OBIT: M. Edgar KING, 1900, formerly of Blair County, PA

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HON. M. EDGAR KING.

  Thursday night of last week Hon. M. Edgar King died at his home in 
Philadelphia and was buried on Sunday.  He had been ill but a short 
time previous to his demise.  The deceased at one time resided in Perry 
county and was married in New Bloomfield to Miss Mary Campbell.  During 
the war of the rebellion he published the Fulton County Republican at 
McConnellsburg, afterward removing to Hollidaysburg, where he published 
the Blair County Whig.  Later he moved the plant to Altoona and formed 
a partnership with James H. Irwin, and the paper was issued under the 
name of the Blair County Radical, Mr. King afterward retiring.  He was 
elected a member of the legislature of 1878 from this county.  Some 
time last summer he went to Philadelphia from Conneautville, O., which 
place he had made his home for several years.  His wife and two 
daughters - Mrs. Ed. Custer and Miss Sue King - survive him.

Morning Tribune, Friday, January 19, 1900