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coiniuaiKleJ the 9th U.S. iiifiuitiy in the west and
was retired. Feb. 20, 1N8'2. luiving reached the age
limit. lie died in Washin.L;ton, D.C., April?, 1888.
KING, John Pendleton, senator, was born near
Glasgow, Barren county, Ky., April 3, 1799; son
of Francis and Mary (Patrick) King. His parents
removed to Bedford county, Tenn., soon after his
birth, where he attended school. He went to
Georgia in 1817, stud-
ied at Richmond col-
lege, Augusta, and
rtad law witii Free-
man Walker. He
was admitted to the
bar in 1819, practised
at Augusta, and when
]\Iajor Walker was
.serving as U.S. sena-
tor, 1819-21, young
King took charge of
his large law busi-
ness. He completed
his professional edu-
cation in Europe, 18-
22-24, returning to
the United States in 1824 on the same vessel
with Lafayette, with whom he formed a lasting
friendship. He continued his law practice in
Augusta until 1829. He was a member of the
state convention to reform the constitution in
1800; was appointed judge of the court of com-
mon i)leas in 1831; member of the state constitu-
tional convention of 1833, and was elected to the
U.S. senate to fill the vacancy caused by the res-
ignation of George M. Troupe in 1833. He was
re-elected in 1835 for a full term and resigned in
1837 by reason of a si")eech made in opposition to
the policj^ of Van Buren's administration, which
displeased his constituents in Georgia. When the
Georgia railroad was completed from Augusta to
Madison, he was made manager and he continued
the road to Atlanta with a branch from Union
Point to Athens and projected and built a road
from Atlanta to West Point. After the war he
used his own fortune to rebuild these roads and
placed them on a paying basis and he retired
from the management of the Georgia Railroad
and Banking company and of the Atlanta and
West Point railroad in 1878. He was one of the
projectors of the Augusta canal, a director of the
Augusta Cotton factory and a member of the
state convention of 1805, which repealed the
ordinance of sece.ssion, repudiated the Confeder-
ate war debt and abolished slavery. He died at
his residence in Summerville, Ga., March 19, 1888.
KING, Jonas, missionary, was boi-nin Hawley,
Mass., July 29, 1792; son of Jonas and Abigail
(Leonard) King, and grandson of Thomas and
Abigail (Warriner) King. He earned his college
tuition by teaching school and was graduated
from Williams college in 181G, and from Andover
Theological seminary in 1819. He was employed
as a missionary in Charleston, S.C, for six
months, and was ordained evangelist there, Dec.
17, 1819, by the Congregational association. He
was a foreign missionary to Egypt, Jerusalem
and Palestine, 1821-25; was a missionary in
South Carolina and Georgia, 1827, and in Greece,
1828-09. He was married, July 22, 1829, to An-
netta A.spasia Mengous, a native of Tenos, Greece,
where they opened a school for girls. In De-
cember, 1830, lie resumed his connections with
the A.B.C.F.M. and in April, 1831, removed to
Athens, where he labored until his death. He
suffered persecution, his house was guarded bj'
soldiei's and he was forced to leave the country,
spending 1847-48 in Switzerland and Itah'. In
1848, in consequence of the revolution in France,
the ministrj' at Athens was changed, and he re-
turned to that city, and in 1851 was appointed
U.S. consular agent. He was again brought to
trial in March, 1852, and was condemned to
fifteen days' imprisonment and to be exiled from
the country, which decision was revoked after an
investigation and protest by the U.S. govern-
ment. He visited the United States, 1804-07.
He received the degree of D.D. from the College
of New Jersey in 1832. He is the author of:
Fareu'dl Letter to his friends in Palestine and
Syria (1825); Defence of Jonas King (1845); Ex-
position of an Apostolical Church (1851); Relig-
ious Rites of an Apostolical Church (1851): Her-
meneutics of the Sacred Scriptures (1857); Synojy-
tical Vleio of Palestine and Syria, tcith Additions
(1859); Miscellaneous Works (1859-00). and trans-
lations of several religious books into modern
Greek. He died at Athens, Greece, Uay 22, 1809.
KING, nitchell, educator, was born in Crail.
Scotland, June 8, 1783. He was a student of
science and metaphysics. In 1804 he remt)ved
to London and soon after shipped to ]Malta,
and on the voyage was captured by Spanish
pirates and imprisoned at Malaga. He escaped
on a vessel bound for Charleston, S.C, and
reached there, Nov. 17, 1805. He opened a school
in 1800, became a student and assistant teacher
in the College of Charleston and was graduated
A.B., 1810, being admitted to the bar the .same
year. He was principal of the College of Charles-
ton, 1810, a trustee and president of the board,
when the college was reorganized in 1838; judge
of the cit}' court, 1819 and 1842-44; active in op-
posing nullification, 1830-32, and a delegate to the
state convention of 1833. He was a founder of
the Philosophical society in 1809. He received
the honorary degree of LL.D. from the College
of Charleston in 1857; and enriched the library
of that institute by a gift of a large number of
