The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1861-08-28
obituary.


| There are certain facts in regard TO the
! life OF Henry King, who died on The 18th
ultimo, at his residence in Allentown,
Pennsylvania, which afford SO striking
contrast TO the history of his rebel brother,
L. Bntler King, now commissioner of the
Southern Conlederacy in Europe, tha. we
cannon Go better than put them on the rec
ord
Henry King was born in Hampden coun-
! iy, Massachusetts, on The 9th day of July.
1880. His brother, I. Butler King, born
fournteen years later, in the sans county
and State. In the same county they received
their preliminary education In 1910 Hen.
, ry King commenced the study OF law under
the then eminent w. H. Brainerd, of New
London, Connecticut, and remained in his
Office until the disturbed condition of the
neighborhood, Arising from the hostiIiiies of
1912, compelled him TO remove TO Wilkes
Barre, Pennsylvania, where he comp pIeted
his studies, and was admitted to the bar
during the same year. He Immediately
opened an office in Allentown, being al the
time, and for long after, the only resident
lawyer in Lehigh county, and measuring
blades on circuit with the first advocates
of the State.
In 1923 The career OF the brothers divided
I B. King having finished his legal educa-
ton al the age of nineteen, while his broth
er al thirty-three was engaged in the com
bal of life at Allentown, emigtated TO Geor-
ga. where hs shortly after engaged in the
business Of The plantation, and married
lady who had large fortune of negroes
Two years after, in 1925, Henry King
was elected 10 the Pennsylvania Senate,
and again e-elected in 1929. Before his
second term expired he was chosen TO rep
resent his district in Congress, and filled The
position from 1891 to 1895.
Meantime T. Butler King was in the Stale
Senate Of Georgia, and four years after his
brother leit Congress filed a Representa-
tive's chair for his adopted State, between
1899 and ls49, being out only from ls4s 10
Is45
While T. Butler King was becoming more
and more that subservient creature OF fat
: ACig dAu 1fOItDcku man Win
Southern principles, being, in 1893, a menu
Der OF the Miiledgsville Convention, and, in
! 1910, of the Young Mems Convention a,
Ballimore-Henry King was steadfast ad-
yocate OF freedom in It's larges, sense. To
him is due the entire renovation OF that
shameful system of fayori,ism which ap-
pointed the cadets at West Point in the pro-
portion of four-fifihs from the South and the
remainder iiom the larger Northern cities,
and the equal distribution among all our
districts of patronage which has even now
proven only too partially distributed for the
safety of nation whose pampered chill
dren are in arms against her.
He was the farther of the present admi-
rabIe prison system of Pennsylvania-so
undeuiaoly so, that years after his Moya-
mensing reforms, the Prussan Commits.
sioners sought him oct in his retirement at
Allentown, and asked his assistance in the
direction OF their disciplinary inspection-he
resisted throughout his whole career every
public outlay for more private good-and
while at once Whig, and the warmes,
TREND of the Pennsylvania canals and rail-
ways, opposed TO mis- utlnest the incurring
of a debt which has hampered the Keystone
Commonwealth IN Y Post.