father: Edward King
Mother: Louisa Freeman
- Educated, Maley's School and the Bicester Diocesan School, England
1851 - Immigrated to the United States with his family
1861 - M.D., Columbian University, The National Medical College, Washington, DC
11/00/1861 - Practiced medicine, Haymarket, Prince William Co., VA
11/14/1861 - Signed a contract as an Acting Asst. Surgeon with Major J. W. L. Daniel, 15th AL Infantry, Confederate States Army, Haymarket, Prince William Co., VA
1864 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, U.S. Army, Lincoln Hospital, Washington, DC
1865 - Lecturer on toxicology (an auxiliary course), The National Medical College of Columbian University, Washington, DC
1865 - 2nd M.D. degree, University of PA, Philadelphia, PA (from: District of Columbia; thesis: "Basis of an improved medical philosophy")
04/14/1865 - Attended Ford's Theater, witnessed the assassination of President Lincoln, and "helped carry the dying President to a house across the street."
1871 - Professor of obstetrics, diseases of women & children, University of Vermont, College of Medicine, Burlington, VT, and Georgetown University, Washington, DC
1874 - Attending physician to Providence Hospital, Washington, DC
1874 - Practiced medicine, Burlington, VT, & professor of obstetrics and diseases of women and children, Medical Dept., University of VT, Burlington, VT
1879-1894 - Dean, National Medical College, Medical Dept., Columbian University, Washington, DC
1882-1914 - Published, Manual of obstetrics (12 editions)
1883 - President, Medical Society of Washington, DC
1883 - A. M. degree, University of Vermont
1885-1887 - President, Washington Obstetrical and Gynecological Society
1886 - Practiced medicine, Washington, DC
10/17/1894 - Married, Ellen Amory Dexter (of Boston, MA - she died in 1935)
1900 - Practiced medicine, Washington, DC
1903-1904 - President, Medical Association of Washington, DC
1904 - LL.D. degree, University of Vermont
- Fellow, British Gynecological Society
- Fellow, American Gynecological Society
- Consulting Physician, Children's Hospital, Washington, DC
- Member, Washington Academy of Sciences
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Associate Member, Philosophical Society of Great Britain
12/13/1914 - Died, Washington, DC (buried: Rock Creek Cemetery Washington, DC; cause: "senile debility")

Note: This is one of the very few physicians who served both the Confederate States Army and the United States Army during the American Civil War.

Note: Some claim that Dr. King discovered that malaria is caused by the bite of a mosquito.

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
02/02/2010. Updated 01/03/2014.
Unpublished database.


The following notes are by Gordon Philbin, the creator of this memorial:

Emigrated to America at the age of ten.
Was present at the Ford Theatre on April 14th, 1865 when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
He was the third doctor to arrive in the Presidential box.
After Lincoln's assassination, King later became a professor of obstetrics in Washington, DC.
In addition, King was one of the earliest to suggest the connection between mosquitos and malaria.
Albert Freeman Africanus King passed away in 1914.