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which he devoted to the cause of the patriots. He removed to New York city in 1783, and estab- lished the New York Gazetteer, at first published weekly and then three times a week. He also engaged in printing and book publishing, and issued the first New York directory, compiled by David Franks. He removed to Elizabethtown, N.J., in 1788, where he revived the New Jersey Journal, of which he was editor and proprietor until 1818. He was judge of the court of com- mon pleas of New Jersey for tliirty-five years and postmaster of Elizabethtown, N.J., 1820-29. He was member of the Society of the Cincinnati. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., July 28, 1839.

KOLLOCK, Shepard Kosciusko, clergyman, was born in Elizabeth, N.J., June 25, 1795; son of Shepard and Susannah (Arnett) Kollock. He was graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1812, studied theology with his brother-in-law, the Rev. John McDowell, and his brother, Dr. Henry Kollock, and was licensed to preach by the presbytery of South Carolina in June, 1814. He preached in South Carolina and Georgia until 1817, was pastor in Oxford, N.C., 1818-19; was or- dained by the presbytery of Orange, May 2, 1818; was professor of rlietoric and logic in the Uni- versity of North Carolina, 1819-25; pastor in Norfolk, Va., 1825-35; agent for the Board of Domestic Missions, 1835-38; and pastor at Bur- lington, N.J., 1838-48, and at Greenwich, N.J., 1848-60. In 1860, being broken in health, he removed to Philadelphia, Pa., where he preached occasionally to benevolent institutions until 1863. He was married to Sarah, daughter of Stephen Harris. He received the degree of D.D. from the College of New Jersey in 1850. He is the author of: Hints on Preaching icitliout Reading and Pastoral Reminiscences (1849), both translated into French and republished in Paris. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., April 7, 1865.

KOONTZ, William H., representative, was born in Somerset, Pa., July 15, 1830; son of Jacob and Rosanna (Snyder) Koontz, and grandson of Sam- uel Koontz and of Jacob Snyder. He was admit- ted to the bar; was district attorney for Somer- set county, 1853-56, and prothonotary and clerk of the county courts, 1861-63. He was a delegate to the Republican national convention in 1860 and one of the first of the delegation to vote for Lincoln. He was a Republican representative from the sixteenth Pennsylvania district in the 39th and 40th congresses, 1865-69. He then en- gaged in railroad enterprises, and in 1875 became a director of the Pittsburg and Connellsville Railroad company, and when that road was leased by the Baltimore and Ohio he became counsel for the latter corporation. He was elected a repre- sentative in the state legislature for two terms, 1899-1903.


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KOOPM AN, Harry Lyman, librarian and poet, was born in Freeport, Maine, July 1, 1860; son of Charles Frederick and Mary Brewer (Mitchell) Koopman, and grandson of Niclas and Fredrika Maria (Linqvist) Koopman and of Reuben and Eliza Buxton (Curtis) Mitch- ell, natives of Freeport, Me. His paternal g r a nd f a t h e r was a native of Gotenborg, Sweden, and an officer in the Swedish navy. Harry L. was graduated from the Freeport high school in 1876; from Colby university, Maine, A.B., 1880, A.M., 1883; was principal of a grammar school at Claremont, N.H., 1880-81; clerk at the Astor library, New York, 1881-82; and cataloguer at the libraries of Cornell university, 1883-84, Colum- bia college, 1884r-85, Rutgers college, 1885-86, and the University of Vermont, 1886-92. He was married, June 27, 1889, to Helene Luise, daughter of Wilhelm Mayser, of Ulm, Germany. He was a graduate student in English at Harvard, 1892- 93, and received the degree of A.M. 1893. He was elected librarian of Brown Universitj^ library. Providence, R. I., in 1893; a member of the Amer- ican Libraiy association, of the Massachusetts Library club, of the Rhode Island Historical society, of the Barnard club, and president of the Massachusetts Library club in 1900. He is the author of: The Great Admiral (1883); Orestes and Other Poems (1888); Womaii's Will with Other Poems (1888); TJie Mastery of Books {1896); Morrow Songs (1898); Catalogue of the George Perkins Marsh Library (1892); Historical Catalogue of Broum University, 1764-1S94- (1895), and contri- butions to the Library Journal and other period- icals.

KOSCIUSZKO, Tadeusz, soldier, was born at Mereczowszczyzna, Lithuania, Russia, Feb. 18, 1746. He received a military education at War- saw and in France, for service in the Polisli army. Having sued in vain for the hand of the daughter of the vice-grand-general, the Marquis of Lithua- nia, he sailed from Dantzic to America, in 1775, and offered his services to Washington. He brought a letter from Benjamin Franklin, then in Paris, and he was commissioned colonel of en- gineers, Oct. 18, 1776, and assigned to service with the Northern army under General Gates, where he devised the defences of Bemis Heights. After the battle of Saratoga he was the engineer at West Point, became one of Washington's adju' tants, and aided Gen. Nathanael Greene at Ninety-