James Kilbourne, an American pioneer, born in New Britain, Conn., Oct. 19, 1770, died in Worthington, 0., April 9, 1850. He was successively employed as an apprentice, clerk, merchant, and manufacturer. Having secured a competence, he became a priest in the Protestant Episcopal church, declined several advantageous calls to vacant parishes, and, for the purpose of promoting western emigration, in 1801-'2 organized the Scioto company, under whose auspices a colony of about 100 persons, under his lead, was in 1803 established in what is now the township of Worthington in Ohio. He retired from the ministry in 1804, and was appointed a civil magistrate, an officer of militia on the N. W. frontier, and surveyor of a large portion of the public lands. In 1812 he was one of the commissioners to settle the boundary between the public lands and the great Virginia reservation, and also commissioned as a colonel in the frontier regiment; and in 1813 he entered congress, of which he remained a member till 1817. He was for 35 years president of the board of trustees of Worthington college.