Page:The Biographical Dictionary of America, vol. 06.djvu/275

 KING

KING

f

^^'/^fa^

coiniuaiKleJ the 9th U.S. iiifiuitiy in the west and was retired. Feb. 20, 1N8'2. luiving reached the age limit. lie died in Washin.L;ton, D.C., April?, 1888. KING, John Pendleton, senator, was born near Glasgow, Barren county, Ky., April 3, 1799; son of Francis and Mary (Patrick) King. His parents removed to Bedford county, Tenn., soon after his birth, where he attended school. He went to Georgia in 1817, stud- ied at Richmond col- lege, Augusta, and rtad law witii Free- man Walker. He was admitted to the bar in 1819, practised at Augusta, and when ]\Iajor Walker was .serving as U.S. sena- tor, 1819-21, young King took charge of his large law busi- ness. He completed his professional edu- cation in Europe, 18- 22-24, returning to the United States in 1824 on the same vessel with Lafayette, with whom he formed a lasting friendship. He continued his law practice in Augusta until 1829. He was a member of the state convention to reform the constitution in 1800; was appointed judge of the court of com- mon i)leas in 1831; member of the state constitu- tional convention of 1833, and was elected to the U.S. senate to fill the vacancy caused by the res- ignation of George M. Troupe in 1833. He was re-elected in 1835 for a full term and resigned in 1837 by reason of a si")eech made in opposition to the policj^ of Van Buren's administration, which displeased his constituents in Georgia. When the Georgia railroad was completed from Augusta to Madison, he was made manager and he continued the road to Atlanta with a branch from Union Point to Athens and projected and built a road from Atlanta to West Point. After the war he used his own fortune to rebuild these roads and placed them on a paying basis and he retired from the management of the Georgia Railroad and Banking company and of the Atlanta and West Point railroad in 1878. He was one of the projectors of the Augusta canal, a director of the Augusta Cotton factory and a member of the state convention of 1805, which repealed the ordinance of sece.ssion, repudiated the Confeder- ate war debt and abolished slavery. He died at his residence in Summerville, Ga., March 19, 1888. KING, Jonas, missionary, was boi-nin Hawley, Mass., July 29, 1792; son of Jonas and Abigail (Leonard) King, and grandson of Thomas and Abigail (Warriner) King. He earned his college

tuition by teaching school and was graduated from Williams college in 181G, and from Andover Theological seminary in 1819. He was employed as a missionary in Charleston, S.C, for six months, and was ordained evangelist there, Dec. 17, 1819, by the Congregational association. He was a foreign missionary to Egypt, Jerusalem and Palestine, 1821-25; was a missionary in South Carolina and Georgia, 1827, and in Greece, 1828-09. He was married, July 22, 1829, to An- netta A.spasia Mengous, a native of Tenos, Greece, where they opened a school for girls. In De- cember, 1830, lie resumed his connections with the A.B.C.F.M. and in April, 1831, removed to Athens, where he labored until his death. He suffered persecution, his house was guarded bj' soldiei's and he was forced to leave the country, spending 1847-48 in Switzerland and Itah'. In 1848, in consequence of the revolution in France, the ministrj' at Athens was changed, and he re- turned to that city, and in 1851 was appointed U.S. consular agent. He was again brought to trial in March, 1852, and was condemned to fifteen days' imprisonment and to be exiled from the country, which decision was revoked after an investigation and protest by the U.S. govern- ment. He visited the United States, 1804-07. He received the degree of D.D. from the College of New Jersey in 1832. He is the author of: Fareu'dl Letter to his friends in Palestine and Syria (1825); Defence of Jonas King (1845); Ex- position of an Apostolical Church (1851); Relig- ious Rites of an Apostolical Church (1851): Her- meneutics of the Sacred Scriptures (1857); Synojy- tical Vleio of Palestine and Syria, tcith Additions (1859); Miscellaneous Works (1859-00). and trans- lations of several religious books into modern Greek. He died at Athens, Greece, Uay 22, 1809. KING, nitchell, educator, was born in Crail. Scotland, June 8, 1783. He was a student of science and metaphysics. In 1804 he remt)ved to London and soon after shipped to ]Malta, and on the voyage was captured by Spanish pirates and imprisoned at Malaga. He escaped on a vessel bound for Charleston, S.C, and reached there, Nov. 17, 1805. He opened a school in 1800, became a student and assistant teacher in the College of Charleston and was graduated A.B., 1810, being admitted to the bar the .same year. He was principal of the College of Charles- ton, 1810, a trustee and president of the board, when the college was reorganized in 1838; judge of the cit}' court, 1819 and 1842-44; active in op- posing nullification, 1830-32, and a delegate to the state convention of 1833. He was a founder of the Philosophical society in 1809. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from the College of Charleston in 1857; and enriched the library of that institute by a gift of a large number of