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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    B. R. KING, M. D., born near Leighton, Ala., in 1836, is a son of Oswald and
Martha (DeLone) King.

    The senior Mr. King was born in North Carolina in the year 1785; came to
Alabama with his parents at the age of seventeen years, and died in 1876. He was
a well educated man, a thorough instructor, and one of the leading citizens of
the county. He taught school when quite young, and also was a successful
planter, in which avocation he accumulated a large fortune. He reared a family
of eleven children, of whom we make the following mention: Edward H., deceased;
Robert, a planter; B. R., our subject; Burchert, planter; Margaret F., wife of
F. Hubbard; the rest of the family died at an early age. The King family came
originally from England.

    The mother of our subject was also born in North Carolina, and was a
daughter of Capt. E. B DeLone, a native of Virginia, and of French Huguenot
ancestry. Capt. DeLone came to Alabama in its early history, located at
Huntsville, where he became an extensive trader, and thence removed to Arkansas,
where he died before the war.

    The subject of this sketch was reared on a farm, and received his education
at La Grange College, from which institution he was graduated. He also attended
a military school at Marietta, Ga., ten months. About 1857 he began the study,
of medicine with Dr. Kumpie, and was graduated from the University of
Pennsylvania in 1861. Immediately after his graduation he located in the
practice of his profession at Leighton. In 1863, he entered into a contract with
the Confederate Government as Surgeon of the Thirty-fifth Alabama Regiment, with
which command he served about two years. He then acted as Surgeon of Warren's
Battalion for a short time.

    After the war, Dr. King settled at Leighton, where he has been engaged, more
or less, in the practice of his profession ever since. He also conducts a large
farm. He stands high in the estimation of the community, and is regarded by the
profession as one of the most skillful physicians in Northern Alabama.


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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
CEREAL BELT.


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