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* KEARNY. 423 KEATS. Macomb, Generalinehief of the United States Aruiy, from IStO to 1841, and to General Seott, the successor of General Wacoiiil), from 1841 to 1844, and subsequently served under his uncle in the West. In April, 1840, he resigned from the urnij-, but almost immediately retinlisted for service in the Mexican War, and liccame cap- tain of the company which was chosen as the bodyguard of (ieneral Scott. He earned a brevet of major at Contreras and Cluirubusco, and to- ward thii close of the latter engagement made a gallant charge into Mexico City, but received a wound which necessitated the amputation of an arm. In ISol he participated in a campaign against the Rogue Uiver Indians, but again re- signed in October of this year, and s[K'nt several years in Euroi)e. In 185'J he entered the French Army as a volunteer aide to (Jeneral JIaurier; served in the Italian War, partiiii)ating in the battles of Magenta and Solferino; and for his conspicuous bravery throughout the camjiaign he received the cross of the Legion of Honor. At the outbreak of the Civil War he returned to the United States, and in May, 1801, was ajipointcd brigadier-general. lie commanded for some time the First New Jersey Brigade, and in May, 1802, was placed in command of the cavalry of the Army of the Potomac, lie served with great elTiciency and gallantry throughout the Penin- sular campaign, attracting particular attention at the battles of Williamsburg and Seven Pines, and in July, 1802, was commissioned major-gen- eral of volunteers. He subsequently participated in the second battle of Bull Run, and <m Sep teniber 1, 1802. was killed while reccmnoitring at Chantilly. Consult: T)q Peyster, I'rmoniil and MUltury liislori/ of /'/ii/ip hnirnii (New York. 1809) ; and an account by Kearny himself of his service in Algiers, puldished under the title Serrire villi Ihc I'rcncli Troups in Africa (New York, 1844 V). KEARNY, SxKrnEX W.tts (1704-1848). An American soldier, bcirn at Newark, N. .1. He was apiminted a lieutenant in the Thirteenth Infantry in 1812. and was captured by the Brit- ish, who held him a prisoner for several months. In 1840 he was made a brigailier-general and given command of the Army of the West, with which he conquered Xew ilexico. He then en- tered California, where he found Stockton (q.v.) and Fri'^mont (q.v.) already in possession; but disreganling their claims, assumed the oflice of Govtrnnr in 1847, in pursuance of instructions given him by the Secretary of War to establish a civil government in the conquered country. He held the office, however, only from the 1st of March until -lune, when he was ordered to Mexi- co, and in 1 848 was made Governor of Vera Cruz, and later of Mexico City, where he con- tracted the fever of which he died. He returned to the United States in 1848. with the rank of major-general. He wrote a Manual for the Eicr- cine and Manceiivring of United fitate.i Dratioons (1837). and Orijanic Law and Lairs of the Clov- crniiirnl of Ihc Territory of New Mexico (1846). KEARSARGE, kr-r'siirj. A mnuntnin in Car- roll County. Xew Hampshire. .3200 feet high, be- longing to the White Mountain group. It was from this mountain that the vessel was named which sank the Confederate cruiser Alahanin in 1804. .Another mountain, sitiiafed in Jlerrimac County, N. H.. is known by the same name. The latter Was formerly known as Kyar-Sarga, which was easily changed to Kearsarge. Its Indian name was Cowissewaschook. KEARY, ke'ri, A.nhie (1825-79). An English novelist, born in Yorkshire. Her first literary ell'orts were tales for children. The best of these are Little W anderlin and Sydney Grey. Miss Keary's books show keen observation and unusual sensitiveness. Her more mature novel-writing, chielly concerned with domestic life, was varied by the production of two works. Early Eyyiitian I'lintory and Tl'.e Xalions Around, which showed considerable ability in a different line. Among her otiier books are; The Heroes of Asgurd (1857) ; Janet's Home (1803) ; Clemency Frank- lyn (1800) ; Oldbttry{ ISii'J) ; Uastle Daly {lS:'y) ; and .1 Doubting Heart (1879). In Castle Daly she has given a vivid and accurate studv of Irish life. KEASBEY, kez'bi, Li.ndley Miller (1807 — ). An American economist, born at Xew;irk, X. J. He graduated at Harvard in 1888, studied at Columbia and at Strassburg. and in 1892 was appointed professor of political science at the State University of Colorado, from which in 1894 he went to a like chair in Bryn Mawr Uni- versity. He wrote: The Sicurayua Canal mid the Monroe Doctrine (1890), various eontril)utions to reviews, and a translation from Uoria, The Eeonoiiiie i'oundiitions of Hociety (1899). KEATING, John M. (18.52—). An Ameri- can physician, born in Philadelphia. He was edu- cated lit Seton Hall College and in the University of Pennsylvania, traveled extensively in the East, was lecturer on the diseases of children at the University of Pennsylvania for a time, and after- wards became professor of the ))rinci|ilcs and pniclice of medicine in the Woman's Medic;il Col- lege, Philadelphia. He edited the Cyeloptrdia of the Diseases of Children, and The Climatologist, and publislied II i7/i General Grant in the East (1880) ; The Mother's Guide in the Management and Feeding of Infants (1881); Maternity, In- fancy and Childhood: Mother and Child, and sev- eral other wf)rks. KEATS, (iWENDOLiNE (pen-naine, Zack). An English novelist, born in Devonshire, .fter pub- lishing soveral short dialect stories in Bhirkii-ood's ^fagazine. she came before a wider public with Life is Life (1808), a scries of twelve tales, dis- plaving great power in de])icting the hard side of life. They have been succeeded in a similar vein by Oh 1'rial (1899), which won the prize of the London .cademy, and The While Cottage (1901). KEATS, .TmiN (1795-1821). An English poet, born in London. October 31, 1795. When about eight years old he was sent to the schoid kept by John Clarke at Enfield. Here he formed a friendship with the master's son. Charles Cmvden Clarke, learned Latin, possibly French, and read vehemently, especially in Greek mythology. He, however, never learned the Greek language. Oddly enough. Keats got most of his early no- tions of Greece from the Classical Dictionary of Lempri&re. His father, a livery-stable keeper, died in 1804; and his mother, who had married a certain Rawlings. soon quitted him and went to live with her mother in Edmonton, where she died in 1810. Although Keats had hardly known his father, be was much inlluenced by his mother. He loved her; yet at the age of five, if Hay- don is to be trusted, the lad shut his mother in