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died Dec. 24,

Arizona.

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(lie<I

Nov.

1.3,

1804, in Snuthlield, R.l.

King, Daniel Putnam, state senator, congressman, was born .Jan. 8, 1810, in Danvers. Mass. In 183U-37 he was a member iif the Massachusetts legislature; in 1838'. was A member of the state senate; and He in 1840-41 was president of that body. was speaker of the house in 1843; and in 1843-r»0 he was a rejiresentative to the twi-nty-eighth, twenty-ninth, thirtieth and tiiirty-tirst congresses. He died July 25, 1850, in Danvers, Mass. King, David, physician, founder, was born

May

12,

1812,

in*

Newport,

K.l.

1882, in

Newport.

R.I.

Question. King, David Latimore, educator, lawyer, legislator, was born March 5, 1883, in Pike He was one of the moat county. Miss. He expert cotton spinners of Mississippi. country in the taught for eight years schools of Mi8Hi.>4sippi. In 1887 he began tile practice of law in the Arkansas supreme ctmrt; and in 1878 was elected sheritr by the democrats of Lafayette counIn 18H6 he was elected to the ty. Ark'. state legislature.

King, Edward, lawyer, jurist, was born In 1825 he was president judge of the court of common pleas. He did more to establish the system of equity in Pennsylvania than all the judges of the state had done at the time His decisions are conof his retirement. tained in Ashmcad's and in Parson's reHe died May 8, 1873, in Philadeljxtrts. phia, Pa. in 17!»4 in Philadelphia, Pa.

lawyer,

July 31, 1848, in Middlefield, lived in Paris as correspondent for

iH.rn

He

ican journals. (Jcntle Savage;

Mass.

Amer-

the author of The The Colden Spike; French Paris, or French Character

He was

Leaders; My Sketches; Kentucky's Love; The Great South; Kchoea from the Orient, a volume of poems; Europe in Storm and Calm; A '«'netian I.K)ver, a Poem; Joseph Zalmonah; and Under the Red Flag. He died March

1896, in Brooklyn, N.Y.

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King, Frank Louis, musician, composer^ lie was born Dec. 17, 18 in England, was (lean of the first conservatory of music

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,

in

California.

the

founder

He of

in

the

King conservatory of music of San Jose, Cal., where he has

bwn a most successthe teacher of ful pianoforte for many years.

He has made

many

pianists of the order; and is a composer and director of the higlu'st cla.s». The advancement of music as an art, and the dissemination of ill that is Ijest and refining in music, has ever been attributed to his influence in Santa Clara county, and from there extendiiig more or less all over the state of Califirst

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King, David Bennett, lawyer, author, was born June 20, 1848, near Mt. Pleasant, Pa. In 1877-86 he was professor of Latin in Lafayette college. Since 1886 he has practiced law in New York City. He is the author of Latin Pronunciation; and The Irish

King, Edward,

tained success at the bar; and was instruin forming the Cincinnati law school in 1833. He died Feb. 6, 1836, in Cincinnati, Ohio. King, Edward, journalist, author, was

mental

He was

also president of the Newport historical soboard of Island state the Rhode ciety, the Redwood library, and a lieaftli, and founiler of the American medical associaHis collection of several thousand tion. rare books was sold at auction in New York in 1884. He was the author of History of Redwood Library. He died March 7,

was born March 13, 1795, in New York He was several times elected to each branch of the Ohio legislature, and for two sessions was speaker of the bouse. He atCity.

Cyrus, soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. IG, 1772, in Scarborough, Maine. He was a major-general of militia; and in 1813-17 lie waa a representative from Massachusetts to the thirteenth and fourteenth congresses. He died April 2't, 1817, in Saco, Maine. King, Dan, physician, author, was born He re.hui. "27, 1701, in' Mansfield, Conn. moved to Charlestown, R.I.; and was a member of the gem-ral assembly in 1828He was the autlior of iJfe and Times 34. of fJovernor Dorr; (^mickery Unmasked; and Tobacco: Wliat it la and What it Does,

King,

state legislator.

fornia.

King, Francis Scott, designer, artist, was born in 1850 in Maine. He is a designer and engraver on copper. He designed the now famous Ex Libris of the Printers Devil Hiul also designed the Sylvester bronze tablet for .lolms

Hopkins university.

King, Franklin Hiram, educator, author, lx)rn June 8, 1848, in Whitewater. Wis. In 1888-1901 he was professor of agricultural physics at the university of Wisconcin. He is the author of Economic Relations of Wisconsin Birds; The Soil; Elementary Lessons in the Physics of Agriculture; and Principles of Agricultural Irrigation and Farm Drainage. King, Frederic Gore, physician, phrenologi.-it. was born in 1801 in England. He was one of the first to give popular lectures on

was

professional subjects, having delivered courses on phrenolog- and the structure of the vocal organs. He also lectured on anatomy before the artists of the national academy of design. He dietl April 24, 1829, in

New York

City.

King, Gamaliel, designer, architect, was

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