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Dr Horace W King

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Dr Horace W King

Birth
Jackson County, Alabama, USA
Death
15 Jul 1905 (aged 78)
Kingsville, Johnson County, Missouri, USA
Burial
Richmond, Ray County, Missouri, USA Add to Map
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Father: William M. King (1800-1870)
Mother: Frances M. "Fanny" Gaines (1804-1876)
1850 - Merchant [probably with his father], Jackson Co, AL
01/08/1854 [or 01/10/854] - Married, Charlotte Ann Aughinbaugh, Jackson Co., AL (she died in 1897)
1860 - Practiced medicine, Kingsville, Johnson Co., MO
02/02/1862 - Appointed Major, 14th Cavalry Regt., 8th Division, Missouri State Guard
01/09/1863 - Captured in W. Springfield, Greene Co., MO, as Surgeon, 3rd MO Infantry, after being left in charge of the hospital following an evacuation
01/23/1863 - Prisoner, Gratiot Street Prison, St. Louis, MO
02/01/1863 - Prisoner, Gratiot Street Prison, St. Louis, MO
03/05/1863 - Wrote a letter to Lt. Col. F. A. Dick, U.S. Provost Marshal of Missouri, while a prisoner at Gratiot Street Prison, St. Louis, MO, about articles taken from him while he was a prisoner
03/13/1863 - Claimed to be Surgeon, 3rd MO Cavalry, [this unit was designated as the 6th MO Cavalry by the Confederate War Department] and a graduate of the Medical College of Nashville in a letter to the U. S. Provost Marshall, St. Louis, MO, and asked "to be returned within the lines of the Rebel Army." Also he claimed that he had served five months as Major & Col of [the] 1st Batt[allion] 14th MO Cav. [Missouri State Guard]
03/14/1863 - Discharged from Gratiot Street Prison, St. Louis, MO
05/23/1865 - "The last engagement [of the Civil War] in Ray County, Missouri, was about six miles northeast of Richmond, near Dr. Horace King's farm, on the 23rd of May, 1865. The forces engaged were a portion of Captain Clayton Tiffin's command and a force of guerrillas under the command of Arch Clemens. It was a sharp engagement for a short time and resulted in the rout of the guerillas." [source: History of Ray County, MO (1881), Missouri Historical Co., St. Louis, p. 304]
1870 - Practiced medicine, Richmond Township, Ray Co., MO [erroneously indexed in the 1870 U.S. Census as Harris King]
1880 - Practiced medicine, Richmond, Ray Co., MO
1890 - Practiced medicine and farmed, Excelsior Springs, Clay Co., MO
1893 - Practiced eclectic medicine, Excelsior Springs, Clay Co., MO
1897 - Wife, Charlotte Ann, died
1900 - Practiced medicine, Fishing River Township, Clay Co., MO (widower)
1903 - Practiced medicine, Excelsior Springs, Clay Co., MO
00/00/1905 - Died, MO

Note: Although Dr. King claimed to be a graduate of the Medical College of Nashville, he is not listed in their 1910 alumni catalogue.

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
04/01/2014. Unpublished database.
Father: William M. King (1800-1870)
Mother: Frances M. "Fanny" Gaines (1804-1876)
1850 - Merchant [probably with his father], Jackson Co, AL
01/08/1854 [or 01/10/854] - Married, Charlotte Ann Aughinbaugh, Jackson Co., AL (she died in 1897)
1860 - Practiced medicine, Kingsville, Johnson Co., MO
02/02/1862 - Appointed Major, 14th Cavalry Regt., 8th Division, Missouri State Guard
01/09/1863 - Captured in W. Springfield, Greene Co., MO, as Surgeon, 3rd MO Infantry, after being left in charge of the hospital following an evacuation
01/23/1863 - Prisoner, Gratiot Street Prison, St. Louis, MO
02/01/1863 - Prisoner, Gratiot Street Prison, St. Louis, MO
03/05/1863 - Wrote a letter to Lt. Col. F. A. Dick, U.S. Provost Marshal of Missouri, while a prisoner at Gratiot Street Prison, St. Louis, MO, about articles taken from him while he was a prisoner
03/13/1863 - Claimed to be Surgeon, 3rd MO Cavalry, [this unit was designated as the 6th MO Cavalry by the Confederate War Department] and a graduate of the Medical College of Nashville in a letter to the U. S. Provost Marshall, St. Louis, MO, and asked "to be returned within the lines of the Rebel Army." Also he claimed that he had served five months as Major & Col of [the] 1st Batt[allion] 14th MO Cav. [Missouri State Guard]
03/14/1863 - Discharged from Gratiot Street Prison, St. Louis, MO
05/23/1865 - "The last engagement [of the Civil War] in Ray County, Missouri, was about six miles northeast of Richmond, near Dr. Horace King's farm, on the 23rd of May, 1865. The forces engaged were a portion of Captain Clayton Tiffin's command and a force of guerrillas under the command of Arch Clemens. It was a sharp engagement for a short time and resulted in the rout of the guerillas." [source: History of Ray County, MO (1881), Missouri Historical Co., St. Louis, p. 304]
1870 - Practiced medicine, Richmond Township, Ray Co., MO [erroneously indexed in the 1870 U.S. Census as Harris King]
1880 - Practiced medicine, Richmond, Ray Co., MO
1890 - Practiced medicine and farmed, Excelsior Springs, Clay Co., MO
1893 - Practiced eclectic medicine, Excelsior Springs, Clay Co., MO
1897 - Wife, Charlotte Ann, died
1900 - Practiced medicine, Fishing River Township, Clay Co., MO (widower)
1903 - Practiced medicine, Excelsior Springs, Clay Co., MO
00/00/1905 - Died, MO

Note: Although Dr. King claimed to be a graduate of the Medical College of Nashville, he is not listed in their 1910 alumni catalogue.

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
04/01/2014. Unpublished database.


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