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Author and lawyer: born in Philadel- phia, March 15, 1854; son of Washington and Anne Mathews ( Penrose) Keith; was graduated (B. S.) from University of Pennsylvania in 1873; studied law with Judge Clement B. Penrose; librarian pro tem. of the Historical Society of Penn- sylvania in 1876; admitted to the Phila- delphia bar in 1877, and for ten years a clerk in Real Estate Title Insurance and Trust Company of Philadelphia; from 1889 to 1893 was chief clerk of the United States Appraiser's office; independent in politics. Author of "The Provincial Councillors of Pennsylvania Who Held Office Between 1733 and 1776. and Those Earlier Councillors Who Were Some Time Chief Magistrates of the Province, and Their Descendants." Philadelphia, 1883; "The Ancestry of Benjamin Harri- son, President of the United States of America, and Notes on Families Related," 1893; also part of the general history in "Pennsylvania, Colonial and Federal." Married, Dec. 18, 1883, Elizabeth Harvey Wister, daughter of. Louis Wister of Montgomery County. Address, 321 South Fourth St., Philadelphia, Pa.
KELLER, E. E .:
Vice President of the Westinghouse Machine Company; Vice President of the Pittsburg Meter Company; Director in the Security Investment Company; Direc- tor in Westinghouse Foundry Company (all Westinghouse interests); born in New York city; educated in Rochester, N. Y. He became Superintendent for a promi- nent Rochester manufacturing company. . and in January, 1888, went to Pittsburg; he was engaged in the construction force of an affiliated Westinghouse company; his first work brought him to the com- pany's notice; in April of same year he was placed in charge of all the company's Pittsburg work, and in October was made manager of their Chicago office; this position he held until he became electrical engineer of the Department of Electricity at the World's Fair; he re- signed this to assume management of the Westinghouse lighting contract at the fair; in this work he was so success- ful that he was asked to become Vice President of the Westinghouse Machine Company. He is an anto enthusiast. and has made long tours through Pennsyl- vania and New York. He was President of the Pittsburg Amateur Photographic Society and is an enthusiastic amateur
photographer. Address. East Pittsburg, Pa.
KELLEY, John Goshorn:
Member of the Pennsylvania Comman- dery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; private Nineteenth Pennsylvania Infantry, April 18, 1861; Corporal, April 27, 1861; mustered out, Aug. 9, 1861; Lieu- tenant Colonel Seventh West Virginia Infantry, Sept. 17, 1861; honorably dis- charged, Sept. 10, 1862; elected Oct. 20, 1897. Address, care of Recorder of Loyal Legion, 1535 Chestnut St., Philadelphia.
KELLEY, Joseph Morgan:
Major United States Army; born in New York; appointed from Pennsylvania; private, Company G, Nineteenth Penn- sylvania Infantry, April 18 to Aug. 8, 1861; First Lieutenant Sixty-ninth Penn- sylvania Infantry, Aug. 26, 1861; honor- ably mustered out, March 4, 1863; First Lieutenant, March 8, 1864; Captain, April 3, 1865; honorably mustered out. Nov. 20, 1865; First Lieutenant Thirty-eighth Infantry, March 7, 1867; assigned to Tenth Cavalry, Dec. 15, 1870; Captain, April 15, 1875; Major, April 15, 1893: re- tired. Oct. 24, 1898. Member of the Penn- sylvania Commandery of the Military Or- der of the Loyal Legion. Address, St. Louis Club, St. Louis, Mo.
KELLY. A. B .:
Banker; son of James D. and Sarah Bennett Kelly, natives of County Down, Ireland; born in Pittsburg, Pa., in Jan- uary, 1837; was reared in his native city; educated in the public schools and Wash- ington and Jefferson College, being a graduate of the latter institution. He began a business career as an operator in the Venango oil field: from 1861 to 1866 he manufactured tight oil barrels by machinery in Tionesta, Pa .: he then be- came an oil producer and lumberman. In 1872 he became a member of the firm of May, Park & Co., bankers. of Tionesta, and was cashier of the bank from its organization till it was merged into the Forest County National Bank in 1996; he has continued as cashier under the new organization. On April 28. 1863. he married Frances Augusta, daughter of H. Huntingdon and Frances A. Thatcher May of Tionesta. Mr. and Mrs. Kelly are members of the Presbyterian Church. he having been a ruling elder for more than thirty years and Superintendent of the Sabbath School for more than twen- ty-five years. Address, Tionesta, Pa.
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KELLY, A. O. J., M. D .:
Born in Philadelphia, June 13, 1870; re- ceived the degrees of A. B. and A. M. from La Salle College, Philadelphia, and the degree M. D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1891; pursued post-grad- uate studies in clinical medicine and pathology abroad, 1892-1894, and in 1897; has been connected with the University of Pennsylvania since 1894, and is now Associate in Medicine and Assistant Phy- sician to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; also Clinical Professor of Pathology in the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, Pathologist to the German Hospital of Philadelphia, and physician to St. Agnes' Hospital, Philadelphia; since 1900 has been Profes- sor of the Theory and Practice of Medi- cine in the University of Vermont. Mem- ber of the Association of American Phy- sicians and editor of the International Clinics. Address, 1911 Pine St., Phila- delphia, Pa.
KELLY, Henry Kuhl:
Member of the Pennsylvania Comman- dery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; First Lieutenant 118th Pennsyl- vania Infantry, Aug. 20. 1862: Captain, Oct. 27, 1863; resigned and honorably dis -: charged, Jan. 30, 1865; elected Jan. 5, 1881. Address, care of Recorder of Loyal Legion, 1535 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
KELLY, James Huntington:
Teller of Forest County National Bank; son of Archibald Bennett and Augusta May Kelly; born in Forest County, Oct. '11, 1869; educated in the Tionesta schools and at Fremont Seminary. Norristown. Pa. In 1884 he became a bookkeeper for May, Park & Co., bankers, Tionesta. Upon the organization of the Forest County National Bank, in 1896, was made director of the firm and appointed teller. On Oct. 14. 1895, was married to Miss Margaret McCollum Robinson, a daughter of George Williams Robinson, of Tionesta. Address. Tionesta, Pa.
KELLY, John G .:
President of the Braddock National Bank. Address, Braddock. Allegheny County, Pa.
KELLY, John M .:
Lawyer; born in Owego. Tioga County, N. Y .. June 24, 1561. His parents re- moved to a farm in Susquehanna County,
Pa., in 1866, and the boy's time was spent between farm work and school studies, which were followed by several terms as teacher and an apprenticeship to the carpenter's trade, at which he worked for some time. In 1881 he be- came a law student in the office of Mc- Collum & Watson. at Montrose, Pa., and was admitted to the Susquehanna County bar in 1884. He formed a partnership with E. L. Blakeslee, an attorney of large reputation in criminial law, and was as- sociated with him in many important cases. Mr. Kelly has devoted himself especially to this branch of practice and has won much reputation for ability in criminal cases. A Democrat in political faith, he has taken an active- part in local politics and was delegate to the State Convention in 1896. In 1893 he or- ganized the Montrose Gun Club, for the protection of fish and game, and was elected its President. He was appointed to the State Sportmen's Association on the committee to draft new laws for game protection. Address, Montrose, Pa.
KELLY, John P .:
Jurist; born in Oliphant, Luzerne (now Lackawanna) County, Jan. 30, 1862. His education was obtained in the pubilc schools; graduated from the Scranton High School in 1879. He subsequently read law in the office of John B. Collins, and was admitted to the Lackawanna bar in 1883. His early practice was as assistant in the office of Hon. John F. Connelly, then District Attorney, and in 1SSS he entered into partnership with Joseph O'Brien, under the firm name of O'Brien & Kelly. This partnership con- tinucd till April, 1900, when Mr. Kelly was appointed by Governor Stone addi- tional Law Judge; in the fall of 1901 he was elected to the Judgship for a term of ten years. Judge Kelly is an active Democrat and in 18SS was elected to the Pennsylvania Legislature. He served for one term, and in 1891 was elected Dis- trict Attorney for Lackawanna County. Address, Scranton, Pa.
KELLY, Samuel P .:
Rector Barnabas Church, Sixty-fifth and Girard Ave., Philadelphia; born in Philadelphia, Oct. 21, 1840: graduated at Princeton University and Philadelphia Di- vinity School: served during Civil War In First New Jersey Volunteers, and 196th Pennsylvania Volunteers (Veteran Regi- ment). Rector in dioceses of Pennsyl-
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vania, Pittsburg, Central Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and the missionary jurisdic- tion of Nevada and Arizona, and St. Luke's American chapel in the Latin Quarter, Paris. Also, State Superintend- ent of Public Instruction in Nevada; Com- missioner Deaf, Dumb and Blind; Secre- tary and Director State Orphans' Home. Served as reporter on several Philadelphia and San Francisco papers; city editor Oakland Evening Tribune, California. Author: "Christmas and Easter in Story and Song," and assisted in publication of selections from the "Book of Common Prayer (in Braille) for the Blind." Vice President of The Society for the Promo- tion of Church Work Among the Blind and Grand Chaplain of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, F. and A. M. Address, 501 North Sixty-fifth St., Philadelphia, Pa.
KELLY, William A .:
Superintendent of schools; born in Trev- erton, Northumberland County, Pa., Aug. 27, 1867. A State Normal graduate; began teaching in 1SS&; is now Superintendent of Schools at Archbald, Pa .; interested in music. Address, Archibald, Pa. 1
KELLOGG, Josiah Holcomb:
Major United States Army; born in and appointed from Pennsylvania. Cadet, Military Academy, July 1, 1555; Brevet Lieutenant First Dragoons, July 1, 1860; Second Lieutenant, Jan. S. 1861; First Lieutenant, May 13. 1861: First Cavalry, Aug. 3. 1861; Regimental Adjutant Jan. 13 to May 20, 1862; Captain May 20, 1S62; Colonel Seventeenth Pennsylvania Cav- alry Nov. 19, 1562; honorably mustered out of volunteer service Dec. 17, 1864; re- tired Feb. 6, 1$65; brevetted Major July 3, 1863, for gallant and meritorious service in the battle of Gettysburg, Pa. Ad- dress, Ouachita, Arkadelphia, Ark.
KELSEY, Albert:
Architect; born in St. Louis, Mo., on April 26. 1870, his father being A. War- ren Kelsey, a scholar and writer. His mother was Miss Jannette Garr Wash- burn. Albert Kelsey is the oldest grand- son of the late Major Gen. C. C. Washburn, and, consequently. a grandnephew of the other famous Washburn brothers. Much of his education was obtained abroad. His architectural ability was tested and developed by constant work in the T- Square Chib competitions, where he was a frequent prize-winner. After having won the highest average for one year's
work, he was elected from office to office until he became President of the club. He won the Fourth Traveling Scholarship in Architecture of the University of Penn- sylvania, and traveled extensively. While his duties as an architect occupy most of his time, he finds opportunities to take part in many municipal conferences, and is recognized as an authority. Mr. Kelsey, at the Cleveland Convention, in June, 1899, was elected President of the Ar- chitecturai League of America. He was also a delegate to the Fourth Internation- al Congress of Architects, in Brussels, in 1897. As Chairman of the Committee of Experts of the Art Federation of Phila- delphia he has long been identified with the movement which has just culminated in the enactment of legislation insuring the immediate construction of a parkway from the public buildings to Fairmount Park. Mr. Kelsey is architect for the re- organizing and rebuilding of Chautauqua, N. Y. In 1903, as an officer of the Lou- isiana Purchase Exposition Company, he was sent abroad to study the Dresden Municipal Exposition. He is now in charge of the Division of Municipal Im- provement at the World's Fair, and ar- chitect of three buildnigs on the fair grounds. As the founder and editor of The Architectural Annual he vigorously denounces unprofessional methods, and is a staunch upholder of the progressive. broad-minded architect. His wife was formerly Miss Henrietta Latitia Allis, of New York. Address, 931 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
KELSEY, Oliver S .:
Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from Clinton County; born in Erie, Erie County, Pa., Aug. 9. 1855; educated in the public schools; served as page in the House of Repre- sentatives, at Harrisburg, in 1870 and 1871; was clerk in the General Superin- tendent's office of the Philadelphia and Erie Division, Pennsylvania Railroad, at Erie and Williamsport, from 1871 to 18$1. when he was transferred to the office of Superintendent Transportation. at Philadelphia, which position he resigned in 1882: is a member of the firm of Fores- man & Kelsey, jobbers of feed and grain, from 1884 to date, and is manager of the Foresman & Kelsey Milling Company. at Flemington. since 1991; served five years in the National Guard; was Chairman of the Clinton County Republican Commit- tee in 1898 and 1899; served as Burgess of
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South Williamsport twice, and was the first Burgess of Flemington; elected to the House of Representatives in Novem- ber, 1902. Address, Flemington, Pa.
KELTON, Allen C .:
Colonel United States Marine Corps; born in Pennsylvania; appointed from Pennsylvania. Commissioned as Second Lieutenant, March 31, 1869; First Lieu- tenant, 1874; Captain, June 18, 1890; served throughout the Spanish-American War. Colonel Dec. 27, 1903; Commanding Marines at Navy Yard, Boston. Address, Navy Yard, Boston, Mass.
KEMMERER, M. S .:
President of the Mauch Chunk National Bank. Address, Mauch Chunk, Carbon County, Pa.
KEMP, Agnes:
Physician, reformer; born in Harris- burg, Pa., Nov. 4, 1823; educated at the Harrisburg Seminary; was graduated at Woman's Medical College, Philadelphia, 1879. Was first woman member of Medi- cal Society of Dauphin County, Pa .; practiced medicine six years; then trav- eled abroad nearly four years. Prominent in Woman's Christian Temperance Union; active in woman suffrage, social purity and other reform movements; also active in anti-slavery work. Selected by Na- tional Peace Convention, in 1898, as dele- gate to International Peace Congress, Lis- bon, Portugal. Address, Swarthmore, Pa.
KEMP, C. H .:
. Banker; born in Fayette County, Pa., July 29, 1839; educated in the county schools of Fayette and Somerset Coun- ties of Pennsylvania. Served as a private soldier in the Civil War three years, and as a civilian until the close of the war. For many years Trustee of the First Presbyterian Church of Kane, Pa .; served in the Borough Council of Kane, Pa .; Di- rector in the Kane Window Glass Com- pany, Kane Flint Bottle Company, Tem- ple Theater Company, and the Y. M. C. A. Building Company. Married Annie J. Pinkerton, of Philadelphia, Dec. 19, 1876. Manager of the Bolton Hotel. Harrisburg, Pa., for eight years; Washington Hotel. Philadelphia, during the Centennial; one season at the Columbia Hotel, Cape May, N. J .; proprietor of the Thomson House, Kane, Pa .; Willard Hotel and the Lowry Hotel, Butler. Pa. Has been a Director in the First National Bank of Kane from 1
the time it started, eight years ago, and served two years as cashier; served one year as Vice President, and has been President for the last two years. Ad- dress, Kane, Mckean County, Pa.
KEMP, Ellwood Leitheiser:
Clergyman, educator; born in Hamburg, Berks County, Pa., Jan. 31, 1857; was graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in 1881, and studied divinity. Or- dained a clergyman of the Reformed Church in the United States; Professor of Ancient Languages, 1SS1-1986; Psy- chology and Pedagogy, 1886-1SSS; Key- stone State Normal School, Pa .; President Wichita University, Kansas, 18SS-1891; President Palatinate College, Pa., 1891- 1893; Vice President 1893-1902: principal since July, 1902, East Stroudsburg State Normal School. Principal faculty Poco- no Pines Chautauqua Assembly, Pa. Au- thor of "Idyl of the War," and other poems. 1884. "History of Education," 1902. Address, East Stroudsburg, Pa.
KENDIG, Daniel:
Chaplain United States Army: born in Pennsylvania and appointed from Wash- ington Territory. Graduate University of Pennsylvania in class of 1844. Rector of St. Paul's Church, Chester. Chaplain posts of Fort Steilacoom. Washington Territory, and Presidio San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 13, 1859 to May 27, 1567; Post Chaplain April 3, 1867; retired Nov. 10, 1SSS. Address, 1932 Spruce St., Philadel- phia, Pa.
KENNARD, Joseph Spencer:
Lawyer, author; born in Bridgeton, N. J., 1859; educated Colgate University, Columbia University Law School, Chicago University, Sorbonne, Paris; R. Instituto di Belle Arte, Florence (A. M., LL. B., Ph. D. and D. C. L.); married in 1889, Isabelle D. Brandreth. Chiefly prac- ticed corporation and railroad law before United States Supreme Court and Su- preme Courts of New York, Pennsylvania. and Illinois, and in Europe in cases of international law. An amateur artist, his paintings have received honorable men- tion in Europe and America. Has sev- eral times been juror of awards on paint- ings; Commissioner to Paris Exposition. 1900; member of many learned societies and clubs in Europe and America; horedi- tary member Society of Sons of the Revolution, of Society of Colonial Wars, etc. Author of "Alaska Legends and To-
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tems," "The Friar in Fiction," "The Fan- fara of the Bersigilari," "Studi-Dante- schi," "Memmo-One of the People," "Fallen God," "A Liberal Education," "De Deo Lapso Commentarius," etc., "Some Early Printers and Their Colo- phons," "Romancieri Italiani d'Oggi, ' etc. Address, Union League Club, Philadel- phia, Pa.
KENNEDY, Hugh:
Director and Manager of the furnace department of the American Steel Hoop Company; born July 24, 1856, in Poland Township, Mahoning County, .Ohio, and worked upon his father's farm, which was one of the finest stock farms in Mahoning County, and attended the District School at Poland Center. In the spring of isso, Mr. Kennedy accepted a position with the Carnegie Steel Company, at Braddock, Pa., as assistant to his brother Julian, who was at that time Superintendent in charge of construction and operation of blast furnaces at the Edgar Thomson Steel Works. He was appointed Jan. 1, 1881, Superintendent of the Isabella Fur- naces at Etna, Pa., and continued with them as Superintendent and General Man- ager until April, 1599. Since that time, Mr. Kennedy has been Manager of the furnace department of the American Steel Hoop Company, which purchased the Isa- bella Furnace Company's property. He has recently been elected a Director of the American Steel Hoop Company. Mr. Kennedy is Vice President of the Farm- ers' and Merchants' Bank, of Sharps- burg, Pa .; President of the Sharpsburg and Etna, Young Men's Christian Asso- ciation, Sharpsburg. Pa., and a member of the Board of Managers of the Alle- gheny County Workhouse, the Board of Trustees of the Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pa .. and the U. P. Board of Publication, Pittsburg, Pa. He is also a member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers. Address, Sharpsburg, ยท Pa.
KENNEDY, John M .:
Jurist; born in Oxford, Chester Coun- ty, Pa., Sept. 19. 1833; was graduated from Jefferson College in 1855, and read law at Booneville. Mo .. under William Douglas and Judge George W. Miller. He was admitted to the bar in Booneville in 1863. but removed the following year to Pittsburg, where he was admitted to the Allegheny County bar. Here he prac- ticed actively and successfully till 1891.
when the Governor appointed him Presi- dent Judge of the Pittsburg Court of Common Pleas number three. In Novem- ber of the same year Mr. Kennedy was elected President Judge for a full ten years' term, and was re-elected in 1901 for a second term, which he is now serving. Address, Pittsburg, Pa.
KENNEDY, Julian:
Mechanical engineer and inventor; born in Poland, Mahoning County, Ohio, March 15, 1852; educated Poland Union Semi- nary; was graduated from Sheffield Sci- entific School, Yale, 1875, receiving the degree of A. M., 1900; married Nov. 14, 1858, Jennie Eliza Brennerman. Before going to Yale was draughtsman, under his father, in the construction of the Struthers Iron Co., where he was em- ployed for three years; was Superin- tendent of the blast furnaces, 1876-1885. at Briar Hill Iron Co.'s works, Struthers Iron Co.'s works, Morse Bridge Works, Edgar Thomson Steel Works and at the Lucy furnaces; General Superintendent for Carnegie, Phipps & Co., with head- quarters at Homestead, 1SS5-18SS; Chief Engineer Latrobe Steel Works, 1SSS; since 1890 General Consulting and Contracting Engineer; has been connected with im- portant steel plants in the United States and Europe. Has many patents in con- nection with improvements and devices for manufacturing iron and steel. Mem- ber Engineers' Society, Western Pennsyl- vania; American Institute of Mining En- gineers, British Iron and Steel Institute, Pittsburg Chamber of Commerce, Pa .. and New York Chamber of Commerce. Member of the Duquesne Club of Pitts- burg, and of the Engineers' Club of New York. Address, Pittsburg, Pa.
KENNEDY, Reid:
President of the Monongahela Trust Company of Homestead. AAddress, Home- stead, Allegheny County, Pa.
KENNEDY, Robert Morris:
Surgeon United States Navy; appointed from Pennsylvania. Naval Cadet. May 21. 1865. Resigned. May 26. 1887. Assistant Surgeon, June 18, 1890. Passed Assistant Surgeon, June 18, 1893. Surgeon. Oct. 29. 1901: Coast Survey steamer Bache, 1992: Marion, 1893; Coast Survey steamer Pat- terson, 1894; Naval Hospital, Norfolk. 1897; Bennington, 1898-1901: receiving ship Franklin, 1901. Dixie. Aug. 12. 1903. Ad- dress, care Navy Department. Washing- ton, D. C.
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KENNEDY, Thomas W .:
Superintendent of the American Steel Hoop Company's furnaces; born Dee. 25, 1869. in Poland Township, Mahoning Co., Ohio. He lived and worked on his fa- ther's farm, attending public school at Po- land Centre. Later went to Poland Union Seminary, and in 1891 graduated from Westminster College. New Wilmington, Pa. In 1892, he secured a position as chemist at Isabella Furnace Co., Etna, Pa. In this company employ he has occupied suecessively the positions as ehemist, Assistant Superintendent, now being em- ployed at the same plant as Superinten- dent of furnaces, Ameriean Steel Hoop Co. Address, Youngstown, Ohio.
KENNEDY, Walter:
Consulting engineer; born in Poland, Ohio. in 1861; attended the same sehool as did President MeKinley and early be- came apprenticed to the blast furnace building business as workman. His first position was with the Carnegie Steel Co., and here he made a thorough study of chemistry and at the different plants held various positions of trust and for three years was Superintendent of the Lucy furnaces. In 1889, he became eonneeted with the Moorehead-McClain Co., later Manager of the Jefferson Iron Co., Steu- benville, Ohio, and in 1891 was made Superintendent of the Buffalo Furnace Co., owned by M. A. Hanna & Co. In 1897 he was engaged to do railroad work in China, and later was employed by the Chinese Government and was appointed First Seeretary of the Chinese Imperial Railway, and Technical Director and Gen- eral Manager of the iron and steel works 'at Han Yang. Returning to this country he took up his work and has gained prominenee in this line of business. Ad- dress, 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburg, Pa.
KENT. Jacob Ford:
Brigadier General United States Army, retired; born in Philadelphia, Pa .. Sep- tember. 1836; educated there and gradu- ated from United States Military Acad- emy, 1861; commissioned Lieutenant Third Infantry, 1861. He served as Lieutenant Colonel Inspector General. 1863-1863; on staff of Gen. John Sedgwiek, Sixth Army Corps; promoted Captain, 1864: Major Fourth Infantry. 1855: Lieutenant Colonel Eighteenth Infantry, 1891; Colonel Twen- ty-fourth Infantry, 1895: Brigadier Gen- eral Volunteers. May. 1596; Commander of First Division Fifth Corps under Gen.
Shafter in expedition to Cuba; Major General Volunteers, July, 1898; honorably discharged from Volunteers, Nov. 30, 1898; Brigadier General United States Army, Oetober, 1898; Brevet Major May 3, 1863, for gallantry and meritorious service in battle of Marye's Heights, Va .; Brevet Lieutenant Colonel May 12, 1$64, for gal- lantry and meritorious service in battle of Spottsylvania, Va., and Colonel Vol- unteers Oet. 19, 1864, for gallant and meritorious service during the eampaign before Richmond, Va .; retired from aet- ive service Oet. 15, 1898. Address, Water- Vliet Arsenal, West Troy, N. Y.
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