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of: Explanation of LutJier's Small Catecliism, with Willhun J. Miiiin, D.D. (18G;J); Luther and the Swiss, tnui.slatioii (1878).

KRZYZANOWSKI, Wladimir, soldier, was born ill Kiizuova, Pokuid, July 8, 18'-24. He was a rev- olutionist in his native country in 1846 and fled to New York, where he engaged as a civil en- gineer. In 1861 he organized the Turner rifles and was commissioned captain, May 9, 1861. He then recruited theoSth N.Y. volunteers, was com- missioned colonel and led the regiment in the Army of the Potomac. He distinguished himself at Chancellorsville and was brevetted brigadier- general. He was mustered out in 1865 and was appointed to a civil Federal office in California, and when the government purchased Alaska from Russia he was made governor of the new territory and subsequently inspector of customs at various South American posts. In 1883 he was made special agent of the treasury department in the N.Y. custom-liouse, where he remained until his death in New York city, Jan. 31, 1887.

KULP, Honroe Henry, representative, was born at Barto, Berks county, Pa., Oct. 23, 1858; son of Darlington Runk and Elizabeth (Gilbert) Kulp. He removed to Shamokin, Pa., with his parents in childhood, and was educated in the public schools, at the State Normal college, Lebanon, Ohio, and at the Eastman business college, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. He was bookkeeper for the firm of which his father was a member until 1886, and manager of his father's lumber b\xsiness until the death of his father in 1893, after which he directed the business in the interest of the estate until October, 1895, and then became sole owner. He was a Republican representative from the seventeenth Pennsylvania district in the 54th and 55th congresses, 1895-99, and in 1899 resumed the ciiarge of his manu- facturing interests at Shamokin.

KUMLER, Franklin Abia Zeller, educator, was born in Hamilton, Ohio, Oct. 20, 1854; son of Joseph and Margaret Kumler, natives of Penn- sylvania; grandson of Michael and Mary Zeller and of Henrj^ and Susanna Kumler, natives of Basel, Switzerland. He was a student at the Southwestern Normal school, Lebanon, Ohio, and graduated at Otterbein university, A.B., 1885, A.M. 1888, Ph.D., 1895. He studied at Pulte Medical college, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1885-87; was president of Avalon college, Trenton, Mo., 1887- 98, and donated to the college, buildings and grounds worth $50,000. In 1898 he was elected president of Eastern Indiana Normal university. In 1899 he raised $100,000 with which the college building was erected, and in 1900 secured a guar- antee equal to an endowment of $500,000. He was elected a member of the Society of Science, Letters and Arts of London, England, in 1889.

KUNKEL, Jacob Michel, representative, was born in Frederick, Md., July 24, 1822; son of John and Elizabetli (Baker) Kunkel, natives of Lancaster county. Pa.; grandson of William Kunkel, who served at the battle of Red Bank, and of John and Barbara (Hoffman) Baker, and great-grandson of Colonel Kunkel, an offi- cer in the army of Frederick the Great, who came to America about 1732. John Kunkel served in a company of dragoons in the war of 1812. Jacob was prepared for college at the Fred- erick academy for boys, was a student at the University of Virginia two sessions, 1841-43, and was graduated in moral philosophy, political economy and chemistry in 1843; and also pur- sued studies in the schools of ancient and modern languages, natural philosophy and law. He was admitted to the bar in 1846; practised law in Frederick, Md., and was a state senator, 1850-56. The change of the state constitution shortened his term and he was a representative in the 35th and 36th congresses, 1857-61. He was a delegate to the Loyalists' convention of 1866. He was mar- ried in 1848 to Anna Mary, daughter of Col. John McElfresh. She died in April, 1870. Mr. Kunkel died in Frederick, Md., April 7, 1870.

KUNKEL, John Christian, representative, was born in Harrisburg, Pa., Sept. 18, 1816; son of George and Catherine (Zigler) Kunkel. He was graduated from Jefferson college, Canonsburg, in 1839, was admitted to the bar of Dauphin county, and practised law at Harrisburg, Pa. During the presidential campaign of 1844 he stumped the state for Henry Clay. He was a representative in the Pennsylvania legislature in 1844, 1845 and 1850, a member of the state senate, 1851-53, and speaker of the senate after the first session. He was a Whig representative from Pennsylvania in the 34tli and 35th congresses, 1855-59. He was married to Elizabeth Crane, daughter of Dr. W. W. Rutherford. He died in Harrisburg, Pa., Oct. 14. 1870.

KUNZ, George Frederick, mineralogist, was born in New York citj', Sept. 29, 1856; son of Johan Gottlieb and Marie Ida (Widmer) Kunz, natives of Germany and Switzerland, respect- ively, who came to America in 1854. He was educated in the public schools of New York city, at the Cooper Union, and in the laboratory of Henry Wurtz. He was married, Oct. 29, 1879, to Sophia, daughter of Benjamin Ilanforth of New York city. He accepted the position of gem expert for Tiffany & Co., jewelers, of New York city, in 1879, and became well known as a specialist on the subject. He was made special agent on the U.S. geological survey in 1883; was in charge of the department of mines at the Paris exposition, 1889. the Kimberley exposition, South Africa, 1892, and the World's Columbian exposition, Chi-