Kennedy, John P.
John P. (1795-1870), an American novelist. He was a native of Baltimore. While a mere lad he served in the War of 1812. In 1816 he was admitted to the bar and was considered a successful lawyer. He served three terms in Congress, and in 1852 became secretary of the navy. He is remembered, however, chiefly as a writer. In 1832 he published Swallow Barn, or Sojourn in the Old Dominion. This tale described plantation life in old Virginia and was well received. Kennedy's reputation rests, however, on Horseshoe Robinson, A Tale of the Tory Ascendency. It is a story of the Revolutionary War. It appeared in 1835. Kennedy was a friend of Thackeray; in fact, he may be called "the American friend of the novelist." He assisted him in the preparation, if, indeed, he did not compose, the fourth chapter of the second volume of The Virginians. See Simms ; Lanier
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Kenneth
the name of two Kings of Scotland, who reigned in the dark ages of that country's history. KEN- NETH I. (McAlpin) was the son of Alpin, who was slain by the Picts in 832 or 834. Kenneth died in 860 or 862, long and successful war after a waged with the Picts. KENNETH II. ascended the throne on the death of his father, Malcolm, and was murdered by his soldiers and the populace in 994.
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Kenosha
a city and county-seat of Kenosha co., Wis.; on Lake Michigan and the Chicago and Northwestern railroad; 35 miles S. of Milwaukee. It is a trade center for the county and a popular health and summer resort; is principally engaged in dairying, farming, and the manufacture of flour, leather, furniture, and carriages and wagons; and contains the University School (nonsect.); Kemper Hall School (P. E.), high school, public library, and a system of waterworks supplied from the lake and artesian wells. Kenosha has passenger and freight steamer communi- unteer and regular service in 1898. He cation with ports on the Great Lakes. Pop. (1910) 21,371; (1920) 40,472;
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Kenrick
PETER RICHARD, an American clergyman; born in Dublin, Ireland, Aug. 17, 1806; ordained priest in the Roman Catholic Church in 1830; olio Claro came to the United States in 1833; ap- State pointed coadjutor to Bishop Rosati, of co Bishoy St. Louis, in 1841, and succeeded to that bishopric in 1843; was created first archbishop of St. Louis in 1847. His publiin 184 cations include "The Holy House of Loretto"; "Anglican Ordinations"; "Vati- Ordinati cana"; etc. He died in St. Louis, Mo., March 4, 1896.
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Kensal Green
a cemetery on the N. W. of London, 77 acres in extent; 77 acres consecrated in November, 1832. Here vombor, many of the illustrious sons of England Tous Bons have been buried, as Thackeray, Leigh as Thack Hunt, Sydney Smith, Buckle, Sir Charles , Buckle, Eastlake, John Leech, Sir John Ross, ech, Sir Brunel, Mulready, Kemble, Dibdin, Tom Kemble, Hood, Balfe, Liston, Charles Mathews, Cha Madame Vestris, Tietjens, Wilkie Col- Tietjens, lins, the Duke of Sussex, and his sister, the Princess Sophia.
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Kent Island
an island some 15 miles long in Chesapeake Bay, Md., 7 miles E. of Annapolis. It was here the was hare th first settlement in Maryland was made by William Claiborne in 1631. 1681. Ohio, the count
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Kentish Glory
a beautiful moth, orange-brown with black and white black and whit markings, the expansion of the wings ansion of the wing about two and a half inches. The larva, ches. The larva which is not hairy, is whitish-green, whitish-greet feeding on birch in July and August; the and August; th perfect insect appears in April. in April. calcareous zod
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Kentish Rag
a calcareous rock belonging to the Lower Cretaceous series. Cretaceous serie In the S. E. of England it is 60 or 80 it is 60 or 8 feet thick. It is of marine origin. It marine origin. was in a quarry of Kentish rag at Maidrag at Maic Ken stone that the great Iguanodon mantelli don mantel was discovered.
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Kenton
a city in Ohio, the county seat of Hardin co. It is on the Scioto s on the Sciot river and on the Toledo and Ohio Cenand Ohio Cer tral, the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago cinnati, Chicag and St. Louis, and the Erie railroads. he Erie railroad It is the center of an important farman important farm ing and lumbering region and its indusregion and its indus tries include the manufacture of iron, manufacture of iron hardware, tools, etc. It has a court It has a cour house, city buildings, a public library, lic library and an armory. Pop. (1910) 7,185; (1910) 7,1860 (1920) 7,690. Kentucky
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Kentucky Resolutions
a segressive measures. He was chairman of ries of nine resolutions introduced into ions the Kentucky Legislature in 1798, by the Senate Committee appointed to in- George Nicholas, though it was aftervestigate coal strikes in 1919 and was also chairman of the committee to inward known that Thomas Jefferson was the author of them. They were directed vestigate campaign expenses in 1920. against the Alien and Sedition laws, and against acts passed to punish frauds on the confluence of the Mississippi and the Bank of the United States, and em- Des Moines rivers and on the Burlington phasized the rights of the several States. Route, the Chicago, Rock Island, and Another resolution was added in 1799. Pacific, and other important railroads; 46 miles S. of Burlington. The city lies KENTUCKY, UNIVERSITY OF, a at the foot of the lower rapids, which are coeducational institution in Lexington, Ky.; founded in 1858 under the ausconstructed by the pices of the Christian Church; reported In 1913 there was at the close of 1919: Professors and inthe construction of a structors, 114, students, 1056; volumes ; income, $ 440,727; 7,000; income, $44 LeRand McVey, Ph.D., eRand McVey, BRITISHONY. See BE TECTORATE, the
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Kenya Protectorate
the name: given to the dominion on the coast of Afon the coast c rica under the nominal sovereignty of nal sovereign the Sultan of Zanzibar. See ZANZIBAR. See ZAN
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Kenyon
SIR FREDERIC GEORGE, DERIC GEO Museum. H 863 and was cated at Winchester and Oxford. He be- Oxford. ritish Muse of MSS. H from univer " Aristotle's Consti- de: " Aristotle's C tution of Athens"; "Classical Textsens"; "Classical "Hyperides"; "Cats i"; "Brownings fo Bible and the A "Facsimiles of Bi book to Textual Testament."
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