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in Boston, Mass., as an organ of free inquiry in 1832, his faith having changed from Universal- ism to Pantheism. He was tried in Boston for bhisplieniy. March 3, 1836, and his council having died just before the case had its hearing, he ad- dressed the court in his own defence. He pub- lished: Columbian Miscellany (1804); Mrs. John- son's Captivity (1814); A Translation of the New Testament from the Greek (1822); The Digest (2 vols., 1822); Lectures on Universal Benevolence (1824); Lectures on the Doctrine of Universal Sal- ration {I82i); Review of the Evidences of Chris- tianity (1829). See Review of the Pi'osecution against Kneeland for Blasphemy (1836). He died at Farmington, Iowa, Aug. 27, 1844.

KNEELAND, Samuel, naturalist, was born in Boston, Mass., Aug. 1, 1821; son of Samuel Kneeland. He was prepared for college at the Boston Latin school and was graduated from Har- vard, A.B., 1840. A.M. and M.D., 1843. He was awarded the Boylston prize in 1843 and 1844. He studied medicine and surgery in Paris. 1843-45, and then practised as a physician and surgeon in Boston. He was demonstrator of anatomy at Harvard, 184.5—47, and physician to the Boston dispensary for manj- years. He was married Aug. 1, 1849, to Eliza Maria, daughter of Daniel T. Curtis, of Cambridge, Mass. He made scien- tific explorations in Brazil, in the Lake Superior copper region, in the Hawaiian islands, in Ice- land, in California, the Upper Mississippi region and in Colorado. In March, 1862, he was com- missioned acting assistant surgeon of Massachu- -setts volunteers, and was promoted surgeon, serv- ing in field and hospital, in the Burnside expedi- tion, 1862-63, and in New Orleans, La., and Mo- bile, Ala., 1863-66. He was mustered out with the brevet rank of lieutenant-colonel in 1866. He was connected with the Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology as instructor, 1867-69, profes- sor of zoology and physiology, 1869-78, acting secretary of the corporation, 1866-78, and secre- tary of the faculty, 1871-78. He then engaged in lecturing and in literary work. He was a mem- ber and secretary of the Boston Natural History society and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; a member of the American Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Science, the Boston Society of Medical Improvement, and the Massachusetts Medical society from 1845. He is the author of: Science and Mechanism (1854); Tlie Wonders of the Yosemite Valley and of Cali- fornia (1871); ^4?i American in Iceland (1876); edited the Annual of Scientific Discovery {\%Q-Q^)\ translated Andry's Diseases of the Heart (1847), Smith's History of the Human Sjyecies (1851), and Charts of the Animal Kingdom, and contri- buted to cyclopa?dias and to scientific journals. He died in Hamburg, Germany, Sept. 27, 1888.

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KNICKERBACKER, David Buel, third bishop of Indiana and 130th in succession in the Amer- ican episcopate, was born at Schaghticoke, Rens- selaer county, N.Y., Feb. 24, 1833; son of Judge Herman Knickerbocker, and a grandson of Col. Johannes Knicker- backer. When he entered college he adopted the ortho- graphy of the family name as in the auto- grai)h of his grand- father. He was grad- uated from Trinity college, A.B., 1853, A.M.. 1856, and froi- the General Theo- logical seminary. New York city, in 1856. He was made deacon in New York city, June 29, 1856, and or- dained priest, July 12, 1857, by Bishop Kemper, at Minneapolis, Minn., where he was doing mission- ary work. He was rector of Gethsemane church, Minneapolis, 1857-83: deputy to successive gen- eral conventions and a member of the standing committee of Minnesota for more tlian twenty years. He was elected missionary bishop of New Mexico and Arizona in 1877, but declined. He was active in the development of the church in Minneapolis, having built three churches in the city and five in the outlying districts. He was the founder of St. Barnabas's hospital, the Or- phans" home, and the Minneapolis Athenaeum. He was consecrated bishop of Indiana in St. Mark's church, Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 14, 1883, by Bishops Coxe, Whipple, Robertson, Niles, Lyman, Scarborough, Gillespie and Seymour, together with the Most Rev. Dr. Medley, bishop of Fred- ericton and metropolitan. He was a tireless worker for the church under his charge, founded a boys' school at Turner, Ind., and one for girls at Indianapolis; secured an endowment of $25,000 for the episcopate of Indiana, and organized the Church Worker, a monthly publication of which he was editor. He received the degree of S.T.D. from Trinity college in 1873. He died in Indiana- polis, Ind., Dec. 31. 1S94.

KNICKERBOCKER, Herman, representative, was born in Albany, N.Y., July 27, 1782; son of Col. Johannes Knickerbacker, and great-grandson of Herman Jansen Knickerbacker of Friesland, Holland, who came to New Amsterdam and set- tled at the head of navigation on the Hudson river. Col. Johannes inherited the Schaghticoke grant from his father's elder brother, Herman, who obtained title from the Duke of York, through the corporation of the city of Albany, to whom it