raoted major, 3 March, 1813, and commanded his regiment in the capture of York (now Toronto), 27 April, 1813. He became assistant adjutant-general, 28 April, 1813, was wounded at the capture of Fort George, 27 May, 1813, and commanded U. S. troops in repelling the attack on Black Rock, 11 July, 1813. He was appointed adjutant-general, with the rank of colonel, 18 July, 1813 ; colonel, 21 Feb., 1814 ; and was military and civil governor of Pensacola in May, 1818.
KING, William Rufus, vice-president of the
United States, b. in Sampson county, N. C, 6
April, 1786 ; d. near Cahawba, Dallas co., Ala., 18
April, 1853. His father, William King, served
as a member of the North Carolina convention
that was called to adopt the constitution of the
United States, and was also for many terms a dele-
gate to the general assembly. The son was gradu-
ated at the University of North Carolina in 1803,
studied law with William Duffy, of Fayetteville,
and was admitted to practice in 1806. The same
year he was elected a member of the state legisla-
ture, and was appointed by that body solicitor for
the Wilmington district. He served for two years
in that capacity, and on resigning was again re-
turned to the legislature for the years 1808-'9. The
following year Mr. King was elected to a seat
in congress as a War-Democrat, and, though the
youngest member of that body, became conspicuous
for his zealous support of President Madison. He
remained a member of congress until 1816, when
he accepted the appointment of secretary of lega-
tion to Naples in association with William Pinck-
ney, afterward accompanying Mr. Pinckney to
Russia in the same capacity. On his return from
Europe in 1818, Mr. King removed to Dallas coun-
ty, Ala., and served as a delegate to the conven-
tion that organized a state government. On the
adoption of the state constitution, he was elected
U. S. senator, and served until 1844, when Presi-
dent Tyler appointed him minister to France.
The proposed annexation of Texas was at that
time exciting the opposition of England, and it
was believed that France might be persuaded to
join in the protest. Mr. King, who earnestly fa-
vored the undertaking, insisted on receiving from
Louis Philippe a frank avowal of his policy. The
reply was satisfactory, and annexation took place
without opposition from any of the European
powers. In 1846 Mr. King was recalled at his own
request, and in 1848 he was appointed U. S. senator
in place of Arthur P. Bagby, who had been made
minister to Russia. In 1849 he was elected for
the full term of six years, and in 1850 he served
as president of the senate. In 1852 Mr. King was
elected vice-president of the United States on the
ticket with Franklin Pierce, but failing health
forced him to visit. Cuba in 1853, where the oath
of office was administered by special act of con-
gress. He returned to this country, but with
health so completely shattered that he died the
day after reaching home. President Pierce paid a
tribute to Mr. King's memory in his annual mes-
sage, and the usual resolutions were passed in both
houses of congress. Mr. King was about six feet
high, and remarkably erect in figure. He was a
fine talker and a most interesting companion.
— His elder brother, Thomas D., soldier, b. in
Duplin county, N. C, 22 Sept., 1779 ; d. in Tusca-
loosa, Ala., 24 Feb., 1854, was educated at the
University of North Carolina, and was frequently
elected to the legislature, in which he served in
both houses. He became major in the 43d U. S.
infantry on 4 Aug., 1813, and remained in the
service until peace was declared in 1815.
KING, William Sterling, soldier, b. in New
York city, 6 Oct., 1818 ; d. in Roxbury, Mass., 29
June, 1882. His father, Elisha W. King, a lawyer
of New York city, was for several years a member
of the state assembly. William was educated at
Yale and in Union college, where he was graduated
in 1837. He then studied law, and practised his
profession in New York city from 1839 till 1843.
About that time he removed to North Providence,
R. I., and in 1852 settled at Roxbury, Mass., where
he remained until the close of his life. In 1855 he
was elected a member of the Massachusetts legisla-
ture. At the beginning of the civil war he was com-
missioned captain in the 35th Massachusetts regi-
ment, and commanded it at South Mountain and
Antietam, where he received wounds, from the
effects of which he never entirely recovered. He
was soon promoted to be major and then colonel,
and in 1862-'3 became chief of staff of the 2d divis-
ion, 9th army corps, provost-marshal of Kentucky,
and military commander of the district of Lexing-
ton, Ky. In 1864 he received a commission as
colonel of the 4th Massachusetts artillery, and in
1865 was made brigadier-general of volunteers by
brevet. After he was mustered out of service Gov.
Andrew appointed him chief of Massachusetts state
police, and later he filled successively the offices of
assessor of U. S. internal revenue, and registrar of
probate and insolvency. In 1875-'6 he was again
a member of the Massachusetts legislature and
chairman of the military committee.
KINGDON, Hollingsworth Tully, Canadian
Anglican bishop, b. in England in 1837. He was
graduated in 1858, ordained a priest in the Church
of England in 1860, and became senior assistant
curate at St. Andrew's, Well street, London, in
1869. In 1878 he was appointed vicar of Great
Easter, Essex, and in 1880 became coadjutor bish-
op of Fredericton, New Brunswick. In 1881 the
degree of D. D. was conferred on him.
KINGSBOROUGH, Edward King, Viscount,
author, b. in Cork, Ireland, 16 Nov., 1795 : d. in
Dublin, 27 Feb., 1837. He was the eldest son of
George, third Earl of Kingston, was educated at
Oxford, represented Cork in parliament in 1820-6,
and subsequently devoted himself to his great
work, " The Antiquities of Mexico, comprising Fac-
similes of Ancient Mexican Paintings and Hiero-
glyphics, together with the Monuments of New
Spain by M. Dupaix, with their respective Scales
of Measurement, and accompanying Descriptions,
the Whole illustrated with many Valuable inedited
MSS." (9 vols., London, 1831-'48). The first seven
volumes are estimated to have cost upward of
$300,000. The eighth and ninth were published
after his death, which resulted from a fever con-
tracted in a debtor's prison, where he had been
temporarily confined for a resistance to an at-
tempted imposition. The work is chiefly valuable
for its generally faithful reproduction in fac-simile
of such Mexican hieroglyphical or painted records
and rituals as were known to exist in the private
collections and libraries of Europe, but their care-
less arrangement renders them unintelligible except
to advanced students in American archasology.
Most of his original speculations are loose and
crude, and mainly directed to the hypothesis of
the Jewish origin of the American Indians, or of
the semi-civilized nations of Mexico and Central
America. The ninth volume, containing the narra-
tive of Don Alva Ixtlilxochitl, closes abruptly
without finishing the imperfect relation.
KINGSBURY, Charles P., soldier, b. in New York city in 1818 ; d. in Brooklyn, N. Y., 25 Dec., 1879. He was graduated at the U. S. military
