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* KING. 500 KINO. cral (1895), and brigadier-general, U. S. V. (1898). lie afterwards served in tlic Philippines. His histories, stories, and sketches are all of mili- tary matters; e.g. Famous and Decisice liattles (1884), Campaigning ic-itli Crook (1890), Be- tween the lAnes (1889), The Colonel's Daughter (1882), Marion's faith (1885), The Deserter (1887). A War-Time Wooing (1888), Kitty's i'onquest (1884), Under Fire (1894). The Maring's Peril (1894), Hay's Daughter (1900), A Tame Surrender (1901), Foes in Ambush (1893), Fort Wayne (1897), Xoble Blood are titles of some of his many stories. KING, Clabexce (1842-1901). An American geologist, born in Newport, K. I. He graduated at the Sheffield Scientilie .School of Yale in 1862. and the following year set out with a single cuni- panion on a trip across the continent. He ar- rived in California after acconiplisliing the last part of his journey on foot, and became attached as assistant to the Geological Survey, then di- rected by .J. D. liitney. His investigations at this time included the determination of the age of the gold-bearing rocks, surveys of Mount Whit- ney and the Yosemite Valley, and the collection of* evidence in support of the glaciation of the Sierras. In 18G7. upon his recommendation. Con- gress nrovided for the geological survey of a belt of countrj- including the fortieth parallel and extending across the Rocky Mountains. This survey, which laid (be foundation for future geo- logical investigations by the Oovcrnment, was successfully carried out by King during the years 181)7-72. The value of liis services to science in this connection received merited recognition when. in 1879. he was appointed the first director of (he Ignited States Geological Survey. Owing to ill health, be resigned (he office of director in 1881. but during his brief tenure the Survey ren- dered valuable assistance both to science and to the development of the mining industry of the country. The investigations of the Comstock Lode and of the Eureka and l^adville districts have bad an important influence upon the study of economic geology'. From 1881 until his death he practiced as a mining engineer, and engaged in various scientific investigations. The most im- portant of his publications are the following: Mountaineering in the ftierras (1871 : 1902) : "On the Discovery of Actual Glaciers on the Moun- tains of the Pacific Slope." in Ameriean Journal of fieience (1871): Si/sfeniatir Cleologg (1878): and "The Age of the Kartb," in American Journal of Science (1893). The last-mentioned paper is a very valuable contribution to the study of the earth. KING, Dam (1791-1804). An American physi- cian, born in ^Mansfield, Conn. He studied medi- cine there, practiced at Preston, Conn., and after- wards removed to Charlestown. R. T. Dr. King was actively interested in political affairs of Rhode Island, and served in the State Legisla- ture from 1828 to 1834. He supported the suf frage movement, of which Thomas Wilson Dorr became the head : but he did not sanction Dorr's headlong conduct after the suffrage party had failed to get control of the Legislature. The Narragansett Indians, who were in a reduced ■ condition, found an earnest helper in Dr. King. As a joint commissioner for (he State he investi- gated the condition of the Indians, and his re- port resulted in the establishment of an Indian school. His publications include a Life and Times of Thomas Wilson Dorr (1859). KING, Edwakd (1848-90). An American journalist, born at Middletield, Mass., July 31, 1848; died at Brooklyn, N. Y., 1890. At seven- teen he began newspaper work in Springfield, and soon after (1867) was sent to Europe as sjjccial correspondent of the Springfield Repub- lican, whose literary editor he became on his re- (urn. In 1869 he returiud to Europe as news- pajH-r correspondent, reporting the Franco-Ger- man War and the Paris Commune. In 1872 he made a journey through the South in behalf of Hcribner's Monthly, traveling 25,000 miles. The litcr.ary result of this journey was The Great South (1874). He returned to Europe in 1875, and afterwards lived chiefly in Paris as a jour- nalist. The more significant of his books are. Freneh Political Leaders (1870); Europe in Storm and Calm (1885); Kentucky's Love, or Roughing It Around Paris (1872); .1 Venetian Lover, poems (1887); The Gentle Savage, a novel (1883); The Golden Spike (1886). His lyrics are collected in Echoes from the Orient (1880). KING, Edward, Viscount Kingsborouoh (17!)5-1837). An Irish wriler on the antiquities of Jlc.xico. He studied at Oxford (1814-18), but did not graduate. He was a member of Parliameni (1818-20), but resigned his seat to his brother Robert. His great work on the Antiquities of Mexico (1830-48), in nine splen- did voiunies, was undertaken to prove the settle- ment of Mexico by the ten lost tribes of Israel. The story goes that a Mexican manuscript in the Bodleian Library first interested him in the sub- ject, and that Sir Thomas Phipps urged him to tbe work. It is certain (bat be sank his whole fortune in it. A paper-seller brought suit against him ; King was put in prison in Dublin, and died there of typhus. KING, Grace Elizabeth (1859—). An American author of stories and historical sketches, centring around New Orleans; born in New Orleans in 1859. She was educated in her native ci(v, and soon devoted herself to describing it in fiction and in history. Her sketches first at- tracted attention in the 'Neiv Princeton Revieto, and were the basis of her novel Monsieur Motte (1888). Her later works include: Tales of Time and Place (1892) ; Earthlings; Keuy Orleans, the Place and the People; Jean Baptiste Lemoyne, Founder of ^'ew Orleans (1892); Balcony Stories (1893); Dc Soto and His Men in the Land of Florida (1898). Miss King shows a re- markable sympathy with (be French cuKure of New Orleans. As' a member of the Louisiana Historical Society she pursued some original re- search, and she collaborated in a School History of Louisiana (1894). KING, Horatio (1811-97). An American lawj'er, born at Paris. Maine. He learned print- ing'in the office of the Paris Jeffersonian. which he subsequently bought and published until 1838. In 1839 he was appointed a clerk in the Post-Office Department at Washington, and grad- ually rose by promotion. In 1861 he was ap- pointed Postmaster-General, and served for a month. He remained in Washington to serve on the commission for the enforcement of the eman- cipation law in the District of Columbia, and afterwards practiced law. The acts of 1874,