Cornell College - Royal Purple Yearbook (Mount Vernon, IA)

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REVEREND WILLIAM F. KING, NI, A,, D,D,, LLD PRESIDENT OF coRNELL COLLEGE.

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BIOGRAPHIES. REV. WILLIAM FLETCHER KING, D. D., LL. D., President of Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa, was born near Zanesville, Ohio, December 2oth, 1830. His parents, James J. King, and Mariam Coffman King, were industrious, intelligent, religious, and, if we may judge by heredi- ty, of remarkable force of character. Both were of old Virginian families, and both lived to an advanced age, the father departing in the eighty-sixth, and the mother in the eighty-eighth year of life. I Dr. King is the oldest of three brothers, all of whom are graduates of the Ohio Wesleyan Uni- versity. His brother, Isaac Fenton King, is a Presiding Elder in the Ohio Conference of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church, and twice a member of the General Conference. His brother, I-ohn Wes- ley King, is a successful lawyer at Zanesville, Ohio. 1 On the completion of his college course, in 1857, W. F. King was elected to a tutorship in the Ohio Wesleyan University. He remained there till 1862. The Faculty with whom he had been associated expressed great appreciation of his usefulness and success as a teacher. f In 1862 he resigned, with the intention of spending some time in European travel and study. Providence had other work for him to do. . He was elected to the Chair of Ancient Languages in Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa, having been recommended for that place by Drs. f afterwards Bishopsj Thompson and Clark. The place ,came uusought, but, after a family consultation, was accepted. Thus he came to Iowa in 1862, and has become a part of the educational history of the state. Near the close of that college year, President Fellows died, leaving a memory still fragrant with the aroma of purity and goodness. Professor King was placed in charge of the College as acting Presi- dent, and entered upon the discharge of that duty in the summer of 1863. In 1865 he was formal- ly elected President of the College, and has remained in that relation to the present. In length of service in the same college he outranks all other Presidents of Methodist Colleges now living in the United. States. To detail the -work of President King in the educational field, would outrun the limits of this paper. It includes over a quarter of a century of toil and care. Even when taking a vacation for