KEY, DAVID MCKENDREE ( 1824-1900) . An American jurist and Cabinet officer. horn in Greene County, Tenn. He studied law. was ad mitted to the bar in 1S49. and in 1S53 became a resident of Chattanooga. He op posed the secession movement in Ten nessee, rendering val uable aid to Andrew :Johnson; hut, un like him, after the secession of the State, he joined the Confederate Army. and served throughout the war in the Forty-third Tennessee Regiment, of which he became lieutenant-colonel. After the war he joined the Republican Party, was a prominent member of the State Constitutional Convention in 1870, and in 1875 succeeded Andrew Johnson in the United States Senate, serving until 1877, when he became Postmaster-General in President Ilayes's Cabinet. in 1680 President Hayes ap pointed him United States District Judge for the Eastern and diddle District of Tennessee, which position he held until his death.
KEY, kl, ERNST AXEL HENRIK (1832— ). A Swedish anatomi.t. born in SID land. Ile studied at Lund, became assistant surgeon at the Sera phim Hospital in Stockholm (1858). and studied in Germany under Schultze and Virehow. He was professor of isithologieril anatomy in the Caroline Institute of Stockholm (1862-97). of which he was for many years rector. In 1882 he became a memb-r of the Swedish Lower House. Key edited Nordiskt medieinskt Arkir (1869 sqq.), and the valuable collection. Ur rdr lids forskning (1872-78), and wrote: Studien in der Anatomic. des Nerrensystems and des Binde gewebes (1875-76), which won him the Montyon Prize from the French Academy. He also wrote on the history of Swedish medicine, especially ophthalmology (1892) ; and Till kirurgiens his toria i Sm.* (1897).