KING
REV. ENOS J. KINGpage 215
Rev. Enos J. KING was born in Somerset County, Penn., February 3, 1835. He is a son of Enos King and Barbary WEIMER. The subject of this sketch immigrated with his parents to the Territory of Iowa in 1845, where they settled on a farm near Ottumwa, in Wapello County. On this farm young King grew to manhood with plenty of the privations and hard labor incident to a new country, all his early education being obtained in the old log school-house of those times. In 1856 he was married to Miss Eliza Jane EARLS, who was a native of Hancock County, Ind. To them were born four children: Mary A., who is now the wife of G. S. ROBINSON, of Princeton, Mo.; Jessie B., the wife of L. H. DORN of Carthage, Mo.; Joanna, who died in her sixteenth year, and Cyrus Sumner, who is still living with the parents in the fifteenth year of his age. In the spring of 1860 Mr. King went on business to Indiana, and there engaged in teaching school. In 1861 he volunteered in the Seventh Indiana Infantry, but was soon discharged on account of poor health, he being a sufferer with that dread disease, asthma. In 1862 he moved to Mount Pleasant, Iowa, and while acting as janitor of the Iowa Wesleyan University he studied theology under the late
Charles ELLITT, D.D. He was then engaged in farming and gardening until the spring of 1870, when he was licensed to preach and sent as a missionary to Independence, Kas. Here he labored three years organizing the church in this then new country. In the meantime he was ordained and admitted into the Kansas Conference. In 1873 he was sent to Augusta as pastor of the church, and in 1874 to Wellington. In 1875 he was transferred to the Missouri Conference and appointed to St. John, and from thence to Milan, thence to Princeton, thence Spickards, and then Kingston. In 1880 he was transferred to the St. Louis Conference and appointed as missionary to the young city of Rich Hill,, and from thence to Austin and Pleasant Valley, and from there to Carthage, and then to Mt. Vernon. His health having failed, he now took a location and began to fit him up a home near Carthage, in which he had succeeded admirably, until on the night of March 5, 1886, fire broke out and his nice cottage with all its contents were totally destroyed. He then sold his land at Carthage and came to Marionville, where he bought eight acres in the city limits. He has built a nice cottage and barn, and purposes spending the rest of his days raising
fine fruits and berries. Mr. King is an old time Methodist and Republican.
HOWARD S. KINGpage 215-216
Howard S. KING, son of Charles H. and Prudence E. (SMITH) KING, was born in Chicago, Ill., in 1861. The father, Charles H., was born in the State of New York, and emigrated from that State to Chicago when that city was in its infancy. He there resumed the practice of his profession, law, with the firm of King, Kales & Johnson, and in connection with that calling, also engaged in the real estate business, in which, as well as in the practice of law, he was eminently successful. He died in Chicago, when his son, Howard S., was but a lad. The mother, Prudence KING, was the daughter of R. K. SMITH, who was extensively engaged in the banking business. Mr. and Mrs. King were the parents of one child, Howard S. After the death of her husband Mrs. King married W. H. CHRISTIAN, who was at that time a
resident of Chicago, engaged in the counting-room of the Chicago Tribune, where he was thoroughly identified with the interests of that paper for about twenty-five years. June 16, 1888, he resigned his position on account of failing health, and moved to St. Louis with his family, where he remained but a short time, and subsequently moved to Greene Township, in Lawrence County, Mo. By his marriage he became the father of three children: Richard H., Daisee and Nora, who have been most favorably surrounded with educational advantages. The two eldest have received diplomas from Chicago's School of Art, and Nora, the youngest, has gained a merited success by her elocutionary attainments. Howard S. King, after the death of his father, was reared by W. K. SMITH, his grandfather, and immediately following the great fire of Chicago he moved to Pueblo, Col., where he engaged in stock raising, remaining but a short time, going from thence to Fremont County, where he again engaged in stock raising. In 1881 he moved to Lawrence County, Mo. In 1885 he married Miss Jessie W. REED, who was born in Iowa, but who was reared in Greene Township, Lawrence Co., Mo. Her father was one of the earliest settlers of the county, having been
there for twenty years. Mr. King has a fine farm of 150 acres, all well improved, and he is now engaged in raising blooded stock, etc
From "A Reprint of Goodspeed's 1888 History of Lawrence County; Reprint
Lawrence County Section of Goodspeed's Newton, Lawrence, Barry And McDonald Counties History; published by the Goodspeed Publishing Co., in 1888; Reprinted by Litho Printers Of Cassville, Missouri In 1973."
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