PORTAGE COUNTY OHIO - BIO:  King, Henry (1885)

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Bios:  Ferrey, Hart, King, Lanphere - Portage County, Ohio, from "History of
Portage County, Ohio" published by Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885

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HENRY KING, farmer and iron manufacturer, P.O. Kent, was born in Franklin
Township, this county, in June, 1833, son of Robert and Rhoda (Bishop) King,
who had a family of three children:  Henry, Charles and Helen A., wife of
Henry Heyd.  His parental grandfather, William King, a native of Hampden
County, Mass., settled in Ravenna, Portage Co., Ohio, in 1811.  He was the
owner of a large tract of land in Charlestown Township, which he had
purchased of the Western Reserve Land Company, and lived there a year or
more, disposing of the same in parcels.  He returned to Ravena in 1814, and
engaged in hotel business up to 1839, and was one of the best known
landlords in this part of the State at that time.  He died in 1843, aged
about sixty-five years.  He had four children:  Robert, deceased; John G.,
deceased; Eli P., deceased, and Mary, wife of Dr. A. Woodworth, now of St.
Louis.  Robert, his eldest son, resided in Ravenna nearly all his life.  He
was a prominent farmer and business man, and was at one time engaged in
banking, dealing also in live stock on an extensive scale.  His wife was a
daughter of Deacon Bishop, of Brandford, Mass.  Our subject was reared in
Ravenna from five years of age, and there received a liberal education for
his day, being principally educated by Mr. Calhoun, a Yale graduate and
relative of John C. Calhoun, of South Carolina.  In 1850 he was engaged in
the Civil Engineer Corps and the C.&P.R.R., with whom he remained one year,
and then was employed in the locomotive works at Cleveland for four years.
He was married February 11, 1856, to Rebecca, daughter of Thomas and Sarah
(Atrim) Sharp, of Salem, Ohio.  In 1856 Mr. King went to Salem, Ohio, and
embarked in the foundry and machine business there for fifteen years, and
during that time, in connection with Pittsburgh parties, was also engaged in
the manufacture of pig iron in Columbiana County, Ohio, and in Armstrong
County, Penn., in which he is still interested.  He was a resident of
Pittsburgh for ten years, and in the fall of 1883 located in Brimfield
Township, this county, on the farm where he now resides.  In politics Mr.
King is a Republican.