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KELLER. 432 KELLEY. vnd eues, vol. ii. (Stuttgart, 1889) ; and KOs- ter, Gottfried Keller (Leipzig, 1900). Keller's (lesuiiniullo U'trAc njiix'ared in ten volumes (new ed., Berlin, 1900 et .seq.), and selections from Ihem iiave been translated into English, with a memoir, by Kate Freiligratli-Kroeker ( l.iindon, 1S91). KELLER, Helen Adams (1880-). An American girl who became remarkable for the intellectual accomplishments which she acquired in spite of being deaf, dinib, and blind. She was born in Tuscunibia, Ala. On her father's side she is descended from .lexandcr Spottswood, a colonial Covernor of irgiiiia. and is connected with the l.ccs and other old iSoutliern families; while through her mother she is related to the New England families of Adams, Hale, and Everett. When she was nineteen months old she was attacked by scarlet fever, which left her without the senses of sight and hearing. Until her aighth year no serious attempt was made to educate her. She then wa.s jjlaced un<lcr the care of Jliss Anna Sullivan, wlio had re- ceived her training at the I'crkins Institution in Boston, and from that time lier jirogrcss was re- markable. When she had learned to read and write and to use the finger alphabet, she deter- mined that she wouhl learn to speak. Miss Sarah Fuller, of the Horace Mann School in New York, was her teacher, and so rapid was her progress that in less than a month she was able to til Ik intelligibly. After studying for some years at the Wright-Himiason School and at the Cam- bridge School, she entered Radclille College in 1900. Consult the autobiographv. The Story of My Life, with a study by J. S. Macy (1903)'. KELLER, Otto (1838—). A German ela.s- Sical philologist, born at Tiibingcn, appointed ]iro- fessor at Prague. His most important work has been, in collaboration with .. T. Holder, an edi- tion of the text of Horace, Horalii Opera liec. Keller ct Holder (1804-70; vol. i., 2d ed. 1899), which is the chief critical edition of Horace. On this subject he has also published E)>ile(jomena zu Horaz (3 vols., Leipzig, 1879-80). Besides these, he has made many contributions to learning; among them the most im])ortant are: Tiere dcx Iclassisehen Alterliimn in Icull iirfi( mhirhtlicher Beziehung (Innsbruck, 1887) ; Tier- iind Pflanzen- hilder auf Miinzen mid diminen (1SS9) ; Latein- ische Etymolvgien (1893); (Iranimnlixche Aiif- sUtze (18951 ; etc. KELTiERMAN, Willi.am Asiibrook (18.50 — I. .ii .Aiiicrican botanist, born at Ashville. Ohio. He graduated at Cornell (1874). and re- ceived his Pli.U. at Zurich (1881). He was nat- ural science master in the State Normal School of Wisconsin for five years ; then professor of botany and zoiilogj' in the Agricultural College of Kansas, as well as State botanist there; and he wrote a pamphlet upon the llora of Kansas. In 1891 h-2 was appointed professor of botany in the Ohio State University at Cohunbus, the in- stitution which published his Cnlalofiue of Ohio Plants (1899), the fourth it had issued, with a supplement the following year, and also The Xon- Jiidifieiions Flora of Ohio (1900), which he pre- pared with the assistance of his wife. KELLERMANN, kel'ler-mftn. Francois Christophe. Duke of Valmy (173.5-1820). A French general, born near Rothenburg, Bavaria. In 1752 he entered the French Annv, served through the Seven Years' War and in the I'olish expedition of 1771, and had risen to the rank of a marOchal dc-camj) before the Revolu- tion broke out. He warmly espoused its cause in 1788, and in 1792 he received the conuiiand of the .rmy of the Centre. -Acting with Dumouriez, Kel- lermann repelled the Duke of Brunswick and de- livered France, in the famous cannonade of Valmy (September 20, 1792). He then com mandcd the -Army of the Al|)s. but on allegation of treason against the Republic he was impris- oned for a year, and only liberated by the fall of Robespierre. He aftcrwarrls rendered important services in Italy, and was created .Marshal of France in 1804" and Did<e of Valmy in 1809. After 1812 he commanded the reserves in Ger- many. At the Restoration he attached himself to the Bourbons, and was created a peer in IS! 4. He died September 12, 1820. KELLERMANN, Fran-<;ois EtiK.we, Duke of Valmy (177U-1835). A French general. He was the son of General Francois Christophe Kel- lermann (q.v.), and was born at .letz, August 4, 1770. lie entered the army at an early age, being attached to the army of the First Consul. In 1790 he was Napoli-on's adjutant-general in Italy, and in 1797 was made brigadier-general. At Marengo (q.v.) i!i 1800 he decided the day by a charge of heavy cavalry, and was made a general of division shortly afterwards. He again distinguished him.self at .ustcrlilz (1805), and after 1807 took part in the Peninsular cam- paigns. On Napoleon's return from ICIba in 1815, lie was in connnand of the royal troops sent to oppose him, but ended by olTering his services to the Emperor. At the battle of Waterloo he <listingiished himself by a brilliant and success- ful cavalry charge. He sat in the Chandjcr of Peers after the death of his father. At his death, which took place June 2, 1835, he left a collection of memoirs which, though never published, have been used by his son, Francois Christophe Edouard (1802-08). in his Histoire de la cam- jini/ne dr ISdO (Paris, 1854). KEL'LEY, Benjamin Franklin (1807-91). An .American soldier, born in New Hamptx)n, X. •!. At the age of nineteen he went to Wheel- ing, Va. Upon the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted the First Virginia Regiment for the Federals and was made its colonel. His first service was at Philijipi. where he captured the Confederate camp etpiipage and was himself badly wounded. He was made brigadier-general of volunteers in 1861. was victorious at Komnej' and Blue's Gap. and afterwards commanded a division of 10,000 men in the department of Harper's Ferry. In 1862 he was serving under General Fremont, and the following year he was in command of the West Virginia Department, and pursued General ^jn while in 1804 he checked the enemy at Cumberland, .Md., New Creek and Jloreficld, Va. He was made major- general of volunteers in 1865, and after the peace was appointed internal-revenue collector, and in 187.'? examiner of pensions. KELLEY, Edgar Stillman (18.57 — ). An American composer, born at Sparta, Wis. He studied with Merriam, Clarence Eddy, and Le- dochowski in Chicago (1874-76). and afterwards at Stuttgart with Seifriz, Kriiger, Speidel. and Finck, the celebrated organist. Upon his return he held several Church appointments, and for