Crawford-Clark-Jasper County IL Archives Biographies.....King, Henry W. 1815 - 
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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

  HENRY W. KING, farmer, P. O. Robinson, is a son of Joel King, who was born on
the 22d of January, 1774, in Massachusetts. He was married, May 4, 1797, to Miss
Julia Loy, of New York. He entered upon the business of farming in Oneida
County, N. Y., which he abandoned on account of physical inability, and engaged
in shoe-making at Mount Vernon, N. Y., where Henry W., the subject of this
sketch, was born, December 31, 1815. He was the youngest of a family of ten
children, of whom but two are now living, the subject and Mrs. Welton, residing
in Hamilton County, N. Y. Mr. King was married in Lexington, Ky., to Miss Utley,
a daughter of John Utley, Esq. He then engaged in merchandising in Cincinnati,
as a member of the firm of King, Shipley & Co., and afterward, King, Corwin &
Co. In 1860, he sold out his interest in the store and engaged in clerking in
the same city until 1869, when he came to Robinson, Ill., where he has purchased
considerable property. He owns 320 acres of land in Casey Township, Clark
County, as well as a tract of 275 acres in Clark, not under cultivation; also
owns a farm of 120 acres in Jasper County. Mr. King is a Democrat in politics.

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HISTORY OF CRAWFORD AND CLARK COUNTIES, ILLINOIS.
EDITED BY WILLIAM HENRY PERRIN.

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: O. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS,
LAKESIDE BUILDING.
1883.


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