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548 raoted major, 3 March, 1813, and commanded his regiment in the capture of York (now Toronto), 27 April, 1813. He became assistant adjutant-general, 28 April, 1813, was wounded at the capture of Fort George, 27 May, 1813, and commanded U. S. troops in repelling the attack on Black Rock, 11 July, 1813. He was appointed adjutant-general, with the rank of colonel, 18 July, 1813 ; colonel, 21 Feb., 1814 ; and was military and civil governor of Pensacola in May, 1818.

KING, William Rufus, vice-president of the United States, b. in Sampson county, N. C, 6 April, 1786 ; d. near Cahawba, Dallas co., Ala., 18 April, 1853. His father, William King, served as a member of the North Carolina convention that was called to adopt the constitution of the United States, and was also for many terms a dele- gate to the general assembly. The son was gradu- ated at the University of North Carolina in 1803, studied law with William Duffy, of Fayetteville, and was admitted to practice in 1806. The same year he was elected a member of the state legisla- ture, and was appointed by that body solicitor for the Wilmington district. He served for two years in that capacity, and on resigning was again re- turned to the legislature for the years 1808-'9. The following year Mr. King was elected to a seat in congress as a War-Democrat, and, though the youngest member of that body, became conspicuous for his zealous support of President Madison. He remained a member of congress until 1816, when he accepted the appointment of secretary of lega- tion to Naples in association with William Pinck- ney, afterward accompanying Mr. Pinckney to Russia in the same capacity. On his return from Europe in 1818, Mr. King removed to Dallas coun- ty, Ala., and served as a delegate to the conven- tion that organized a state government. On the adoption of the state constitution, he was elected U. S. senator, and served until 1844, when Presi- dent Tyler appointed him minister to France. The proposed annexation of Texas was at that time exciting the opposition of England, and it was believed that France might be persuaded to join in the protest. Mr. King, who earnestly fa- vored the undertaking, insisted on receiving from Louis Philippe a frank avowal of his policy. The reply was satisfactory, and annexation took place without opposition from any of the European powers. In 1846 Mr. King was recalled at his own request, and in 1848 he was appointed U. S. senator in place of Arthur P. Bagby, who had been made minister to Russia. In 1849 he was elected for the full term of six years, and in 1850 he served as president of the senate. In 1852 Mr. King was elected vice-president of the United States on the ticket with Franklin Pierce, but failing health forced him to visit. Cuba in 1853, where the oath of office was administered by special act of con- gress. He returned to this country, but with health so completely shattered that he died the day after reaching home. President Pierce paid a tribute to Mr. King's memory in his annual mes- sage, and the usual resolutions were passed in both houses of congress. Mr. King was about six feet high, and remarkably erect in figure. He was a fine talker and a most interesting companion. — His elder brother, Thomas D., soldier, b. in Duplin county, N. C, 22 Sept., 1779 ; d. in Tusca- loosa, Ala., 24 Feb., 1854, was educated at the University of North Carolina, and was frequently elected to the legislature, in which he served in both houses. He became major in the 43d U. S. infantry on 4 Aug., 1813, and remained in the service until peace was declared in 1815.

KING, William Sterling, soldier, b. in New York city, 6 Oct., 1818 ; d. in Roxbury, Mass., 29 June, 1882. His father, Elisha W. King, a lawyer of New York city, was for several years a member of the state assembly. William was educated at Yale and in Union college, where he was graduated in 1837. He then studied law, and practised his profession in New York city from 1839 till 1843. About that time he removed to North Providence, R. I., and in 1852 settled at Roxbury, Mass., where he remained until the close of his life. In 1855 he was elected a member of the Massachusetts legisla- ture. At the beginning of the civil war he was com- missioned captain in the 35th Massachusetts regi- ment, and commanded it at South Mountain and Antietam, where he received wounds, from the effects of which he never entirely recovered. He was soon promoted to be major and then colonel, and in 1862-'3 became chief of staff of the 2d divis- ion, 9th army corps, provost-marshal of Kentucky, and military commander of the district of Lexing- ton, Ky. In 1864 he received a commission as colonel of the 4th Massachusetts artillery, and in 1865 was made brigadier-general of volunteers by brevet. After he was mustered out of service Gov. Andrew appointed him chief of Massachusetts state police, and later he filled successively the offices of assessor of U. S. internal revenue, and registrar of probate and insolvency. In 1875-'6 he was again a member of the Massachusetts legislature and chairman of the military committee.

KINGDON, Hollingsworth Tully, Canadian Anglican bishop, b. in England in 1837. He was graduated in 1858, ordained a priest in the Church of England in 1860, and became senior assistant curate at St. Andrew's, Well street, London, in 1869. In 1878 he was appointed vicar of Great Easter, Essex, and in 1880 became coadjutor bish- op of Fredericton, New Brunswick. In 1881 the degree of D. D. was conferred on him.

KINGSBOROUGH, Edward King, Viscount, author, b. in Cork, Ireland, 16 Nov., 1795 : d. in Dublin, 27 Feb., 1837. He was the eldest son of George, third Earl of Kingston, was educated at Oxford, represented Cork in parliament in 1820-6, and subsequently devoted himself to his great work, " The Antiquities of Mexico, comprising Fac- similes of Ancient Mexican Paintings and Hiero- glyphics, together with the Monuments of New Spain by M. Dupaix, with their respective Scales of Measurement, and accompanying Descriptions, the Whole illustrated with many Valuable inedited MSS." (9 vols., London, 1831-'48). The first seven volumes are estimated to have cost upward of $300,000. The eighth and ninth were published after his death, which resulted from a fever con- tracted in a debtor's prison, where he had been temporarily confined for a resistance to an at- tempted imposition. The work is chiefly valuable for its generally faithful reproduction in fac-simile of such Mexican hieroglyphical or painted records and rituals as were known to exist in the private collections and libraries of Europe, but their care- less arrangement renders them unintelligible except to advanced students in American archasology. Most of his original speculations are loose and crude, and mainly directed to the hypothesis of the Jewish origin of the American Indians, or of the semi-civilized nations of Mexico and Central America. The ninth volume, containing the narra- tive of Don Alva Ixtlilxochitl, closes abruptly without finishing the imperfect relation.

KINGSBURY, Charles P., soldier, b. in New York city in 1818 ; d. in Brooklyn, N. Y., 25 Dec., 1879. He was graduated at the U. S. military