Vincent L. H. King, associate general agent at Minneapolis for the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, was born in Zanesville, Ohio, August 26, 1870, and was a son of William Wallace and Julia (Norris) King, the latter a native of Maine. The father was born in the state of New York and became a minister of the Universalist church. On his removal to Minneapolis in 1864 he became the first minister of that faith in the city and held services in the old stone church near the Exposition building of that day. He removed from Minneapolis to Zanesville, Ohio, and later went to Chicago, where he had charge of a large independent church. His residence and the church edifice were destroyed during the great Chicago fire of October, 1871. He continued his ministerial labors in that city until his death in 1885 and was known throughout the entire country as one of the most prominent representatives of the Universalist clergy. A man of most scholarly attainments he possessed one of the finest private libraries in the country and this too was lost in the great fire. His widow survived him for many years, passing away in 1914 at the home of her son, Vincent L. H., in Minneapolis. She was a daughter of John Loren Lovejoy, who came to Minneapolis from Maine about the year 1858. He formed a partnership with Dorilus Morrison and the firm built one of the first lumber mills on the river in this city. Mrs. King was also a sister of James A. Lovejoy, of the firm of Farnham & Lovejoy, who were large operators in the lumber trade in this city in the early days. Another brother was Stephen B. Lovejoy, a prominent political leader of Minneapolis and at one time postmaster of the city.
Vincent L. H. King was therefore a representative of one of the oldest and best known families of the midwest. He was educated in the schools of Chicago and after putting aside his textbooks was employed by the Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett Hardware Company of that city, remaining in their house for two years. In 1887 he came to Minneapolis and was associated with the firm of Janney, Semple & Hill for a year. He next was identified with the house of William Edwards for a period of three years and since that time he has been engaged in the insurance business, concentrating his entire efforts and attention upon this field of labor. He was with the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company of Milwaukee for a period of sixteen years and then resigned his position to accept the Minnesota general agency for the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company. On t1 Jul 1921, he resigned the general agency and became associate general agent, following this course in order that he might have more time for outside business, for in the preceding year he had become identified with several other concerns. He became the president of the Good Service Pen Company and also a director of the G. M. Wakefield Mineral Land Company.
On 7 Jun1899, Mr. King was united in marriage to Miss Luella Wakefield, a daughter of George M. Wakefield of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and they had three children: Priscilla, ; Helen Virginia; and Vincent Wakefieldr. Mr. King was a member of the Minneapolis Club, the Interlachen Club, the Automobile Club, the Lafayette Club, the Kitchi Gammi Club of Duluth, and formerly president of the WashKish Club, which has a hunting and fishing lodge near Big Fork, Minnesota. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity and held to the faith of the Universalist denomination, being a member of the Church of the Redeemer. In politics he was a republican and one of his outstanding characteristics was his loyalty to any cause which he espoused. Because of the innate refinement of his nature, he was opposed to anything gross or common and his liberal culture brought to him social prominence, while his capability well established him on the plane of affluence in connection with his business affairs.Death--26 JUN 1927 • Hennepin County, Minnesota, USA-- Body cremated at Lakewood Cem ---given Ashes to family...
Redact: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical Vol III, pg 601-602 Posted by Glenn D Kiecker Masonic Historian Cataract Masonic Lodge #2 MN
Vincent L. H. King was therefore a representative of one of the oldest and best known families of the midwest. He was educated in the schools of Chicago and after putting aside his textbooks was employed by the Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett Hardware Company of that city, remaining in their house for two years. In 1887 he came to Minneapolis and was associated with the firm of Janney, Semple & Hill for a year. He next was identified with the house of William Edwards for a period of three years and since that time he has been engaged in the insurance business, concentrating his entire efforts and attention upon this field of labor. He was with the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company of Milwaukee for a period of sixteen years and then resigned his position to accept the Minnesota general agency for the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company. On t1 Jul 1921, he resigned the general agency and became associate general agent, following this course in order that he might have more time for outside business, for in the preceding year he had become identified with several other concerns. He became the president of the Good Service Pen Company and also a director of the G. M. Wakefield Mineral Land Company.
On 7 Jun1899, Mr. King was united in marriage to Miss Luella Wakefield, a daughter of George M. Wakefield of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and they had three children: Priscilla, ; Helen Virginia; and Vincent Wakefieldr. Mr. King was a member of the Minneapolis Club, the Interlachen Club, the Automobile Club, the Lafayette Club, the Kitchi Gammi Club of Duluth, and formerly president of the WashKish Club, which has a hunting and fishing lodge near Big Fork, Minnesota. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity and held to the faith of the Universalist denomination, being a member of the Church of the Redeemer. In politics he was a republican and one of his outstanding characteristics was his loyalty to any cause which he espoused. Because of the innate refinement of his nature, he was opposed to anything gross or common and his liberal culture brought to him social prominence, while his capability well established him on the plane of affluence in connection with his business affairs.Death--26 JUN 1927 • Hennepin County, Minnesota, USA-- Body cremated at Lakewood Cem ---given Ashes to family...
Redact: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical Vol III, pg 601-602 Posted by Glenn D Kiecker Masonic Historian Cataract Masonic Lodge #2 MN
Vincent L. H. King, associate general agent at Minneapolis for the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, was born in Zanesville, Ohio, August 26, 1870, and was a son of William Wallace and Julia (Norris) King, the latter a native of Maine. The father was born in the state of New York and became a minister of the Universalist church. On his removal to Minneapolis in 1864 he became the first minister of that faith in the city and held services in the old stone church near the Exposition building of that day. He removed from Minneapolis to Zanesville, Ohio, and later went to Chicago, where he had charge of a large independent church. His residence and the church edifice were destroyed during the great Chicago fire of October, 1871. He continued his ministerial labors in that city until his death in 1885 and was known throughout the entire country as one of the most prominent representatives of the Universalist clergy. A man of most scholarly attainments he possessed one of the finest private libraries in the country and this too was lost in the great fire. His widow survived him for many years, passing away in 1914 at the home of her son, Vincent L. H., in Minneapolis. She was a daughter of John Loren Lovejoy, who came to Minneapolis from Maine about the year 1858. He formed a partnership with Dorilus Morrison and the firm built one of the first lumber mills on the river in this city. Mrs. King was also a sister of James A. Lovejoy, of the firm of Farnham & Lovejoy, who were large operators in the lumber trade in this city in the early days. Another brother was Stephen B. Lovejoy, a prominent political leader of Minneapolis and at one time postmaster of the city.
Vincent L. H. King was therefore a representative of one of the oldest and best known families of the midwest. He was educated in the schools of Chicago and after putting aside his textbooks was employed by the Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett Hardware Company of that city, remaining in their house for two years. In 1887 he came to Minneapolis and was associated with the firm of Janney, Semple & Hill for a year. He next was identified with the house of William Edwards for a period of three years and since that time he has been engaged in the insurance business, concentrating his entire efforts and attention upon this field of labor. He was with the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company of Milwaukee for a period of sixteen years and then resigned his position to accept the Minnesota general agency for the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company. On t1 Jul 1921, he resigned the general agency and became associate general agent, following this course in order that he might have more time for outside business, for in the preceding year he had become identified with several other concerns. He became the president of the Good Service Pen Company and also a director of the G. M. Wakefield Mineral Land Company.
On 7 Jun1899, Mr. King was united in marriage to Miss Luella Wakefield, a daughter of George M. Wakefield of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and they had three children: Priscilla, ; Helen Virginia; and Vincent Wakefieldr. Mr. King was a member of the Minneapolis Club, the Interlachen Club, the Automobile Club, the Lafayette Club, the Kitchi Gammi Club of Duluth, and formerly president of the WashKish Club, which has a hunting and fishing lodge near Big Fork, Minnesota. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity and held to the faith of the Universalist denomination, being a member of the Church of the Redeemer. In politics he was a republican and one of his outstanding characteristics was his loyalty to any cause which he espoused. Because of the innate refinement of his nature, he was opposed to anything gross or common and his liberal culture brought to him social prominence, while his capability well established him on the plane of affluence in connection with his business affairs.Death--26 JUN 1927 • Hennepin County, Minnesota, USA-- Body cremated at Lakewood Cem ---given Ashes to family...
Redact: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical Vol III, pg 601-602 Posted by Glenn D Kiecker Masonic Historian Cataract Masonic Lodge #2 MN
Vincent L. H. King was therefore a representative of one of the oldest and best known families of the midwest. He was educated in the schools of Chicago and after putting aside his textbooks was employed by the Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett Hardware Company of that city, remaining in their house for two years. In 1887 he came to Minneapolis and was associated with the firm of Janney, Semple & Hill for a year. He next was identified with the house of William Edwards for a period of three years and since that time he has been engaged in the insurance business, concentrating his entire efforts and attention upon this field of labor. He was with the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company of Milwaukee for a period of sixteen years and then resigned his position to accept the Minnesota general agency for the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company. On t1 Jul 1921, he resigned the general agency and became associate general agent, following this course in order that he might have more time for outside business, for in the preceding year he had become identified with several other concerns. He became the president of the Good Service Pen Company and also a director of the G. M. Wakefield Mineral Land Company.
On 7 Jun1899, Mr. King was united in marriage to Miss Luella Wakefield, a daughter of George M. Wakefield of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and they had three children: Priscilla, ; Helen Virginia; and Vincent Wakefieldr. Mr. King was a member of the Minneapolis Club, the Interlachen Club, the Automobile Club, the Lafayette Club, the Kitchi Gammi Club of Duluth, and formerly president of the WashKish Club, which has a hunting and fishing lodge near Big Fork, Minnesota. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity and held to the faith of the Universalist denomination, being a member of the Church of the Redeemer. In politics he was a republican and one of his outstanding characteristics was his loyalty to any cause which he espoused. Because of the innate refinement of his nature, he was opposed to anything gross or common and his liberal culture brought to him social prominence, while his capability well established him on the plane of affluence in connection with his business affairs.Death--26 JUN 1927 • Hennepin County, Minnesota, USA-- Body cremated at Lakewood Cem ---given Ashes to family...
Redact: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical Vol III, pg 601-602 Posted by Glenn D Kiecker Masonic Historian Cataract Masonic Lodge #2 MN
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