made him enemies at Rome, whence there came in 1896 a request for his resignation of the rectorate, and where he spent the years 1897–1900 as canon of St John Lateran, assistant bishop at the pontifical throne, and counsellor to the Propaganda. In 1900 he was consecrated archbishop of Dubuque, Iowa. He took a prominent part in the Catholic Young Men’s National Union and in the Total Abstinence Union of North America; and was in general charge of the Catholic delegation to the World’s Parliament of Religions held at the Columbian Exposition in 1893. He lectured widely on temperance, education and American institutions, and in 1890 was Dudleian lecturer at Harvard University.
A selection from his writings and addresses was edited by Maurice Francis Egan under the title Onward and Upward: A Year Book (Baltimore, 1902).
KEARNEY, a city and the county-seat of Buffalo county,
Nebraska, U.S.A., about 130 m. W. of Lincoln. Pop. (1890),
8074; (1900), 5634 (650 foreign-born); (1910), 6202. It is on
the main overland line of the Union Pacific, and on a branch of
the Burlington & Missouri River railroad. The city is situated
in the broad, flat bottom-lands a short distance N. of the Platte
River. Lake Kearney, in the city, has an area of 40 acres. The
surrounding region is rich farming land, devoted especially to
the growing of alfalfa and Indian corn. At Kearney are a
State Industrial School for boys, a State Normal School, the
Kearney Military Academy, and a Carnegie library. Good
water-power is provided by a canal from the Platte River
about 17 m. above Kearney, and the city’s manufactures include
foundry and machine-shop products, flour and bricks. Kearney
Junction, as Kearney was called from 1872 to 1875, was settled
a year before the two railways actually formed their junction
here or the city was platted. Kearney became a town in 1873,
a city of the second class and the county seat in 1874, and a city
of the first class in 1901. It is to be distinguished from an older
and once famous prairie city, popularly known as “Dobey Town”
(i.e. Adobe), founded in the early ’fifties on the edge of the reservation
of old Fort Kearney (removed in 1848 from Nebraska
City), in Kearney county, on the S. shore of the Platte about
6 m. S.E. of the present Kearney; here in 1861 the post office of
Kearney City was established. In the days of the prairie freighting
caravans Dobey Town was one of the most important towns
between Independence, Missouri, and the Pacific coast, and it had
a rough, wild, picturesque history; but it lost its immense
freighting interests after the Union Pacific had been extended
through it in 1866. The site of Dobey Town, together with the
Fort, was abandoned in 1871. Fort Kearney and the city too
were named in honour of General Stephen W. Kearny, and the
name was at first correctly spelt without a second “e.”
KEARNY, PHILIP (1815–1862), American soldier, was born
in New York on the 2nd of June 1815, and was originally intended
for the legal profession. He graduated at Columbia University
(1833), but his bent was decidedly towards soldiering,
and in 1837 he obtained a commission in the cavalry regiment of
which his uncle, (General) Stephen Watts Kearny (1794–1848),
was colonel and Lieutenant Jefferson Davis adjutant. Two years
later he was sent to France to study the methods of cavalry
training in vogue there. Before his return to the United States
in 1840 he had served, on leave, in Algeria. He had
inherited a large fortune, but he remained in the service, and his
wide experience of cavalry work caused him to be employed on
the headquarters staff of the army. After six more years’ service
Kearny left the army, but almost immediately afterwards he
rejoined, bringing with him a company of cavalry, which he had
raised and equipped chiefly at his own expense, to take part in
the Mexican war. In December 1846 he was promoted captain.
In leading a brilliant cavalry charge at Churubusco he lost his
left arm, but he remained at the front, and won the brevet of
major for his gallantry at Contreras and Churubusco. In 1851
he again resigned, to travel round the world. He saw further
active service with his old comrades of the French cavalry in
the Italian war of 1859, and received the cross of the Legion of
Honour for his conduct at Solferino. Up to the outbreak of
the American Civil War he lived in Paris, but early in 1861 he
hastened home to join the Federal army. At first as a brigade
commander and later as a divisional commander of infantry in
the Army of the Potomac, he infused into his men his own cavalry
spirit of dash and bravery. At Williamsburg, Seven Pines,
and Second Bull Run, he displayed his usual romantic courage,
but at Chantilly (Sept. 1, 1862), after repulsing an attack of
the enemy, he rode out in the dark too far to the front, and mistaking
the Confederates for his own men was shot dead. His
body was sent to the Federal lines with a message from General
Lee, and was buried in Trinity Churchyard, New York. His
commission as major-general of volunteers was dated July 4,
1862, but he never received it.
See J. W. de Peyster, Personal and Military History of Philip Kearny (New York, 1869).
KEARNY, a town of Hudson county, New Jersey, U.S.A.,
between the Passaic and Hackensack rivers, adjoining Harrison,
and connected with Newark by bridges over the Passaic. Pop.
(1900), 10,896, of whom 3597 were foreign-born; (1910 census),
18,659. The New York & Greenwood Lake division of the Erie
railroad has a station at Arlington, the principal village (in the
N.W. part), which contains attractive residences of Newark,
Jersey City and New York City business men. The town covers
an area of about 7 sq. m., including a large tract of marsh-land.
In Kearny are railway repair shops of the Pennsylvania system,
and a large abattoir; and there are numerous manufactures.
The value of the town’s factory products increased from
$1,607,002 in 1900 to $4,427,904 in 1905, or 175.5%. Among
its institutions are the State Soldiers’ Home, removed here
from Newark in 1880, a Carnegie library, two Italian homes for
orphans, and a Catholic Industrial School for boys.
The neck of land between the Passaic and the Hackensack rivers, for 7 m. N. from where they unite, was purchased from the proprietors of East Jersey and from the Indians by Captain William Sandford in 1668 and through Nathaniel Kingsland, sergeant-major of Barbadoes, received the name “New Barbadoes.” After the town under this name had been extended considerably to the northward, the town of Lodi was formed out of the S. portion in 1825, the town of Harrison was founded out of the S. portion of Lodi in 1840, and in 1867 a portion of Harrison was set apart as a township and named in honour of General Philip Kearny, a former resident. Kearny was incorporated as a town in 1895.
KEARY, ANNIE (1825–1879), English novelist, was born near
Wetherby, Yorkshire, on the 3rd of March 1825, the daughter
of an Irish clergyman. She was the author of several children’s
books and novels, of which the best known is Castle Daly, an
Irish story. She also wrote an Early Egyptian History (1861)
and The Nation Around (1870). She died at Eastbourne on the
3rd of March 1879.
KEATE, JOHN (1773–1852), English schoolmaster, was born
at Wells, Somersetshire, in 1773, the son of Prebendary William
Keate. He was educated at Eton and King’s College, Cambridge,
where he had a brilliant career as a scholar; taking holy
orders, he became, about 1797, an assistant master at Eton
College. In 1809 he was elected headmaster. The discipline
of the school was then in a most unsatisfactory condition, and
Dr Keate (who took the degree of D.D. in 1810) took stern
measures to improve it. His partiality for the birch became a
by-word, but he succeeded in restoring order and strengthening
the weakened authority of the masters. Beneath an outwardly
rough manner the little man concealed a really kind heart, and
when he retired in 1834, the boys, who admired his courage,
presented him with a handsome testimonial. A couple of years
before he had publicly flogged eighty boys on one day. Keate
was made a canon of Windsor in 1820. He died on the 5th
of March 1852 at Hartley Westpall, Hampshire, of which parish
he had been rector since 1824.
See Maxwell Lyte, History of Eton College (3rd ed., 1899); Collins, Etoniana; Harwood, Alumni Etonienses; Annual Register (1852); Gentleman’s Magazine (1852).
