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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922)

JACOB H. C. KING, M.  D.
    Dr. Jacob H. C. King, a physician and surgeon of Hot Springs, who won his
professional degree upon graduation from the medical department of the
University of Arkansas, deserves much credit for what he has accomplished, as he
had to provide for his own support while pursuing his medical studies. Laudable
ambition prompted him to the greatest industry both in his work for others and
in acquiring a knowledge of the science of medicine and surgery, and today he
occupies a place of prominence as a successful practitioner in Hot Springs. He
was born in Talladega, Alabama, August 31, 1860, and is a son of Jacob W. and
Sarah Ann (Mayes) King, the former a native of North Carolina, while the latter
was born in South Carolina. The father was one of the pioneer citizens of
Alabama and was one of the leading organizers of the Confederacy. He served
throughout the four years of hostilities between the north and the south,
continuing active in his organization work. He was a physician by profession and
also a minister of the Missionary Baptist church and his life was at all times
guided by his Christian belief and characterized by his devotion to every cause
which he believed to be right. He died in 1889, at the age of seventy-eight years.

    Dr. King received his primary educational training in the public school of
Lineville, Alabama, and afterward attended the Lineville Academy. In 1S80 he
entered the University of Arkansas for further study, but was compelled to
return home in 1882 in order to attend his father, who was on a sick bed. For
two years he cared for his lather and during that time he read medicine under
his father's preceptorship and passed the examination before the county board of
examiners, as was then the custom, being granted a county license to practice.

    Dr. King entered upon the active work of his profession in Amity, Clark
county, Arkansas, and in the winter of 1886-7 he became a student in the medical
department of the University of Arkansas, from which he received his
professional degree as a member of the class of 1889. During his attendance at
medical college he worked at whatever offered in order to gain the money
necessary for the expenses of his course, and in vacation periods he practiced
his profession, thus paying his way through the university. His entire cash
capital at the time he entered college was twenty-five dollars.

    Following his graduation Dr. King returned to his practice in Amity, where
he remained until 1897, when on account of ill health he removed to Pike City,
in Pike county, Arkansas. Four years later, still in quest of health, he took up
his abode in Merkel, Texas, and after two years there spent he removed to
Roswell, New Mexico, while subsequently he established his home in Lakewood,
that state. On regaining his health he came to Hot Springs in 1904 and for the
past seventeen years has made this city his home. In 1914 he suspended practice
on account of a sunstroke sustained that summer and for six years was not in the
active work of the profession but returned to the practice of medicine and
surgery in 1920. In the meantime his reading had kept him abreast with the trend
of modern professional thought and investigation. He resides on his farm of one
hundred and sixty acres, which is situated on the Ouachita river, five miles
southeast of Hot Springs.

    In 1889 Dr. King was married to Miss Mary Alice Runyan of Amity and they
became the parents of nine children, six sons and three daughters, of whom five
are living, all sons: Henry, Glen, Paul, Stell and Cue. In 1909 Dr. King wedded
Mrs. Lucy F. Gilbert, nee Amick, and by this marriage there is one son, Jacob.
Dr. King and his wife are members of the Methodist church and they are well
known in Hot Springs and throughout the surrounding district, where the
hospitality of the best homes is freely accorded them. Dr. King deserves much
credit for what he has accomplished. Handicapped in youth by the lack of
financial resources, he displayed the elemental strength of his character in the
manner in which he achieved his education. He is a broad-minded man of wide
general knowledge as well as of excellent information concerning the science of
medicine. His views are progressive and he is steadily looking toward further
development along helpful lines.


Additional Comments:
Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922


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