Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1916-05-26
CANDIDATES FOR NOMINATION
ON THE DEMOCRATIC STATE
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DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION
FOR C0VEpN0D

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CYRUS NJ. KING, CANDIDATE FOR
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION
FOR GOVERNOR st@xs5zat a..
John L. King, with his wife, Mary, set
Wright county, Minnesota, May TO- 1856.
On the sixtieth anniversary of that event
Cyrus M: King, their son, filed for the
zen s4sa non patio for
was born fifty-six years. ago was a
homesteader's shack, built Of logs, its
floor bare dirt at first afterwards COW
s Tae saSs BY ne 6nEes o
the door were of hard maple, swinclng
on hickory pins; and strong wooden
bar resting In open slots set in the wall
BILE attacks of treacherOus Sioux whose
numerous teepees were ali about the
lone little cabin of the settler.
Cyrus was taught to read and spell by
his mether. At the age Of II he got his
Murdoch Of Howard Lake, who taught
kitchen of good old German. He then
began to read for the sake of learning
and found material in large volume of
world s.. history,a.in the life of Flavius
Josephus; and in the historical novels of
Walter Scott: Two years later he bor-
which he studied at night with. the as
sistance of a neighbor. About this time
a log school house was built mile and a
ha Gtnt d from the King cabin and
Borrowing an algebra he made a COM
plete. key Of it while he did the spring
P p ,,xnPs ~, with a yoke of oxen; reading
and as he plodded behind the plow
worked out the solution in his mind. af-
forwards jotting it down in a book which
Is still In his possession.
vicinity and the teachers started spelling
matches and debating societies, in which
Mr.: King still keeps with pardonabie
Some Of these, pasteboard Slips made
from printing paper and sewed together,
are now before us, and strikingly show
the dlnerence of situation between the
abundantly equipped pupils of present
day Minnesota schools. Another paper
that we have before us in an inaugural
ADD e. given by Cyrus when thirteen
as president of literary society in
which old and young alike took part, and
IN WHICH fa, the rules required that cere
appears from this that Cyrus was the
youngest member of the society; so that
we are not surprised to find likewise from
a teachers contract that he was one Of
the youngest men teachers ever employ
The elder King was an admirer of
Abraham Lincoln and the story Of his
hold: The struggles and achievements
OF. the great emancipator were an in
to the homesteader's son. Mr..
King often says that, when a mere child.
than Lincoln's and if Lincoln could be-
come president he could at least secure
sufficient education to make himself in
should work Qnn11Qh and loon of Tn,
after years, when his experience as a
pension office had qualified him for that
which Lincoln died was one of the mo-
t1ves that fmpelled him to secure for
veterans of the Civil War hundreds of
pensions without any charge to them
old soldiers throughout. the state.
When the railroad from St. Paul to
M1na now known as the Great
King was about eleven years old. He
got his first job at work from a con-
str9ction .sub-contractor, his task being
to lead the horses that hauled the dirt
Beck's mill. There he first met the Rev.
Murdoch: who became his teacher and
who still resides at Howard Lake.
tation there was neither food to eat nor
work to be done to, get food in all
Wright county. Cyrus King went to St.
Paul and , worked as water boy for. the
Fails railways From that job e werfed
up to braking on a construction train
Coming back to st. Paul. Gen. Bishop
Wh9 had seen his work out on the line,
for him the privilege Of buving a suit Of
store cothes that he h Scs Ever worm nfS'
At tWenty-one, young King became
stearns county. While teaching there.
and at Montrose, he studied law: and in
1884 at Montrose, he married Miss Min
NE Cooper 1a,o niece of the late John
Agricultural society. Mr.. and Mrs. King
have had two children, boy. who died
at the age of five years, and Stafford
King: now student at the State Uni
county on account of his wife's health.
There he took a homestead. Having in
a school house, Mr. King. finding in the
spring that it was too late to
get teacher, himself taught the school
through spring and summer without
When Koochiching county was sepa-
rated from Itasca the four commission
ers remaining in Itasca county became
man. The dead lock Continued d until i't the
following legislature authorized the gov
ernor to appoint commissioner at
large. and Governor Johnson appointed
Mr.. King to that position. Governor
Johnson afterwards wrote Mr.. King,
asking him to be candidate for re-elec-
ton in the Deer River district; and in
fact Mr.. King has been reelected to
that position at every subsequent cleo
ton.
Mr.. Kings service as county commits
siOner has led him into what has been
his greatest work hitherto for this state.
Immediately on receiving appointment
from Governor Johnson he began the
study of bodybuilding, and went to the
bottom of that subject with characteris-
tic energy and thoroughness. After the
organization of the Northern Minnesota
Development association Mr.. King was
made chairman of the good roads COM
mittee: and he has since served as the
associations president He proposed the
system of building township roads to
town boundaries, county roads to coun-
ty boundaries: and state roads to state
boundaries. To coordinate the work of
the several units of government in the
state would effect the construction of
through highways from town to town
and from county to county. thereby
making one road do the work of many,
and making trunk roads leading through
townships, counties and the state. To
effect this immense work meetings were
held throughout Northern Minnesota
and at several points in the southern
half of the state. Delegates ATTENDED
these meetings in large. numbers most
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