KOHLSAAT
KOLLOCK
•vas rector of Georgetown college, 1818-20 : supe-
rior of Washington seminary, 1821-24, and was
summoned to Rome, where he tauglit theologj- in
the college, 1824-29. He published : A True Ex-
position of the Doctrine of the Catholic Church
(1813); Centurial Jubilee (1817); Tlie Blessed
Reformation ; Martin Luther Portrayed by Him-
self (lyl8); Unitarianism, Philosophically and
Tlieologically Examined (1821). He died in Rome,
Italy, in April, 1838.
KOHLSAAT, Herman Henry, publisher, was born at Albion, 111., March 22, 1853 ; son of Reimer and Sarah (Hall) Kohlsaat. His father came from Germany in 1830, and his mother from England in 1819. He was educated in the public schools of Galena, 111., and removed to Chicago in
1865. where he was a paper carrier and later cash boy in a dry-goods store, and travelling salesman for a wholesale baker, 1875-80. He held a con- trolling interest in the Cliicago Inter-Ocean, 1891- 94. and in 1895 became owner and editor of the Chicago Times-Herald and Evening Post. He was also largely interested in real-estate opera- tions, 1885-92. He presented a statue of General Grant to the city of Galena, 111., in 1891. He was a delegate to the Republican national con- ventions in 1888 and 1892. ■>
KOLLEN, Qerrit John, educator, was born in the Netherlands in 1843 ; son of Gerrit John and Berendina (Scholten) Kollen. His father died in 1846, leaving a widow and five children. In 1851 the family emigrated to the United States, and located on a farm in Allegan county, Mich. In 1862 he entered Holland academy, Mich., founded by immigrants from the Netherlands in 1847. This institution was organized as Hope college in
1866, from which he graduated, A.B., 1868, A.M., 1871. He was assistant professor of mathematics and natural philosophy of Hope college, 1871-78 ; pi'ofessor of applied mathematics and political economy, 1878-93, and in 1893 he became presi- dent of the college. He was married, in 1879, to Mary W., daughter of the Rev. Dr. A. C. Van Raalte, founder of Holland City and of Hope college. The honorary degree of LL.D. was con- ferred upon him by Rutgers college in 1894.
KOLLOCK, Henry, theologian, was born at New Providence, N.J., Dec. 14, 1778 ; son of Shepard and Susanna (Arnett) KoUock, and grandson of Shepard and Mary (Goddard) Kol- lock. He was graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1794, and was a tutor there, 1797- 1800. He was licensed to preach by the presby- tery of New York, May 7. 1800. He was jjastor at Princeton, N.J., in 1800 ; at Elizabethtown, N. J., 1800-03 ; professor of sacred theologj- at the College of New Jersej' and pastor of the church at Princeton, 1803-06 ; pastor of the Independent Presbyterian church at Savannah, Ga., 1806-19,
and declined the presidency of the University of
Georgia in 1810. In 1817 he travelled in England
to collect material for a life of John Calvin. He
received the degree of D.D. from Harvard and
from Union in 1806. His sermons and a memoir
were published by his brother in 1822. He died
in Savannah. Ga.. Dec. 29, 1819.
KOLLOCK, Mary, artist, was born in Norfolk, Va., Aug. 20, 1832; daughter of Shepard Ko.s- ciusko and Sarah (Harris) Kollock; granddaugh- ter of Shepard and Susannah (Arnett) Kollock, and of Stephen and Sarah (Denny) Harris of Leicester, Mass., and a descendant on her mother's side from John Alden of the Mayfloicer. She studied under Robert Wyiie in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts at Philadelphia, Pa. ; at the National Academy of Design in New York ; also took lessons in landscape painting from John B. Bristol, A. H. Wyant and others, and spent one year at the Julian school in Paris and in sketching in the north of France. She estab- lished herself in a studio in New York city. She was elected a member of the Art Students" league in 1877. In 1890 she settled in Paris, where she remained five years, studj'ing under Paul Delance, Collot, Lewis Deschamps and others. While in Paris she exhibited in the Salon. She returned to America and again settled in New York city in 1897. She exhibited "Midsummer in the Mountains " at the Centennial exhibition at Phil- adelphia, 1876, and constantly exhibited at the National Academy of Design and other places in the United States. Her more important works include: Lake George (1872); Black Mountain (1872): Morning in the Mountains (1877); On the Road to Mount Marcy (1877); A November Day (1878); An Evening Walk (1878); A Gleam of Sunshine (1882); On Rondout Creek (1883); The Old Fiddler (1S83); Under the Beeches (1885); .-1 Glimj^se of the Cat skills (1886); Early Morning in the Mountains {1887); Old Brittany Woman Spin- ning (1890); Road in Normandy (1890); Washiyig in Pont-Aven, France (1890); Tlie Gossips (1892) ; Italian Brigand (1892).
KOLLOCK, Shepard, editor, was born in Lewes. Del., in September, 1750 ; son of Sliepard and Mary (Goddard) Kollock ; grandson of Simon and Comfort (Shepard) Pettyman Kollock, and great-grandson of Jacob Kollock, who died in Lewes, Del., in 1720, and of Hercules Shepard. Shepard Kollock, Jr., was commissioned 1st lieu- tenant in the 2d artillery, Continental army, Jan. 1, 1777, and participated in the battle of Princeton, Jan. 81, 1777, and in other engagements in New Jersey. He was married, June 5, 1777, to Susan- nah, daughter of Isaac and Hannah Arnett ; she died, April 13, 1846. He resigned his commission, Jan. 3, 1779. and at the request of General Knox established the Neiv Jersey Journal in Chatham,
