congress as a Democrat, serving from October, 1877, until March, 1883, and had been re-elected when he was elected U. S. senator to succeed Henry G. Davis, and took his seat in December.
KENNADAY, John, clergyman, b. in New York
city, 3 Nov., 1800 ; d. in Brooklyn, N. Y., 13 Nov.,
1863. He was apprenticed in early life to a printer,
but devoted his leisure moments to the study of
law. He entered the ministry in the Methodist
church, and during forty years of clerical life
filled pulpits in the New York. Philadelphia, and
New York East annual conferences. He was a
member of two general conferences, and at the
time of his death was presiding elder of Long Isl-
and district. " In the pulpit," said Bishop Janes,
" he was clear in the statement of his subject, abun-
dant and most felicitous in his illustrations, and
pathetic and impressive in his applications. His
oratory was of a high order."
KENNAN, George, traveller, b. in Norwalk,
Huron co., Ohio, 16 Feb., 1845. He was educated
in the public schools of his native town, and in
1862 attended the Columbus, Ohio, high-school
while working at night as a telegraph-operator.
In 1864 he was assistant chief operator in the tele-
graph-office at Cincinnati, and in December of the
same year went to Kamtchatka by way of Nicara-
gua, California, and the north Pacific. As a leader
of one of the Russo-American telegraph company's
exploring parties in northeastern Siberia in 1865-'6,
and as superintendent of construction for the mid-
dle district of the Siberian division from 1866 till
1868, he explored and located a route for the Russo-
American telegraph-line between the Okhotsk sea
and Bering strait, spending nearly three years in
constant travel in the interior of northeastern Si-
beria, and returning to the United States on the
abandonment of the enterprise in 1868. In 1870
he went again to Russia to explore the mountains
of the eastern Caucasus, proceeded down the Volga
river to the Caspian sea, made extensive explora-
tions on horseback in Daghestan and Chechnia,
crossing the great range of the Caucasus three
times in different places, and in 1871 returned to
this country. In 1885-'6 he made a journey of
15,000 miles through northern Russia and Siberia
for the purpose of investigating the Russian exile
system, visited all the convict-prisons and mines
between the Ural mountains and the head-waters
of the Amur river, and explored the wildest part
of the Russian Altai. Mr. Kennan has arranged
(1887) for the publication of a series of magazine
articles on Siberia and the exile system, which will
ultimately be issued in book-form. He is also the
author of " Tent Life in Siberia and Adventures
among the Koraks and other Tribes in Kamtchatka
and Northern Asia " (New York, 1870).
KENNEDY, Alfred L., physician, b. in Phila-
delphia, Pa., 25 Oct., 1818. He was educated in
his native city, studied civil and mining engineer-
ing and also medicine, being graduated at the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania in 1848, then studied physi-
ology and physiological chemistry in Paris and
Leipsic, and. geology and botany in Paris. Re-
turning to Philadelphia, he began the practice of
medicine in 1853, but in 1865 retired and settled
in Montgomery co., Pa. He was made assistant
professor of chemistry in the Pennsylvania medi-
cal college in 1839, lecturer on chemical physics in
1840, and on general and medical botany and medi-
cal jurisprudence and toxicology in 1842. He was
also appointed lecturer on medical chemistry in
the Philadelphia school of medicine in 1843, and
on industrial botany in 1849 and agricultural
chemistry in 1852 in the Franklin institute in the
same city. In 1849 he was elected professor of
medical chemistry in the Philadelphia college of
medicine. In 1842 he had established the Phila-
delphia school of chemistry, and remained at its
head until 1853. when it became under a new char-
ter the Polytechnic college of the state of Penn-
sylvania. He was then chosen its president. He
was vice-president of the American agricultural
congress in 1876, and the same year held the same
Sost in the Pennsylvania agricultural society,
•uring the war he acted as a volunteer surgeon of
the 2d army corps in the Gettysburg hospital, and
in 1863 was commissioned colonel of volunteer en-
gineers. Dr. Kennedy has published " Practical
Chemistry a Branch of Medical Education, etc."
(Philadelphia, 1852).
KENNEDY, Archibald, publicist, b. in Scot-
land ; d. in New York in 1763. He was a lineal
descendant of Thomas Kennedy, second son of the
third Earl of Cassilis, in the peerage of Scotland.
Coming to this country, he was made collector of
customs at the port of New York, and was also a
member of the provincial council in 1750. He ad-
vocated parliamentary taxation, and publicly urged
on the ministry that " liberty and encouragement
are the basis of colonies." " To supply ourselves
with manufactures," he insisted, " is practicable ;
and where people in such circumstances are nu-
merous and free, they will push what they think
is for their interest, and all restraining laws will
be thought oppression, especially such laws as, ac-
cording to the conceptions we have of English
liberty, they have no hand in controverting or
making. They cannot be kept dependent by keep-
ing them poor." He at one time acted as receiver-
general of the province. Kennedy published
" Importance of the Northern Colonies " (New
York, 1749) and " Present State of Affairs in the
Northern Colonies" (1754).
KENNEDY, Crammond, lawyer, b. in North
Berwick, Scotland, 29 Dec, 1842. After attending
school in his native country, he came to New York
in 1856, and in 1857-60 delivered addresses on re-
ligious subjects to large audiences. in that city and
elsewhere, being widely known as " the boy preach-
er." He studied in Madison university in 1861— '3,
and in the latter year was ordained as chaplain of
the 79th New York regiment, the " Highlanders."
He was brevetted major for services in east Ten-
nessee and the Wilderness, lectured in England
and Scotland on the civil war in 1864-'5, and in
1865-'7 was connected with the Freedmen's com-
mission. He became editor and proprietor of the
"Church Union " in 1869, and in that year was as-
sociated with Henry Ward Beecher in establishing
the " Christian Union," of which he became man-
aging editor in 1870. He then studied law, was
graduated at Columbia law-school in 1878, and
has since practised his prof ession in New York and
in Washington, D. C. He has published " James
Stanley," a prize Sunday-school book, issued anony-
mously (Nashville, Tenn., 1859) ; " Corn in the
Blade," poems (New York, 1860) ; " Close Com-
munion or Open Communion ? " (1869) ; and a prize
essay on " The Liberty of the Press " (1876).
KENNEDY, John Alexander, superintendent of police, b. in Baltimore, Md., 9 Aug., 1803 : d. in New York city, 20 June, 1873. His father was a native of the north of Ireland, and had been for many years a teacher in Baltimore. The son received a good education, and while still young removed to New York city and began business with his brother. In 1849 he was appointed a commissioner of emigration, and in 1854 he was elected a member of the common council. Subsequently he
