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KATZER, Frederic Xavier, R. C. archbishop, b. at Ebensee, Upper Austria, 7 Feb., 1844, and with his parents removed in infancy to Gniiinden, on Lake Traun. Commencing Latin in the " principal school," poverty defeated his plan of entering the Jesuit college at Fresenberg, but his studious char- acter won the friend- ship of Bishop Kudi- ger of Lintz and the Empress Caroline Au- gusta, and by their aid he entered the college near Lintz in 1857. He became in- terested in the Ameri- can missions, and came to the United States in 1864. He completed his theo- logical studies and was ordained a priest in 1866. He succes- sively taught mathe- matics, dogmatic the- ology, and philosophy in the Salesianum in

Wisconsin until 1875,

when Bishop Krautbauer called him to Green Bay as his secretary and pastor of the cathedral. In 1878 he was appointed vicar-general of Green Bay diocese, and attended the third plenary council of Baltimore as theologian. On the death of Bishop Krautbauer he was appointed administrator of the diocese in December. 1885, and in May was appoint- ed bishop of Green Bay, receiving consecration in 1886. While rector of the cathedral he erected schools and a convent. On the death of Arch- bishop Heiss in March, 1890, Dr. Katzer was ap- pointed archbishop of Milwaukee.

KAVANAUGH, Benjamin Taylor, clergyman, b. in Jefferson county, 28 April, 1805 ; d, in Boons- borough, Ky., 3 July, 1888. He entered the minis- try, and for four years ha<l charge of the Indian mission at the head of Mississippi river. He after- ward studied medicine and practised in St. Louis, where he also held a chair in the medical depart- ment of the University of Missouri. In 1857 he resumed his ministerial duties, and during the civil war served as chaplain and assistant surgeon in the Confederate army. After the war he was professor of intellectual and moral science in Soule university for some time, but in 1881 returned to Kentucky. He published " Electricity the Motor Power of the Solar System " (New York, 1880). and had ready for publication " The Great Central Valley of North America " and " Notes of a Western Rambler."

KEAN, John, senator, b. in Ursino. Union co., N. J., 4 Dec, 1852. He studied at Yale, and was graduated from the (Columbia law-scliool. He was admitted to the bar, but law practice was dis- tasteful to him, and he embarked in the banking and mainifacturing business, in which he has been successful. He is president of the National state bank of Elizabeth, and is its largest stockholder ; is one of the directors of the P^lizabethport bank- ing company, president an<l controlling spirit of the Elizabethtown water company and the Eliza- bethtown gaslight company, and holds the princi- pal interest in the Elizabeth street-railway com- pany. He is also interested in a number of other enterprises in Elizabeth, and is vice-president of the Manhattan trust company of New York city. Mr. Kcan has been actively identified with poli- tics for many years. In 1883 he ran for congress against Miles Ross, whom he defeated. In 1884 he opposed Robert S. Green, who afterward be- came governor, and was defeated. He ran a third time, in 1886. against William McMahon, and was elected. In 1892 Mr. Kean was the candidate for governor against George T. Werts, who defeated him, and in 1896 he was a delegate to the Repub- lican national convention. In January, 1899, he was elected Republican U. S. senator for the terra ending in March, 1905, as successor to his Demo- cratic opponent, James Smith, Jr.

KEELY, Patrick Charles, architect, b. in Kil- kenny, Ireland, 9 Aug., 1816 ; d. in Brooklyn, N. Y., 12 Aug., 1896. He studied his profession with his father, assisting in designing several churches be- fore he came to this country and settled in Brook- lyn in 1841. He designed and erected about five hundred churches in the United States, including the cathedrals of Chicago, Boston. Hartford, and Providence, and almost every important Catholic church in New York city except St. Patrick's ca- thedral. Mr. Keely was the second person to re- ceive the gold medal awarded annually by the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, to the most distinguished Roman Catholic in this country.

KENDALL, Ezra Otis, educator, b. in Wil- mingtop, Mass., 17 May, 1818; d. in Philadelphia, 5 Jan., 1899. He received his early education at Woburn, but in 1835 removed to Philadelphia for the purpose of studying mathematics. At twenty he became professor of theoretical mathematics and astronomy in the Central high-school, which had just been opened in Philadelphia. In aildi- tion to his daily duties at the school, he often spent a large part of the night in the astronomical observatory, which he had organized and equipped. As a result of his studies he published a work on " Uranography," with an atlas of the constella- tions. He also made a systematic series of ob- servations for longitudes for the U. S. coast survey, extending over a period of several years. In 1851, at the request of the superintendent of " The United States Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac," he took charge of the computation of the ephemerides of Jupiter and his satellites and Neptune, and he was responsible for all that relates to these bodies in the annual issues of "The Nautical Almanac " from 1855 to 1883. In 1855 Dr. Kendall was elected to the chair of mathematics in the University of Pennsylvania. In 1883 he was chosen vice-provost. In 1888 the university conferred on him the degree of LL. D. He was a member of many of the educational societies of the country, and was vice-president of the American philosophical society.

KENNY, Albert Sewall, naval officer, b. in Des Moines county, Iowa, 19 Jan., 1841. He was graduated from the University of Vermont, and entered the navy as assistant paymaster in March, 1862, being promoted to paymaster in 1865. pay inspector in July, 1884, and pay director in September, 1897. For six years he was general storekeeper of the Brooklyn navy-yard. He was appointed paymaster-general of the U. S. navy, with t he rank of rear-admiral, in May, 1899, succeeding Edwin Stewart, retired. To him, perhaps more than to any one other man, is credited the clock-like working of the navy department's supply sys-