King, Nathan G – King, William Sterling
King, Nathan G
state senator. In 1873-74 he represented his county with ability and marked fidelity in the Michigan state senate, and throughout his life has maintained a high social standing and counted as his associates the best men, public and private. He is president of the Farmer's bank of Brooklyn, Mich., and is prominent in the public affairs of his city. county and state. He also contributes valuable articles to the periodical press and the leading magazines of the United States. He
King, Perkins
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born Jan. 12, 1784, in New Marlborough, Mass. In 1826 he was made judge of Greene county; and held the position until 1850. served two terms in the state legislature; and was a representative in congress from New York from 1829 to 1831. He died Nov. 29, 1875, in Greene county, N. Y.
King, Preston
lawyer, journalist, congressman, United States senator, was born Oct. 14, 1806, in Ogdensburg, N. Y.
He was a member of the New York legislature from 1835-38; was a representative in congress from New York from 1843 to 1847, and again from 1849 to 1853.
In 1857 he was elected a senator in congress, which position he retained until 1863. He was drowned Nov. 12, 1865, in the Hudson river.
King, Rufus
lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born March 24, 1755, in Scarborougn, Maine. He was elected from Newbury, Mass., to the state legislature; and in 1784 was elected a delegate to congress at Trenton.
Moving to New York city in 1778, he was in 1789 elected a senator in gress; and was again elected to the position in 1813, remaining in same conthat capacity until 1825. He died April 29, 1827, in New York city.
King, Rufus
soldier, civil engineer, journalist, was born Jan. 26, 1814, in New York city. He moved to Wisconsin and edited the Milwaukee Sentinel until 1861.
He commanded a division at Fredericksburg, Groveton, Manassas, Yorktown and Fairfax; and resigned in 1863. He died Oct. 13, 1876, in New York city.
King, Rufus
lawyer, author, was born in 1817, in Ohio. He was a prominent lawyer of Cincinnati, and the author of History of Ohio. He died in 1891.
King, Rufus H
banker, congressman, was born in 1784, in Ridgefield, Conn. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1855 to 1857. He was subsequently president of the New York State National bank at Albany; and also of the Albany Insurance company. He died July 9, 1867, in Albany, N. Y.
King, Samuel
artist, was born Jan. 24, 1749, in Newport, R. I. He was an artist of skill in his day, and many specimens of his work are extant, including a portrait of himself, which is now in possession of a descendant. He died Jan. 1, 1820, in Newport, R. I.
King, Samuel G
author, poet, was born May 2, 1816, in Philadelphia, Pa.
In 1876 he was elected mayor of Philadelphia. ica. For a third of a century he has been laboring to enlarge the scope and usefulness of Cornell college, and to advance He has the interests of its students. He is the author of numerous poems. Among his best known are Faith, Hope and Charity; Birds and Flowers; To Fortune; and other works.
King, Samuel W
governor. He was elected lieutenant-governor of Rhode Island in 1839; soon became the acting governor; and from 1840 to 1843 was governor of the state by election.
King, Thomas Butler
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Aug. 27, 1804, in Hampden, Mass. In the years 1832, 1834, 1835, and 1837 he was a member of the Georgia state senate. He was a representative in congress from Georgia from 1839 to 1843; again from 1845 to 1847; and for another term ending with 1849; and in 1859 was elected a senator in the state legislature. He died May 10, 1864, near Waresborough, Ga.
King, Thomas D
soldier, state legislator, was born Sept. 22, 1779, in Duplin county, N. C. He was frequently elected to the legislature, in which he served in both houses. He became major in the forty-third United States infantry in 1813, and remained in the service until peace was declared in 1815. He died Feb. 24, 1854, in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
King, Thomas Starr
clergyman, lecturer, author, was born Dec. 17, 1824, in New York city. He was a unitarian clergyman of Boston in 1845-56, and of San Francisco for the remainder of his life, He was the author of Substance and Show; Christianity and Humanity, with a Memoir by E. P. Whipple; The White Hills, a volume of travel in the White Mountains; and Patriotism, and Other Papers. He died March 4, 1863, in New York city.
King, William
state legislator, governor, was born Feb. 9, 1768, in Scarborough, Maine. He was a member of the Massachusetts legislature for some years.
He was president of the convention which framed the constitution of Maine, and was its first governor in 1820 and 1821. He was United States commissioner for the adjustment of Spanish claims from 1821 to 1824; and was general of militia and collector of customs at Bath from 1831 to 1834. He died June 17, 1852, in Bath, Maine.
King, William Fletcher
third president of Cornell college, was born Dec. 20, 1830, near Zanesville, Ohio. In 1857 he graduated from the classical course of the Ohio Wesleyan university; and for five years was employed as a teacher in that institution. In 1862 he was elected to the chair of the Greek and Latin languages in Cornell college of Mount Vernon, Iowa, which position he held until the death of President Fellows in 1863. He then took charge of the college as acting president, and was formally elected president in 1865. He still holds that office, making him not only the senior college president of Iowa, but as far as known, the oldest in continued presidency in the same institution in Amertraveled extensively in America and Europe, and is a man of affairs as well as of scholarship. He was a member of the national commission of the World's Columbian exposition; has been three times elected to the general conference of the methodist episcopal church. He is a vigorous speaker and a graceful writer; and his published papers and addresses have been well received.
King, William Henry
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was. born in June, 1863, in Fillmore City, Utah.
In 1882 he was elected to various offices in Fillmore City and Millard county. He was elected a member of the Utah legislature in 1885, and re-elected two years later. In 1891 he was elected to the territorial legislature, and was selected as president of the council or upper house. He was also elected county attorney of Utah county, and served in that capacity for four years; was city attorney of Provo City for a number of years; and in 1894 was appointed associate justice of the supreme court of Utah. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.
King, William Rufus
vice-president of the United States, was born April 6, 1786, in Sampson county, N. C. He was a representative in congress from his native state from 1811 to 1816. In 1819 was elected a senator in congress from Alabama, where he continued until 1844. In 1846 he was again elected to the United States senate, where he remained until elected vice-president of the United States in 1852. During the twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, twentysixth, thirty-first, and thirty-second congresses he officiated as president pro tem. of the senate, and as a presiding officer commanded universal respect. He died April 18, 1853, in Cahawba, Ala.
King, William Rufus
civil engineer, author, was born in 1839, in New York. He is an engineering officer in the United States army; and the author of Torpedoes, their Invention and Use; and Materials for Defensive Armor.
King, William S
journalist, congressman, was born Dec. 16, 1828, in Malone, N. Y. In 1858 he removed to Minneapolis, Minn., and established the State Atlas; and was subsequently elected postmaster of the national house of representatives for the thirty-seventh, thirtyeighth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second congresses; and the forty-fourth congress as a republican.
King, William Sterling
soldier, lawyer, state legislator, was born Oct. 6, 1818, in New York city. In 1855 he was elected a member of the Massachusetts legislature. At the beginning of the civil war he was commissioned captain in the thirty-fifth Massachusetts regiment, and in 1865 was made brigadier-general of volunteers. He died June 29, 1882, in Roxbury, Mass.