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54tli. 55tli. 56tli. 57th and 58th congresses, 1895- 1905, serving as chairman of the committee on territories in the 55th and 56th congresses. He was twice married : first, September, 1871, to Eunice B. Hussey, of Acton, Maine, who died March 27, 1897 ; and secondly, Nor. 26, 1898, to Helen Boardraan, of Lawrence, Mass.

KOEHLER, John Daniel, Moravian bishop, was born near Stendal, Saxony, Prussia, Aug. 25, 1737. He was educated at the University of Halle and became a minister of the Moravian church. He was sent to America in 1783 and became pastor of the chui'ch in Salem, N.C. He was elected bishop of the Southern district and con- secrated, May 9, 1790. He returned to Europe in 1801, to attend the general synod, and that body decided that he should remain in Europe. He died in Saxony, Prvissia, Jan. 28, 1805.

KOEHLER, Sylvester Rosa, author, was born in Leipzig, German}-, Feb. 11, 1837. His grand- father was a musician and composer, and his father was an artist. In 1849 he immigrated to the United States, where he continued his clas- sical studies and made his home in Boston, Mass. He was married, April 9, 1859, to Amelia Susanna Jarger. He devoted himself especially to the criticism of art, and edited the American Art Review ; lectured on engraving and kindred sub- jects before the Lowell institute, Boston, the Drexel institute, Philadelphia, Pa., and the U. S. National Museum, AVashington, and was a well- known contributor to American and European periodical literature. He was regarded as an authority on all matters connected with the chal- cographic and reproductive arts, and for several years before his death was curator of prints in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, building up what was at the time of his death the onlj- great print department in an American museum. He pub- lished translations of Von Betzold's : Tlieory of Color (1876). and Lalanne's Treatise on Etching, with notes (1880); and is the author of: Art Education and Art Patronage in the United States (1882); Etching, an Outline of Its Technical Processes and Its History, xcith Some Remarks on Collections and Collecting (1895). He also wrote the text for Original Etchings by American Ar- tists (1883); Tu-enty Original American Etchings (1884) ; American Art (1887) ; edited the United States Art Directoi'y and Year Book for 1882 and 1884, and at the time of his death was at work on an extensive history of color printing. He died at Littleton, X.H., Sept. 15, 1900.

KOERNER, Qustavus, diplomatist, was born in Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, Nov. 20, 1809. His father was a well-known publisher and bookseller, and for many years a public official of Frankfort. Gustavus studied at the universities of Jena and Munich, and was graduated from the

University of Heidelberg, LL.B. in 1832. He immigrated to the United States in 1833, studied law at Transylvania college, Kentucky, 1834-35, was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1835, and settled in practice in Belleville. He was married in 1836 to Sophia Engelmann, of St. Clair county. 111. He was a representative from St. Clair county in the state legislature, 1842-43. judge of the supreme court of Illinois, 1845-51, and lieuten- ant-governor of the state, 1853-56. In 1856 he became an anti-Nebraska Democrat : was delegate at large from the state to the Republican national convention of 1860 ; organized the 43d Illinois volunteer regiment, was commissioned colonel by President Lincoln and served on the staflfs of Gen- erals Fremont and Halleck. He resigned from the service in March, 1862, and in June, 1863. accepted the appointment of U.S. minister to Spain, re- signing this post in January, 1865. He was pres- ident of the board of trustees that organized the Soldiers' Orphans' home at Bloomington, 111., in 1867 ; elector at large on the Grant ticket in 1868 ; president of the first board of railroad commis- sioners of Illinois in 1870 ; delegate to the Liberal Republican national convention at Cincinnati in 1872, and a candidate for governor of Illinois on the Democratic and Liberal Republican ticket in 1872. He is the author of : Collections of the Im- portant General Laics of Illinois icith Com- ments, in German (1838) ; Fro7n Spain (1866); Das Deutsche Element in den Vereingten Stouten lS18-JfS (1880 ; 2d ed.. 1885), and contributions to periodicals. He died at Belleville. 111., 1896.

KOHLMANN, Anthony, educator, was born in Kaisersesch, Prussia, July 13, 1771. He was educated at Kolmar, Alsace, and at the College of Freiburg, Breisgau, Germany, and was ordained priest in 1796, becoming a member of the Society of the Sacred Heart. He was driven from Bel- gium b\' the French revolutionists in 1797, and settled in Austria, where he became known as the " Martyr of Charity,' from his devotion to the sufferers of the epidemic of 1799 and his attention to the sick soldiers in Italy. He was president of the College of Dillingen, Bavaria, and of a college in Amsterdam. He was sent to the United States in 1806 by the order of the Jesuits, and was appointed to visit the Roman Catholic congregations in Pennsylvania. He was pastor in New York city, 1808-15, and in 1809 was present at the death-bed of Thomas Paine. Dur- ing his residence in New York he founded a literary institution for boys, an institution for girls under charge of the Ursuline nuns, and was instiumental in completing St. Patrick's cathe- dral on Mulberry street in 1815. He removed to Maryland in 1815 and took charge of the novitiate of the Jesuits at Whitemarsh. becoming superior of the order in the United States in 1817. He