The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1911-07-18
DEATH
Of DR.. WI. King Who Was
Known In Knox Co.
Having Been United In
Marriage In Brandon
Expired While Visiting At
Old Home In England
Newark Advocatel


Thursday evening of the death of DIR.
w. l.. King of Granville, which oc-
Cured in England on Friday, July q,
shocked many people here. Although
the Doctor had been in very poor
health for some time, no one had any
idea that the end was SO near, and
when he left for his native country,
England, it was thought that he would
quickly benefit by the salt air of the
ocean, and he was buried near his old
home.
DIR. Watson Lawrence King was born
in Bailey, Yorkshire, England, Sep
tember 1S, 1847, his father being vicar
at that place. His father, the Rev.
Watson King, was born in Watering
bury, County Kent, April 8, 1871, and
was educated at st. Johns College,
Cambridge, where he obtained the
Master of Arts degree in 1839 For
many years he served as chaplain to-
Maidstone prison, and about 1859 re-
tired with pension. DIR. w. l.. King
pursued his early education in Queen
Elizabeth's Grammar school at Wake
field and later attended Corpus Christi
Hall. He passed a preliminary exam
ination for entrance into the Royal
College of Surgeons in London, July 8,
1886, but after a time was obliged to
give up the study of medicine owing to
ill health and came to America with
the intention of following farming.
This was in 1870, ana he located at
Ypsilanti, Mich. His health improv-
ing, in 1912 he attended course of
lectures in the Michigan University at
Ann Arbor and in 1894 was student
in the Cincinnati Medical college, from
which he was graduated in the latter
year. Owing to ill health he returned
to England and later matriculated in
the University of Glasgow, from which
he was graduated in the spring of
1876, on the completion of his medical
course He then became surgeon on
the ship Loeb Vennachar, bound for
Melbourne, Australia. He spent two
months in Australia, after which he
returned on the same ship and be-
came assistant to DIR. Burman at
Wath, Yorkshire. In the fall of 1877
he returned to the United States and
located at Fredonia, o., where he prac-
ticed until his removal to Granville
;rto
where he enjoyed good practice.
Throughout his professional career he
kept in touch with the progress of the
medical fraternity through his extern
sive reading and research while his
experience also greatly promoted his
efficiency.
On the Oath of December, 1877, DR..
King was married in Brandon, Knox
county, Ohio, to Miss Margarrita
Knowles of Homer, o., daughter of
William Knowles, native of Kent
county, England The children of that
marriage were Watson Knowles, who
died in infancy; and Louisa Elizabeth,
who became the wife of Louis Pine of
Newark. Having lost his first wife,
DR.. King afterward welded Emma
Viola Barber, native of Liberty town
ship, Licking county, and daughter
of James Riley Barber. His second
wife died few months ago. He is
survived by one daughter, Mrs. Pine,
who was with him at the time of his
death.
DR.. King was member of the Ma
sonic fraternity and of the Independ-
ent Order of Odd Fellows. He was al
so a prominent and active worker in
the Episcopal church of which he for
many years served as senior warden
and treasurer. During his life he cir
cumvented the globe and in his ex-
tensive travels gained that knowledge
and culture which only travel can
bring. He was a genial, courteous gen.
tleman, interested in all that pertains
to general progress and his influence
was always potent factor for good