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=Ide, George Barton.= _Vt._, 1804-1872. A Baptist clergyman, of Springfield, Massachusetts. Green Hollow; Bible Echoes, or Lessons from the War; The Power of Kindness, a juvenile tale; Bible Pictures.

=Ilsley, Charles Parker.= _Me._, 1807-1887. A writer whose home was in Portland, Maine, till 1866. The Island Fête, a poem; The Liberty Pole, a tale of Machias; Forest and Shore, subsequently published as The Wrecker’s Daughter.

=Ingalls, Joshua King.= 18-- - ----. Social Wealth; Economic Equities.

=Ingalls, William.= _Ms._, 1769-1851. A physician who was professor of anatomy at Brown University, 1811-23, and author of a treatise on Malignant Fevers.

=Ingersoll, Charles Jared.= _Pa._, 1782-1862. A political writer and statesman of Philadelphia who filled several diplomatic positions abroad. History of the War of 1812-15; Chiomara, a Poem; Edwy and Elgiva, a Tragedy; Inchiquin, the Jesuit’s Letters in American Literature and Politics; Recollections, etc., a volume of personal reminiscences. _See Duyckinck’s American Literature; Life by W. M. Meigs, 1897._

=Ingersoll, Edward.= _Pa._, 1817-1893. Son of C. J. Ingersoll, _supra_. History and Law of Habeas Corpus and Grand Juries; Personal Liberty and Martial Law.

=Ingersoll, Ernest.= _Mch._, 1852- ----. A naturalist of New York city whose writing is mainly for young people and of a popular character. Friends Worth Knowing; Natural History of Insects; Knocking Around the Rockies; Nests and Eggs of American Birds; The Crest of the Continent; Strange Adventures of a Stowaway; Down East Latch Strings; The Ice Queen, a story; Birds’-Nesting; Country Cousins, or Short Studies in Natural History; Old Ocean; To the Shenandoah and Beyond; Habits of Animals. _Har. Lo. Mer. Wn._

=Ingersoll, Luther Dunham.= 18-- - ----. The librarian of the War Department at Washington. Iowa and the Rebellion; Life of Horace Greeley; History of the War Department.

=Ingersoll, Joseph Reed.= _Pa._, 1786-1868. Brother of C. J. Ingersoll, _supra_. A lawyer of Philadelphia who was minister to England in 1852. Secession a Folly and a Crime; Memoir of Samuel Breck.

=Ingersoll, Robert Green.= _N. Y._, 1833-1899. A noted lawyer and politician of Peoria, Illinois, and more recently of New York city, famous also as a lecturer and writer strongly opposed to the Christian religion. The Gods; Ghosts; Some Mistakes of Moses; Complete Lectures; Prose Poems. _Ban._

=Inglehart, Mrs. Frances [Chambers] [Gooch].= _Mi._, 1851- ----. A writer of Austin, Texas, author of Face to Face with the Mexicans. _Fo._

=Inglis, David.= _S._, 1825-1877. A Presbyterian clergyman of Brooklyn who published Systematic Theology in Relation to Modern Thought.

=Ingraham, Edward Duncan.= _Pa._, 1793-1854. A lawyer of Philadelphia. English Ecclesiastical Reports; A View of the Insolvent Laws of Pennsylvania.

=Ingraham, Joseph Holt.= _Me._, 1809-1866. An Episcopal clergyman of Holly Springs, Mississippi. In the earlier portion of his career he wrote a number of wildly sensational romances, among them Lafitte: the Pirate of the Gulf; Captain Kyd; The Dancing Feather, all of which were very popular and quite worthless as literature. The Southwest, by a Yankee, was another work of this period. He entered the Episcopal ministry in 1855, and afterwards wrote three religious romances as popular as the others and almost as valueless. They are, The Prince of the House of David; The Pillar of Fire; The Throne of David. _Rob._

=Innsley, Owen.= _See Jennison, Lucia._

=Inskip, John Swannell.= _E._, 1816-1884. A Methodist clergyman who was a noted camp-meeting conductor. Life of Rev. William Summers; Methodism Explained and Defended; Remarkable Display of the Mercy of God.

=Iredell, James.= _N. C._, 1788-1853. A lawyer of Raleigh who was governor of North Carolina, 1827. Laws of North Carolina; North Carolina Reports; Equity Reports; Law of Executors; Digest of Reported Cases.

=Ireland, Joseph Norton.= _N. Y._, 1817-1898. A merchant of New York city. Records of the New York Stage, 1750-1860; Memories of Mrs. Duff; Professional Life of Thomas Cooper.

=Irving, John Treat.= _N. Y._, 1812- ----. Nephew of Washington Irving, _infra_. A lawyer of New York city. Indian Sketches; Hawk Chief; The Attorney; Harry Harson; The Van Gelder Papers. _Put._

=Irving, Peter.= _N. Y._, 1771-1838. Brother of Washington Irving, _infra_. A journalist of New York city, who published Giovanni Sbogarra, a Venetian Tale.

=Irving, Pierre Munroe.= _N. Y._, 1803-1876. Son of William Irving, _infra_, and the author of a Life of Washington Irving. _Put._

=Irving, Roland Duer.= _N. Y._, 1847-1888. A professor of geology in the University of Wisconsin from 1870. Geology of Central Wisconsin; Geology of Lake Superior; Copper-Bearing Rocks of Lake Superior, are among his writings.

=Irving, Theodore.= _N. Y._, 1809-1880. Nephew of Washington Irving, the son of his brother Ebenezer. An Episcopal clergyman and educator. The Fountain of Living Waters; Tiny Footfalls; More than Conqueror; The History of De Soto’s Conquest of Florida. _Put. Ran._

=Irving, Washington.= _N. Y._, 1783-1859. The most popular of the earlier American writers of the 19th century. He was born in New York city, and his earliest work was Salmagundi, written with his brother William and J. K. Paulding, _infra_. Diedrich Knickerbocker’s History of New York, his next work, and the one by which he will be longest remembered, appeared in 1809. Irving spent the years from 1815 to 1832 abroad, a portion of the time as secretary of the United States Legation at London, and from 1842 to 1846 as minister to Spain. The rest of his life was spent at his home in Tarrytown on the Hudson. His writings not already named include, The Sketch Book; Bracebridge Hall; Tales of a Traveller; Life and Voyages of Columbus; Conquest of Grenada; The Companions of Columbus; The Alhambra; Crayon Miscellanies; Astoria; Adventures of Captain Bonneville; Life of Oliver Goldsmith; Mahomet and his Successors; Wolfert’s Roost; Life of Washington; Spanish Papers. _See Life and Letters of, by Pierre Irving; Atlantic Monthly, November, 1860, and June, 1864; Haweis’s American Humourists; Irvingiana; Life by C. D. Warner; Allibone’s Dictionary; Appleton’s American Biography; Nichol’s American Literature; The Bookman, February, 1897._ _Cr. Har. Kt. Lip. Mac. Put._

=Irving, William.= _N. Y._, 1766-1821. Brother of Washington Irving, _supra_. A merchant of New York city who was in Congress, 1814-18. He was author of the poetical portion of Salmagundi.

=Ives, Levi Silliman.= _Ct._, 1797-1867. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of North Carolina, consecrated in 1832 and deposed in 1853, he having become a Roman Catholic at the close of 1852. After that period he lectured in convents of the Sacred Heart. Trials of a Mind in its Progress to Catholicism; The Obedience of Faith; Manual of Devotion; Humility a Ministerial Qualification.

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=Jackson, Abraham Reeves.= _Pa._, 1827- ----. A noted surgeon of Chicago, who has published many valuable professional papers.

=Jackson, Abraham Willard.= _Me._, 1842- ----. A Unitarian clergyman who was formerly a pastor in New Hampshire and California, but has since devoted himself to study and literary work at Concord, Massachusetts. The Immanent God, and Other Essays; James Martineau. _Hou. Lit._

=Jackson, Charles.= _Ms._, 1775-1855. A jurist of Boston who published a valued Treatise on Real Actions.

=Jackson, Charles Davis.= _Ms._, 1811-1871. An Episcopal clergyman of Westchester, New York. Suffering Here and Glory Hereafter; Popular Education; Relation of Education to Crime. _Ran._

=Jackson, Charles Thomas.= _Ms._, 1805-1880. A Boston scientist whose laboratory for research in analytical chemistry was the first of its kind in the United States. Report on the Geology of Maine; Mineral Lands in Michigan; Manual of Etherization.

=Jackson, Edward Payson.= _Ty._, 1840- ----. An educator of Boston, master in the Latin School from 1877. Mathematic Geography; A Demigod, a novel; The Earth in Space; Character Building. _Har. Hou._

=Jackson, Francis.= _Ms._, 1789-1861. A once prominent reformer who was president of the Anti-Slavery Society for many years, and published a History of Newton, Massachusetts (his home), from 1639 to 1800.

=Jackson, George Anson.= _Ms._, 1846- ----. A Congregational clergyman of Swampscott, Massachusetts. The Son of a Prophet, an historical novel; Apostolic Fathers; Fathers of the Second Century; Post-Nicene Greek Fathers; Post-Nicene Latin Fathers, four works which form a series of early Christian literature primers. _Hou._

=Jackson, George Thomas.= _N. Y._, 1852- ----. A noted dermatologist of New York city. Diseases of the Hair and Scalp; Baldness; Handbook of Diseases of the Skin.

=Jackson, Mrs. Helen Maria [Fiske] [Hunt].= “H. H.” _Ms._, 1831-1885. A novelist and poet whose greatest achievement is Ramona, a powerful romance of Indian life in southern California. To her is usually attributed the authorship of the “Saxe Holm” stories. Her other works include, Verses; Bits of Travel; Bits of Talk; A Century of Dishonor; Bits of Talk in Verse and Prose; Bits of Travel at Home; The Story of Boon, a Poem; Sonnets and Lyrics; Nelly’s Silver Mine; Cat Stories; Mercy Philbrick’s Choice; Hetty’s Strange History; Zeph; Glimpses of Three Coasts; Between Whiles, a collection of short stories; The Procession of Flowers in Colorado; Condition and Needs of the Mission Indians of California (with K. Abbot). _See Allibone’s Dictionary, Supplement._ _Kt. Rob._

=Jackson, Henry Rootes.= _Ga._, 1820-1898. A Georgia jurist who was minister to Austria, 1854-58, and to Mexico 1885-86. During the Civil War he was a general in the Confederate army. Tallulah, and Other Poems, was published in 1850. _See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America._

=Jackson, Isaac Wilber.= _N. Y._, 1805-1877. An educator who was professor of mathematics in Union College from 1826, and did much toward developing the arts of landscape gardening and horticulture. Elements of Conic Sections; Treatise on Optics.

=Jackson, James.= _Ms._, 1777-1867. Son of C. Jackson, _supra_. The first physician of the Massachusetts General Hospital at Boston, and professor of medicine at Harvard University from 1810 until his death. On the Brunonian System; Medical Effects of Dentition; Syllabus of Lectures; Text-Book of Lectures; Letters to a Young Physician.

=Jackson, James Caleb.= _N. Y._, 1811-1895. The founder of a popular hydropathic institution at Dansville, New York, called “Our Home.” Hints on the Reproductive Organs; The Sexual Organism and its Healthful Management; Consumption; Tobacco and its Effect; How to Treat the Sick without Medicine; Dancing, its Evils and Benefits; American Womanhood; Training of Children; Debilities of Our Boys; Christ as a Physician; Morning Watches.

=Jackson, Sheldon.= _N. Y._, 1834- ----. A Presbyterian missionary, government general agent of education in Alaska since 1885. Alaska and Missions on the North Pacific Coast; Education in Alaska. _Do._

=Jacobi= [yä-kō´bē], =Abraham.= _Wa._, 1830- ----. A New York city physician, professor in the College of Physicians since 1870. Dentition and its Derangements; Infant Hygiene; Diphtheria; Pathology of the Thymus Gland; Therapeutics of Infancy and Childhood; Contributions to Midwifery (with E. Noeggereth); Infant Diet. _Lip. Put._

=Jacobi, Mrs. Mary [Putnam].= _E._, 1842- ----. Wife of A. Jacobi, _supra_, and daughter of George P. Putnam, a noted publisher of New York, _infra_. A physician of prominence in New York city, and the first woman to enter and graduate from the Ecole de Médecine in Paris. The Value of Life; Cold Pack and Anæmia; Hysteria, and Other Essays; The Martyr to Science; Studies in Primary Education; Common Sense Applied to Woman Suffrage; Manual of Nursing; Found and Lost. _Put._

=Jacobs, Henry Eyster.= _Pa._, 1844- ----. Son of M. Jacobs, _infra_. A Lutheran clergyman of Philadelphia, professor in the Lutheran Seminary from 1883, and editor of the Lutheran Review from 1882. The Lutheran Movement in England; The Lutherans; several translations of religious works from the German; History of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United States. _Fu._

=Jacobs, John Adamson.= _Va._, 1806-1869. An educator who was forty-five years superintendent of the deaf and dumb institution at Danville, Kentucky, his nephew of the same name succeeding him at his death. He published Primary Lessons for Deaf Mutes.

=Jacobs, Michael.= _Pa._, 1808-1871. An educator who was professor in Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg, 1852-1871, and published Notes on the Rebel Invasion and the Battle of Gettysburg.

=Jacobs, Michael William.= _Pa._, 1850- ----. Son of M. Jacobs, _supra_. A lawyer of Harrisburg, and the author of a Treatise on the Law of Domicile. _Lit._

=Jacobs, Sarah Sprague.= _R. I._, 1813- ----. A writer of Cambridge. Nonantum and Natick, a juvenile giving an account of the labours of John Eliot among the New England Indians; White Oak and its Neighbors.

=Jacobus, Melancthon Williams.= _N. J._, 1816-1876. A Presbyterian clergyman of Brooklyn and Pittsburg, professor of Oriental literature in the theological seminary at Allegheny City, 1851-76. Letters on the Public School Question; Notes on the New Testament, a very popular work; Notes on Genesis.

=Jacoby, Ludwig Sigismund.= _Mg._, 1811-1874. A Methodist clergyman of German birth who as general foreign agent of the Methodist church resided at Bremen, 1849-72. On his return to the United States he lived in St. Louis. Geschichte des Methodismus; Letzte Stunden; Kurzer Inbegriff der christlichen Glaubenlehre; Biblische Hand-Concordanz.

=Jacques, Daniel Harrison.= _Circa_ 1825-1877. A Southern physician who edited The Rural Carolinian. Hints about Physical Perfection; The Garden; The Farm; The Barnyard; The House; Florida as a Permanent Home; How to Grow Handsome; The Temperaments; How to Behave; How to Talk.

=James, Edmund Janes.= _Il._, 1855- ----. An educator well known as a political economist, since 1883 professor in the Wharton School of Finance in the University of Pennsylvania. Studien über den amerikanischen Zolltarif; Our Legal Tender Decisions; The Education of Business Men; The Relation of the Modern Municipality to the Gas Supply; with several translations from the German, comprise his more important works.

=James, Edwin.= _Vt._, 1797-1861. A geologist and botanist whose later years were spent in Burlington, Iowa. Expedition from Pittsburg to the Rocky Mountains, 1818-19; Narrative of John Tanner; a translation of the New Testament into the Ojibway language.

=James, Henry.= _N. Y._, 1811-1882. A Swedenborgian writer of Cambridge who was a thinker of marked spirituality and originality. Spiritual Creation, which he did not live to complete, affords the best example of his felicitous style and matured thought. His other works include, Society the Redeemed Form of Man; Remarks on the Gospels; Moralism and Christianity; The Nature of Evil; Substance and Shadow; The Secret of Swedenborg; What Is the State?; The Church of Christ; Christianity the Lyric of Creation; Literary Remains, edited by W. James, _infra_. _Hou._

=James, Henry.= _N. Y._, 1843- ----. Son of H. James, _supra_. A novelist and critic who since 1869 has resided in Europe, and mainly in London. He has been a prolific writer whose works have been much discussed by critics and general readers. In fiction his writings include, Roderick Hudson; The American; The Europeans; A Passionate Pilgrim, and Other Tales; Confidence; Washington Square; The Portrait of a Lady; Watch and Ward; Daisy Miller; An International Episode; The Siege of London; The Author of Beltraffio, and Other Tales; The Bostonians; The Princess Casamassima; The Reverberator; The Aspern Papers, and Other Stories; A London Life; The Tragic Muse; The Lesson of the Master, and Other Tales; The Spoils of Poynton; What Maisie Knew; The Other House; The Private Life; The Wheel of Time; Terminations; Embarrassments; Theatricals, two comedies; The Real Thing, and Other Tales; Tales of Three Cities. Other works by Mr. James are, Transatlantic Sketches; French Poets and Novelists; Portraits of Places; Life of Hawthorne; The Madonna of the Future; A Little Tour in France; Picture and Text; Essays in London; Partial Portraits. _See Hazeltine’s Chats About Books; Allibone’s Dictionary, Supplement; Vedder’s American Writers._ _Har. Hou. Mac. S._

=James, Henry Ammon.= _Md._, 1854- ----. A lawyer of New York city who has published Communism in America.

=James, William.= _N. Y._, 1842- ----. Son of H. James, 1st, _supra_. Professor of psychology at Harvard University. Principles of Psychology; Psychology, a briefer study of the subject; The Will to Believe, and Other Essays. _Ho. Lgs._

=Jameson, John Alexander.= _Vt._, 1824-1890. A jurist of Chicago, for many years an assistant editor of The American Law Register. The Constitutional Convention, its History, Power, and Modes of Proceeding.

=Jameson, John Franklin.= _Ms._, 1859- ----. A professor of history in Brown University. William Usselinx, Founder of the Dutch and Swedish West India Companies; The History of Historical Writing in America; Dictionary of United States History. _Hou._

=Jamison, Mrs. Cecile Viets [Hamilton].= _N. S._, 1848- ----. The Story of an Enthusiast; Toinette’s Philip; Lady Jane; Seraph, the Little Violiniste. _Cent. Hou. We._

=Janes, Edwin Lines.= _Ms._, 1807-1875. A Methodist clergyman. Wesley his Own Historian; Character and Career of Bishop Asbury; Memento of Edward Payson. _Meth._

=Janes, Lewis George.= _R. I._, 1844-1901. A lecturer of Brooklyn, for twelve years president of the Brooklyn Ethical Association. A Study of Primitive Culture; Samuell Gorton, a Forgotten Founder of Our Liberties. _Pr._

=Janeway, Jacob Jones.= _N. Y._, 1774-1858. A Presbyterian clergyman who held pastorates in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and was engaged in general mission work. Exposition of the Acts, Romans, and Hebrews; Internal Evidences of the Holy Bible; Unlawful Marriage; Review of Dr. Schaff on Protestantism; The Abrahamic Covenant. _See Memoir by T. L. Janeway._

=Janney, Samuel Macpherson.= _Va._, 1801-1880. A preacher among the Hicksite Friends who in 1869 was appointed one of the government superintendents of Indian affairs. Lives of William Penn and George Fox; Conversations on Religious Subjects; The Last of the Lenape, and Other Poems; Historical Sketch of the Christian Church; Summary of Christian Doctrines Held by Friends; Peace Principles Exemplified in the Early History of Pennsylvania; History of the Religious Society of Friends from its Rise to 1828.

=Janvier, Francis de Haes.= _Pa._, 1817-1885. Cousin of T. A. Janvier, _infra_. The Skeleton Monk, and Other Poems; The Sleeping Sentinel (verse); Patriotic Poems. _Lip._

=Janvier, Margaret Thomson.= “Margaret Vandegrift.” _La._, 1845- ----. Sister of T. A. Janvier, _infra_. A Philadelphia writer of children’s books, among which are, Clover Bank; Under the Dog Star; Little Helpers; A Dead Doll, and Other Verses. _Hou._

=Janvier, Thomas Allibone.= _Pa._, 1849- ----. A journalist and littérateur of Philadelphia, and subsequently of New York. An Embassy to Provence, a volume of travel; Color Studies: Four Stories; The Mexican Guide; Stories of Old New Spain; The Aztec Treasure House, a Romance; The Uncle of an Angel, and Other Stories; In Old New York. _Ap. Cent. Har. Scr._

=Jarves, James Jackson.= _Ms._, 1820-1888. An art connoisseur who lived in Hawaii, 1838-49, and subsequently for many years in Florence. Why and What Am I?; Art Studies; History of the Sandwich Islands (1843); Scenes and Scenery in the Sandwich Islands; Parisian Sights and French Principles; Italian Sights and Papal Principles; Kiana, a Tradition of Hawaii; A Glimpse at the Art of Japan; Art Hints; The Art Idea; Art Thoughts; Italian Rambles; Pepero, the Boy Artist. _Har. Hou._

=Jarvis, Edward.= _Ms._, 1803-1884. A once prominent physician of Dorchester, Massachusetts. Physiology and Health; Elementary Physiology; Condition of the Insane and Idiots in Massachusetts, are his more important publications.

=Jarvis, Samuel Farmar.= _Ct._, 1786-1851. An Episcopal clergyman of Connecticut. Sermons on Prophecy; No Union with Rome; Chronological Introduction to the History of the Church; The Religion of the Indian Tribes of North America.

=Jay, Sir James.= _N. Y._, 1732-1815. An elder brother of J. Jay, _infra_. A physician of New York city who was knighted by George III., and who published Reflections and Observations on Gout.

=Jay, John.= _N. Y._, 1745-1829. A famous New York statesman who was one of the authors of The Federalist. Of his state papers, the Address to the People of Great Britain is the most celebrated. His Correspondence and State Papers, edited by H. P. Johnston, appeared 1890-93. _See Lives by Wm. Jay, infra; Pellew; Appleton’s American Biography._ _Put._

=Jay, John.= _N. Y._, 1817-1894. Son of W. Jay, _infra_. A lawyer and diplomat of New York who was minister to Austria, 1869-75, and a prominent opponent of slavery. Dignity of the Abolition Cause; Caste and Slavery in the American Church; America Free or America Slave, are some of his political and other pamphlets.

=Jay, William.= _N. Y._, 1789-1858. Son of J. Jay, _supra_. A philanthropist of New York city who was strongly opposed to slavery. Life of John Jay; War and Peace; Causes and Consequences of the Mexican War.

=Jay, W. M. L.= _See Woodruff._

=Jeffers, William Nicholson.= _N. J._, 1824-1883. A United States naval officer who became a commodore in 1878. Short Methods in Navigation; Theory and Practice of Naval Gunnery; Inspection and Proof of Cannon; Ordnance Instruction for the United States Navy.

=Jefferson, Joseph.= _Pa._, 1829- ----. A famous actor of New York city who has published an entertaining Autobiography. He is the author of the famous play, Rip Van Winkle, in which he has long been identified with the leading rôle. _Cent. Do._

=Jefferson, Thomas.= _Va._, 1743-1826. The third president of the United States. A statesman whose literary monument is the world-famous Declaration of Independence. Other writings of his are, Notes on Virginia; Rights of British America; Manual of Parliamentary Practice. A ten-volume edition of his works was published in 1892. _See Lives by Linn, 1834; Rayner, 1834; Tucker, 1837; Dwight, 1839; Randall, 1858; Parton, 1874; J. T. Morse, 1883; Domestic Life of, by Randolph, 1871; Edinburgh Review, July, 1830, and October, 1837; North American Review, April, 1830, and January, 1835; Allibone’s Dictionary; Jefferson at Monticello; Appleton’s American Biography; Henry Adams’s History of the Administration of Jefferson._ _Put._

=Jeffrey, Mrs. Rosa Vertner [Griffith] [Johnson].= _Mi._, 1826-1894. A verse-writer of Lexington, Kentucky. Poems by Rosa; Florence Vale; The Crimson Hand, and Other Poems; Marah, a Novel; Woodburn, a Novel. _Lip._

=Jeffries, Benjamin Joy.= _Ms._, 1833- ----. A prominent physician of Boston. Color Blindness: its Dangers and its Detection; The Eye in Health and Disease; Diseases of the Skin.

=Jenkins, John Stilwell.= _N. Y._, 1818-1852. A lawyer and journalist of Weedsport, New York. The Heroines of History; Lives of the Governors of New York; Lives of Jackson, Polk, and Calhoun; Political History of New York; History of the Mexican War; Generals of the Last War with Great Britain; Life of Silas Wright, include the larger part of his writings. _Co._

=Jenks, Jeremiah Whipple.= _Mch._, 1856- ----. An educator, since 1891 professor of political, municipal, and social institutions at Cornell University. Henry C. Carey als National-ökonom; Road Legislation for the American State.

=Jenks, John Whipple Potter.= _Ms._, 1819-1894. A naturalist who was director of the museum of natural history at Brown University, 1872-94, and professor of agriculture and zoölogy there, 1875-94. Hunting in Florida; Jenks and Steele’s Zoölogy.

=Jenks, William.= _Ms._, 1778-1866. A once prominent Congregational clergyman of Boston who founded the American Oriental Society. Commentary on the Bible, long a popular work; Bible Atlas and Scripture Gazetteer.

=Jenness, John Scribner.= _N. H._, 1827-1879. A lawyer of New York city. The Isles of Shoals, an Historical Sketch; The First Planting of New Hampshire. He edited Transcripts of Original Documents relating to the Early History of New Hampshire.

=Jennison, Lucy White.= “Owen Innsley.” _Ms._, 1850- ----. A verse-writer who has lived mainly in Europe. Love Poems and Sonnets.

=Jervey, Mrs. Caroline Howard [Gilman] [Glover].= _S. C._, 1823-1877. Daughter of S. Gilman, _supra_. A writer of fiction and verse. Vernon Grove; Helen Courtenay’s Promise.

=Jervis, John Bloomfield.= _N. Y._, 1795-1885. A civil engineer of New York who designed many important works, such as the Croton Dam and High Bridge. Railway Property; Labor and Capital. _Bai._

=Jessup, Henry Harris.= _Pa._, 1832- ----. A Presbyterian missionary in Syria from 1856. The Women of the Arabs; The Children of the East; The Greek Church and Protestant Missions; Syrian Home Life, include his most important works. _Do._

=Jeter, Jeremiah Bell.= _Va._, 1802-1880. A Baptist clergyman prominent in the South as a preacher and controversialist. Among his writings are, Campbellism Examined; Campbellism Re-Examined; The Seal of Heaven; The Christian Mirror; Recollections of a Long Life. _See Life by W. E. Hatcher._

=Jewett, Charles Coffin.= _Me._, 1816-1868. A bibliographer who was the first superintendent of the Boston Public Library. Facts and Considerations Relative to Duties on Books; Notices of Public Libraries in the United States; Construction of Catalogues.

=Jewett, George Baker.= _Me._, 1818-1880. Brother of C. C. Jewett, _supra_. A New England educator whose principal works were Baptism versus Immersion; Critique on the Greek Text of the New Testament.

=Jewett, Milo Parker.= _Vt._, 1808-1882. An educator who was the first president of Vassar College. Baptism; The Relation of Boards of Health and Intemperance.

=Jewett, Sarah Orne.= _Me._, 1849- ----. A popular writer of quiet fiction whose life has been passed mainly at her birthplace in South Berwick, Maine, and in Boston. Her painstaking, accurate studies of phases of rural New England life and character have received much well-deserved praise. Old Friends and New; Play-Days; Country By-Ways; Deephaven; The Mate of the Daylight, and Friends Ashore; A Country Doctor; A Marsh Island; A White Heron, and Other Stories; The Story of the Normans, an historical work; The King of Folly Island, and Other People; Betty Leicester, a Story for Girls; Strangers and Wayfarers; A Native of Winby, and Other Tales; The Life of Nancy; The Country of the Pointed Firs. _See Bibliography of Maine._ _Hou. Put._

=Johnson, Alexander Bryan.= _E._, 1786-1867. A prominent banker of Utica for nearly half a century. Treatise on Banking; The Philosophy of Human Knowledge; Religion in its Relations to the Present Life; The Physiology of the Senses; The Meaning of Words; Nature and Value of Capital; Encyclopædia of Instruction; Guide to the Right Understanding of Our American Union.

=Johnson, Barton W----.= _Il._, 1833-1894. A Campbellite minister and educator of Iowa. The Vision of the Ages; Commentary on John; The People’s New Testament; Young Folks in Bible Lands.

=Johnson, Benjamin F., of Boone.= _See Riley, James Whitcomb._

=Johnson, Charles Frederick.= _N. Y._, 1836- ----. A professor of English literature in Trinity College. English Words, an Elementary Study of Derivations; Three Americans and Three Englishmen, lectures. _Har._

=Johnson, Clifton.= _Ms._, 1865- ----. A writer and illustrator of Hadley, Massachusetts, best known by his photographic illustrations to White’s Selborne and other books. What They Say in New England; A Book of Country Clouds and Sunshine; The Country School in New England; The Farmer’s Boy; The New England Country; The Isle of the Shamrock. _Ap. Le._

=Johnson, Edward.= _E._, 1600-1682. The principal founder of Woburn, Massachusetts, in 1640, and a prominent citizen of that town for the rest of his life. The Wonder-Working Providence of Zion’s Saviour in New England is a valuable account of New England “from the English planting in 1628 till 1652.” An edition, with Introduction and Notes by W. F. Poole, _infra_, appeared in 1867. _See Tyler’s American Literature; Bibliography of Rhode Island._

=Johnson, Edwin A----.= _N. Y._, 1829- ----. A Methodist clergyman. Half-Hour Studies of Life; The Live Boy, or Charley’s Letters; Winter Greeneries at Home; The Lilyvale Club and its Doings. _Meth._

=Johnson, Francis Howe.= _Ms._, 1835- ----. A Congregational clergyman in Andover, Massachusetts. What is Reality? an Inquiry as to the Reasonableness of Natural Religion, and the Naturalness of Revealed Religion. _Hou._

=Johnson, Frank Grant.= _Ct._, 1835- ----. A physician and inventor of Brooklyn. The Water Metre and the Actual Measurement System; The Nicholson and Other Pavements; Health Lifts; Infected Air and Disinfectants.

=Johnson, Franklin.= 1836- ----. A Baptist clergyman, professor in Chicago University, and previously pastor of a church in Cambridge. Quotations of the New Testament from the Old; True Womanhood; The New Psychic Studies in their Relation to Christian Thought; Heine’s Lyrical Interludes, with introduction and notes; Dies Irae, and Stabat Mater, with introduction and notes. _Bap. Fu. Lo._

=Johnson, Mrs. Helen [Kendrick].= _N. Y._, 1843- ----. Wife of Rossiter Johnson, _infra_, and daughter of A. C. Kendrick, _infra_. She has edited Our Familiar Songs; Tears for the Little Ones; The Nutshell Series, and other works; and has written Raleigh Westgate, or Epimenides in Maine; The Roddy Books; Woman and the Republic. _Ap. Ho. Hou. Put._

=Johnson, Herrick.= _N. Y._, 1832- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman of Chicago, professor in McCormick Theological Seminary from 1880. Christianity’s Challenge; Plain Talks about Theatres; Forms for Special Occasions; Revivals. _Rev._

=Johnson, John Butler.= _O._, 1850-1902. A professor of civil engineering in Washington University, at St. Louis, from 1883. Theory and Practice of Surveying; Modern Framed Structures; Stadia and Earth-Work Tables. _Wil._

=Johnson, Mrs. Laura [Winthrop].= _Ct._, 1825-18--. Sister of Theodore Winthrop, _infra_. A writer of New York city. Little Blossom’s Reward; Poems of Twenty Years; Eight Hundred Miles in an Ambulance. _Lip._

=Johnson, Oliver.= _Vt._, 1809-1889. An editor and lecturer of New York city, successively managing editor of The Independent, editor of the Weekly Tribune, and editor of the Christian Union. William Lloyd Garrison and his Times. _Hou._

=Johnson, Richard W.= _Ky._, 1827-1897. A brigadier-general in the Federal army during the Civil War, brevetted major-general. A Soldier’s Reminiscences in Peace and War; Life of Major-General George H. Thomas.

=Johnson, Robert Underwood.= _D. C._, 1853- ----. A New York writer on the editorial staff of The Century Magazine from 1873. The Winter Hour and Other Poems. _Cent._

=Johnson, Mrs. Rosa V.= _See Jeffrey, Mrs._

=Johnson, Rossiter.= _N. Y._, 1840- ----. A writer of New York city who edited Appletons’ Annual Cyclopædia 1883-1902, and also edited Famous Single Poems; Play-day Poems; Little Classics; The Authorized History of the World’s Columbian Exposition, and other works. His original writings include, Phaëton Rogers, a Novel of Boy Life; History of the French War, Ending in the Conquest of Canada; History of the War of 1812-15; A Short History of the War of Secession, enlarged as Campfire and Battlefield; The End of a Rainbow, an American Story; Idler and Poet (verse); Three Decades (verse). _Ap. Do. Ho. Hou. Scr._

=Johnson, Samuel.= _Ct._, 1696-1772. An Episcopal clergyman of Stratford, Connecticut, who was president of Columbia (then Kings) College, 1753-63. A System of Morality, republished by Franklin as Elementa Philosophia; English and Hebrew Grammar. An influential writer in his day. _See Life and Correspondence by E. E. Beardsley; Life by T. B. Chandler, 1805._

=Johnson, Samuel.= _Ms._, 1822-1882. A Unitarian clergyman of radical views, pastor of an independent church in Lynn for many years. Oriental Religions; Lectures, Essays, and Sermons; The Worship of Jesus in its Past and Present Aspect. _See Memoir by S. Longfellow, infra._ _Hou._

=Johnson, Samuel William.= _N. Y._, 1830- ----. A professor of chemistry in Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University from 1856. Essays on Manures; Peat and Its Uses; How Crops Feed; Chemical Notation and Nomenclature, and several translations of German scientific works. _Wil._

=Johnson, Mrs. Sarah [Barclay].= _Va._, 1837-1885. Daughter of J. T. Barclay, _supra_. She lived for many years in Syria, where her husband was consul-general. The Hadji in Syria was her only published work.

=Johnson, Thomas Cary.= _W. Va._, 1859- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor of ecclesiastical polity in Union Seminary, Virginia, from 1892. The History of the Southern Presbyterian Church.

=Johnson, Virginia Wales.= _L. I._, 1847- ----. A novelist who has resided in Europe since 1875, and mainly in Italy. The Neptune Vase is her finest effort. Her other works comprise, Joseph the Jew; A Sack of Gold; The Calderwood Secret; Two Old Cats; Miss Nancy’s Pilgrimage; A Foreign Marriage; An English Daisy Miller; The House of the Musician; Tulip Place; The Fainalls of Tipton; America’s Godfather. _Est. Har. Hou. Scr._

=Johnson, Walter Rogers.= _Ms._, 1794-1852. A once prominent chemist of Boston and elsewhere. The Use of Anthracite; Report on Coals; Coal Trade of British America; Natural Philosophy; Memoir of L. D. von Schweinitz, _infra_.

=Johnston, Alexander.= _L. I._, 1849-1889. A professor of political economy at Princeton College, 1883-89. The Genesis of a New England State; History of the United States for Schools; The United States, its History and Constitution; History of Connecticut; History of American Politics. _Ho. Hou. Scr._

=Johnston, Henry Phelps.= 1842- ----. A professor of history in the College of the City of New York. Loyalist History of the Revolution; The Campaign of 1776 around New York; The Yorktown Campaign; Yale and her Honor Roll in the American Revolution; Observations on Judge Jones. _Har._

=Johnston, John.= _Me._, 1806-1879. An educator who was for many 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._

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=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._

=King, Charles.= _N. Y._, 1844- ----. A United States army officer, retired in 1879 with the rank of captain, whose military novels and other works have been very popular. Among his many publications are, Famous and Decisive Battles; Between the Lines; Campaigning with Crook; Stories of Army Life; Cadet Days; The Colonel’s Daughter; The Deserter; A War Time Wooing; Kitty’s Conquest; Under Fire; Waring’s Peril; Foes in Ambush; Fort Frayne; Noble Blood. _See Bibliography of Wisconsin._ _Har. Lip. Ne._

=King, Clarence.= _R. I._, 1842-1901. A geologist for a number of years in the government service. Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada; Systematic Geology.

=King, Dan.= _Ct._, 1791-1864. A Rhode Island physician. Life and Times of Governor Dorr; Quackery Unmasked; Tobacco: What it Is and What it Does.

=King, David Bennett.= _Pa._, 1848- ----. A lawyer of New York city. Latin Pronunciation; The Irish Question. _Scr._

=King, Edward.= _Ms._, 1848-1896. A journalist who lived in Paris as correspondent for American journals. The Gentle Savage; The Golden Spike; French Leaders; My Paris, or French Character Sketches; Kentucky’s Love; The Great South; Echoes from the Orient, a volume of poems; Europe in Storm and Calm; A Venetian Lover, a Poem; Joseph Zalmonah; Under the Red Flag. _Co. Hou. Le._

=King, Grace Elizabeth.= _La._, 1859- ----. A popular writer of New Orleans. Monsieur Motte; Tales of a Time and Place; Earthlings; New Orleans, the Place and the People; Jean Baptiste Lemoine, Founder of New Orleans; Balcony Stories. _Cent. Do. Har. Mac._

=King, Henry Melville.= _Mo._, 1838- ----. A Baptist clergyman. Early Baptists Defended; Mary’s Alabaster Box, a collection of homilies; Our Gospels. _Bap._

=King, Horatio.= _Me._, 1811-1897. An attorney in Washington who was postmaster-general in 1861. Sketches of Travel, or Twelve Months in Europe; Turning on the Light, a Survey of the Administration of Buchanan. _Lip._

=King, Horatio Collins.= _Me._, 1837- ----. Son of H. King, _supra_. A journalist of New York city. Guide for Regimental Courts Martial; The Brooklyn Congregational Council; The Plymouth Silver Wedding.

=King, James Wilson.= _Md._, 1818- ----. A naval engineer, chief of the bureau of steam engineering, 1869-73. European Ships of War; The War Ships and Navies of the World.

=King, Jonas.= _Ms._, 1792-1869. A Congregational missionary in Greece who lived at Athens from 1831. He was a profound Oriental scholar, and his various works were written in Modern Greek, Classical Greek, French, and Arabic. The Defence of Jonas King; Exposition of an Apostolic Church; Hermeneutics of the Sacred Scriptures; Sermons; Synoptical View of Palestine; Miscellaneous Works. _See Life, 1879._

=King, Rufus.= _O._, 1817-1891. A prominent lawyer of Cincinnati. History of Ohio. _Hou._

=King, Mrs. Sue [Petigru].= _See Bowen, Mrs._

=King, Thomas Starr.= _N. Y._, 1824-1864. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston, 1845-56, and of San Francisco for the remainder of his life. He was largely instrumental in securing the wavering allegiance of California to the general government at the opening of the Civil War, and as a religious writer his influence was widely felt. Substance and Show; Christianity and Humanity, with a Memoir by E. P. Whipple; The White Hills, a volume of travel in the White Mountains; Patriotism, and Other Papers. _Hou._

=King, William Basil.= _P. E. I._, 1859- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of New York. The Daily Song: Thoughts on the Offices for Morning and Evening Prayer; Griselda, a novel. _S._

=King, William Rufus.= _N. Y._, 1839- ----. An engineering officer in the United States army. Torpedoes, their Invention and Use; Materials for Defensive Armor.

=Kingsley, Calvin.= _N. Y._, 1812-1870. A Methodist bishop. The Resurrection of the Dead; Round the World.

=Kinney, Coates.= _N. Y._, 1826- ----. An Ohio lawyer and journalist. Keuka, and Other Poems; Lyrics of the Real and Ideal. The Rain upon the Roof is his most familiar poem. _Clke._

=Kinney, Mrs. Elizabeth Clementine [Dodge] [Stedman].= _N. Y._, 1810-1889. Mother of E. C. Stedman, _infra_. A verse-writer of Newark, New Jersey, but resident in Italy, 1850-65. Felicitá; Poems; Bianca Capello: a Tragedy. _See Griswold’s Female Poets of America._

=Kinzie, Mrs. Juliette Augusta [Magill].= _Ct._, 1806-1870. A novelist of Chicago. Wau-bun, or the Early Day in the Northwest; Walter Ogilby; Mark Logan. _Lip._

=Kip, Leonard.= _N. Y._, 1826-1901. Brother of W. I. Kip, _infra_. A lawyer of Albany. California Sketches; The Volcano Diggings; Ænone, a Roman Tale; The Dead Marquise; Hannibal’s Man, and Other Tales; Under the Bells, a romance; Nestlenook, a novel; At Cobweb and Crusty’s; Thalöe; The Puntacooset Colony; Three Pines; A Tale of the Incredible.

=Kip, William Ingraham.= _N. Y._, 1811-1893. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of California, 1853-93. A popular religious writer whose works have gone into many editions. Double Witness of the Church; Lenten Fasts; Early Conflicts of Christianity; Christmas Holidays in Rome; Catacombs of Rome; Early Jesuit Missions in North America; Recantation, an Italian tale; The Unnoticed Things of Scripture; The Church of the Apostles; The Olden Time in New York. _Ap. Dut. Ran. Wh._

=Kirk, Edward Norris.= _N. Y._, 1802-1874. A Congregational clergyman of Boston, pastor of the Mount Vernon church, 1842-74. Sermons; The Parables of our Lord; Lectures on Revivals; Canon of the Holy Scripture; The Waiting Saviour; Christian Sympathy Awakened.

=Kirk, Eleanor.= _See Ames, Mrs. E._

=Kirk, Mrs. Ellen Warner [Olney].= “Henry Hayes.” _Ct._, 1842- ----. Wife of J. F. Kirk, _infra_. A popular novelist of Germantown, Philadelphia. Through Winding Ways; A Midsummer Madness; Walford; The Story of Margaret Kent; Sons and Daughters; Love in Idleness; A Lesson in Love; Fairy Gold; Queen Money; Better Times, short stories; A Daughter of Eve; Narden’s Choosing; Ciphers; The Story of Lawrence Garthe. _Hou._

=Kirk, John Foster.= _N. B._, 1824-1904. The secretary to the historian Prescott for eleven years, and from 1885 lecturer on European history at the University of Pennsylvania. History of Charles the Bold; Supplement, to Allibone’s Dictionary. _Lip._

=Kirkbride, Thomas Story.= _Pa._, 1809-1883. A physician of Philadelphia, widely known for skillful treatment of the insane, who was superintendent of the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, 1840-83. Appeal for the Insane; Essays on Insanity; Construction of Hospitals for the Insane.

=Kirke, Edmund.= _See Gilmore._

=Kirkland, Mrs. Caroline Matilda [Stansbury].= _N. Y._, 1801-1864. A once popular writer of New York city. A New Home, Who’ll Follow?; Western Clearings; Fireside Talks on Morals and Manners; Holidays Abroad; A Book for the Home Circle; Forest Life, include her principal writings. _See Hart’s American Literature._ _Cr. Scr._

=Kirkland, Elizabeth Stansbury.= _N. Y._, 1828-1896. Daughter of Mrs. Kirkland, _supra_. An educator of Chicago. Six Little Cooks; Dora’s Housekeeping; Speech and Manners for Home and School; Short Histories of English Literature, France, England, Italy, for Young People. _Mg._

=Kirkland, John Thornton.= _N. Y._, 1770-1840. A Unitarian clergyman who was president of Harvard University, 1810-27. Life of Fisher Ames; Eulogy of General Washington.

=Kirkland, Joseph.= _N. Y._, 1830-1894. Son of Mrs. Kirkland, _supra_. A lawyer of Chicago who was a major in the Federal army during the Civil War. His two novels of pioneer life in Illinois, Zury, and The McVeys, are notably faithful, graphic studies. His other writings include, The Captain of Company K; The Story of Chicago; Story of the Chicago Massacre of 1812. _Hou._

=Kirkman, Marshall Monroe.= _Il._, 1842- ----. The vice-president of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway. Railway Disbursements; Railway Revenue; Railway Service; Baggage Car Traffic; Railway Expenditures; Handling of Railway Supplies; Railway Rates and Government Control; How to Collect Railway Revenues without Loss.

=Kirkwood, Daniel.= _Md._, 1814-1895. An astronomer of distinction, professor in Indiana University from 1850. Meteoric Astronomy; Comets and Meteors; Asteroids and Minor Planets between Mars and Jupiter.

=Kirkwood, Robert.= _S._, 1793-1866. A Presbyterian clergyman of Yonkers. Lectures on the Millennium; Universalism Explained; A Plea for the Bible; Illustration of the Offices of Christ.

=Kirwan.= _See Murray, Nicholas._

=Klingle, George.= _See Holmes, Mrs. Georgiana._

=Knapp, Arthur May.= _Ms._, 1841- ----. A Unitarian clergyman, pastor at Fall River, Massachusetts, from 1891. Feudal and Modern Japan. _Kt._

=Knapp, Samuel Lorenzo.= _Ms._, 1783-1838. A lawyer of New York city, among whose many works are, The Genius of Freemasonry; Travels in North America by Ali Bey; American Biography; Lives of Aaron Burr, Andrew Jackson, Daniel Webster; Female Biography.

=Kneeland, Abner.= _Ms._, 1774-1844. A Universalist clergyman who became a free-thinker, and established The Investigator in Boston in 1832. The Deist; Universal Benevolence; Universal Salvation; Review of Evidences of Christianity.

=Kneeland, Samuel.= _Ms._, 1821-1888. A naturalist and surgeon of Boston. Science and Mechanism; An American in Iceland; The Wonders of the Yo Semite; Volcanoes and Earthquakes. _Lo._

=Knight, Edward Henry.= _E._, 1824-1883. An English writer who settled in the United States in 1845, and was long connected with the patent office in Washington. American Mechanical Dictionary; New Mechanical Dictionary. _Hou._

=Knight, James.= _Md._, 1810-1887. A physician of New York city. Improvement of Health by Natural Means; Orthopædia; Static Electricity as a Therapeutic Agent.

=Knight, Sarah Kemble.= _Ms._, 1666-1727. A teacher of Boston among whose pupils was Benjamin Franklin. Her Narrative of a Journey from Boston to New York in 1704 is a valuable historical record of contemporary manners and customs written in a graphic, entertaining style.

=Knortz, Karl.= _P._, 1841- ----. A German writer who came to the United States in 1863, and settled in New York city. Märchen und Sagen der nordamerikanische Indianer; Amerikanische Skizzen; An American Shakespeare Bibliography; Humorische Gedichte; Longfellow: eine literarhistorische Studie; Aus der Wigwam; Kapital und Arbeit in Amerika; Aus der transatlantischen Gesellschaft; Staat und Kirche in Amerika; Shakespeare in Amerika; Amerikanische Lebensbilder; Brook Farm and Margaret Fuller, include his principal writings. _Ho._

=Knox, Mrs. Adeline [Trafton].= _Me._, 1845- ----. A novelist of St. Louis. Katharine Earle; His Inheritance; An American Girl Abroad; Dorothy’s Experience. _Le._

=Knox, Charles Eugene.= _N. Y._, 1833-1900. A Presbyterian clergyman, president of the theological seminary at Bloomfield, New Jersey, from 1863. A Year with Saint Paul; Love to the End; David the King; Graduated Sunday-school Text-Books. _Meth. Ran._

=Knox, George William.= _N. Y._, 1853- ----. A Presbyterian missionary in Japan, professor of ethics in the University of Japan from 1886. His writings in Japanese include: A Brief System of Theology; Outlines of Homiletics; Christ the Son of God; The Basis of Ethics. In English he has published The Japanese Systems of Ethics.

=Knox, John Jay.= _N. Y._, 1828-1892. A financier of distinction, comptroller of the currency, 1867-84. He published United States Notes, a History of the Various Issues of Paper Money by the United States Government. _Scr._

=Knox, Thomas Wallace.= _N. H._, 1835-1896. A journalist and traveller whose home was in New York city. His books of travel for young people have been widely popular. Overland Through Asia; Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field; Backsheesh; Underground Life; John; The Boy Travellers Series, in sixteen volumes; How to Travel; Pocket Guide Around the World; The Voyage of the Vivian; Hunting Adventures on Land and Sea; Marco Polo for Boys and Girls; Decisive Battles since Waterloo; Life of Robert Fulton; Hunters Three; In Wild Africa; The Siberian Exiles; The Lost Army, include the greater number of his books. _Ap. Cas. Har. Mer. Put. We._

=Kobbe, Gustav.= _N. Y._, 1857----. A littérateur of New York city. Jersey Coast and Pines; Wagner’s “Ring of the Nibelung;” New York City and its Environs. _Har._

=Koehler, Sylvester Rosa.= _G._, 1837-1900. An art critic of Boston, editor of the American Art Review. His more important publications are, American Art; Etching: an Outline of its Technical Processes and History. _Cas. Le._

=Koopman= [kope´man], =Harry Lyman.= _Me._, 1860----. A verse-writer, librarian of Brown University. The Great Admiral; Orestes, and Other Poems; Woman’s Will, with Other Poems; What to Read.

=Kouns= [koonz], =Nathan Chapman.= _Mo._, 1833-1890. A Missouri lawyer, State librarian at Jefferson City from 1886, who published two historical romances, Arius the Libyan; Dorcas the Daughter of Faustina. _Ap. Fo._

=Kraitsir, Charles.= _Hy._, 1804-1860. An educator and philologist of New York city. The Poles in the United States; Significance of the Alphabet; Glossology.

=Krauth, Charles Porterfield.= _Va._, 1823-1883. A prominent Lutheran clergyman of Philadelphia, professor of moral science in the University of Pennsylvania, 1868-83. The Conservative Reformation and its Theology is his greatest work; and among others are, The Evangelical Mass and the Romish Mass; Sketch of the Thirty Years’ War; Christian Liberty; Infant Baptism and Salvation in the Calvinistic System; Chronicle of the Augsburg Confession. _See American Lutheran Biographies._ _Lip._

=Krebs, John Michael.= _Md._, 1804-1867. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city. Righteousness and National Prosperity; The American Citizen; Private, Domestic, and Social Life of Jesus; The Presbyterian Psalmist.

=Krehbiel, Henry Edward.= _Mch._, 1854----. A musical critic on the staff of the New York Tribune. Notes on the Cultivation of Choral Music; Review of the New York Musical Seasons, 1885-90; Studies in the Wagnerian Drama; How to Listen to Music. _Har. Scr._

=Kroeger, Adolph Ernst.= _Sg._, 1837-1882. A writer of St. Louis. The Minnesingers of Germany; Our Forms of Government and the Problems of the Future; translations of Fichte’s Science of Knowledge and Science of Rights.

=Kron, Karl.= _See Bagg._

=Krotel, Gottlob Frederick.= _Wg._, 1826- ----. A Lutheran clergyman of New York city. Who are the Blessed?; Explanation of Luther’s Small Catechism; several translations from the German.

=Kunz= [koonz], =George Frederick.= N. Y., 1856- ----. A mineralogist of note, the foremost American specialist in precious stones. He has published Gems and Precious Stones of North America.

=Kunze= [koont-se], =John Christopher.= _Sxy._, 1744-1807. A once famous Lutheran clergyman of New York city, professor of ancient languages in Columbia College. History of the Christian Religion and of the Lutheran Church; Catechism and Liberty.

=Kunze, Richard Ernest.= _G._, 1838- ----. A physician of New York city who has done much to promote a knowledge of medical botany. Cactus; Cardinal Points in the Study of Medical Botany; Germination and Vitality of Seeds.

=Kurtz, Benjamin.= _Pa._, 1795-1865. A Lutheran clergyman, for nearly thirty years the editor of The Lutheran Observer. Lutheran Prayer-Book; Year-Book of the Reformation; Why are You a Lutheran?; Faith, Hope, and Charity; Theological Sketch-Book, are his most important works.

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