ton, Va., June 24, 1885.

KIRKPATRICK, Littleton, representative, was born in New Brunswick, N.J., Oct. 19, 1797; son of Andrew and Jane (Bayard) Kirkpatrick; grandson of David and Mary (McEwen) Kirkpat- rick and of Col. John and Margaret (Hodge) Bayard, and great-grandson of Alexander Kirk-