years professor of natural science in Wesleyan University. Manual of
Chemistry; Manual of Natural Philosophy; Primer of Natural Philosophy;
History of the Towns of Bristol and Bremen in Maine.
=Johnston, Joseph Eggleston.= _Va._, 1807-1891. A famous general in
the Confederate service who surrendered to General Sherman on April
26, 1865. He published a Narrative of Military Operations, a spirited
defence of his military policy. _See Life of, by R. M. Hughes._ _Ap._
=Johnston, Richard Malcolm.= _Ga._, 1822-1898. A Baltimore writer and
educator whose humourous writings are very distinctly original. Life of
Alexander Stephens, _infra_ (with W. H. Browne, _supra_); Dukesborough
Tales; Old Mark Langston; Two Gray Tourists; Mr. Absalom Billingslea
and Other Georgia Folk; Ogeechee Cross-Firings; Studies, Literary
and Social; The Primes and Their Neighbors; Mr. Billy Downs and his
Likes; Widow Guthrie, a Novel; The Chronicles of Mr. Bill Williams; Mr.
Fortner’s Marital Claims; Little Ike Templin, stories for young people;
English Classics: a Historical Sketch. _Ap. Har. Lip. Lo._
=Johnston, William Preston.= _Ky._, 1831-1899. An educator of
Louisiana, president of Tulane University from 1884. He was the son of
the Confederate general, Albert Sidney Johnston. Besides a life of his
father he wrote The Prototype of Hamlet. _Ap._
=Johonnot, James.= _Vt._, 1823-1888. An educator of Illinois and
Missouri. Principles and Practice of Teaching; Glimpses of the Animate
World; Book of Cats and Dogs; Friends in Feathers and Fur; Some Curious
Flyers, Creepers, and Swimmers; Schoolhouses; Schoolhouse Architecture.
_Ap._
=Jones, Alexander.= _N. C._, _c._ 1802-1863. A New York journalist
who was a physician in the earlier portion of his career. Cuba in
1851; Historical Sketch of the Electric Telegraph, 1852; The Cymri of
Seventy-Six.
=Jones, Amanda Theodosia.= _O._, 1835- ----. An educator and inventor
of Chicago. Her writings in verse comprise Ulah, and Other Poems;
Atlantis; A Prairie Idyl.
=Jones, Charles Colcock.= _Ga._, 1804-1863. A Presbyterian clergyman of
Georgia. Religious Instruction for Negroes; History of The Church of
God.
=Jones, Charles Colcock.= _Ga._, 1831-1893. Son of C. C. Jones,
_supra_. A lawyer and archæologist of Augusta, Georgia. Ancient Tumuli
in Georgia; Antiquities of the Southern Indians; The History of
Georgia; Negro Myths from the Georgia Coast; Biographical Sketches of
the Delegates from Georgia to the Continental Congress; The English
Colonization of Georgia. _Ap. Hou._
=Jones, George.= _Me._, 1800-1870. An Episcopal chaplain in the United
States navy. Sketches of Naval Life; Life Scenes from the Gospels;
Life Scenes from the Old Testament; Excursions to Cairo, Jerusalem, etc.
=Jones, Horatio Gates.= _Pa._, 1822-1893. A lawyer of Philadelphia who
published many local histories and biographies, among the latter being
Andrew Bradford, Founder of the Newspaper Press in the Middle States.
=Jones, Hugh.= _E._, 1669-1760. An Episcopal clergyman, for sixty-five
years rector of parishes in Virginia and Maryland. He was author of The
Present State of Virginia, a work much valued by collectors of colonial
literature.
=Jones, James Athearn.= _Ms._, 1790-1853. A journalist of Philadelphia
and elsewhere. Traditions of the North American Indians; Haverhill, a
novel.
=Jones, Jenkin Lloyd.= _W._, 1843- ----. A Unitarian clergyman of
Chicago, editor of Unity from 1880. Practical Piety; The Faith that
Makes Faithful.
=Jones, Joel.= _Ct._, 1795-1860. A jurist of Philadelphia who wrote
much on theological topics, and was the first president of Girard
College. Manual of Pennsylvania Land Law; Jesus and the Coming Glory;
Knowledge of One Another in a Future State, are among his works.
=Jones, John Beauchamp.= _Md._, 1810-1866. A journalist whose books
enjoyed considerable popularity at one time, but have very little
literary merit. A Rebel War Clerk’s Diary; Wild Western Scenes; Border
War; Love and Money; Life and Adventures of a Country Merchant; War
Path; Freaks of Fortune; The Rival Belles, are some of them. _Lip._
=Jones, Joseph.= _Ga._, 1833-1893. Son of C. C. Jones, 1st, _supra_.
A physician, professor in Tulane University, New Orleans, from 1869.
Among his writings are, Sanitary Memoirs of the War of the Rebellion;
Surgical Memoirs of the War of the Rebellion; Hospital Construction and
Organization; Medical and Surgical Memoirs.
=Jones, Joseph Huntington.= _Ct._, 1797-1868. Brother of Joel Jones,
_supra_. A Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia. The Effects of
Physical Causes on Christian Experience; Life of Ashbel Green,
_supra_; Revival of Religion.
=Jones, Joseph Seawell.= _N. C._, _c._ 1811-1855. A Southern writer
who published Defence of the Revolutionary History of North Carolina;
Memorials of North Carolina.
=Jones, Joseph Stevens.= 1811-1877. An extremely prolific playwright of
Boston, among whose best known productions are, Solon Shingle; Eugene
Aram; The Silver Spoon; The Liberty Tree; Moll Pitcher.
=Jones, Leonard Augustus.= _Ms._, 1832- ----. A lawyer of Boston,
editor of The American Law Register. Personal Property; The Law
of Mortgages of Real Property; On The Law of Pledges; Pledges and
Collateral Securities; Corporate Bonds and Mortgages; Chattel
Mortgages; Liens; Real Estate in Conveyancing; Forms in Conveyancing.
_Hou._
=Jones, Samuel Porter.= _Al._, 1847- ----. A noted and eccentric
revival preacher. Sam Jones’s Sermons; Music Hall Sermons; Sam Jones’s
Own Book. _Meth._
=Jones, William Alfred.= _N. Y._, 1817-1900. A critic and essayist
of Norwich, Connecticut. The Analyst; Essays upon Authors and Books;
Characters and Criticisms; Literary Studies.
=Jordan, Mrs. Cornelia Jane [Matthews].= _Va._, 1830- ----. A Virginia
writer of verse whose volume, Corinth, and Other Poems of the War, was
publicly burnt on its appearance in 1865, by order of General Terry,
as an objectionable and incendiary publication. Her other works are,
Flowers of Hope and Memory; Christmas Poem for Children; Richmond, her
Glory and her Graves; Useful Maxims for a Noble Life.
=Jordan, David Starr.= _N. Y._, 1851- ----. A noted naturalist who
became the first president of Leland Stanford Junior University.
Besides a great number of scientific papers and monographs, he has
published A Manual of the Vertebrate Animals of the Northern United
States; Scientific Sketches; Contributions to American Ichthology; The
Factors in Organic Evolution. _Gi. Mg._
=Jordan, Mrs. Dulcie [Mason].= _N. Y._, 1835-1895. A journalist and
verse-writer of Richmond, Indiana, who published Rosemary Leaves, a
volume of uneven but often pleasing verse.
=Jordan, John Woolf.= _Pa._, 1840- ----. A Philadelphia antiquarian,
editor of the Pennsylvania Magazine of History. Friedensthal and
its Stockaded Mill; A Red Rose from the Olden Time; Something about
Trombones; Occupation of New York by the British.
=Jordan, Thomas.= _Va._, 1819-1895. A Confederate officer, editor of
The Mining Record. The South, its Products, Commerce, and Resources
(1861); Campaigns of Lieutenant-General Forrest.
=Jouin, Louis.= _P._, 1818-1899. A Jesuit educator of note, professor
at St. John’s College, Fordham. Elementa Philosophiæ Moralis;
Compendium Logicæ et Metaphysicæ; Evidences of Religion.
=Joyce, Robert Dwyer.= _I._, 1836-1883. An Irish journalist who came to
America in 1866 and settled in Boston. Ballads, Romances, and Songs;
Deirdrè, a Poem; Ballads of Irish Chivalry; Irish Fireside Tales;
Legends on the Wars in Ireland; Blanid; The Squire of Castleton, an
historical novel. _Rob._
=Judd, Sylvester.= _Ms._, 1789-1860. An antiquarian of Northampton,
Massachusetts. Thomas Judd and his Descendants; History of Hadley. _See
Memorials of, by A. Hall, supra._
=Judd, Sylvester.= _Ms._, 1813-1853. Son of S. Judd, _supra_. A
Unitarian clergyman of Augusta, Maine. His greatest work is the
remarkable story of Margaret: a Tale of the Real and the Ideal. Other
works of his include, Philo, a religious poem; Richard Edney, a novel;
The Church, a series of sermons. _See Nichol’s American Literature;
Lowell’s Fable for Critics._ _Rob._
=Judson, Edward Z---- C----.= _Pa._, 1822-1886. A writer of sensational
non-literary stories for weekly papers which gave him a large income.
He was also a temperance lecturer. Among his stories are, Red Ralph the
Ranger; The Sea Bandit; Buffalo Bill; The White Cruiser.
=Judson, Mrs. Emily [Chubbuck].= “Fanny Forester.” _N. Y._, 1817-1854.
A once popular writer who was the third wife of the famous Baptist
missionary, Adoniram Judson. Alderbrook, a collection of stories;
Trippings in Author Land; An Olio of Domestic Verses.
=Judson, Harry Pratt.= _N. Y._, 1849- ----. A professor of political
science in the University of Chicago. Europe in the Nineteenth Century;
The Growth of the American Nation; Cæsar’s Army, a Study of the
Military Art of the Romans. _Gi. Fl._
=Judson, L---- Carroll.= 18-- - ----. Biography of the Signers of
the Declaration of Independence; Sages and Heroes of the American
Revolution; The Moral Probe, a collection of Essays. _Le._
=Julian, George Washington.= _Ind._, 1817-1899. An Indiana statesman,
surveyor-general of New Mexico in 1885. Speeches on Political
Questions; Political Recollections from 1840-72; Life of Joshua
Giddings, _supra_. _Mg._
=June, Jennie.= _See Croly._
=Junkin, David Xavier.= _Pa._, 1808-1880. A Presbyterian clergyman of
Chicago and elsewhere. The Good Steward; Life of General Hancock (with
F. H. Norton); The Oath a Divine Ordinance. _Ap._
=Junkin, George.= _Pa._, 1790-1868. Brother of D. X. Junkin, _supra_. A
Presbyterian clergyman once prominent among leaders of the Old School
party. He was the founder of Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania,
and was twice its president. His more important works include,
Commentary on Hebrews; Political Fallacies; The Great Apostasy;
Sanctification; Justification; The Tabernacle. _See Biography by D. X.
Junkin._
=Junkin, Margaret.= Daughter of G. Junkin, _supra_. _See Preston, Mrs._
K
=Kaler, James Otis.= _Me._, 1846- ----. A journalist of New York city
who has written much for juvenile readers. The Boy Captain; Under
the Liberty Tree; A Short Cruise; The Boys’ Revolt; Toby Tyler; Left
Behind; Mr. Stubbs’s Brother; Tom and Tip; Raising the Pearl; Silent
Pete; The Castaways; Little Joe; Stories of American History; Jerry’s
Family; Jenny Wren’s Boarding-House. _Cr. Est. Har._
=Kalisch, Isidor.= _P._, 1816-1886. A Jewish clergyman who came to the
United States in 1849, and was rabbi of congregations in Cleveland,
Milwaukee, and elsewhere. He published Sketch of the Talmud, and
several important translations from the German and Hebrew.
=Kane, Elisha Kent.= _Pa._, 1820-1857. A surgeon in the United States
navy who was famous as an Arctic explorer. The United States Grinnell
Expedition of 1850; Second Grinnell Expedition. _See Lives by Elder and
Schmucker._
=Kane, Thomas Leiper.= _Pa._, 1822-1883. Brother of E. K. Kane,
_supra_. A lawyer of Philadelphia, and a brigadier-general in the
Federal army in the Civil War. The Mormons; Alaska; Coahuila.
=Kautz, August Valentine.= _G._, 1828-1895. An officer in the United
States army who served in the Civil War and in several subsequent
Indian campaigns, and became a colonel and brevet major-general. The
Company Clerk; Customs of Service for Non-Commissioned Officers and
Soldiers; Customs of Service for Officers. _Lip._
=Keating, John Marie.= _Pa._, 1852-1893. A Philadelphia physician. With
General Grant in the East; Mothers’ Guide for Management of Infants;
Maternity, Infancy, and Childhood; Diseases of the Heart (with W. A.
Edwards), include his principal writings. _Lip._
=Kedney, John Steinfort.= _N. J._, 1819- ----. An Episcopal clergyman,
professor in Seabury Divinity School at Faribault, Minnesota, from
1871. Mens Christi, and Other Problems in Theology; Catawba, and Other
Poems; The Beautiful and the Sublime, an Analysis of the Emotions;
Hegel’s Æsthetics; Christian Doctrine Harmonized. _Put. Sc._
=Keeler, Charles Augustus.= _Wis._, 1871- ----. An ornithologist and
verse-writer of California. Evolution of Color in North American Land
Birds; A Light through the Storm.
=Keeler, Ralph.= _O._, 1840-1873. A journalist of California and New
York. Gloverson and his Silent Partner; Vagabond Adventures.
=Keen, William Williams.= _Pa._, 1837- ----. An eminent Philadelphia
surgeon, professor of surgery at Jefferson Medical College from 1889.
Reflex Paralysis; Gunshot Wounds; Clinical Chart of the Human Body;
Complications and Sequels of Continuous Fever; Early History of
Practical Anatomy.
=Keenan, Henry Francis.= _N. Y._, 1849- ----. A journalist and novelist
formerly of Rochester, New York. The Money-Makers, a Social Problem;
Trajan, the History of a Sentimental Young Man; The Aliens; One of a
Thousand; The Iron Game. _Ap. Cas._
=Keep, Josiah.= _Ms._, 1849- ----. An educator of California. Common
Sea Shells of California; West Coast Shells.
=Keep, Robert Porter.= _Ct._, 1844-1904. An educator of Norwich,
Connecticut. Stories from Herodotus; Essential Uses of the Moods in
Greek and Latin; Greek Lessons. _Har._
=Keith, Alyn Yates.= _See Morris, Mrs._
=Keller, Joseph Edward.= _Bv._, 1827-1886. A Jesuit educator, president
of St. Louis University. Life and Acts of Pope Leo XIII. (1880).
=Kelley, Hall Jackson.= _N. H._, 1790-1874. An educator of Boston
who organized the first Sunday-school in New England, and made
an unsuccessful attempt to colonize Oregon in 1830. Geographical
Description of Oregon; Letters from an Afflicted Husband; History of
the Settlement of Oregon.
=Kelley, James Douglas Jerrold.= _N. Y._, 1847- ----. A
lieutenant-commander in the United States navy. The Question of Ships;
Our Navy; A Desperate Chance, a story. _Scr._
=Kelley, William Darrah.= _Pa._, 1814-1890. A jurist of Philadelphia
who was in Congress from 1860, and was very prominent as an
abolitionist and a protectionist. Speeches, Addresses, and Letters on
Political Questions; Letters from Europe; Lincoln and Stanton; The Old
South and the New. _Bai._
=Kellogg, Alfred Hosea.= _Pa._, 1837- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman of
Detroit. Abraham, Joseph, and Moses in Egypt, an attempted solution of
the Exodus problem.
=Kellogg, Elijah.= _Me._, 1813-1901. A Congregational clergyman of
Harpswell, Maine, from 1844. He wrote many popular juvenile books,
including Elm Island Series; Forest Glen Series; Good Old Times Series;
Pleasant Cove Series; Whispering Pine Series, but perhaps is best known
as the author of the Address of Spartacus to the Gladiators. _See
Bibliography of Maine._ _Le._
=Kellogg, Samuel Henry.= _L. I._, 1839-1899. A Presbyterian missionary
to India. Grammar of the Hindi Language; The Jews, or Prediction and
Fulfillment; The Light of Asia and the Light of the World; From Death
to Resurrection; The Genesis and Growth of Religion. _Mac._
=Kellogg, Warren Franklin.= _N. Y._, 1860- ----. A Boston publisher.
Recent French Art; Hunting in the Jungle, adapted from “Les Animaux
Sauvages.” _Est._
=Kelton, John Cunningham.= _Pa._, 1828-1893. A brigadier-general in
the United States army. New Manual of the Bayonet; Fencing with Foils;
Pigeons as Couriers; Information for Riflemen.
=Kendall, Amos.= _Ms._, 1789-1869. A once famous journalist,
politician, and philanthropist of Washington. Life of Andrew Jackson;
Autobiography (edited by W. Stickney). _Le._
=Kendall, George Wilkins.= _N. H._, 1807-1864. A journalist of New
Orleans. The War between the United States and Mexico; The Texan Santa
Fé Expedition. _Ap._
=Kendrick, Asahel Clark.= _Vt._, 1809-1895. A noted Greek scholar who
was professor of Greek at Rochester University from 1850. Echoes:
metrical translations from the Greek and German; The Moral Conflict
of Humanity and Other Papers; Life of Mrs. Emily Judson, _supra_;
A Child’s Book of Greek; Introduction to the Greek Language, are
among his writings. He was one of the Revisers of the New Testament,
published independent commentaries and translations, and edited Our
Poetical Favorites. _Bap. Hou._
=Kenly, John Reese.= _Md._, 1822-1891. A captain and major of
volunteers in the Mexican War, and brigadier-general in the Federal
army in the Civil War. Memoirs of a Maryland Volunteer in the Mexican
War.
=Kennan, George.= _O._, 1845- ----. A noted traveller who made a
careful investigation of the Russian exile system for The Century
Magazine, and drew world-wide attention to the subject. Tent Life in
Siberia; Siberia and the Exile System. _Cent. Put._
=Kennedy, Crammond.= _S._, 1842- ----. A lawyer of Washington. James
Stanly, a Sunday-school tale; The Liberty of the Press; Corn in the
Blade, a book of verse; Close Communion or Open Communion.
=Kennedy, John Pendleton.= _Md._, 1795-1870. A once famous novelist
who was a prominent Maryland politician and secretary of the navy in
1852. Annals of Quodlibet; At Home and Abroad; Swallow Barn; Horse-Shoe
Robinson; Rob of the Bowl; Life of William Wirt. _See Life by H. T.
Tuckerman, infra._ _Put._
=Kennedy, William Sloane.= _Pa._, 1822-1861. A Congregational clergyman
of Ohio. Messianic Prophecies; Life of Christ; History of the Plan of
Union; Sacred Analysis.
=Kennedy, William Sloane.= _O._, 1850- ----. A littérateur of Belmont,
Massachusetts. Lives of Longfellow, Holmes, and Whittier; Wonders
and Curiosities of the Railway; Poems of the Weird and Mystical;
Reminiscences of Walt Whitman; Art of Life, a Ruskin Anthology;
Whittier, the Poet of Freedom; In Portia’s Gardens; Bibliography and
Literary History of Leaves of Grass. _Fu. Lo. Mer. Wn._
=Kenrick, Francis Patrick.= _I._, 1797-1863. The Roman Catholic
archbishop of Baltimore, 1851-63. An active controversialist and
a biblical scholar of distinction. Theologia Dogmatica; Theologia
Moralis; The Primacy of the Apostolic See Vindicated; Vindication of
the Catholic Church; End of Religious Controversy Controverted, are
among his many works. He also published a translation of the Scriptures
with commentary.
=Kenrick, Peter Richard.= _I._, 1806-1896. Brother of F. P. Kenrick.
The first Roman Catholic archbishop of St. Louis. In the Ecumenical
Council of 1870 he actively opposed the dogma of papal infallibility.
The Holy House of Lorretto; Anglican Ordinations; Concia in Concilio
Vaticana.
=Kent, James.= _N. Y._, 1763-1847. A jurist of eminence who was
chancellor of New York, 1814-23, and professor of law at Columbia
College, 1793-1798, and again on retiring from the chancellorship of
the State. His famous Commentaries on American Law, a work of the
highest authority, reached a 13th edition in 1884, that of Holmes and
Barnes. He published also a treatise On the Charter of New York City.
_See Duer’s Discourse on Life of Kent; Memoirs of, by W. Kent, 1898._
_Lit._
=Kenyon, James Benjamin.= _N. Y._, 1858- ----. A Methodist clergyman of
Syracuse who has written much verse of a pleasing if not very striking
kind. Out of the Shadows; The Fallen, and Other Poems; Songs in All
Seasons; In Realms of Gold; At the Gate of Dreams; An Oaten Pipe. _Lip._
=Ker, David.= _E._, 18-- - ----. A journalist of New York city. The
Broken Image, and Other Tales; On the Road to Khiva; The Wild Horseman
of the Pampas; The Boy Slave in Bokhara; From the Hudson to the Neva;
Lost Among White Africans; Into Unknown Seas; The Lost City, or the Boy
Explorers in Central Asia; The Wizard King. _Har. Lip. Lo._
=Kerr, Orpheus C.= _See Newell, R. H._
=Kerr, Robert Pollok.= _Ms._, 1850- ----. Presbyterianism for the
People; History of Presbyterianism; Hymns of the Ages; Voice of God in
History.
=Ketchum, Mrs. Annie [Chambers].= _Ky._, 1824-1904. An educator and
lecturer. Lotos Flowers (verse); Christmas Carillons, and Other Poems;
Botany for Academies and Colleges; The Teacher’s Empire; Nellie Braden,
a novel; Rilla Motto, a romance. _Lip._
=Key, Francis Scott.= _Md._, 1780-1843. A lawyer of Washington whose
miscellaneous poems were collected and published after his death. The
Star-Spangled Banner, composed in 1814 during the bombardment of Fort
McHenry by English forces in whose hands the author was a prisoner,
is his only poem of note. _See Boyle’s Biographical Sketches of
Distinguished Marylanders._
=Keyes, Edward Lawrence.= _S. C._, 1843- ----. Son of E. D. Keyes,
_infra_. A physician of New York city. The Tonic Treatment of Syphilis;
Venereal Diseases; Genito-Urinary Diseases. _Ap._
=Keyes, Emerson Willard.= _N. Y._, 1828-1897. A lawyer of New York. New
York Court of Appeals Reports; History of United States Savings Banks;
Laws of New York Relating to Common Schools, with Comments.
=Keyes, Erasmus Darwin.= _Ms._, 1810-1895. A major-general in the
Federal army in the Civil War, who resigned in 1864. Fifty Years’
Observation of Men and Events. _Scr._
=Keyser, Peter Dirck.= _Pa._, 1835-1897. A surgeon of Philadelphia who
has published Operations for Cataracts, and other works on diseases of
the eye.
=Kidder, Daniel Parrish.= _N. Y._, 1815-1891. A Methodist clergyman of
prominence who held professorships in several theological institutions.
Homiletics; The Christian Pastorate; Mormonism and the Mormons;
Sketches of a Residence in Brazil; Helps to Prayer; co-author with J.
C. Fletcher, _supra_, of Brazil and the Brazilians. _Meth._
=Kidder, Frederick.= _N. H._, 1804-1885. A Boston merchant among whose
historical monographs are, The Boston Massacre; The Expeditions of
Captain John Lovewell.
=Kiddle, Henry.= _E._, 1824-1891. An educator who was superintendent of
the schools of New York city, 1870-79. Text-Book of Physics; Elements
of Astronomy; Dictionary of Education, include his most important works.
=Kieffer, Henry Martyn.= _Pa._, 1845- ----. A German Reformed
clergyman of Norristown, and subsequently of Easton, Pennsylvania. The
Recollections of a Drummer Boy. _Hou._
=Kilbourne, Payne Kenyon.= _Ct._, 1815-1859. A journalist of
Connecticut. The Skeptic and Other Poems; History of the County of
Litchfield; Chronicles of Litchfield.
=Kilgore, Damon Young.= 1827-1888. A lawyer of Philadelphia. Dangers
which Threaten the Republic; Questions of the Day.
=Kimball, Arthur Lalanne.= _N. J._, 1856- ----. A professor of physics
at Amherst College from 1891. The Physical Properties of Gases. _Hou._
=Kimball, Harriet McEwen.= _N. H._, 1834- ----. A religious
verse-writer of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Swallow Flights of Song;
Hymns; The Blessed Company of All Faithful People; Complete Poems
(1889). _Ran._
=Kimball, James William.= _Ms._, 1812-1885. A religious writer
educated for the ministry, but whose life was spent in commercial
pursuits. Heaven my Father’s Home; Friendly Words with Fellow Pilgrims;
Encouragements to Faith; How to See Jesus; The Christian Ministry.
=Kimball, Richard Burleigh.= _N. H._, 1816-1892. A lawyer of New York
city who founded the town of Kimball in Texas, and built the first
railroad in that State. His novels and other writings at one time
enjoyed considerable popularity. They include St. Leger; Undercurrents
of Wall Street Life; Letters from Cuba; Letters from England; Cuba
and the Cubans; Was He Successful?; To-day in New York; Stories of
Exceptional Life; Henry Powers, Banker, a Novel; Romance of a Student
Life Abroad.
=King, Mrs. Anna [Eichberg].= _Sd._, 1853- ----. A Boston writer of
short stories. Brown’s Retreat, and Other Stories; Kitwyk Stories.
_Cent. Rob._