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JONES
LARRABEE

JONES, Sibyl, Quaker preacher, b. in Bruns- wick, Me., in 1808 ; d. near Augusta, Me., 4 Dec, 1873. Her early life was spent in Augusta, and for eight years she taught in public schools. Htr maiden name was Jones, and in 1833 she married Eli Jones. During 1845-'0 she visited, with her husband, all the yearly meetings of Friends in the United States, and made three journeys to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. They visited Liberia in 1851, Ireland in 1852, and subsequently Norway, Sweden, and the continent of Europe, returning to this country in 1854. During the civil war she preached to nearly 30,000 soldiers in hospitals, and in 1867 she embarked on her last missionary voy- age, visiting Europe, Egypt, and Syria, and pre- senting Christianity from the Quaker standpoint to Mohammedan women. Her travels in the East are set forth in " Eastern Sketches " by Ellen Clare Miller, her companion (Edinburgh, 1872).


KAVANAUGH, Hubbard Hinde, M. E. bish- op, b. in Clarke county, Ky., 14 Jan., 1802 ; d. in Columbus, Miss., 19 March, 1884. He was appren- ticed to the printing trade, but was licensed to preach in 1822, settled in Augusta, Ky., where he edited the "Western Watchman," and was appoint- ed in 1823 on the Little Sandy circuit, afterward holding various charges. On the establishment of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, he adhered to that branch, and was appointed presiding elder of the Lexington district. In 1854 the general conference chose him bishop. He was correspond- ing editor of the "Methodist Expositor and True Issue." and was a delegate to the general confer- ences of his church, over several of which he pre- sided. See " Life and Times of Bishop Kavanaugh," by A. II. Redford (Nashville, 1884).— His brother, Benjamin Taylor, clergyman, b. in Jefferson county, 28 April, 1805 ; d. in Boonsborough, Ky., 3 July, 1888, also entered the ministry, and from 1839 till. 1842 had charge of the Indian mission at the head of Mississippi river. He afterward stud- ied medicine and practised in St. Louis, where he also held a chair in the medical department of the University of Missouri. In 1857 he resumed his ministerial duties, and during the civil war served as chaplain and assistant surgeon in the Confederate army. After the war he was professor of intellect- ual and moral science in Soule university for some time, but in 1881 returned to Kentucky. He has published "Electricity the Motor Power of the Solar System" (New York, 1886), and had ready for publication "The Great Central Valley of North America " and " Notes of a Western Rambler." KEPHART, Ezekiel Boring, bishop of the United Brethren in Christ, b. in Decatur, Pa., 6 Nov., 1834. He was licensed to preach in 1857, entered the ministry in 1859, and became princi- pal of Michigan collegiate institute, Leonti, Mich., in 1865, in which year he was graduated at Otter- bein university, Ohio. He accepted a pastorate in Pennsylvania in 1866, became president of West- ern college, Iowa, in 1868, and in 1881 was raised to the episcopate. Otterbein university gave him the degree of D. D. in 1881. Bishop Kephart served in the state senate of Iowa in 1871-'5. KINZIE, John Harris, pioneer, b. in Sand- wich, Canada, 7 July, 1803 ; d. on the Pittsburg and Fort Wayne railroad, 21 June, 1865. He is the son of John Kinzie (vol. hi., p. 552), removed with his father to Chicago, 111., in 1803, and in 1816 settled in Detroit, Mich. He became a clerk in the employ of the American fur company in 1818, was proficient in many Indian languages, and in, 1829 was government agent for all the north- western Indians. He returned to Chicago in 1834, was first president of the village, register of public lands in 1841, and receiver of public money in 1849. He was made paymaster in the U. S. army in 1861, and in 1865 was brevetted lieutenant- colonel. Col. Kinzie was the first president of the Chicago historical society, and built the first Episcopal church in that city. — His wife, Juliette Augusta, author, b. in Middietown, Conn., 11 Sept., 1806 ; d. in Amagansett, Long Island, N. Y., 15 Sept., 1870, was the daughter of Arthur W. Magill. She married Mr. Kinzie in 1830, accompanied him to Fort Winnebago, Wis., and subsequently to Chicago. She was the author of "Wau-bun, or the Early Day in the Northwest," a history of Chicago (New York, 1856), and two posthumous novels, entitled " Walter Ogilby " (Philadelphia, 1869) and " Mark Logan " (1876).


KNIGHT, Cyrus Frederic, P. E. bishop, b. in Marblehead, Mass., 28 March, 1831. He studied at Burlington college, N. J., and at Harvard, and was graduated at the General theological semi- nary, New York city, in 1854. After being or- dained a priest of the Protestant Episcopal church he was rector of St. Mark's church, Boston, in 1855-'67, and later he had charge of St. James's, in Hartford, Conn., until 1877, when he was called to St. James's in Lancaster, Pa. He was elected bishop of Milwaukee on 13 Dec, 1888. The de- gree of D. D. was conferred upon him by Bethany college in 1880, and that of D. C. L. by Bishop's university in 1886. He has been a delegate to the general conventions of his church from the dio- ceses in which he has been located, and was dean of Hartford while a resident of that city. In 1883 he was sent as deputy of the general convocation of the American church to the general synod of the Church of England in North America, sitting in Montreal. He has published occasional sermons and " Changes in the Communion Office " (New York, 1886).


LAKEY, Emily Jane, artist, b. in Quiney, N. Y., 22 June, 1837. She is the daughter of James Jackson, was educated at home, and taught in Tennessee and Ohio. She then turned her at- tention to painting, and exhibited her work first in Chicago, and in 1873 at the National acad- emy of design. During 1877-'8 she studied in Paris under Emile Van Marcke. Her best-known paint- ings are " Leader of the Herd " (1882) ; " An Anx- ious Mother " (1882) ; and " Right of Way " (188C). She married Charles D. Lakey in 1864, and resides in New York city.


L'ARCHEVEQUE, Jean de (larsh - vake), French soldier, d. near Arkansas river, 17 Aug., 1720. He was a member of La Salle's expedition of 1684, and enticed him into the ambuscade where he was murdered. In 1699 he was a soldier in Santa Fe. He became a successful trader, and is doubtless identical with a " Captain Archibeque " who was a member of the war councils of 1715 and 1720. In the latter he recommended a reeonnois- sance to the Arkansas river, on which he was killed, with forty-three others, by Pawnee Indians. He left four children, and a family of Archibeques is still living in New Mexico. These facts, save his connection with La Salle's murder, were unknown till 1888, when they were discovered in making researches in behalf of the Hemenway southwest- ern archaeological expedition.


LARRABEE, William, governor of Iowa, b. in Ledyard, Conn., 20 Jan., 1832. He removed to