Keller (HELEN ADAMS an American writer)
HELEN ADAMS, an American writer and lecturer; born in 1880 in Tuscumbia, Ala. dumb and blind from her infancy. No serious attempt was made to educate her until she was eight years of age. Her training was then undertaken by Miss Anne M. Sullivan, who devoted many years to developing the power to read and to speak. Her success was remarkable. After a course of instruction at the Horace Mann School in New York, she was able to speak intelligently. She entered Radcliffe College in 1900 and graduated in 1904. She became widely known as a lecturer and writer, both on her own experiences and on social subjects. Her writings include "Optimism" (1903); "The World I Live In" (1908); "Out of the Dark" (1913). She also wrote an autobiography entitled "Story of my Life."
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Kellermann
FRANÇOIS CHRIS- TOPHE, a marshal of France; born in ng star of annas chough his by a mare of Duke He was and gradn ervice in location br or work. constructio Pacific dix and Monta dway er; born 12, 1842 Strassburg in 1735. He gained great distained her musical education in New York education in P tinction in the Seven Years' War, during City, and London. Her first apndon. Her first which he rose to the rank of brigadier. On the pearance in opera was in 1861 at the Academy breaking out of the Revolution, he was in 1861 at of Music in New York City as Gilda in given the command of the army New York City "Rigoletto." From that time on she of the Moselle or the North, and in 1792 gained From that t held an enviable place in the iable place in the splendid victory of Valmy over affections of the American public_and the Prussians, and in 1795 had com- American public was also most cordially received in England. received in E Her voice was a pure and flexible pure and flexi soprano and her execution brilliant. She ion brilliant. had an extensive repertoire, including 45 pertoire, including operas. In 1887 she was married to Carl was married to C Strakosch and retired to private life. ired to private Li Published "Memoirs of an American of an Americ Prima Donna" (1913). Died in 1916. 13). Died in 1916
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Kelley
HOWARD G., a Canadian
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Kellogg (III)
CLARA LOUISE, an KELLS (originally Kenlis American opera singer; born in Sumterville ally Kentis), an ancient town of County Meath, Ireland; on ), an anthe , S. C., July 12, 1842. She ob- Meath, Ireland; on Blackwater, 26 miles W. of Drogheda. W. of Drogheda. It has several interesting antiquities, including St. Columba's house. Kells was made the center of a bishop's see in 807. A manuscript copy of the gospels, called the "Book of Kells," with colored Celtic ornamentation, and believed to be the work of the 9th century, is now preserved in the library of Trinity College, Dublin.
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Kellogg, Elijah
Elijah (1813-1901), an American writer for the young. Born at Portland, Maine, May 20, 1813. He was graduated at Bowdoin in 1840, and at Andover Theological Seminary three years later. He became pastor of the Congregational church at Harpswell, Maine, where the greater part of his subsequent life was passed. He wrote The Elm Island Series, Pleasant Cove Series, and Good Old Times Series. School boys will remember some of his short prose declamations. "Spartacus to the Gladiators," is one of them.
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Kellogg, Kemal, Kendrick & King
Kellogg FRANK B., defeated for reelection to the U. S. Senate, 1922. Kemal MUSTAPHA. (See TURKEY: NATIONALIST MOVEMENT.) Kendrick JOHN B., re-elected to the Senate, 1922. King WILLIAM HENRY, re-elected Senator, 1922, for the term 1923-29. Koo, VI-KYUIN WELLINGTON, represented China on the Council of the League of Nations and was acting president of that body in 1921. For a short time in 1922 he was Foreign Minister in the cabinet at Peking.
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Kelly, Edward & Kirk, Robert
Kelly, Edward (See Dee.) Kirk, Robert (See Scotland .)
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Kelman
JOHN, a Scotch clergyman. He was born in 1864 and was educated at the Royal High School, New College, Edinburgh, and Ormond College, Melbourne. In 1890 he became assistant to the Rev. G. A. Smith in Aberdeen, ordained in 1891, minister of New North Church, Edinburgh, 1897-1907, later pastor Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York. His works include: "The Holy Land"; "Faith of Robert Louis Stevenson"; "The Light That Saves"; "Courts of the Temple"; "Salted with Fire."
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Keloid
or CHELOID, in pathology, an unsightly excrescence arising on the sternum or elsewhere, generally from over the over-active growth of a cicatrix a wound.
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Kelpie
or KELPY, a sort of mischievous spirit, said to haunt fords and ferries at night, especially in storms. They generally appear in the form of a horse.
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Kelpie, The
A water spirit which, in Scotland , is believed to haunt streams and torrents. Kelpies appear to be of a mischievous nature, and were often accused of stopping the water-wheels of mills, and of swelling streams. The Kelpie is occasionally used as a name of terror to frighten unruly children; and it was believed that he also devoured women. It
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Kelsey Beds
a subdivision of the Pleistocene accumulations, consisting with marine chiefly of gravel, charged shells and remains of mammoth, rhinoceros, etc., which occurs at Kelsey Hill the near Hedon, and other places in neighborhood of Hull, England.
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Kelso
a market-town of Roxburghshire, England. It stands on the N. bank of the Tweed, her joined by the Teviot, and spanned by Rennie's noble five-arch bridge (1803). In 1126 David I. translated to "Calchou" a Tironensian abbey, founded by him at Selkirk, 13 years before. This, wrecked by the Eng lish under Hertford in 1545, is now represented by the stately ruins of its cruci form church. Across the river, on the peninsula formed by the Teviot, the royal castle and town of Roxburgh, demolished in 1460. Pop. about 4,000.
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Kelts
. See Celts
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Kelung
a town and seaport in the N. part of Formosa. It was opened to foreign commerce in 1863. Coal fields are worked by Chinese in the neighborhood, and large quantities of coal are exported. There is also an extensive export trade in rice, sugar, and camphor. Pop. 70,000.
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