Chatham County GaArchives Biographies.....King, Harris Macleod 1860 - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
p. 559-560

   HARRIS MACLEOD KING. Representing on both the paternal and maternal sides of
the house families that have long been prominent in naval, military, civic and
historical affairs of Georgia, Harris Macleod King has himself been actively
associated with the development and promotion of the commercial interests of the
state for upwards of thirty years, being now supervising inspector of naval
stores for the state of Georgia, his home being in Savannah. A son of Col.
Harrington S. King, he was born in Roswell, Cobb county, in 1860, a town which
was named in honor of his great grandfather, Roswell King.

   Roswell King was born in Sharon, Connecticut, May 3, 1765, being a son of
Captain Timothy King, who was prominent on the Continental side in the naval
service of the Revolutionary war, being commander of the brig "Defiance."
Migrating to Georgia after the great struggle of the colonists for independence,
Roswell King settled at Darien, in what is now McIntosh county. He subsequently
married Catherine, a daughter of Josiah Barrington, who was born in Ireland, and
emigrated to Georgia a few years after the arrival in this state of General
Oglethorpe, who was his kinsman and friend. Old Fort Barrington on the Altamaha
river, an outpost built long before the Revolution for defense against the
Spaniards, was named for him.

   Their son, Barrington King, Mr. King's grandfather, was born in Darien,
Georgia, March 8th, 1798. About 1839, with a colony of several other families
from the seacoast of Georgia, including the Bulloch's, Smith's, Lewis's,
Dunwody's, Pratt's, and Goulding's, he immigrated to Cobb county, and located on
the site which his father Roswell King had some years before purchased from the
Indians, and founded the little village of Roswell, which, as previously stated,
was named in honor of his father. His wife, whose maiden name was Catherine M.
Nephew, was a daughter of James Nephew, who, during the Revolutionary war,
served as lieutenant in Col. John Baker's regiment of the Liberty county,
Georgia, militia.

   Col. Barrington S. King was born while his mother was visiting the Bulloch
family in Liberty county, the King home at that time having been in Darien,
McIntosh county. Throughout almost the entire period of the war between the
states, Colonel King served as a gallant soldier and officer in the Confederate
army, his activities being mostly in the Army of Northern Virginia. Promoted to
the rank of lieutenant colonel in Cobb's Georgia Legion, he made a distinguished
record for daring and fearless bravery, and on March 10, 1865, was killed at the
head of his command, in Kilpatrick's charge, in the battle of Averysboro, North
Carolina.

   The maiden name of the wife of Colonel King was Sarah Elizabeth Macleod. She
is a lineal descendant of Francis Harris, who emigrated from England to Savannah
in 1733. Francis Harris was prominent in the Colonial service of Georgia, having
been elected speaker of the first colonial general assembly, which met in
Savannah January 15, 1751. When the trustees of the colony surrendered their
charter in June, 1752, and the lords commissioners of trade and plantations
provided for the appointment of a governor and a council of twelve, Francis
Harris was a member of the council under Gov. John Eeynolds, who assumed charge
on October 30, 1754. He was also a prominent factor in the commercial
development of Savannah, having in 1744 associated with himself James Habersham,
under the firm name of Harris & Habersham, and established one of the first
exporting houses in Savannah, which business was continued up to the time of his
death. She is the daughter of the late William Harris Macleod, and a
granddaughter of Francis Harris Macleod, whose father, Dr. Donald Macleod, of
the distinguished Macleod family of Skye, Scotland, served as a surgeon in the
British navy in the war against the colonists. After the war, however, Doctor
Macleod became a loyal American citizen, settling in Savannah, Georgia, and here
marrying Elizabeth Harris, only daughter of the Francis Harris alluded to above,
who had been an ardent supporter of the colonists, .while his only son, Francis
Henry Harris, was captain of the first company raised in Savannah to fight the
British.

   Brought up in Cobb county, Georgia, Harris Macleod King obtained his
elementary education in the local schools, afterwards continuing his studies at
Marietta, Georgia, and at Amherst, Virginia. Since early youth he has been
connected with the naval stores industry of Georgia, coming to Savannah when but
sixteen years old as an employe of a naval stores concern. Going to Brunswick,
Georgia, in 1890, Mr. King was for twenty years a resident of that city, being
identified with the John R. Young Company of Savannah, as manager for their
Brunswick branch office. When this office at Brunswick was discontinued, he
returned to Savannah May 1, 1910, and entered upon the responsible duties of his
present position on that date, and has since been supervising inspector of naval
stores for the state of Georgia, an office to which he was appointed by Gov.
Joseph M. Brown. In this capacity Mr. King has the entire supervision and
direction of all the naval stores inspectors in the state, an office requiring
rare tact, ability and discrimination.

   Mr. King is a communicant of St. John's Episcopal church, and is a member of
various social organizations, including the Society of Colonial Wars, the St.
Andrew's Society, the Hibernian Society, Sons of the Revolution, Sons of
Confederate Veterans, the Society of the Cincinnati and the Order of Washington.

   At Marietta, Georgia, Mr. King married Miss Georgia H. Baker, who was born in
South Carolina of distinguished ancestry belonging to that state, but was
brought up and educated in this state. Mr. and Mrs. King have four children,
namely, Harris M. King, Jr., Irene Trenholm King, Barrington King and Pauline
Trenholm King.


Additional Comments:
From:

A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME I
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913


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