Henry W. King

Henry W. King

Henry W. King (born September 24, 1815 in Westfield , Massachusetts , † November 20, 1857 in Akron , Ohio ) was an American lawyer and politician ( Free Soil Party ). He was Secretary of State of Ohio from 1850 to 1852 .

Career

Henry W. King, eldest son of Julia Ann Huntington and Judge Leicester King , was born in Hampden County approximately seven months after the end of the British-American War . The King family moved to Warren, Ohio in 1817 . King graduated in 1836 at Washington College (now Trinity College ) in Hartford ( Connecticut ) and in 1839 at the Cincinnati Law School . His student days were overshadowed by the economic crisis of 1837 . King opened a law firm with Milton Sutliff in Akron, Ohio, in 1839 , later one with James D. Taylor and one, King & King, in 1849 with his brother David L. King. On October 20, 1842, he married Mary Crosby, daughter of Dr. Elaikim Crosby. Her son Harry Crosby King was killed in action during the Civil War on August 11, 1864 while serving in the 164th Ohio Infantry. Her daughter Julia Huntington King married Homer Dewey Fisher and then moved to Chicago ( Illinois ). The couple had four children.

King was a sponsor of Akron's Union School System. The Ohio General Assembly elected him Secretary of State for a three-year term in 1850. The new Ohio Constitution, which was passed in the summer of 1851, made the office of Secretary of State an electoral office and scheduled an election for the fall of 1851. As a result, King's tenure was shortened and ended in January 1852. In the 1851 election, King came third after the Democrat William Trevitt and the Whig Earl Bill. After the end of his tenure he returned to Akron, where he died on November 20, 1857.

literature

• Lane, Samuel Alanson: Fifty Years and Over of Akron and Summit County , Beacon Job Department, 1892, p. 119

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Julia Huntington King on the ancestry website ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ Bell, William Jr .: Annual Report of the Secretary of State to the Governor and General Assembly of the State of Ohio for the Year Ending , Columbus Printing Company, State Printers, 1876, p. 114