the first cheap daily paper in that city. This journal became under his direction one of the most influential in the south. In 1841, partly from love of adventure and partly for his health, he joined in the Santa Fe trading expedition, was taken prisoner, and carried to the city of Mexico, but was released after seven months of captivity. During the war with that country he accompanied the U. S. forces under Gen. Taylor and Gen. Scott, and by means of pony expresses and steamers supplied his paper with the latest news, sometimes giving information to the government in advance of the official despatches. On one occasion he chartered a steamer for this purpose at a cost of $5,000. After travelling two years in Europe, where he superintended the publication of his work on the war, he purchased, in 1852, a large grazing farm in Comal county, Tex. There he spent the rest of his life, and amassed a fortune, often raising $50,000 worth of wool in a single year. He retained his interest in the "Picayune," and occasionally contributed editorials to its columns. In private life Mr. Kendall was genial and companionable. On his tombstone are the words "Poet, journalist, author, farmer — eminent in all; clear head, stout heart, a man of many friends, best beloved by those who knew him best." He published "Narrative of the Texan Santa Fe Expedition," which was highly commended, and had a large sale (2 vols., New' York, 1844: London, 1845; new ed., enlarged, New York, 1856); and "The War between the United States and Mexico " (folio, with 12 colored plates by Carl Nebel. New York, 1851).
KENDRICK, Clark, clergyman, b. in
Hanover, N. H., 6 Oct., 1775; d. in Poultney, Vt., 29
Feb., 1824. He spent three years in teaching in
his native town, and on 20 May, 1802, was ordained
pastor of a Baptist church at Poultney, Vt. He
also made several missionary excursions in
Vermont and northern New York between 1810 and
1814. He was vice-president in 1813-'17, and then
corresponding secretary till his death, of the auxiliary
Baptist foreign missionary society in Vermont,
and he was chaplain to the Vermont legislature in
1817. It was chiefly through his efforts that the
Baptist education society of Vermont was organized, the
object of which was to assist indigent young men
in their preparation for the ministry. Mr.
Kendrick was chosen its president, and subsequently
appointed an agent to visit the churches and
procure funds in its behalf. In 1820, when the
establishment of a school was contemplated, it was
decided to co-operate with the Baptists of central
and western New York in supporting the college
already in operation at Hamilton, Madison co.,
N. Y., and Mr. Kendrick was appointed general
agent for the state to carry out this object. He
published a pamphlet on close communion
entitled “Plain Dealing with the Pedo-Baptists,”
and a few sermons. —
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His son, Asahel Clark, educator, b. in Poultney, Vt., 7 Dec., 1809, after graduation at Hamilton college in 1831, became a tutor in the literary and theological institution at Hamilton (now Madison university), which his father's cousin, Dr. Nathaniel Kendrick, had founded. The second year he was made professor of Latin and Greek, but he was afterward relieved from the Latin department and made professor of Greek exclusively. Save for one interval of a year and a half, when he took a horseback journey through the southern states for his health, he remained at Madison until 1850. Then, on the establishment of the University of Rochester, he was called to the professorship of Greek in that institution. During his stay at Madison he had been called to professorships at Hamilton, Waterville, Brown, and other institutions, and a professorship at Hamilton had been promised to him while he was still a student there. In 1852 he visited Europe, and made a long stay at Rome and Athens, devoting himself there and at other points especially to the study of antiquities. He travelled in northern Greece, and made a journey through the Peloponnesus. Returning in 1854, he took his place as professor in the University of Rochester, with which he is still (1887) connected. From 1865 till 1868, in addition to his usual duties, he filled the chair of Hebrew and New Testament interpretation at Rochester theological seminary, and when the American committees were formed to aid in the revision of the authorized English version of the Bible, 4 Oct., 1872, he was appointed a member of the committee on New Testament revision, and took an active part in the work until its completion in 1880, rarely missing a meeting of the committee for eight years. He was ordained as a Baptist clergyman, but has never had a pastoral charge. In his special department, the Greek language and literature, he is among the foremost scholars of the country, endowed, apart from his broad and accurate knowledge, with a subtile and sensitive appreciation of their beauties; but he has paid much attention to oriental learning also, and is widely read in general literature, touching naturally and familiarly everything pertaining to art and scholarship. Besides various sermons and magazine and review articles, he has published “A Child's Book in Greek”; “Introduction to the Greek Language”; the “Greek Ollendorf” (New York, 1852); a revised edition of the English translation of Olshausen's “Commentary on the New Testament,” many notes being added and some portions translated anew (6 vols., 1853-'8); “Echoes,” a small volume of translations from the French and German poets (Rochester, 1855); “Life of Linus W. Peck”; “Life and Letters of Emily C. Judson” (New York, 1860); a translation of the Epistle to the Hebrews, with notes, for Lange's “Commentary” (1867), a brief work, giving the results attained in a more elaborate and exhaustive work that is still in manuscript; “Our Poetical Favorites,” three volumes of selections (New York, 1870, 1875, 1880); and an edition of Xenophon's “Anabasis,” with notes (1873). He also revised Bullions's Greek grammar, contributed the greater part of the “Life of Rev. James S. Dickerson” (Chicago. 1879), and revised, with notes, Heinrich A. W. Meyer's “Commentary on John” (New York, 1885). — Another son, James Ryland, clergyman, b. in Poultney, Vt., 21 April, 1821; d. in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.. 11 Dec., 1889. He was graduated at Brown in 1840, and for two years was a teacher in Georgia. He was ordained at Forsyth, Ga., in the autumn of 1842, and in 1843 became pastor of a Baptist church in Macon. In 1847 he was called to the pastorate of the 1st Baptist church in Charleston, and in 1854 established the Citadel square church in that city. During the war he preached at Madison, Ga. He had been a Union man throughout the struggle,
