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that time gave his attention to special geological research. He was elected a member of the Na- tional Academy of Sciences in 1876, an associate fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Knickerbocker, Metropolitan, Union League and Tuxedo clubs and the Century association of New York. He received the degree of LL.D. from Brown uni- versity in 1890. He is the author of: Mountain- eering in the Sierra Nevada (1871; new edition, 1902). He died in Phoenix, Arizona, Dec. 24, 1901.

KING, Cyrus, representative, was born in Scarborough, Maine. Sept. 16, 1772; son of Rich- ard and Mary (Blake) King; brother of Gov. William King and a half-brother of Rufus King. He was prepared for college at Pliillips academy, Andover, Mass., and was graduated from Colum- bia college in 1791. He commenced the study of law with Rufus King in New York, and served as his private secretary in 1796, wlien U.S. min- ister to England. He was married in October, 1797, to Hannah, daughter of Capt. Seth Storer, of Saco. He returned home and completed his legal studies in the office of Chief- Justice Mellen, at Biddeford, Maine, and was admitted to the bar in 1797. He practised law in Saco, Maine, 1798-1817; was a representative from the Maine district of Massachusetts in the 13th and 14th con- gresses, 1813-17. He died in Saco, April 25, 1817.

KING, Dan, politician, was born in Mansfield, Conn., Jan. 27, 1791. He practised medicine in Preston and Groton, Conn., 1812-17. and Charles- town, R.I., 1817-35. He was a representative in the general assembly of Rhode Island, 1828-34, and one of a committee of two to report a plan for treating the Narragansett Indians, and he secured an ai^propriation for the support of an Indian school. He was one of the organizers of the Suffrage party in 1840, and the candidate of the party for state senator and for representa- tive in congress, but he took no part in main- taining the claims of Thomas W. Dorr to the governorship. He removed to Woonsocket in 1834, soon after to Taunton, Mass., and finally settled in Smithfield, R.I., in the practice of medicine. He is the author of: An Address on Siiiritualism {IS'il); Quackery Unmasked (1858); Life and Times of Tliomas Wilson Dorr, tvith Out- lines of the Political History of Rhode Island (1859); Tobacco: IMiat it Is and llliat it Does (1861), and contributions to professional periodi- cals. He died in Smithfield, R.I., Nov. 13, 1864.

KING, Daniel Putnam, representative, was born in Danvers, Mass., Jan. 8, 1801; son of Daniel and Phebe (Upton) King; grandson of Zachariali and Desire (Jacobs) King and of Ezra and Mehitable Upton, and a descendant of Wil- liam Kin e. who immigrated from England to America in 1035 and settled in Salem, Mass. He

was graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1823, A, M., 1826, and was admitted to the bar, but aban- doned law to engage in the cultivation of a farm in South Danvers, inherited by his wife. He was a representative in the Massachusetts legis- lature, 1836, 1837 and 1843, and speaker in 1843, a member of the state senate, 1838-41, and its president, 1840-41, and a trustee of the state lu- natic asylum. He was a Whig representative from the 2d Massachusetts district in the 28th, 29th, 30th and 31st congresses, 1843-50, and in congress he opposed war with Mexico. He was a member of the Essex Historical society; secre- tary, vice-president and trustee of the Essex Nat- ural History society; a corresponding member of the New England Historic Genealogical societj-, and a member and trustee of the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture. He was married in 1824 to Sarah Page, daughter of Hez- ekiah Flint, of Danvers, Mass., and their son, Benjamin Flint King (born 1830, died 1868), Harvard, 1852, was a soldier in the civil war and a lawjer in Boston. Daniel P. King died in South Danvers, Mass., July 25, 1850.

KING, Edward, journalist, was born in Mid- dlefield, Mass., Jul}' 31, 1848. He became a re- porter on the Springfield Union, in 1864 changed to the Republican, on which he served as reporter and editorial writer until 1867, when he reported the Paris exposition. He accompanied J. Wells Champne}', the artist, on a trii) througli the southern states, and wrote a series of articles on their condition and resources for Scribner's Magazine. These papers were published in book form, entitled "The Great South" (1875). He went as a newspaper correspondent to Paris in 1875; served in the Carlist war in Spain and in the Russo-Turkisli war. He also served as secre- tary of the Societe de Gens de Lettres of Eui'ope for several j'ears. He returned to the United States in 1888, and was employed as an editorial writer on the New York Morning Journcd and Once a Week. He is the author of: My Paris, or French Character Sketches (1868); Kentucky's Love (1873); Echoes from the Orient (1879); French Political Leaders (1882); The Gentle Savage (1883); Europe in Storm and Calm (1885); The Golden Spike (1886); A Venetian Lover {\881)\ Joseph Zalmonah (1893). He died in Brooklyn, N.Y., March 28, 1896.

KING, George Gordon, representative, was born in Newjiort, R.I., June 2, 1807; son of Dr. David and Anne (Gordon) King. He received his preparatory education in Newport and at Phillips academy, Andover, Mass., and was grad- uated at Brown university, A. B., 1825. Heat- tended the Litchfield Law school in Connecticut, studied in the law office of John Whipple at Providence, R.I., and was admitted to the bar in