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In 1H2-1!)02 lu- was professor of meclianical engineering at the Washington university of St. Louis, Mo., and since liH^ has been enj^agetl in the He is the aupractice of his profession. thor of Steam Engines and Hoilers; Charts for Low Pressure Steam Heating; and For-

Hannibal, Mo.

mulas and Tables for Heating. King, Adam, congressman, was l>orn in York, Pa. In 1827-H3 he was a representative from lVnnslvania to the twentietli, twenty-lirst and twenty-sex'ond congresses, lie died May «. 183.'*. in York. Pa. King, Adam Eckfeldt, soldier, was born in I'ennsylvania. In 1802 lie was second lieutenant in the thirty-first regiment New York infantry; and in ISUa he attained the rank of brigadier-general of volunteers, lie was honorably mustered out in 18(16. King, Albert Freeman Africanus, author, was born Jan. 18, 1841, in England. He is fonsulting physician at the C'liildrt'n's hospital of Washington, I).C. He is the author of a .Manual of Obstetrics. King, Alfred Byron, merchant, osteopath, wa.s born .luly 4. 1862, in Kittanning, Pa. He was educated at the College Springs hi^li school of Iowa; and at the Amity college of Iowa. He followed a business career for fifteen years. He iM-canie interested in tile new science of osteopathy. He is associate editiir of the Cosmopolitan Osteopath. author, was King, Alonzo, clergyman, born April 1, 17*J0, in Wilbraham, Mass. He was pastor of Northborough and Westborough, Mass. He was agent of the Massachusetts llaptist convention; and agent to raise funds for the endowment of the Newton theological institutions. He was the author of some lyric poetry; and a memoir of his friend, (Jeorge Dana lioardman. He died Nov. 2?», 183."», in Westborougli, MasN.

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Ray county; and in 1848-53 was In 18U3the eighth governor of Missouri. repn'sentative from Missouri U.) In- was a to the thirty-eighth congress as a democrat. He died April 22, 1870, in St. Louis, Mo. King, Charles, soldier, journalist, state legislator, college president, was born March The war of HI. 1785>, in New York City. 1812 with England fcmnd him actively engaged in business; and although he held thf opinion that it was injudicious, he gave his support, both in the th»' government legislature of New York, to which he was elected in 1813, and as a volunteer in 1844. He published the New York American, a judg.' for

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King, Charles, soldier, author, was born He was a Oct. 12. 1844, in -lbany, N.Y. States army ollicer, retired in 1879 I nited with the rank of captain. In 1880 he accepted the chair of military science in the In 1891) he was iiiiivfrsity of Wisconsin. made a brigadier-general of volunteers. He was the author of Famous and Decisive

Between the Lines; Campaigning With Crook; Stories of Army Life; Cadet Days; Tlio Colonel's Daughter; The Deserter; A War Time Wooing; Kitty's Concjutst; Cnder Fire; Waring's Peril; Foes in Rattles;

.Ambush; Fort Frayne; and Noble Blood. King, Charles Bird, painter, artist, was For forty born in 1785 in Ni'wport, R.I. years his studio at the capital was filled with the likenesses of the eminent men of the - 18154.

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he was a representative from Misthe forty-second congress as t He died in November, ISJM, in Jeifersim City, Mo.

grammar school Boston, Mass. He the author of Methods and Aids in Geography; This Conti-

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litterateur, King, Mrs. Anna Eichberg, author, was born in 18'>G in Switzerland. She is a Koston writer of short stories. She is the author of Hrown's Retreat, and Other Stories; Kitwyk; .American Wives and En;^lish Housekeeping; and the national hvniii To Thee, O Country. lawy»r, jurist, King, Austin Augustus, congres.-iman, governor, was born Svpt. 20, In 18341801, in Sullivan county, Tenn. 37 he was a member of the Missouri legis-

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