Union County, Ohio Biographies Project - Dr. E. Y. King
DR. E. Y. KING
Dr. E. Y. King, a physician, was born in Holmes County, Ohio, August
30, 1836, and is a son of John and Mary Ann (McClain) King, natives of
Pennsylvania, the former of German and the latter of Scotch
descent. His father was a dry goods merchant, and in 1830
emigrated from Pennsylvania, with his family, to Holmes County,
Ohio. The subject of this sketch received a good common school
education in the high school of Fayette County, Penn., and in 1859
entered the medical department of the State University at Ann Arbor,
Mich.; but not being satisfied with the knowledge obtained in his
course at that institution, he entered the Medical College at Bellevue,
New York, in 1864, and graduated from it in the same year. After
leaving college, he enlisted in the Twenty-third Ohio Infantry and
served as Assistant Surgeon until the close of the war. In 1866,
he located at Richwood, then a village of about fifty houses, and
immediately began the practice of his profession, which he has since
carried on with flattering success. He entered upon the practice
here under very adverse circumstances, when the roads in the
surrounding country were so poor as to require him to go on foot to see
his patients, but by his indefatigable energy he has overcome all
obstacles and now stands at the bead of his profession in the
village. He is the oldest practitioner in Richwood, and has a
large and lucrative practice, which he is still actively engaged in
attending. He was married in 1862 to Elizabeth Rogers, a native
of Knox County, Ohio, and a daughter of James Rogers. This union
has been blessed with one child-Charles E E., now a clerk in a hardware
store in Delaware, Ohio. Mrs. King is a member of the
Presbyterian Church. The Doctor is a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church ; be takes an active interest in educational matters,
and has served as a member of the Board of Education at Richwood, and
has had some town office during most of the time of his residence here.
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