eloquent public men in Georgia. The same year he was elected to the U. S. senate to fill an unexpired term, and, being re-elected in 1834 for the full erm, he served from 2 Dec, 1833, till 1 Nov., 1837, when he resigned on account of newspaper criticism of a notable speech that he had made against )me of the measures of the Van Buren adminisition. In 1842, when the country was in a state yf financial depression, he took charge of the Georgia railroad, which, like many others, had failed. Under Mr. King's management it was speedily revived and the road finished. Various other roads, extending the connections of the Georgia road northwest and southwest, were projected and completed mainly under his supervision. He received the title of judge by executive appointment, but at the close of the term declined a re-election. — His daughter, Louise Woodward, b. in Sand Hills, near Augusta, Ga., 6 July, 1850 ; d. in Augusta, 7 Dec, 1878, was educated at home and in a private school in Switzerland. She established in Georgia the Society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, and was the founder of the "Louise King home" for widows in Augusta. She contributed several sketches and poems to periodicals. — Another daughter is the present Marchioness of Anglesea, having married the marquis after the death of her first husband.
KING, Jonas, missionary, b. in Hawley, Mass.,
29 July, 1792; d. in Athens, Greece, 22 May, 1869.
He was graduated at Williams in 1816, and at
Andover theological seminary in 1819, and was
ordained to the ministry of the Congregational
church in Charleston, S. C., on 17 Dec. of that
year. After doing missionary work in South Carolina,
he was appointed professor of the Oriental
languages and literature in Amherst, on the
foundation of that college in 1821, and held the chair
till 1828. While preparing himself for his duties
in Paris, he became a missionary of the American
board, and spent three years in Syria. After a
brief stay in the United States in 1827-'8, he was
invited to accompany one of the vessels sent
with supplies to the Greeks. He married a Greek
lady in 1829, resumed his connection with the
American board in December of that year, and
in 1831 removed to Athens, where he spent the
rest of his life as a missionary. In 1832 he had
established five schools, and in 1835 began to
instruct a class in theology. In 1839 a schoolhouse
was finished. His teachings soon attracted the
attention of the authorities of the Greek church,
and in 1845 he was excommunicated by the synod
of Athens. In 1846, and again in 1847, he was
cited to appear before a criminal court, and in the
latter year an adventurer named Simonides
published in a newspaper at Athens a series of articles
entitled “The Orgies of King,” purporting to
describe shameful ceremonies that had been enacted
at the missionary's house. In consequence of a
popular clamor, King now fled to Italy, but in
1848 a friendly ministry came into power, and he
returned to Athens. In 1851 he was appointed
U. S. consular agent there, and on 23 March of
that year some Greeks, who had come to one of his
services at his house for the purpose of making a
disturbance, were dispersed only by his display of
the American flag. After this a new prosecution
was begun against him, and in March, 1852, he
was condemned to fifteen days' imprisonment and
to exile. He had been accused of “reviling the
God of the universe and the Greek religion,”
though he had done no more than preach the
ordinary Calvinistic doctrines, and though Greece
enjoyed nominal religious freedom. Dr. King ap-
pealed from his prison to the Areopagus, which
refused to reverse the decision of the lower court,
and he then formally protested against his
sentence in the name of the U. S. government. Dr.
King was now temporarily released, and in the
following summer George P. Marsh, then minister
to Turkey, was charged by the U. S. government
with the special investigation of his case, and also
of Dr. King's title to a lot of land, of the use of
which he had been deprived by the Greek government
for twenty years with no compensation. The
diplomatic correspondence, which fills 200 printed
pages of executive documents, resulted in the issue
of an order by the king in 1854, freeing him from
the penalty that had been imposed. The action
of the U. S. government in this case was of great
service to the cause of religious liberty in Greece.
After this Dr. King remained in Athens till his
death. He was a man of indomitable energy, and
a fine Oriental scholar. As the fruit of his labors
a Greek Protestant church was erected in Athens
in 1874. Princeton gave him the degree of D. D.
in 1832. Besides revising and translating into
modern Greek sixteen volumes, among which were
Baxter's “Saints' Rest” and Lyman Beecher's
“Sermons on Intemperance,” he published a “Farewell
Letter” in Arabic to his friends in Syria
(1825), which was translated into various European
languages, put on the Index Expurgatorius at
Rome, and produced a great effect in the eastern
churches; “The Defence of Jonas King,” in Greek
(Athens, 1845); his “Speech before the Areopagus,”
in Greek (New York, 1847); “Exposition of
an Apostolic Church,” in Greek (Cambridge, Mass.,
1851; French and Italian translations at Malta);
“Religious Rites of an Apostolical Church,” in
Greek (Athens, 1851); “Hermeneutics of the Sacred
Scriptures,” in Greek (1857); “Sermons,” in Greek
(2 vols., 1859); and “Synoptical View of Palestine
and Syria,” in French (Greek translation, Athens,
1859). His “Miscellaneous Works,” in modern
Greek, with the documents relating to his various
trials, were afterward printed in one volume (Athens,
1859-'60). See “Life of Jonas King,” by F.
E. H. H. (New York, 1879).
KING, Mitchell, lawyer, b. in Crail, Fifeshire, Scotland. 8 June, 1783 ; d. in Flat Rock, N. C, 12 Nov., 1862. In youth he was an eager student of
science and metaphysics. In 1804 he went to London to obtain employment, and on his return from a trip to Malta in that year he was captured by a
Spanish privateer and taken to Malaga, whence he escaped in 1805, and landed in Charleston, S. C., on 17 Nov. He opened a school there in 1806, on 1
March of that year was made an assistant teacher in Charleston college, and in 1810 was its principal. He had begun to study law in 1807, was admitted to practice in 1810, and attained note at the bar. He was a founder of the Philosophical society in 1809, delivered lectures before it on astronomy, and was also judge of the city court in 1819, and again in 1842-'4. In 1830-'2 he was an active opponent of nullification. Judge King was connected with many financial and benevolent enterprises, was a delegate to the State constitutional convention, and the author of manjr essays and addresses, including one before the State agricultural society at Columbia on "The Culture of the Olive" (1846). Charleston college gave him the
decree of LL. D. in 1857.
KING, Preston, senator, b. in Ogdensburg, N. Y., 14 Oct., 1806; drowned in Hudson river, 12 Nov., 1865. He was graduated at Union in 1827, studied law, and practised in St. Lawrence county, N. Y. He entered politics in early life, was a
