King, Dr. E. H.

KING, BARNES, MORGAN, HALL, CASE

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Date: 2/17/2003 at 14:43:29

PORTRAIT & BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM OF CLINTON COUNTY, IOWA 1886 (CHAPMAN BROS.)  Containing full page portraits & biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county. (Also available on FHL film 1036331 Item 9)  
DR. E. H. KING, physician and surgeon, Clinton, Iowa, is a native of DeWitt County, Ill., born Aug. 21, 1841. He is the son of Dr. Joel Elisha and Emeline (Barnes) King. The father was a native of Sandisfield, Berkshire Co., Mass., born Nov. 26, 1813. The King family are descended from Dr. Robert King, of Blanford, Mass., who was born near Cork, Oreland, about 1744, and married Mary Knox about 1767 or 1768, and came to America soon after. He left ten children, among whom was Robert King, Jr., who was born May 9, 1777, and died June 9, 1851. He was known as Capt. Dr. King. He moved with his family to Portage County, Ohio, in 1826. He married, first, Bridget Morgan, May 10, 1800. She died July 18, 1832, of consumption, at Charleston, Portage Co., Ohio. He subsequently married Tasa M. Hall, at Hopkins, R. I. Joel Elisha, the father of the subject of this sketch, was the seventh child of the first marriage. There was eleven children by that union. There was no issue by the latter marriage. Joel E. moved to Illinois in 1838 and settled in Marion County and traveled and preached until 1840, when he went to DeWitt County and settled near Kinney and followed farming. In 1853 he came to Iowa.
Dr. E. H. King was reared in Clinton, the county seat of DeWitt County, Ill., and was a resident there when the war broke out. He enlisted Aug. 11, 1862, in Co. B, 107th Regt. Ill. Vol. Inf. He was in the service until the close of the war, never shirking a duty nor receiving a furlough during the entire length of time. He was a good, true man and a brave and noble soldier.
Dr. King, at the close of the war, came to the State of Iowa, and was joyously greeted by his wide circle of friends. Locating at Fairfield, Jefferson County, where his father, Dr. J. E. King, resided, he studied medicine in his office, and in the spring of 1868 graduated from Hanemann College, Chicago, and then came to Clinton, March 21, 1868, and engaged in the practice of his profession. Since that time he has gained a large patronage by his strict attention to business and his manifest knowledge of the human body. He is a member of the Homeopathic State Medical Society and the American Institute of Homeopathy. His inner knowledge of his profession, and his quick and keen perception of “the ills that flesh is heir to,” seem a heritage, his father, grandfather and great-grandfather being physicians before him. His brother, S. M. King, of Albia, Iowa, and Dr. Lowell, his brother-in-law, are physicians.

Our subject united in the hold bounds of matrimony, Sept. 1, 1868, with Miss H. M. Case, of Fairfield, Iowa, a native of Ohio. Their union has been blest by two sons, named Walter J., born May 23, 1873, and Edward C., born Sept. 11, 1885; and a daughter, Alice, born Aug. 29, 1880.