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KENNET KENOSHA 791 St. Inigoe's," relating to the Maryland province in the days of Cecilius Calvert. All three works, revised and illustrated, were repub- lished in New York in 1852. Mr. Kennedy was elected to congress in 1838, and one of the whig presidential electors in 1840. He was re- elected to congress in 1841 and 1843, was de- feated by a small vote in 1845, and in 1846 was returned to the Maryland house of dele- gates, and chosen speaker. In 1849 appeared his " Life of William Wirt, Attorney General of the United States." In 1852 President Fill- more appointed him secretary of the navy, in which position he warmly favored Perry's Ja- pan expedition and Kane's second arctic voyage in search of Sir John Franklin. He retired in March, 1853. Of his occasional writings and addresses, the best known are " Quodlibet " and "Defence of the Whigs." During the civil war he wrote "Mr. Ambrose's Letters on the Rebellion " (New York, 1865). At his death he. was provost of the university of Maryland, vice president of the Maryland his- torical society, chairman of the trustees of the Peabody academy, and a member of various literary and scientific institutions. His " Life," by H. T. Tuckerman, was published in 1871. K.EMET, White, an English bishop, born in Dover in 1660, died in Peterborough in 1728. He was educated at Oxford, and was made bishop of Peterborough in 1718. He left a number of works, among which are: "Eccle- siastical Synods and Convocations historically stated and vindicated against Dr. Atterbury " (London, 1701); " The Case of Impropriations, and of the Augmentation of Vicarages and other insufficient Cures, stated by History and Law " (1704) ; " History of England, from the Accession of Charles I. to that of Queen Anne," published in the collection of English hietories compiled by John Hughes (1706) ; "Sibliothecce Americana Primordia, an attempt toward laying the Foundation of an American Library " (1713) ; and " A Register and Chron- icle, Ecclesiastical and Civil " (1728). His " Life " was published in 1730. He left a valu- able collection of manuscripts, purchased by Lord Shelburne, and now part of the " Lans- downe manuscripts" in the British museum. KENNICOTT, Benjamin, an English clergyman, born in Totness, Devonshire, April 4, 1718, died in Oxford, Sept. 18, 1783. He was of humble parentage, and certain gentlemen con- tributed funds to send him to Oxford in 1744. Here he so distinguished himself by the publi- cation of two dissertations on the " Tree of Life " and the " Oblations of Cain and Abel," that he obtained his degree of B. A. before the regular time. Soon afterward he was chosen fellow of Exeter college, and in 1767 he be- came keeper of the Radcliffe library at Oxford. He undertook to purify the Hebrew text of the Old Testament, maintaining, in an essay en- titled " The State of the Hebrew Text of the Old Testament considered," that the extant MSS. contained important errors, and that the text of the standard Hebrew Bible was in many parts corrupt. The publication of this dis- sertation excited a violent controversy. Among his opponents were Rutherford, professor of divinity at Cambridge, Bishop Warburton, and Home, afterward bishop of Norwich. At Kennicott's suggestion a subscription of 10,- 000 was raised to defray the cost of making a collation of all extant MSS. of the Old Testa- ment. Several eminent scholars engaged in the work, Kennicott himself examining and collating all the MSS. of Great Britain and France, and Prof. Brims those of Germany, Switzerland, and Italy. The task occupied nine years, during which 16 Samaritan and over 600 Hebrew MSS. were either wholly or in part collated ; and the materials resulting from this investigation filled when transcribed 30 folio volumes. As the result of this labor, Kennicott published his Vetus Testamentum Hebraieum cum Variis Lectionibns (2 vols. fol., Oxford, 1776-'80), founded chiefly on the text of Van der Hooght. KENOSHi, a S. E. county of Wisconsin, bounded E. by Lake Michigan and S. by Illi- nois, and drained by Des Plaines and Fox rivers; area, 306 sq. m.; pop. in 1870, 13,147. It has a level and thinly timbered surface, with a fertile soil resting on beds of limestone. The Kenosha and Milwaukee divisions of the Chi- cago and Northwestern railroad pass through it. The chief productions in 1870 were 214,- 567 bushels of wheat, 269,036 of Indian corn, 359,343 of oats, 45,473 of barley, 134,463 of potatoes, 13,377 of flax seed, 395,670 Ibs. of flax, 242,611 of wool, 480,599 of butter, 308,- 600 of cheese, and 44,404 tons of hay. There were 4,707 horses, 7,169 milch cows, 7,150 other cattle, 49,277 sheep, and 6,290 swine ; 8 manufactories of carriages, 4 of cheese, 2 of iron castings, 1 of machinery, 2 of malt, 3 of saddlery and harness, 2 breweries, 3 tanneries, 3 currying establishments, and 2 flour mills. Capital, Kenosha. KENOSHi, a city and the county seat of Kenosha co., Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan and on the Kenosha and Milwaukee divisions of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad, 30 m. S. of Milwaukee ; pop. in 1870, 4,309. It is built on a bluff, and has a good harbor with piers extending into the lake. It has an extensive trade in the products of the surrounding country, which is fertile and well cultivated. The manufactures are important. The princi- pal establishments are two founderies, three tanneries, two breweries, three malt houses, marble works, a flax mill, a planing mill, a machine shop, three manufactories of hard- ware, one of telegraph insulators, one of cheese boxes, two of ploughs, eight of boots and shoes, one of fanning mills, three of cabinet ware, three of sash and doors, and one of pumps. There are a national bank, three public schools including a high school, a fe- male seminary, two weekly newspapers, and 10 churches. Kenosha was settled in 1836.