Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....King, M.D., William F. April 19, 1824 - 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

Centre Township
p. 348 & 349

William F. King, M. D., is a native of the District of Columbia, born April 
19, 1824. His father, Francis King, was also a native of Columbia. His mother, 
Eliza (Thorpe) King, was a native of Fairfax County, Va., but when a child 
went to the District of Columbia with her parents, and was there married. In 
1835 Francis King moved to Richmond, Indiana, and in 1837 to Centreville, and 
from that year till 1844 was in the Clerk's office. After the creation of the 
office, he served as County Auditor five years. He then moved to Indianapolis, 
where his wife died in 1860, and he in 1865. Seven of their nine children are 
living. William F. King received a common-school education, and when fifteen 
years of age went to Richmond to learn the printer's trade in the old 
Jeffersonian office. He worked at the trade till 1847, when he began the study 
of medicine. He was elected Justice of the Peace in 1852, and served four 
years. He then located in Williamsburg and practiced his profession two years. 
In 1863 he entered the army as Surgeon of the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth 
Indiana Infantry, and served two years, the greater part of the time under 
General Sherman. At the close of the war, in 1865, he was mustered out, and 
returned to Centreville, where he has built up a large practice. He is one of 
the best physicians in the county and his practice is not confined to the city 
where he lives, but extends for miles around, wherever he is known. He is a 
member of the Wayne County Medical Society. He was one of the first members, 
and the oldest surviving member of Hoosier Lodge, No. 23, I.O.O.F. He is at 
present a member of the Town Board. He was married in 1851 to Hannah E. Maule. 
They have four children---Emily, a teacher in the Centreville schools; Frank, 
Helen and Alice.

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