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Edward L King

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Edward L King

Birth
Columbia, Boone County, Missouri, USA
Death
1 Feb 1910 (aged 75)
Jefferson City, Cole County, Missouri, USA
Burial
Jefferson City, Cole County, Missouri, USA Add to Map
Plot
Row 4-a, Lot 34, #16
Memorial ID
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According to Death Certificate:
Marital status: Widowed
Father: Austin A King, TN
Mother:Mary Roberts, TN

Edward L. King was born in Columbia, MO. His father was ex-Governor King and a prominent lawyer of Boone County, being Judge of the First Judicial District. Later the family moved to Ray County where Edward King grew to manhood and was educated in the public schools. He later graduated from Missouri University in 1858 and was admitted to the bar at Richmond.

He enlisted in the 3rd M.S.M. cavalry during the Civil War and was stricken by typhoid fever, resulting in his retirement from the ranks, while in Jefferson City. He served two terms as City Attorney of Jefferson City as well as represented Cole County in the House of Representatives and one in the Senate. He boarded at the Nichols House, 100 West High Street.

Illustrated Sketchbook and Directory of Jefferson City and Cole County, 1900. edited by J.W. Johnson. Jefferson City: Missouri Illustrated Sketch Book Company, 1900.

Former Rayite's Death: Edwin L. King, the last surviving son of Governor Austin A. King, one time governor of Missouri, died suddenly the other day at Jefferson City, by heart failure. He was born in Columbia, Mo., in 1835 and was brought to the King Farm just south of here when but an infant. He is remembered by many of our older citizens. The deceased prided himself in being a Republican out of a family all Democrats.
Richmond Missourian, February 10, 1910
According to Death Certificate:
Marital status: Widowed
Father: Austin A King, TN
Mother:Mary Roberts, TN

Edward L. King was born in Columbia, MO. His father was ex-Governor King and a prominent lawyer of Boone County, being Judge of the First Judicial District. Later the family moved to Ray County where Edward King grew to manhood and was educated in the public schools. He later graduated from Missouri University in 1858 and was admitted to the bar at Richmond.

He enlisted in the 3rd M.S.M. cavalry during the Civil War and was stricken by typhoid fever, resulting in his retirement from the ranks, while in Jefferson City. He served two terms as City Attorney of Jefferson City as well as represented Cole County in the House of Representatives and one in the Senate. He boarded at the Nichols House, 100 West High Street.

Illustrated Sketchbook and Directory of Jefferson City and Cole County, 1900. edited by J.W. Johnson. Jefferson City: Missouri Illustrated Sketch Book Company, 1900.

Former Rayite's Death: Edwin L. King, the last surviving son of Governor Austin A. King, one time governor of Missouri, died suddenly the other day at Jefferson City, by heart failure. He was born in Columbia, Mo., in 1835 and was brought to the King Farm just south of here when but an infant. He is remembered by many of our older citizens. The deceased prided himself in being a Republican out of a family all Democrats.
Richmond Missourian, February 10, 1910


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