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King, David Bennett

lawyer, author, was born June 20, 1848, near Mt.

Pleasant, Pa. He is a lawyer of New York city, and the author of Latin Pronunciation; and The Irish Question.

King, Edward

lawyer, state legislator, was born March 13, 1795, in New York city. He was several times elected to each branch of the Ohio legislature, and for two sessions was speaker of the house. He attained success at the bar, and was instrumental in forming the Cincinnati law school in 1833. He died Feb. 6, 1836, in Cincinnati, Ohio. as

King, Edward

journalist, author, was born July 31, 1848, in Middlefield, Mass. He was a journalist who lived in Paris correspondent for American journals, and the author of The Gentle Savage; The Golden Spike; French Leaders; My Paris, or French Character Sketches; Kentucky's Love; The Great South; Echoes from the Orient, a volume of poems; Europe in Storm and Calm.; A Venetian Lover, a Poem; Joseph Zalmonah; and Under the Red Flag. He died in 1896.

King, George C

Congressman, was born in Rhode Island. He was a representative in congress from Rhode Island from 1849 to 1853; and was presidential elector in 1849. He died July 17, 1870, in Newport, R. I.

King, Grace Elizabeth

author, was born in 1859, in New Orleans, La.

She is a popular writer of New Orleans and the author of Monsieur Motte; Tales of a Time and Place; Earthlings; New Orleans, the Place and the People; Jean Baptiste Lemoine, Founder of New Orleans; and Balcony Stories.

King, Henry

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born in Hampden, Mass.

He was a member of the senate of Pennsylvania, when elected a representative in the twenty-second congress. He was re-elected to the twenty-third congress.

He died July 13, 1861.

King, Henry Melville

clergyman, author, was born Sept. 3, 1838, in Oxford, Maine. He is a baptist clergyman, and since 1891 pastor of the First Baptist church of Providence, R. I. He is the author of Early Baptists Defended; Mary's Alabaster Box, a collection of homilies; and Our Gospels.

King, Horatio

postmaster-general of United States, author, was born June 21, 1811, in Paris, Maine. In 1854 he was appointed first assistant postmaster-general, and from President Buchanan he received the appointment of postmastergeneral. He was the author of Sketches of Travel, or Twelve Months in Europe; and Turning on the Light, a Survey of the Administration of Buchanan. He died in 1897.

King, Horatio Collins

journalist, author, was born Dec. 22, 1837, in Portland, Maine. He is a journalist of New York city, and the author of Guide for Regimental Courts Martial; The Brooklyn Congregational Council; and The Plymouth Silver Wedding.

King, J. Floyd

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born April 20, 1842, near St. Mary's, Ga. He entered the confederate army and served throughout the war, attaining the rank of colonel. He was appointed brigadier-general of militia in Louisiana. He was elected a representative from Louisiana to the fortysixth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth, and forty-ninth congresses as a democrat. was

King, James

merchant, banker, congressman, born May 8, 1791, in Highwood, N. J. He was a representative in congress from New Jersey from 1849 to 1851. He died Oct. 3, 1853, in Highwood, N. J.

King, James L

librarian, was born Aug. 2, 1850, in La Harpe, Ill. In 1871 he moved to Topeka, Kan.; and in 1894 was elected state librarian.