Charles King (educator)
Charles King | |
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New York County District | |
| In office July 1, 1813 – June 30, 1814 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | March 16, 1789 Federalist Democrat |
| Spouses | Eliza Gracie
(m. 1810; died 1825)Henrietta Liston Low
(m. 1826) |
| Children | 14, including United States of America |
| Rank | Captain |
| Battles/wars | War of 1812 |
Charles King (March 16, 1789 – October 1867) was an American academic, politician and newspaper editor. He succeeded
Early life
King was born in New York City on March 16, 1789. He was the son of lawyer and politician
His mother was an only child of Mary (née Frogat) Alsop and
King was educated at the
Career
After completing his education in England, King became a clerk in the banking house of Hope & Co. in Amsterdam.[9] King returned to the United States in 1806, and began working for Archibald Gracie, a merchant. He became partner with Gracie in 1810, the same year he married Gracie's daughter, Eliza.[9]
King was captain of a volunteer regiment in the early part of the
A Democrat, he was editor of the New York American from 1823 to 1845,[11] where he repeatedly clashed with Mordecai Noah, then Editor of the New York Enquirer; Noah nicknamed King "Charles the Pink".[12]
President of Columbia College
On 7 November 1849, he succeeded
During his term as President, the
Personal life
On March 12, 1810, he married first to Eliza Gracie (1790–1825), the eldest surviving daughter of shipping magnate
- Eliza Gracie King (1810–1883), who married Rev. Charles Henry Halsey (1810–1855)[15]
- Esther Rogers King (1812–1898), who married Brig. Gen. James Green Martin (1819–1878)[15]
- Rufus King (1814–1876), who married Susan McCown Eliot (1826–1892)[15]
- William Gracie King (1816–1882), who married Adeline Taylor McKee (1817–1854)[15]
- Charles King, Jr. (b. 1817), who died at sea
- Alice Consett King (1819–1861), who married Rev. Andrew Bell Paterson[16]
- Archibald Gracie King (1821–1823), who died in childhood[15]
- Emily Sophia King (1823–1853), who married Stephen Van Rensselaer Paterson (1817–1872),Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.[18]
The year following Eliza's death in 1825, Charles married secondly Henrietta Liston Low (1799–1882) on October 20, 1826. Henrietta was the daughter of Nicholas Low, a merchant and member of the New York State Assembly. Before King's death in 1867, they were the parents of six children, including:[15]
- Anne Johnstone King (1827–1891)
- Cornelius Low King (1829–1893), who married Julia Ellen Lawrence (1832–1862), and later, Janet De Kay (1839–1896)
- Henrietta Low King (b. 1833)
- Gertrude Wallace King (b. 1836), who married American diplomat Eugene Schuyler in Paris in 1877.[2]
- William Henry Waddington (1826–1894), the Prime Minister of France.[2]
- Augustus Fleming King (1841–1862), who died during the Civil War[19]
King died in
Descendants
King was the grandfather of Charles King (1844–1933), a major general with the United States Army as well as a noted author,[21] who married Adelaide L. Yorke.[15]
References
- Notes
- ^ ISBN 0803266235)
- ^ a b c Columbia University Quarterly. Columbia University Press. 1905. p. 158. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
- ^ The Family Record: Devoted for 1897 to the Sackett, the Weygant and the Mapes Families, and to Ancestors of Their Intersecting Lines. C. H. Weygant. 1897.
- ^ Boyer, Carl, 3rd, Ancestral Lines, 144 Families in England, Germany, New England, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. (Newhall, CA 1975)
- ^ Winthrop (1891), p. 3.
- ^ Anderson (1995), p. 2040.
- ^ Miller (1907), p. 28.
- ^ "Columbia University bulletin. 1896-98". HathiTrust. Retrieved 2023-09-24.
- ^ a b c The New England Historical and Genealogical Register; New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001, (Orig. Pub. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 148 vols., 1847-1994) pp. 21:378.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "King, Rufus". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- ISBN 9781404752917.
- ISBN 0814321860)
- ^ Columbia University, Addresses at the Inauguration of Mr. Charles King (1848), Ch. 4, pp. 3-53
- ^ a b Johnson, Rossiter, editor, Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans (Boston, MA: The Biographical Society, 1904), VI:243.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Hamm, Margherita A. (1917). "Famous Families of New York". usgwarchives.net. G. P. Putnam's Sons. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
- ^ "MARRIED". The New York Times. 25 June 1864. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
- OCLC 163664761.
- ^ Myers, Gustavus (1912). History of the Supreme Court of the United States. C. H. Kerr. p. 149. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
Stephen Van Rensselaer Paterson.
- ^ "Augustus Fleming King | The Columbia University War Memorial". www.warmemorial.columbia.edu. Columbia University. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
- ^ Larry E. Gobrecht (June 1983). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Grace Episcopal Church Complex". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Archived from the original on 2012-10-18. Retrieved 2011-01-12.
- ^ Biography of Gen. Charles King
- Sources
- Anderson, Robert Charles (1995). The Great Migration Begins, Volume II, G-O. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society.
- Miller, Robert B., ed. (1907). Lyon Memorial. Detroit: William Graham Press.
- Winthrop, R. C. (1891). "Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society". second series. VI. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society.
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