Person:Clarence King (9)

Extracted from the Memorable Manitobans web site: http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/king_c.shtml

Born at Frankfurt, Germany on 2 November 1879, son of William George King and Adelheid Minner, he came to Brandon, Manitoba with his parents at the age of three and was educated at the Brandon Collegiate Institute. After graduation he taught public school for a year then joined his father in the newspaper business, co-managing The Brandon Independent until his father’s death, then taking it over afterwards. In March 1905 he bought the Brandon Times from E. L. Christie and became its editor.

On 11 July 1904, he married Ina Arnett, a daughter of Lewis Arnett, at Brandon. They had four children: Lilian King, Katherine King, Kenneth King, and Edith King. The family resided at 327 Sixteenth Street. He was elected to the Brandon School Board (1911) and the Brandon Commercial Bureau (1912), and served as Vice-President of the Brandon Horticultural Society. He was a member of the IOOF.

(NOTE THAT THIS WAS EXTRACTED FROM A BOOK PUBLISHED IN 1925, SO IT DOES NOT MENTION HIS LATER CHILDREN STEWART, KATHLEEN, AND ALAN, NOR HIS DEATH IN 1940).