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Brunswick, and Newark, N. J .; in Phila- delphia, Pa .; in Buffalo and Brooklyn, N. Y .; in Middletown and New Haven, Conn .; frequent lecturer and preacher at various universities, colleges and theological schools; a contributor for inany years to reviews and other periodi- cals; a trustee of Wesleyan University, Drew Theological Seminary and Pekin (China) University; manager of the Amer- ican Bible Society and member of the missionary board of the Methodist Epis- copal Church. Member of the General Conference of his denomination in 1896 and 1900; has studied and traveled ex- tensively in Europe, Asia and Africa. Be- ginning in 1893 Dr. Kelley has been elect- ed three times to the editorship of the Methodist Review, the oldest and most extensively circulated periodical of its class in America, having been established in 1818; received the degree of D. D., in 1883, from Wesleyan University, and the degree of L.H.D. from Dickinson College in 1892. He is a member of joint com- mittee for making a new catechism for the Northern and Southern Methodist Episcopal Churches, and represents his denomination in the International Com- mission on Divorce and Re-marriage. Ad- dress, 150 Fifth Ave., New York.
KELLOGG, Charles Day:
Founder of Women's Hotel Company; born Troy, N. Y., June 4, 1828; educated at private schools in Lenox and Boston, Mass .; began commercial business in Bos- ton in 1850; at the beginning of the Civil War in 1861, appointed quartermaster- general's store-keeper, and had charge of equipping the first twenty-seven regi- ments sent by Massachusetts to the front; resided in Boston until 1865. He was for several years a director of the Young Men's Christian Association and treasurer Emmanuel P. E. Church; in 1865 removed to New York City; in Dec., 1873, one of the founders of the Reformed Episcopal Church, thirteen years secretary of its General Council, and since 1883 trustee and treasurer of its sustentation fund. In business in New York until 1878, when in- vited to become general secretary of the Philadelphia Society for Organizing Char- ity, then being inaugurated; remained in Philadelphia till 1882, when asked to be- come general secretary of the Charity Organization Society in New York City, then forming, and remained in charge until 1896. In 1891 invited by President Harrison to take charge of the newly created office of Superintendent of Chari- ties in the District of Columbia, but feel- ing obliged to decline, was asked to select the appointee. In 1900 originated the
Woman's Hotel Company, to found high grade hotels for the exclusive accommo- dation of business and professiona! women. and the reception of transient guests, except that its restaurants are equally open to men. The first hotel, the
Hotel Martha Washington, was opened in New York in March, 1903. Address, 29 East 29th St., New York.
KELLOGG, Edgar R .:
Brigadier-general, U. S. Army; born in New York, March 25, 1842; retiring year, 1906; appointed from the army; sergeant, Company A and sergeant major, Twenty- fourth Ohio Infantry, April 22, 1861, to July 23, 1861; second lieutenant, Twenty- fourth Ohio Infantry, July 23, 1861; re- signed, Oct. 28, 1861; private, Company B and sergeant major, First Battalion, Sixteenth U. S. Infantry, Nov. 29, 1861, to Aug. 1, 1862; second lieutenant, Six- teenth Infantry, April 7, 1862; first lieu- tenant, May 3, 1862; accepted, Aug. 1, 1862; captain, Feb. 16, 1865; transferred to Twenty-fifth Infantry, Sept. 21, 1866; transferred to Eighteenth Infantry, April 26, 1869; major, Eighth Infantry, Dec. 26, 1888; lieutenant-colonel, Tenth Infantry, Sept. 16, 1892; colonel, Sixth Infantry, June 30, 1898; brigadier-general, Dec. 5, 1899. Brevet rank-brevet captain, Dec. 31, 1862, for gallant and meritorious ser- vices in the battle of Murfreesboro', Tenn .; brevet major, Sept. 1, 1864, for gallant and meritorious services during the Atlanta campaign and in the battle of Jonesboro', Ga .; retired, Dec. 16, 1896. Address, 1905 Thomas Ave., Walbrook, Baltimore, Md.
KELLOGG, Edward Stanley:
Lieutenant, U. S. Army; born in and appointed from New York; naval cadet, May 18, 1888; honorably discharged, June 30, 1894; assistant engineer, Aug. 22, 1894; passed assistant engineer, Oct. 30, 1898; rank changed to lieutenant (junior grade), March 3, 1899; lieutenant, Jan. 22, 1901; Newark, 1892; Navy Yard, New York, 1894; Yorktown, 1895; Atlanta, Sept., 1899 to 1903. Address, Naval Academy, Ann- apolis, Md.
KELLOGG, John M .:
Jurist; born Taylor, N. Y., 1851; studied at Cornell University; graduated from Al- bany Law School, 1873, and was admitted to the bar the same year. He has offices of recorder of Ogdensburg, co-judge of St. Lawrence County, judge of claims, State of New York; Oct., 1902. became justice of Supreme Court. Address, Og- densburg, N. Y.
KELLOGG, Luther Laflin:
Lawyer; born in Malden, Ulster Coun- ty, N. Y., July 1, 1849; his father was Nathan Kellogg, a prominent merchant and a graduate of the Troy Polytechnic Institute, and his mother was the daugh- ter of Luther Laflin, one of the first gun- powder manufacturers in this country. Was prepared in private schools and en- tering Rutgers College, was graduated in 1870; afterwards made A. M. by
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this institution; began the study of law in the office of Hon. James Emott, one of the judges of the Supreme Court, and in 1872 was made bachelor of laws by the Columbia Law School. In Oct. of this year he was admitted to the bar, and in Nov. became the junior in the firm of Emott, Hammond & Stockley; is at pres- ent the head of Kellogg, Rose & Smith. His specialty is municipal law, and he has been employed in many important cases; was at one time pitted against the Hon. Roscoe Conkling. This was in the suit involving a large sum of money, and the point was the right of recovery on con tracts based on unbalanced bids. He has appeared, in recent years, in almost every suit affecting New York City; prepared the statute in Chapter 315, Laws of New York of 1878, which gives to material men the right to acquire a lien on the moneys of city contractors, due under city con- tracts. This he argued successfully for its passage before the Legislature, and it has been adopted in many other States; it was the first statute of the kind ever framed in the United States. He is a member of numerous clubs, and in some of them he is an officer, also a director in various corporations. Residence, 133 West 70th St .; office, 120 Broadway, New York.
KELLOGG, S. Alonzo:
Justice of Supreme Court, Fourth Dis- trict of New York; term expires Dec. 31, 1904. Address, Plattsburg, N. Y.
KELLOGG, Sanford C .:
Major and brevet colonel, United States Army; born in New York, May 10, 1842; appointed from New York-civil life; ser- geant and private, Company G, Thirty- seventh New York State Militia, from May 29, 1862, to Sept. 2, 1862; captain, A. D. C., March 11, 1863; brevet colonel June 3, 1865; honorably mustered out, July 10, 1866; secon lieutenant, Eighteenth United States Infantry, Feb. 23, 1866; first lieutenant. May 15, 1866; assigned to Fifth Cavalry, Dec. 15, 1870; captain, Jan. 11, 1871; maior, Fourth Cavalry, Jan. 14, 1892. Brevet lieutenant-colonel March 2, 1867, for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Nashville, Tenn .; retired, Oct. 24, 1898. Address, 1819 I St., N. W., Washington, D. C.
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KELLOGG, Theodore H .:
Physician; son of Rev. Ezra B. Kellogg, D. D., of the Episcopal Church; grand- son of Judge Jason Kellogg, who was for twenty years a member of the New York State Legislature; studied four years at Kenyon College, Gambier, O., and two years at Norwich University, Vermont, taking the degrees of A. B. and A. M. from the latter; studied medicine four years in Europe-Paris, Berlin and Vien- na; studied at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City, and took M. D. degree, 1865; made a specialty of nervous
and mental diseases. He was resident physician New York City Lunatic Asy- lum, 1865-71; physician-in-chief New York City Asylum for the Insane, 1872-74; first assistant physician Hudson River State Hospital, 1888-91; physician in charge of Sanford Hall (private hospital), 1891-92; superintendent of Willard State Hospital, New York, 1892-95; since 1897 physician in charge of Dr. Kellogg's House, Riverdale- on-Hudson, New York City; licensed by the State for the care of nervous and mental diseases. Author of "Text-Book on Mental Diseases," published, 1897, by William Wood & Co., New York City, and of numerous monographs on nervous and mental diseases. Address, Riverdale-on- Hudson, New York City.
KELLY, James Edward:
Sculptor; born in New York City, July 30, 1855, of Scotch and Irish parentage; studied wood engraving with Harper Bros. and drawing at Academy of Design; one of founders of Art Students' League. His sculptural work, exclusively historical, is represented by statuettes and busts from sittings of Grant, Sherman, Han- cock, Hooker, Warren, and the principal corps commanders of the Civil War, and Admirals Dewey, Clark, Schley and the fleet captains during the Spanish-Ameri- can War; Sixth New York Cavalry and General Buford at Gettysburg; Troy's sol- diers' monument, "The Call to Arms"; Monmouth battle monument bearing five panels, Molly Pitcher, Wayne's charge, Washington rallying his troops, Council of war, and Ramsay defending his guns; panel of Schuyler and Gates for the Sar- atoga battle monument; colossal eques- trian statue of General Fitz John Porter at Portsmouth, N. H., with panels of Mal- vern Hill and Belen Gate, Mexico; bronze statuettes, Sheridan's ride, Paul Revere, and Colonel Roosevelt at San Juan Hill; bronze panel of battle of Harlem Heights in Columbia University. Among promi- nent New Yorkers who have posed for him are C. H. Haswell; Generals Sheridan, Schofield, Doubleday, Webb; Admirals Worden. Sampson, Philip; Captain Sigs- bee and President Roosevelt. Address, 318 West 57th St., New York.
KELLY, William:
First lieutenant, U. S. Army; born in New York and appointed from Wisconsin; cadet at the Academy, June 19, 1895, to Feb. 15, 1899, when he was graduated and promoted in the army to second lieuten- ant. Corps of Engineers. He served as assistant to Major Davis at San Francis- co March 17. 1899; served in Philippines, July, 1900. to Dec., 1902: first lieutenant, Feb. 2. 1901. Address, Post Office Build- ing, New London, Conn.
KELSEY, Charles Boyd, A.M., M.D .:
Physician: born in Farmington, Conn., Nov. 19, 1850, of Scotch descent; son of
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the Rev. Charles and Eliza Boyd Kelsey; graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1870, and from the Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons (Colum- bia University) in 1873. Having served as house surgeon first at Saint Luke's Hos- pital and subsequently at the New York Hospital for several years, he received the appointment of assistant demonstrator in anatomy at the College of Physicians and Surgeons and started in private practice as a surgeon. He is best known to the medical profession and the public on ac- count of his work in his specialty-dis- eases of the intestines. Dr. Kelsey has at various times held the positions of pro- fessor of diseases of the rectum at the University of Vermont; professor of dis- eases of the rectum at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hos pital; and professor of abdominal sur- gery, and later, professor of general surgery at the latter college, in which he still retains his position as a director, though confining himself entirely to his private practice. His various publica- tions on his specialty are standard text books in his profession, having gone through many editions and been trans- lated into other languages. He is a mem- ber of the usual New York City and State Medical Societies. Address, 18 East 29th St., New York.
KEMPSON, St. George:
Insurance journalist; was born of Eng- lish parentage at Fort Erie, Canada, April 23, 1858; son of the late Dr. P. T. Kempson, grandson of the late Sir Peter Kempson. He entered journalism in 1874 as a newspaper correspondent; established the X. Y. Z. Railroad and Steamboat Guide, 1879. In 1880 established Metuchen Inquirer; 1884. purchased the Middlesex County Democrat; 1879 removed to Perth Amboy. N. J., where he occupied many public positions; two years later he be- came associated with his father as man- ager in New York of the New York In- surance Times, and he succeeded as man- aging editor unon the death of Dr. Kemp- son in 1890. He continued in that capaci- ty until Jan. 1, 1894, when he purchased and became editor of the New York In- surance Journal which is one of the old- est insurance journals published in this country. being established in 1862, to which paper he is now giving his sole attention. Mr. Kempson is a member of the New York Press Club, the New Jer- sey Editorial Association. an Odd Fellow, and a member of many other social, char- itable and fraternal orders and institu- tions. Address, 187 Broadway, New York.
KEMPTON, Charles Walter:
Mining engineer; was born in Fairhaven, Mass .. Jan. 30, 1847; son of Captain Charles W. and Lucinda Kempton; stud- ied engineering in Boston, Mass., mak-
ing a specialty of mining branches. He was engaged on staff of Essex Water Power Company, Lawrence, Mass., 1870- 74; in charge explorations with Diamond Drill, etc., in Eastern States, 1874-76; in charge mining operations and explora- tion in Eastern States and Canada, 1877- 80; engineer silver mines in Sonora, Mex., 1881-82; engaged in mining, mill work, etc., in United States, Cuba, Mexi- co, and South America, with office in New York City, 1883-92; general manager of gold mines at Oro Blanco, Arizona, 1892- 97; chief engineer and metallurgist New York and Honduras Rosario Mining Com- pany, in Honduras, 1897-99. Mr. Kemp- ton is now consulting engineer and senior member Kempton & McCoy, mining en- gineers. Address, 29 Broadway, New York.
KENDALL, Messmore:
Lawyer; born in Grand Rapids, Mich., Dec. 9, 1872; educated at Columbia Uni- versity and Law School; admitted to bar, 1893, at age of twenty. Private secre- tary to Hon. John L. Wilson, U. S. Senator, Washington, 1891-93; to Hon. Bellamy Storer, now U. S. ambassador to Austria, 1893-94; assistant to attorney for Great Northern and Montana Central Railways (Great Falls, Mont.), 1895-97; removed to New York in 1897, and took active part in Mayoralty campaign, 1897; and cam- paign for election of Governor Roose- velt, 1898; Anti-Tammany confrère; sec- retary to Justice Cohen while member of New York Supreme Court, and member firm of Horton McEvilly & Kendall,, 1897- 99; now associated in practice of law with Hon. William N. Cohen, and vice- president New York & Portchester Rail- road Company; general counsel, F. C. & G. Railroad Company, etc., etc. In 1903 as attorney for Jennie M. Leys, execu- trix, obtained against the N. Y. C. Rail- road Company verdict for $100,000, the largest ever rendered in any court in a personal injury action. Member Bar As- sociation, New York Athletic and Bal- tusrol Golf Clubs. Address, 22 William St., New York.
KENDALL, William Sergeant:
Artist; born in Spuyten Duyvil, N. Y., Jan. 20, 1869; pupil of Art Students' League, New York, Ecole des Beaux Arts and Rue Olivier Merson, Paris. Has been instructor at Cooper Institute and Art Students' League, of New York and Pittsburgh; received honorable mention Paris Salon, 1891; medal, Columbian World's Fair, 1893; Lippincott prize, Phil- adelphia, 1894; honorable mention Ten- nessee and Omaha, 1897; second prize Worcester, 1900 and 1901; bronze medal Carnegie, 1900; bronze medal Paris Ex- position, 1900; silver and bronze medals Buffalo, 1901; Shaw prize South American
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Art., 1901; Shaw fund purchase, S. A. A., 1903. Address, 26 West 8th St., New York.
KENEFICK, Daniel J .:
Jurist; born in Buffalo, N. Y., 1863; stud- ied law, and was admitted to the bar, 1884; was second assistant district at- torney of Buffalo, 1887-92; first assist- ant district attorney, 1893-94; appointed assistant district attorney for unexpired term; regularly elected to same office, 1894; is at present justice of the Supreme Court of New York. Address, Buffalo, N. Y.
KENNEDY, Duncan:
Captain, U. S. Navy; born in Albany, N. Y .; entered Naval Academy as mid- shipman, July 20, 1864; graduated, 1868; Delaware and Iroquois, Asiatic Station, 1868-70; promoted to ensign, 1869; to mas- ter, 1870; Guerriere, European Station, 1870-72. Promoted to Lieutenant, 1872; Torpedo Station, 1872-73; Pensacola, Pa- cific Station, 1873-76; Naval Academy, 1876-79; practice steamer Mayflower, 1876- 77; Pensacola, Pacific Station, 1879-82; Naval Academy, 1882-84; practice ship Dale, 1883; Lancaster, European Station, 1884-85; Lancaster, South Atlantic Sta- tion, 1885-87; War College, Newport, 1887- 89; secretary to Navy Yard Site Commis- sion. Gulf of Mexico and South Atlantic Coast, 1889; Board of Organization, 1889- 90; secretary to commander-in-chief, South Atlantic Station and South At- lantic and South Pacific Stations, Pen- sacola and Baltimore, 1890-91; Yorktown, 1891-93. Promoted to lieutenant-command- er, May, 1893; Torpedo Station, Newport, June, 1893-95; New York, Oct., 1895-97; Nov., 1897, assistant inspector Eleventh Lighthouse District; Jan., 1898, inspector Eleventh Lighthouse District, inspection of auxiliary vessels and duty in connec- tion with the enlistment of the Naval Militia; 1898, ordnance officer, Norfolk Navy Yard; Oct., 1898, inspector Eleventh Lighthouse District; commissioned com- mander, March 3, 1899; Jan., 1900, com- manding Detroit; 1900-1, commanding Mayflower; 1901, attendance at War Col- lege; Oct., 1901, ordnance officer, Navy Yard, League Island; June, 1902, attend- ance at War College; commanding Prairie, Oct. 21, 1902, to Nov. 20. 1903. Promoted to captain Aug. 10, 1903; Nov. 3, 1903, Naval Examining and Retiring Boards. Address. care Navy Department, Wash- ington, D. C.
KENNEDY, John D .:
Protestant Episcopal clergyman; born in Elizabethport, N. J., May 28, 1860; was graduated from Hobart College, 1881, and from General Theological Seminary, 1884. He was ordained deacon, 1884, and priest,
1885, by Bishop Doane, of Albany; mis- sionary in charge of Claverack, Philmont, and Chatham, N. Y., 1884-88; Tarentum and Freeport, Pa., 1888; became assistant at St. Mark's Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1890, and rector, 1900; grand chaplain of F. and A. M., State of New York, 1902- 04. Member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. Author of "Church History in Question and Answer." Address, Eastern Park- way and Brooklyn Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.
KENNEDY, John S .:
Lawyer, director National Bank of Commerce, and New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company; trustee United States Trust Company, Title Guarantee & Trust Company, Central Trust Company and Provident Loan Society. Residence, 6 West 57th St .; office, 31 Nassau St., New York.
KENT, Jacob F .:
Brigadier general, U. S. Army; born in Pennsylvania, Sept. 14, 1836; appointed from Pennsylvania; cadet at U. S. Mili- tary Academy, July 1, 1856; graduated, May 6, 1861. Actual rank-second lieu- tenant, Third Infantry, May 6, 1861; first lieutenant, July 31, 1861; captain, Jan. 8, 1864; major, Fourth Infantry, July 1, 1885; lieutenant colonel, A. I. G. Volunteers, Jan. 1, 1863, to Aug. 31, 1865. Brevet rank-brevet major, May 3, 1863, for gal- lant and meritorious services in the bat- tle of Marye's Heights, Va .; brevet lieu- tenant colonel, May 12, 1864, for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Spottsylvania, Va .; brevet colonel, Volun- teers, Oct. 19, 1864, for faithful and meri- , torious services in the field during the campaign before Richmond, Va .; in the war of the Rebellion, 1861-65; in first Bull Run campaign, 1861; prisoner of war
and to Sept., 1862; in Fredericksburg Chancellorsville campaign, and ose- quent operations of the Army before Richmond, to the surrender of Lee, at Appomattox, C. H., April 9, 1865; on fron- tier duty in various departments to 1877; on recruiting service 1877-78; in Mon- tana to 1885; at Fort Omaha, Neb., to July, 1886; at Fort Spokane, Wash. In battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861; three times wounded and captured; exchanged, Sept., 1862; battle of Fredericksburg, Va., Dec., 1862; Marye's Heights, May, 1863; Gettysburg, Pa., July, 1863; Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Tolopotomy and Cold Har- bor, Va., 1864; capture of Petersburg, Va., and surrender of Lee, 1865; lieuten- ani colonel, Eighteenth Infantry, Jan. 15, 1891; colonel, Twenty-fourth Infantry, April 25, 1895; brigadier-general Volun- teers, May 4, 1898 and assigned to the command of First Division Fifth Army Corps and promoted to major-general Volunteers July 8, 1898. In campaign against Santiago, Cuba, in 1898; honorably
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discharged Nov. 30, 1898; brigadier-gen- eral, Oct. 4, 1898; retired, Oct. 15, 1898. Address, Watervliet Arsenal, West Troy, N. Y.
KENT, William:
Dean and professor of mechanical en- gineering in the L. C. Smith College of Applied Science, Syracuse University; born in Philadelphia, Pa., March 5, 1851; graduated from Central High School, Philadelphia, 1868, A. M., 1873; Stevens Institute of Technology, M. E., 1876. Ed- itor American Manufacturer and Iron World, Pittsburg, 1877-79; mechanical en- gineer and superintendent in iron and steel works, steam boiler business and Torsion balance scale factory, 1879-90; consulting engineer (office practice) since 1890. He was associate editor Engineering News, 1895 to 1903. Appointed dean of the College of Applied Science, Syracuse University, 1903. Member American In- stitute of Mining Engineers, American Society Mechanical Engineers; fellow of American Association for the Advance- ment of Science; member New Jersey State Commission on Pollution of Streams, 1898-99. Residence, Syracuse, N. Y.
KERR, James:
President of Beech Creek Coal and Coke Company; born in Mifflin County, Pa., in 1851; removed to Clearfield, Pa., as a young man, where he has ever since con- tinued to maintain his residence. He took an active part in politics on the side of the Democratic party with which he has always been identified; elected to the Fifty-first U. S. Congress in 1888; Demo- cratic State chairman during the Patti- son-Delamater Gubernatorial campaign . in Pennsylvania, one of the rare occa- sions when the State went Democratic; also a member of the Democratic Nation- al Committee at that time; clerk in the U. S. House of Representatives in Fifty- second and Fifty-third Congresses. He received the vote of the Philadelphia dele- gation and other scattering votes in the 1902 Democratic Gubernatorial convention it Pennsylvania, although not a candidate for the nomination for governor. Has always been prominently identified with the timber and coal interests of Penn- sylvania. Is president of the Beech Creek Coal and Coke Company, the largest ship- per of bituminous coal on the Pennsyl. vania division of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Company, and was instrumental in organizing same; president of North River Coal and Wharf Company. also of New York Weighing Barge & Coaling Company, also of Clear- field Southern Railroad. the Hooverhurst & Southwestern Railroad. He is a director in Beech Creek Railroad Company, and of the Philadelphia Record Publishing Company, and an officer and director of several banks, trust companies and other
corporations in the State of Pennsylvania. Married to Julia A. Smith in 1874. Resi- dence, 107 Central Park West, New York; summer residence, Clearfield, Pa .; office, Whitehall Building, Battery Place, New York.
KERSHNER, Edward:
Medical Inspector (retired), U. S. Navy; entered the service of the United States as an assistant surgeon in the Navy from Maryland, Sept. 2, 1861. His first active service was on the U. S. sloop of war Cumberland, in Hampton Roads, and he was on duty there at the time of the sinking of the ship, going down into the water with her and being rescued from the water in an unconscious condition by one of the marines. His next duty was tak- ing Captain Worden, who was wounded on the Monitor, to Washington; he gave to the government the first detailed infor- mation of the actions in Hampton Roads. For a few months after that he was in service at the Washington Navy Yard; next on the New Ironsides, which ship was in service at Hampton Roads and in the siege of Charleston; on that ship at the first attack on Charleston, April 7, 1863, and the subsequent operations. Was ordered to the U. S. monitor Passaic in Feb., 1864, on same duty; later ordered to the TJ. S. S. Choctaw, an ironclad ram in the Mississippi Squadron, and remained there until the end of the war, in 1865. Then, after a few months at the rendez- vous at Philadelphia, was ordered to the Tacony, of the North Atlantic Squadron, which vessel cruised along the coast of North Carolina and down to Florida; or- dered to the Osceola on a cruise to the West Indies, and remained on board that vessel about one year. It was the only vessel of the squadron that did not lose men by yellow fever, the admiral and
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