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some years later. In 1826 he married Henrietta, daughter of Cornelius Low, by whom he had nine cliildren. He died at Frascati, Italy, in October, 181)7.

KING, Charles, soldier and author, was born in Albany. N.Y.. Oct. 12, 1844; son of Gen. Rufus and Susan (Eliot) King, and grandson of Charles and Eliza (Grauie) King. On his maternal side he descended from John Eliot, the apostle to the Indians. His early boyhood was spent in Milwaukee, Wis., where his father had removed in 1845, and in 18.58 he attended the grammar school at Columbia college, New York. Upon the outbreak of the civil war he joined his father's brigade as mounted orderly y^ •/" . and served until

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graduated from the U.S. Military academy, West Point, in 1866, and was appointed in- structor in artillery tactics there. He was com- missioned 2d lieutenant of the 1st artillery, June 18, 1866, and again served at West Point as in- structor of cavalry and artillery tactics, 1869-71. He was sent to New Orleans as aide-de-camp to Gen. William H. Emory, and while there he wrote his first story, " Kitty's Conquest," the scenes de- scribed being taken from experiences in the south during the reconstruction days, 1870-74. He was promoted 1st lieutenant. May 15, 1870; was transferred to the 5th cavalry, then serving on the Indian frontier, Jan. 1, 1871. In 1874 he commanded a troop in the Apache campaign in Arizona and was engaged in actions at Diamond Butte, Black Mesa and Sunset Pass until severely wounded. He was brevetted captain for gallant and distinguished conduct in action against hostile Indians, May, 1874. but declined. He con- tinued to serve on the frontier and was promoted captain, May 1, 1879. He was retired from ac- tive service for wounds received in line of dutj-, June 14, 1879, when he returned to Milwau- kee and was professor of military science and tactics at the University of Wisconsin, 1880-82; was colonel and aide-de-camp to Governor Rusk, 1882-89, and to Governor Hoard, 1891; com- manded the state troops during the lal)or riots of 1886, and was assistant inspectoi'-general, Wis- consin national guard, 1883-89. He was ap- pointed colonel of the 4th infantry. W.N.G., in 1890, and a member of the board of visitors to the

U.S. Military academy, West Point, in 1889. He was retired in July, 1892, and in 1895 was ap- pointed adjutant-general of the Wisconsin na- ti<jnal guard, retiring Jan. 4, 1897. Upon the breaking out of the war with Spain he was appointed a brigadier-general of volunteers, May 27, 1898; sailed for Manila, Aug. 21. 1898, and commanded his brigade in the heaviest battle fought in the Pliilippines. On March 1, 1899, he was recommended for promotion to the rank of major-general of volunteers for " energy, bravery and efficiency in battle during the en- gagement with the Filipino insurgents, Feb. 5, 1899." He is the author of: Compaujning with Crook (1880); The Colonel's Daughter (1883); Marions Faith (1886); A War Time Wooing (1888); Dunraven Ranch (1889); Between the Lines {\8Sd); Larainie (1889-92): An Army Portia (1890); Captain Blake (1891); A Soldiers Secret (1893); Foes in Ambush (1893); Cadet Days (1893); War ing's Peril {\8'ii-^); Caj^tain Close and Sergeant Croesus (1895); Under Fire (1895); The Stortj of Fort Frayne (1895); TJie Deserter and From the Ranks (1896); Trooper Ross and Signal Butte (1896); A Tame Surrender (1896); War- rior Gap (1897); TJie GeneraVs Double (1898); Ratjs Recruit {\898); A Wounded A o me (1898); A Trooper Galahad {\899);From School to Battle- field (1899).

KING, Clarence, geologist, was born at New- port, R.I., Jan. 6, 1842; son of James and Flor- ence (Little) King; grandson of Samuel and Harriet (Vernon) King, and of William Little; great-grandson of Samuel and Aniey (Vernon) King, and great'--grandson of Benjamin and 3Iary (Haggar) King. He was graduated from the Sheffield Scientitic school, Yale, in 1862, and in 1863 went on horseback from the Missouri river to California, where he joined the geological survej' of that state, and continued in this work until 1866, meanwliile making a careful study of the gold belt of the Sierra Nevada, and by his discoveries the age of the gold-bearing rocks was determined. Returning east he conceived a plan for an elaborate and complete geological section of the Western Cordilleras system at the widest expansion, on the fortieth parallel. This plan was sanctioned by the secretary of war in 1867 and King was placed in charge of the expedition and was engaged in the work for five years. In 1870 he commenced the publication of his reports, completed in 1878, and issued under the title "Professional Papers of the Engineer Dejiart- nient. United States Army." In 1872 Mr. King exix)sed the Arizona diamond-field frauds. In 1878 he suggested the consolidation of the various national surveys tlien in the field and organized the U.S. geological survey, of which he was director until 1881, when he resigned, and from