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Kean, Hamilton Fish, banker, of 30 Pine St., New York City, was born, Ursino, N.J., Feb. 27, 1862; son of John and Lucy (Halsted) Kean; married Katherine Winthrop; children: John, Robert Winthrop. Pres. and dir. First. Nat. Bank, Perth Amboy, N.J.; mem. firm of Kean, Taylor & Co.; pres. and dir. Kean, Van Cortlandt & Co. Realty Co.; dir. Elizabethtown Gas Light Co., Elizabethtown Water Co., Federal Trust Co. (Newark, N.J.), Hackensack Water Co., Nat. State Bank (Elizabethtown, N.J.), North Am. Exploration Co. (Ltd.), Pocahontas Collieries Co., Rahway Gas Light Co., West Hudson County Trust Co. (Harrison, N.J.). Clubs: Union, Knickerbocker, Metropolitan, Midday, St. Anthony, Down Town, N.Y. Athletic, Riding, Metropolitan (Washington, D.C.).
Keasbey, Lindley Miller, professor of political science; born in Newark, N.J., Feb. 24, 1867; son of Anthony Quinton and Edwina Louisa (Miller) Keasbey. He graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1888, Columbia, A.M., 1889, Ph.D., 1890, Kaiser Wilhelm Universität, Strassburg, Germany, R.P.D., summa cum laude, 1892. Dr. Keasbey was professor of political science in the University of Colorado, 1892-95; professor of political science in Bryn Mawr College, 1895-1905; professor and head of the school of Political Science in the University of Texas, since 1905. He is a member of the American Philosophical Society, American Economic Association, American Sociological Association, American Political Science Association, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Professor Keasbey married in Louisville, Ky., June 8, 1892, Cornelia Graham Simrall, and has two daughters. Residence: Inshallah. Office: University of Texas, Austin, Tex.
Keating, Edward, United States congressman at large from Colorado, was born July 9, 1875, near Kansas City, Kan. He is the editor and publisher of the Pueblo Leader. He was elected to the sixty-third congress for the term of 1913-15; and resides in Pueblo, Colo.
Keeler, Harriet Louise, educator, botanist, author; born at South Kortright, Delaware County, N.Y., in 1846; daughter of Burr and Elizabeth A. (Barlow) Keeler. She was educated in Delaware Academy, Delhi, N.Y., and Oberlin College, A.B., 1870, A.M., 1900, LL.D., Western Reserve University, 1913. Miss Keeler was a teacher in Central High School, Cleveland, 0. 1870-71; superintendent of primary instruction, Cleveland, 1871-79; assistant principal of Central high School, Cleveland, 1879-1908; superintendent of Public Schools of Cleveland, 1912. Miss Keeler is author of: Our Native Trees, Our Northern Shrubs, and Our Garden Flowers, all published by Charles Scribner's Sons; and joint author (with Emma C. Davis) of studies in English Composition, and (with Mary E. Adams) of High School English, both published by Allyn & Bacon; also The Life of Adelia A. Field Johnston, Dean of Oberlin. She is a member of the Advisory Council of Western Reserve University, member of various educational associations, and of the Fortnightly (musical), College, Colonial; and Cleveland Women's Clubs. Address: Cleveland Ohio. articles on The Descendants of Jöran Kyn, the founder of Upland, his first American ancestor; wrote the chapters on New Sweden and New Albion in the Narrative and Critical History of America, edited by Justin Winsor; prepared the catalogue of the collection of autographs formed by Ferdinand Julius Dreer, privately printed in 1890-93. He was delegate to the Columbian Catholic Congress at Chicago in 1893 and has been historiographer of the Alumni Society of the College Department of the University of Pennsylvania since 1890. Dr. Keen is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity, the American Philosophical Society, the American Catholic Historical Society, the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution, the Society of the War of 1812, registrar of the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania and historian of the Pennsylvania Society of Colonial Wars. He married in 1885 Stella Maria, daughter of John Marshall and Hanna Martina (Gunvalsen) Watson of New York. Address: 1300 Locust St., Philadelphia, Pa.
Keeley, James, editor, born in London, England, Oct. 14, 1867. Came to the United States in 1882; began his newspaper career in Kansas City several years later, and worked in Memphis and Louisville. Arrived in Chicago in 1892 and became a reporter on the Chicago Tribune, being successively promoted to night city editor, city editor, managing editor, publisher and general manager of that paper. In May, 1914, Mr. Keeley purchased the Record-Herald and Inter Ocean of Chicago and combined them, publishing the new paper under the name of the Chicago Herald. Mr. Keeley married Gertrude E. Small, June 5, 1895. Residence, 1309 Ritchie Pl. Office, Chicago Herald, 163 W. Washington St., Chicago. Keene, John E., banker, born in Virginia, March 28, 1853; son of Thomas W. and R. E. A. (Jacobs) Keene; graduated from De Pauw University, Greencastle, Ind., A.B., 1877, M.A., 1880 (represented university in Oratorical State Contest, 1877); married, Chicago, Ill., Aug. 6, 1893, Florence M. Murray; children: Floyd E. and Florence R. Vice-president Dime Savings and Trust Co., and vice-president Title and Trust Co., Peoria, Ill., and manager of )Etna Life Insurance Co. Was school inspector of Peoria, Ill., five years, and ex-president and director of Peoria Public Library ten years. Republican; Congregationalist. Member Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, Knight of Pythias. Club: Greve Couer (Peoria). Residence: 101 Roanoke Ave. Office: 301 South Jefferson St., Peoria.
Keen, Gregory Bernard, curator and secretary of the Council of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; born in Philadelphia, March 3, 1844; son of Joseph Swift and Lucy Ann (Hutton) Keen. He was graduated as
A.B. from the University of Pennsylvania, 1861, and received the degree of A.M. in 1864, and LL.D. from Gustavus Adolphus College in 1907. He was graduated at the Divinity School of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Philadelphia and ordained deacon of the Church in 1866; resigned this office and became a Catholic in 1868; and during 1869 and 1870 he traveled in Europe. He attended lectures in the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1870 and 1871; was professor of mathematics in the Theological Seminary of St. Charles Borromeo at Overbrook, Pa., in 1871 and 1872, and Tor several years devoted himself to the study of Greek literature. He was corresponding secretary of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania from 1880 to 1898; librarian of the University of Pennsylvania from 1887 to 1897, and librarian of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania from 1898 to 1903, when he became curator of that society. As executor of Professor George Allen, LL.D., he prepared a catalogue of his famous Chess Library, printed in 1878; edited the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography in 1883 and 1884, contributing translation of various Dutch and Swedish manuscripts and pamphlets relating to the early Swedish colony on the Delaware, as well as a series of
Kelcey, Herbert, actor, born in England, Oct. 10, 1856. He was intended for the army, but joined a provincial theatrical company and made his first appearance at the Theatre Royal, Brighton, in 1880 and continued in the provinces until Aug. 6, 1881, when he created the part of "Captain Lord
Loverton" in Youth, in which he made his London debut at the Drury Lane Theatre. He first appeared in America at Wallack's Theatre, New York, as "Philip
Radley" in Taken from Life, Sept. 9, 1882. He has created many notable parts; was a member of the Madison Square Co., 1884-85, after that with the Wallack Stock Co., and in October, 1887, leading man in Daniel Frohman's Lyceum Stock Co., in which he first appeared as "John Rutherford" in The Wife, and continued with that company until 1896, when he supported Mrs. Leslie Carter, in The Heart of Maryland. After that he became a star, playing "Edward Fletcher," in The Moth and the Flame, with Effie Shannon as leading woman, and has continued to star in various other plays, at the head of his own company. Address: Care of Low's Exchange, 1123 Broadway, New York City.
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Keister, Abraham L., United States congressman from the twenty-second district of Pennsylvania, was born Sept. 10, 1852, in Fayette County, Pa. He is engaged in the manufacture of coke. He was elected to the sixty-third congress for the term of 1913-15; and resides in Scottdale, Pa. Keith, Charles Penrose, lawyer and author of 321 South 4th St., Philadelphia, Pa., was born March 8, 1854, in Philadelphia, Pa. He has been librarian pro tem of the historical society of Pennsylvania; and chief clerk in the United States appraisers' office. He is the author of The Provincial Councilors of Pennsylvania; and other works. Kelleher, Daniel, banker, born February 5, 1864, at Middleboro, Mass.; son of Daniel and Mary Kelleher. Attended public and high schools, and Harvard University, graduating in the class of 1885. Private tutor and law student in Syracuse, N.Y., 1885-90. Went to Seattle, Wash., in 1890, forming a law partnership with Judge George Meade Emory, and was actively engaged in the practice of law, as a member of that firm (later Bausman, Kelleher, Oldham & Goodale) until Sept. 1, 1914. For several years he had divided his time between banking and the law, but on Sept. 1, 1914, he retired from the law practice to give his whole time to the Seattle National Bank, as active chairman of the board of directors. He took an active part in consolidating two of the largest banks in Seattle, the Puget Sound National and the Seattle National, now known as the Seattle National Bank, the largest bank in the State of Washington. President of the Bank for Savings in Seattle and of the Bank of Commerce of Everett, and a director and on the executive committee of the Bank of Commerce of Anacortes, Wash. President of the Riverside Timber Co., owning large timber lands in the State of Washington. In 1909 Mr. Kelleher purchased Mt. Airy, a fine estate of twenty- two hundred acres in the Valley of Virginia, which formerly belonged to his wife's grandfather, and where some time in the future he hopes to stay for a part of each year. He was one of the founders of the Harvard Club of Seattle, and has been for several years its president. Clubs: University, Rainier, Golf, Country, Arctic. Residence: Seattle, Wash. Keller, Edward, chemist and metallurgist, born at Sauk City, Wis., March 10, 1857; son of Ferdinand Solomon Keller and Rosina (Stucki) Keller. He received his education in high school in Sauk City and Baraboo, Wis., in the Preparatory School in St. Gall, Switzerland, in the Polytechnic School in Stuttgart, Germany, and was graduated from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, as Ph.D. in 1881. He was chemist to W. A. Clark and the Parrot Copper Co., Butte, Mont.; and since 1893 has been representative of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co., and later also of the Boston and Montana Co. and the Utah Consolidated Mining Co. in Baltimore and Perth Amboy, and is a member of the firm of Keller Bros., fruit growers and ranchers, Montrose, Colo. Consulting metallurgical chemist to the Bureau of Mines, U.S. Dept. of the Interior. He traveled in England, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Canada and the United States. In politics he is an Independent. Dr. Keller is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; member of the American Chemical Society, American Institute of Mining Engineers, American Electro-Chemical Society and the Society of Chemical Industry. His favorite recreations are walking, horseback riding, swimming and traveling. Residence: Packer House, Perth Amboy. Address: Anaconda Laboratory, Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Keller, Herbert P., lawyer and statesman of St. Paul, Minn., was born Feb. 7, 1875, in St. Paul, Minn. He graduated with the degree of LL.B. from the University of Minnesota; and in 1896 began the practice of law in St. Paul. In 1902-03 he was assistant corporation attorney; in 1904-10 was a member of the city council; and mayor of his city two terms, June, 1910 to June, 1914; now a member of Park Advisory Board. Resumed practice of law, senior member law firm of Keller & Loomis, St. Paul. Keller, Ida Augusta, of 4823 Springfield Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. Plant physiology, was born, Darmstadt, Germany, June 11, 1866. Pennsylvania, 1884-86; Leipzig, 1887-89; Ph.D., Zurich, 1890. Asst. bot., Bryn Mawr, 1886-87, lecturer, 1891-93; teacher chem., Philadelphia High School for Girls, 1893-98, head of chem. and biol. departments, 1898-. Member advisory committee, Int. Plant Breeding Conf., 1902. Soc. Nat.; hon. mem. Pa. Hort. Soc. (prof. biol.); Phila. Acad.; Phila. Bot. Club (v. pres., 1900-); Assn. Col. and Prep. Sch. of Middle States and Md. (v. pres., 1895). Plant physiology; fertilization. Kelley, Patrick H., United States congressman at large from Michigan, was born Oct. 7, 1867, in Cass County, Mich. He has been lieutenant-governor of his state. He was elected to the sixty-third congress for the term of 1913-15; and resides in Lansing, Mich. Kelley, William Valentine, editor, Methodist Review, 150 Fifth Ave., was born, Plainfield, N.J., Feb. 13, 1843; son of Rev. Benjamin and Eliza Kelley; American citizen of 278 years standing; ancestors came from England in 1636 to Newburyport, Mass.; grad. from Wesleyan Univ., Middletown, Conn., A.B., 1865, D.D., 1883; Dickinson Coll., L.H.D., 1902; LL.D., Ohio Wesleyan Univ., 1909; married, Philadelphia, Eliza A., daughter John Whiteman. Prof. mathematics and sciences, Pennington Sem., N.J., 1866-67; entered ministry of M. E. Church, 1868; pastor of prominent churches in Camden, New Brunswick and Newark, N.J., Phila., Pa., Buffalo and Brooklyn, N.Y., and Middletown and New Haven, Conn., until 1892. Lecturer and preacher at various univs., tolls., and theol. schs., contb 'r for many years to reviews and other periodicals. Trustee Wesleyan Univ., Drew Tlieol. Sem. Pres. of Trustees of Pekin( China) Univ.; mgr. Am. Bible Soc.; vice-pres. Missionary Board M. E. Ch., vice-pres. Board of Educ. of M. E. Ch. Mem. General Conference M. E. Ch. in 1896, 1900, 1904, 1908 and 1912; has studied and traveled extensively in Europe, Asia and Africa. Beginning 1893, has been elected six times to editorship of Methodist Review, oldest and most extensively circulated periodical of its class in America (established in 1818); eleven years book editor of M. E. Ch. Fraternal delegate to Canadian Methodist Ch. in 1906. Mem. Joint Cora. for making new catechism for Northern and Southern M. E. Churches; represents his denomination in Interdenominational Corn 'n on Divorce and Remarriage. Author: The Ripening Experience of Life, Down the Road, The Illumined Face, Trees and Men, A Pilgrim of the Infinite, Glimpses of The Soul of Gilder and The Open Fire. Mem. Ecumenical Methodist Conference, Toronto, 1911. Club: British Authors (London). Address: 150 Fifth Ave., New York City. Kelliher, B. B., chief engineer Grand Trunk Pacific Ry. Office, Montreal, Que., Can., born Dec. 26, 1862, in Ireland. Educated at Dublin University and afterward served articled pupilage to a civil engineer at Dublin. Was engaged on surveys for the Mitchellstown & Fermoy and the Galway & Clifton Rds. in Ireland, and came to the United States in 1886, since which he has been consecutively, 1886 to 1890, with the Union Pacific Ry.; 1890 to 1896, assistant engineer Northern Pacific Rd. on Cascade and Pacific divisions; 1896 to 1897, mining engineer Anaconda Copper Co. at Butte, Mont.; 1897 to 1903, division engineer Oregon Short Line; 1903 to 1904, resident engineer in charge of location Denver, Northwestern & Pacific Ry.; January, 1904 to August, 1905, division engineer Grank Trunk Pacific Ry. at Winnipeg, Man.; August, 1905, to date, chief engineer same road. Kellogg, James W., chemist of Bureau of Chemistry, Agricultural Department, Harrisburg, Pa., was born Sept. 6, 1878, in Amherst, Mass. Graduate of Mass. Agricultural College of Boston University at Amherst in 1900. He has been first assistant chemist, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, New Brunswick, N.J.; chemist for Swift's Fertilizer Works, Atlanta, Ga.; first assistant chemist R.I. Agricultural Experiment Station, Kingston, R.I.; and assistant chemist Mass. Agricultural Experiment Station. He has been chief chemist at the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Chemistry, since 1909. Kellogg, John Harvey, physician and superintendent of Battle Creek Sanitarium since 1876, was born Feb. 26, 1852, in Tyrone, Mich.; son of John Preston and Ann Janette Kellogg; educated in Michigan State Normal School; graduated Bellevue Hospital Medical College, 1875; studied in Europe, 1883 and 1889; married, Feb. 22, 1879, Ella E. Eaton, Alfred Center, N.Y. Has practiced at Battle Creek, Mich., since 1875. President American Medical Missionary College; president Haskell Orphan's Home since 1891; president James White Memorial home for Aged People since 1891. Inventor of improved apparatus and instruments for medical and surgical purposes. Author: Text Book and Charts on Physiology for Use of Schools; Home Handbook of Hygiene and Rational Medicine; Man the Masterpiece; Art of Massage; Rational Hydrotherapy; The Stomach; also many technical papers and articles. Editor Good health; Modern Medicine. Kellogg, Luther Laflin, lawyer, of 115 Broadway, New York City, was born, Malden, N.Y., July 1, 1849; son of Nathan and Helen M. Kellogg; grad. Rutgers,. A.B., 1870, A.M., 1873 (LL.D., 1901); Columbia Law Sch., LL.B., 1872; married, New Brunswick, N.J., 1874, Bessie, daughter Gen. John B. McIntosh, U.S.A.; children: Elsie McIntosh, Lee Stout, McIntosh. Admitted to bar, 1872; head law firm Kellogg & Rose; makes specialty of municipal law. Upon his argument the labor laws known as the Prevailing Rate of Wages Law, Cut Stone Law, Eight Hour Law and Law relating to contracts with State and municipalities were declared unconstitutional by the Court of Appeals of the State of N.Y., in separate decisions. Dir. Colonial Ins. Co. Episcopalian; vestryman All Angel's Ch. Life Trustee Rutgers Coll. Mem. Am. Bar Assn. N. Y. State Bar Assn., Assn. Bar City of N.Y., N.Y. Co. Lawyers' Assn., Court House Board of City of N.Y. Clubs: Manhattan, Players, Delta Phi, Lawyers. Kellogg, Paul Underwood, editor, of 105 E. 22d St., New York City, was born, Kalamazoo, Mich., Sept. 30, 1879; son of Frank I. and Mary Foster (Underwood) Kellogg; grad. Kalamazoo High Sch.; took course Columbia Univ., N.Y. Sch. Philanthropy; hon. A.M., Amherst Coll., 1911; married, Oct. 5, 1909, Marion Pearce Sherwood. Reporter and city editor Kalamazoo Daily Telegraph, 1898-1901; managing editor, asso. editor, now editor Survey Magazine; editor, Findings of Pittsburgh Survey (for Russell Sage Foundation, 6 volumes), 1910; dir. Pittsburgh Survey, 1907-08. Mem. Board of Dirs., N.Y. City Corn. on Congestion of Population; Am. Assn. Labor Legislation; chairman Corn. on Occupational Standards of Nat. Conf. of Charities and Correction, 1910. Club: Columbia Univ. Kellogg, Theodore H., physician of Riverdale-on-Hudson, N.Y., was born May, 1841, in Grahamville, S.C. He has received the degrees of A.B., A.M. and M.D. He served in the Civil War; and was pensioned for services rendered as first lieutenant of the seventh squadron Rhode Island cavalry. For ten years he was in private practice in New York City; was superintendent of the Willard state hospital; and since 1897 has been physician in charge of Dr. Kellogg's house. He is the author of Text- Book on Mental Diseases and several monographs. Kelly, J. Redding, portrait painter of 217 West One Hundred and Twenty-fifth St., New York City, was born Aug. 5, 1873, in New York City. She is a portrait painter and has been instructor of the National Academy of Design, 1911. She is instructor of art of the College of the City of New York.
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