Bio of KING, Vincent L. H. (b.1870), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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Vol III, pg 601-602
VINCENT L. H. KING
Vincent L. H. King, associate general agent at Minneapolis for the Connecticut
Mutual Life Insurance Company, was born in Zanesville, Ohio, August 26, 1870,
and is a son of William Wallace and Julia (Norris) King, the latter a native of
Maine. The father was born in the state of New York and became a minister of the
Universalist church. On his removal to Minneapolis in 1864 he became the first
minister of that faith in the city and held services in the old stone church
near the Exposition building of that day. He removed from Minneapolis to
Zanesville, Ohio, and later went to Chicago, where he had charge of a large
independent church. His residence and the church edifice were destroyed during
the great Chicago fire of October, 1871. He continued his ministerial labors in
that city until his death in 1885 and was known throughout the entire country as
one of the most prominent representatives of the Universalist clergy. A man of
most scholarly attainments he possessed one of the finest private libraries in
the country and this too was lost in the great fire. His widow survived him for
many years, passing away in 1914 at the home of her son, Vincent L. H., in
Minneapolis. She was a daughter of John Loren Lovejoy, who came to Minneapolis
from Maine about the year 1858. He formed a partnership with Dorilus Morrison
and the firm built one of the first lumber mills on the river in this city. Mrs.
King was also a sister of James A. Lovejoy, of the firm of Farnham & Lovejoy,
who were large operators in the lumber trade in this city in the early days.
Another brother was Stephen B. Lovejoy, a prominent political leader of
Minneapolis and at one time postmaster of the city.
Vincent L. H. King is therefore a representative of one of the oldest and best
known families here. He was educated in the schools of Chicago and after putting
aside his textbooks was employed by the Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett Hardware
Company of that city, remaining in their house for two years. In 1887 he came to
Minneapolis and was associated with the firm of Janney, Semple & Hill for a
year. He next was identified with the house of William Edwards for a period of
three years and since that time he has been engaged in the insurance business,
concentrating his entire efforts and attention upon this field of labor. He was
with the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company of Milwaukee for a period of
sixteen years and then resigned his position to accept the Minnesota general
agency for the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company. On the 1st of July,
1921, he resigned the general agency and became associate general agent,
following this course in order that he might have more time for outside
business, for in the preceding year he had become identified with several other
concerns. He is now the president of the Good Service Pen Company and also a
director of the G. M. Wakefield Mineral Land Company.
On the 7th of June, 1899, Mr. King was united in marriage to Miss Luella
Wakefield, a daughter of George M. Wakefield of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and they
have three children: Priscilla, eighteen years of age; Helen Virginia, aged
fourteen; and Vincent Wakefield, who is in his first year. Mr. King is a member
of the Minneapolis Club, also of the Interlachen Club, the Automobile Club, the
Lafayette Club, the Kitchi Gammi Club of Duluth, and formerly president of the
Wash-Kish Club, which has a hunting and fishing lodge near Big Fork, Minnesota.
He likewise belongs to the Masonic fraternity and holds to the faith of the
Universalist denomination, being a member of the Church of the Redeemer. In
politics he is a republican and one of his outstanding characteristics is his
loyalty to any cause which he espouses. Because of the innate refinement of his
nature, he is opposed to anything gross or common and his liberal culture has
brought to him social prominence, while his capability has well established him
on the plane of affluence in connection with his business affairs.