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Kidder, Camillus G., lawyer, 27 William St. New York City; residence Orange, N.J., born in Baltimore, Md., July 6, 1850; son of Camillus and Sarah (Herrick) Kidder. Educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard College; married Matilda Faber. Member of the firm of Kidder, Ayres & Riggs. Member University, Harvard, Century, Church and Manhattan Clubs, American Geographical Society, Colonial Order, New York State Bar Association and Association of the Bar of the City of New
York.
Kidder, Kathryn, actress, of Tuckahoe, N.Y., was born, Newark, N.J., 1869; daughter Col. Henry M. Kidder; resided from childhood at Evanston (suburb of Chicago), Ill.; educated under private tutors at Evanston, Paris and London; studied dramatic art in N.Y. City, Paris and London; married, September, 1905, Louis Kaufman
Anspacher. Made debut, Chicago, 1885, in Frank Mayo's play, The Streets of New York; later roles of "Rachel
McCreery" in Held by the Enemy, and "Dearest" in Little Lord Fauntleroy; played leading parts in various companies; since 1894, starring in Madame Sans Gene, old English comedies, and Shakespearean repertoire, 1906, "Elizabeth," in The Embarassment of Riches, Wallack's Theatre, N.Y., 1909, The Woman of Impulse, herald Square Theatre, N.Y., 1911,
"Elinor" in The Glass House, 1912-13, The Washerwoman Duchess.
Kieb, Raymond Francis
Charles, physician and alienist of Beacon, N.Y., was born Aug. 24, 1881, in Lowville, N.Y. He is medical superintendent of the Matteawan state hospital.
Kiess, Edgar Raymond, United States congressman from the fifteenth district of Pennsylvania, was born Aug. 26, 1875, in
Warrensville, Pa. He is president of the Eagles Mare Land Co.;
and has been a member of the State Legislature. He was elected to the sixty-third congress for the term of 1913-15; and resides in Williamsport, Pa.
Kilgore, Benjamin Wesley, of Raleigh, N.C. Chemistry, was born, Lafayette Co., Miss., March 27, 1867. B.S., Miss.
Agr. Coll., 1888, M.S., 1891; Hopkins, 1896. Asst. chem., Miss.
Agr. Coll., 1888-89; asst. chemist, N.C. Exp. Sta., 1889-97;
prof. chem., Miss. Agr. Coll., 1897-99; state chemist, N.C., 1899-; director, Exp. Sta., 1901,
F.A.A.; Chem. Soc. (chairman, N.C. sect., 1901); Assn. Agr. Chem. (pres., 1900). Methods of analysis and value of fertilizers, soils and feeds.
Kimball, Grace Niebuhr, physician, of 337 Mill St., Poughkeepsie, N.Y., was born, Dover,
N.H., May 10, 1855; daughter Judge Richard and Elizabeth (Hale) Kimball; grad. Woman's Med. Coll. of N.Y. Infirmary, 1892. Missionary for 6 years at
Vau, Asiatic Turkey, 1882-88; med. missionary, same station, 1892-96; conducted extensive industrial relief work during time of the Armenian massacres. Returned to U.S., 1896, and became
asso. physician of Vassar Coll., Poughkeepsie, N.Y., resigned 1900, and has since practiced profession in Poughkeepsie. Episcopalian. Pres.
Y.W.C.A. Am. Med. Assn., Dutchess County Md. Soc., N.Y. State Med. Soc., pres. Board of Trustees S.W. Bowne Memorial Hosp. for Tuberculosis.
Kimbell, Robert Emmet, assistant to president St. Louis Southwestern
Ry. and auditor Arkansas & Memphis Ry. Bridge and Terminal Co. Office, St. Louis, Mo., born Jan. 19, 1867, at Little Rock, Ark. Educated in the public schools. Entered railway service 1886 as junior clerk in auditor's office St. Louis, Arkansas & Texas
Ry., now St. Louis Southwestern Ry., since which he has been consecutively September, 1886 to December, 1902, various clerkships, traveling auditor, chief clerk accounting department and assistant general auditor; May 1, 1914, to date, assistant to president, same road; Nov. 1, 1913, to date, also auditor Arkansas and Texas
Ry. Bridge & Terminal Co.
Kindel, George John, United States congressman from the first district of Colorado, was born March 2, 1855, in Cincinnati, 0. He is engaged in the mattress and upholstery business. He was elected to the sixty-third congress for the term of 1913-15; and resides in Denver, Colo.
King, Willard Vinton, banker, born Brooklyn, N.Y., Nov. 3, 1868; son of William Vinton (cotton broker) and Isabel (Boyd) King; educated in Friends' Seminary, N.Y., Columbia University,
A.B. (with highest honors), 1889; married, New York City, April 26, 1904, Mary Spingler van Beuren; children: Willard van
Beuren, Mary Spingler. With Continental Trust Co., N.Y., 1890, as messenger; secretary 1898, vice-president 1901; company merged with N.Y. Security & Trust Co., 1904, and he became vice-president New York Trust Co.; president Columbia Trust Co., since 1908; director N.Y. Life insurance Co. Independent; Episcopalian. Member Chamber of Commerce, Governor's Commission on Speculation 1909; member Executive Committee N.Y. Trust Companies Association; trustee Columbia University;
trustee N.Y. Association for the Blind; trustee and treasurer American School of Classical Studies in Rome; member Delta Upsilon, and Phi Beta Kappa Society. Clubs: University, Columbia University, Morris County Golf, Amateur Comedy. Residence,
Convent, N.J. Address, 60 Broadway, N.Y. City.
Kinkaid, Moses P., congressman, Republican; born in
Monongalia County, W.Va., in 1856. Graduate of Law Department of the University of Michigan, president of class in senior year. Commenced the practice of law in
Henry County, Ill.; resident of Holt County, Neb., since 1881; member of Nebraska State Senate and chairman of Judiciary Committee; District Judge three terms; elected to fifty-eighth, fifty-ninth, sixtieth, sixty- first, sixty-second and sixty-third congresses, and has been nominated for the sixty-fourth congress. Author of Nebraska One Section Homestead Law now about to be extended to all other
public land states.
Kinkead, Eugene F., congressman, was born March 21, 1876;
elected alderman in Jersey City, 1898, serving as president of the board; was elected to the sixty-first, sixty-second, and was reelected to the sixty-third congresses; and resides in Jersey. City,
N.J.
Kinnan, Alexander Phoenix
Waldron, banker and capitalist
of 701 Sixth New York City, was born March 13, 1856, in
New York City. Ave.He engaged in the wholesale grocery business,
and became a member of the firm of J. Romaine Brown and Company; and since 1887 has been engaged in the real estate business. He is president of the Union Dime Savings Bank, and a director of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and other
corporations.
Kinsella, M. Joseph, publisher and manufacturer, of Buffalo,
N.Y., was born in Medina, N.Y. in 1868. He was graduated from the Buffalo State Normal School in 1894 and from Cornell University in 1900; was admitted to the New York State Bar during the same year. Practiced law for a short time in Buffalo, N.Y., and since then has devoted his entire time to the publishing business. He is the founder, president, treasurer and general manager of The Frontier Press Company which has its home office in Buffalo, N.Y. and branch offices in twelve other American
cities.
Kinsella, William J., born June 8, 1845, in
Carlow, Ireland;
educated at St. Patrick's College, Tullow, Ireland; went to St. Louis in 1870; married Nellie M. Hanley in 1880. President Hanley & Kinsella Coffee & Spice Co.; vice-president and director Industrial Loan Co., or as it is called, The Poor Man's Bank; Mechanics American National Bank; director Mercantile Trust Co.; Mercantile National Bank; Louisiana Purchase Exposition; St. Louis United Railways; vice-president Calvary Cemetery Association; director New Cathedral Board; director and on the executive board of the Hospital Saturday and Sunday Association; Board Governors, also Guardian Angel Settlement; Father Dunne's Newsboys' Home; member of prominent St. Louis clubs. Address, 4422 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis, Mo.
Kirby, Thomas E., managing director Am. Art Galleries, of New York City; born, Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 14, 1846; son of William Kitts and Mary
(Sothern) Kirby; educated Philadelphia public schools and commercial colleges; married, Philadelphia, Feb. 7, 1871, Isabelle C. Town; children: Gustavus Town, born 1874; Mrs. Florence S. Kirby
Midgley, born 1881. Began business career at age of 12, as boy with Thomas & Sons, auctioneers, of Philadelphia, remaining -with that firm and working through all departments for 18 years, and in 1876 became connected with George A. Leavitt & Co., the leading art auctioneers, New York City; later became partner of John
Ortgies, conducting sales of oriental porcelains, valuable paintings and other art and literary property; in 1882, joined in reorganization of the American Art Gallery as the American Art Association, of which is now the active partner and managing director; has personally managed and conducted the most important art sales held in the United States, which, since 1883, have amounted to a grand total of over twenty-five million dollars. President Mount Kisco Automobile Company, New York. Has traveled much in Europe, Japan and United States. Served five years in First Regiment Pennsylvania State Militia, as private, corporal to 1st lieutenant. Commander Company I; honorably discharged, 1869. Member American Geographical Society, National Geographical Society, New York Historical Society, Navy League, Japan Society New York, Automobile Club of America, Society of Arts, London, England, the Japan Society, London, England, Chamber of Commerce, S.A.R., The Pennsylvania Society of New York (vice- president), Masonic fraternity. Honory member United Typothetae, N.Y.; Fellow for Life Metropolitan Museum of Art. Recreations: Golf, Tennis. Clubs: Union League, Republican, Bedford Golf and Tennis.
Kirkland, Dixon Fay,
railway official of Manchester, Ga., was born June 1, 1866, in Lowndes County, Ga., on his father's plantation. He entered railway service in 1883; has been train conductor, locomotive fireman, telegraph operator, in 1889-91 was dispatcher for the Georgia, Southern and Florida Railway at Macon, and in 1891-98 was dispatcher of the Plant System. In 1898-1900 he was trainm aster, in 1900-05 was division superintendent, in 1911 was chief clerk of the Georgia, Florida. and Alabama railway; and since 1912 has been superintendent of that road.
Kirkman, Marshall Monroe, author of Chicago, Ill., was born July 10, 1842, in Morgan County, Ill. Since 1870 he has been a constant writer of histories, economics, industrial and other subjects. He is the author of The Romance of Gilbert Holmes, Primitive Peoples and Carriers, The Science of Railways and History of Alexander the Great.
Kirkpatrick, William Sebring,
lawyer, born in Easton, Pa., April 21, 1844; son of Newton and Susan (Sebring) Kirkpatrick. He received from Lafayette College,
A.B., 1863, A.M., 1872, and afterward received the degree of LL.D. from Washington and Jefferson College, and from Pennsylvania College. He studied law with H. D. Maxwell, president judge of the Third District of Pennsylvania, and was admitted to the bar of Northampton County, Pa., October, 1865; lecturer on municipal law in Lafayette College; admitted to practice by the Supreme Court of. the United States in 1887. He was president judge of the Third Judicial District of Pennsylvania, 1874-75; solicitor of Easton, Pa.; chairman of the Republican State Convention, 1882; delegate to the National Convention, Chicago, 1884; attorney- general of Pennsylvania, 1887-91; member of the Fifty-fifth Congress from the Eighth Congressional District of Pennsylvania, 1897-99. He is a trustee and was acting president of Lafayette College, 1902-03, also from 1914-; president of Alumni of Lafayette College, 1874; is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and the Zeta Psi fraternity; also a member of the Union League Club of New York City, Union League Club of Philadelphia, and Pomfret Club of Easton. He married in Easton, Pa., May 25, 1873, Elizabeth H. Jones, and they have two sons. Address, Easton, Pa.
Kirkpatrick, Sanford, United States congressman from the sixth district of Iowa, was born Feb. 11, 1842, in Madison County, 0. He served in the Civil War; and for twenty-seven years was in the Internal Revenue Service. He was elected to the sixty- third congress for the term of 1913-15; and resides in Ottumwa,
Iowa.
Kirsch, Alexander
M., University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind. Zoology, was born, Luxembourg, Sept. 11, 1855. In college, Luxembourg, 1869-72; M.S., Notre Dame, 1878;
Louvaine, Belgium, 1881-83. Prof. nat. sciences, Notre Dame, 1876-81, biol., 1888-1903,
zool. and geol., 1903-. Lecturer cytol., Cold Spring Harbor. Nat. Geog. Soc.; Soc.
Sci. de Bruxelles. Mammalian osteology; Noctiluca; fresh-water sponges.—Sexual reproduction in
Infusoria; mollusca of Indiana. Insects of northern Ind. Ordovician Palaeontology of Cincinnati group. In Louvain he studied zoology two years under Prof. J. P. Van Beneden and Cytology under the celebrated J. B.
Carnoy.
Kiser, Samuel
Ellsworth, journalist and author, born in Shippenville, Pa., Feb. 2, 1862; son of Samuel and Charlotte (Blackstone) Kiser. He was educated in the common schools of Pennsylvania and Ohio, and entered in the newspaper business in Cleveland, 0., in 1890, as reporter. In 1896, Mr. Kiser began furnishing daily columns of humorous sketches and verses for the Cleveland Leader. Since then he has contributed to many newspapers and magazines. Mr. Kiser is author of the books: Bud Wilkins at the Show, and Other Verses, 1898;
Georgie, 1890; Love Sonnets of an Office Boy, 1902; Ballads of the Busy Days, 1903; Charles the Chauffeur, 1905; Thrills of a Bell Boy, 1906; The Whole Glad Year, 1911; The Land of Little Care, 1912, and has had considerable success as a reader of selections from his own writings. He is a member of the Evanston Golf, Evanston University, Chicago Little Room, and Chicago Cliff Dwellers Clubs. Mr. Kiser married at Cleveland, 0., Mildred M. Palmer, and they have two children.
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Men of 1914, Chicago, Ill, 1915
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