THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE NAMES

THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE NAMES

WILLIAM K. KAMAKA

(1914-1943) Merchant seaman lost on the “S.S. James Smith” when it was
torpedoed off French Guiana 1943, by German submarine U-510, while enroute
Capetown to Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana.

RUDOLPH KAUFFMAN

(1853-1927) Editor and part owner of the Washington Evening Star.

EDWARD KAVANAGH

(1795-1844) Congressman from Maine 1831-1835. Governor of Maine 1843.

THOMAS KEARNS

(1862-1918) Senator from Utah 1901-1905.

PHILLIP KEARNY

(1814-1862) Civil War general who had served with Napoleon. Killed in
Virginia after serving in 12 engagements.

STEPHEN W. KEARNY

(1794-1848) Mexican War soldier that helped capture Los Angeles in 1846 and
later served as Governor of California 1847.

LAURA KEENE

(1826-1873) English actress playing Ford’s Theatre the night Lincoln was
assassinated.

WILSON B. KEENE

(1887-1935) Leading figure in establishment of American flag shipping to major
ports of the world. Vice-president of Munson Line.

CHARLES A. KEFFER

(1861-1935) Horticulturist from Iowa.

J. WARREN KEIFER

(1836-1932) Congressman from Ohio. Speaker of the House 1881-1883.

MINOR C. KEITH

(1848-1929) Central American railroad builder and founder of United Fruit.

WILLIAM KEITH

(1839-1911) Landscape painter and engraver.

HALL J. KELLEY

(1790-1874) Teacher, surveyor who influenced American occupation of Oregon.

OLIVER KELLEY

(1826-1913) Farmer, land speculator. Founder of the Grange 1867.

ELIJAH KELLOGG

(1813-1901) Congregational clergyman. Writer of adventure stories.

FRANK B. KELLOGG

(1856-1937) Senator from Minnesota 1917-1923. Secretary of State 1925.

VERNON L. KELLOGG

(1867-1937) Biologist, writer. Professor at Stanford who assisted Hoover as food
administrator during first World War.

CLINTON KELLY

(1808-1875) Pioneer Methodist minister who settled in Oregon City 1849.

COLIN P. KELLY JR.

(1915-1941) Army pilot, flying out of the Phillipines, who was credited with
sinking the first Japanese ship of World War II on December 9, 1941.

HOWARD A. KELLY

(1858-1943) Surgeon, gynecologist. Professor at Johns Hopkins.

JAMES K. KELLY

(1819-1903) Senator from Oregon 1871-1877.

LUTHER S. KELLY

(1849-1928) Army scout known as “Yellowstone Kelly”.

WILLIAM KELLY

(1770-1832) Senator from Alabama 1822-1825.

JOSEPH I. KEMP

(1873-1943) Seaman. 33 years at the Fore River Yard in Massachusetts as trial
skipper, where he piloted every type of vessel that floats, including
submarines.

AMOS KENDALL

(1789-1869) Postmaster General 1835-1837.

GEORGE W. KENDALL

(1809-1867) Founder of the “New Orleans Picayune” the first daily newspaper in
Louisiana 1837.

JOHN CHESTER KENDALL

(1877-1941) Agriculturist. Professor Kansas State University.

JOHN B. KENDRICK (1857-1933) Governor of Wyoming. Senator from
Wyoming 1917-1933.

WILLIAM H. KENDRICK (1882-1937) 4-H Club activist in West Virginia.

GEORGE KENNY

(1823-????) San Francisco pioneer who established first bookstore in S.F. in
partnership with Hubert Howe Bancroft 1851.

WILLIAM KENT

(1851-1918) Mechanical engineer. Established the first physical
testing labratory.

MARK KEPPEL

(1867-1928) Supt. of Schools for Los Angeles County 1903-1928.

JAMES KERNEY

(1873-1934) Editor of the Trenton Evening Times. Confidante of President
Wilson Renamed “F. E. Weyerhaeuser” 1947.

MICHEAL C. KERR

(1827-1876) Congressman from Indiana 1865-1873; 1875-1876.

HUGH L. KERWIN

(1873-1937) Secretary of Labor 1917-1918.

FRANCIS SCOTT KEY

(1779-1843) Composer of our National Anthem 1814.

JOSEPH H. KIBBEY

(1853-1924) Justice of Supreme Court 1889-1893. Governor of Arizona 1905-1909.

WALTER KIDDE

(1877-1943) Mechanical engineer. Head of Walter Kidde @ Co.

JOYCE KILMER

(1886-1918) Soldier poet killed in World War I. Wrote “Trees”.

HUGH J. KILPATRICK

(1836-1881) Union Army general. Minister to Chile 1865-1868.

JAMES H. KIMBALL

(1874-1943) Chief meteorologist in New York during the 1938 hurricane. His
forecasts guided ships in and out of New York during both World Wars.

SUMNER I. KIMBALL

(1834-1923) Organizer of the U.S. Life Saving Service 1878.

MARY CULLOM KIMBRO

(1889-1942) Merchant seaman. Stewardess aboard the “City of Birmingham” lost
when it was torpedoed off Cape Hatteras 1942.

J. H. KINCAID

(1826-1907) Name actually spelled KINKEAD. Served as Governor of Nevada
1879-1883. First Territorial Governor of Alaska 1884.

CLARENCE KING

(1842-1901) Geologist, mining engineer. Did notable work in the West 1860-1880.

FRANKLIN H. KING

(1848-1911) Agriculturist and educator. Devised the round silo for
grain storage.

JAMES KING

(1791-1853) Financier and railroad executive from New York.

RUFUS KING

(1755-1827) Senator from New York 1789-1796; 1813-1825.

STANTON H. KING

(1867-1939) Sailor’s missionary, author. Served 11 years in U.S. Navy. Author
“Dog Watches at Sea” 1900.

STARR KING

(1824-1864) Unitarian clergyman from New York. Lyceum lecturer.

THOMAS B. KING

(1800-1864) Congressman from Georgia 1839-1843; 1845-1850.

WILLIAM KING

(1786-1853) Congressman from North Carolina 1811-1816. Senator from Alabama
1819-1844; 1848-1852. U.S. Vice President 1852-1853.

MARY E. KINNEY

(1859-1938) Oregon State legislator 1921-1925. Women’s suffrage advocate.

WILLIAM I. KIP

(1811-1893) Episcopal clergyman and author from New York. Established the
first Episcopal cathedral in San Francisco 1862.

HARRY KIRBY

(1902-1942) Merchant seaman who was the only one lost when the “S.S. Lebore”
was torpedoed off of Cristobal in 1942.

SAMUEL JORDON KIRKWOOD

(1813-1894) Governor of Iowa 1860-1864. Senator 1866-1867. Governor 1876-1877.
Senator 1877-1881. Secretary of Interior 1881-1882.

BARNEY KIRSCHBAUM

(1901-1943) Merchant seaman killed on the “S.S. Collingsworth” when sunk by a
German submarine off Dutch Guiana in 1943.

CLAUDE KITCHIN

(1869-1923) Congressman from North Carolina 1901-1923.

SEAMAN A. KNAPP

(1833-1911) Agriculturist and educator. Developed the rice industry in the
Southwest.

ELWIN F. KNOWLES

(1901-1943) Merchant seaman lost on the “S.S. John Harvey” when she blew up in
the harbor of Bari, Italy, after being hit by German bombers 1943.

HENRY KNOX

(1750-1806) Revolutionary War general. Secretary of War 1789.

PHILANDER C. KNOX

(1853-1921) U.S. Attorney General 1901-1904. Senator from Pennsylvania 1904-
1909. Secretary of State 1909-1913. Senator 1917-1921.

CONRAD KOHRS

(1835-1920) German pioneer in Montana 1862, known as the “Cattle King”.
Member Territorial Assembly 1885 and Constitutional Convention 1889.

THADDEUS KOSCIUSZKO

(1746-1817) Polish patriot and Revolutionary War general. Dictator of Poland.

LOUIS KOSSUTH

(18012-1894) Hungarian patriot and statesman.

NAVARCHOS KOUNDOURIOTIS

(1855-1935) Greek admiral and statesman. First president of Greece 1924.

WALTER FREDERICK KRAFT

(1906-1943) Merchant seaman killed on the “S.S.M.H. DeYoung’ when
in the South Pacific 1943.

FREDERIC A. KUMMER

(1873-1943) American writer of fiction and musical comedy.