Person:Leicester King (1)
Judge Leicester King
b.1 May 1789 Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
d.19 Sep 1856 North Bloomfield, Trumbull, Ohio, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. 27 Jan 1780
  1. Sally King1781 - 1832
  2. Polly King1783 - 1810
  3. Charlotte King1785 - 1819
  4. David King1787 - 1845
  5. Judge Leicester King1789 - 1856
  6. Israel Holly King1791 - 1817
  7. Leonard Jarvis King1793 - 1835
  8. Betsey King1800 - 1800
Spouse and Children
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m. 12 Oct 1814
  1. Henry William King1815 - 1857
  2. Julia Ann King1817 - 1885
  3. Susan Huntington King1820 - 1839
  4. Leicester King1823 - 1893
  5. David Leicester King1825 - 1902
  6. Helen Dunbar King1827 - 1886
  7. Hezekiah Huntington King1829 -
  8. Catherine Brindley King1832 - 1907
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Judge Leicester King1789 - 1856
  • W.  Calista Crosby (add)
m. 10 Jun 1852
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Facts and Events
Name[1] Judge Leicester King
Gender Male
Birth[1][2][3] 1 May 1789 Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Marriage 12 Oct 1814 Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut, United Statesto Julia Ann Huntington
Residence 1817 Warren, Trumbull, Ohio, United Stateswith Julia Ann Huntington
Marriage 10 Jun 1852 to Calista Crosby (add)
Death[3] 19 Sep 1856 North Bloomfield, Trumbull, Ohio, United States
Burial? Oakwood Cemetery, Warren, Trumbull, Ohio, United States
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 History of Trumbull and Mahoning Counties : with illustrations and biographical sketches
    Vol. 1.

    LEICESTER KING was born May 1, 1789, at Suffield, Connecticut. He married, October 12, I814, Julia Ann Huntington, daughter of Hon. Hezekiah Huntington, of Hartford, Connecticut, and died at North Bloomfield, Trumbull county, Ohio, September 19, 1856, at the residence of his son-in-law, Charles Brown.

    Mr. King removed from Westfield, Massachu­setts, where he was engaged in the mercantile business for a few years, to Warren, Ohio, in 1817, where he continued the same business until 1833. At that time, becoming interested in the project of building the Pennsylvania and Ohio canal, he abandoned mercantile life, and devoted the most of his time to forwarding that enterprise; and it was mainly through his energy and labor that it was finally constructed - he being for a long time the president of the com­pany.

    He filled the position of associate judge of the court of common pleas, and represented the Trumbull district for two successive sessions (1835-39) in the State Senate. He was a de­cided Abolitionist, although elected as a Whig, and at each session introduced and advocated a bill to repeal the infamous "Black laws", which then disgraced our statute books. After the spirited Presidential contest of 1840 he identi­fied himself with the few who organized the Liberty party, and was the first candidate for Governor nominated by that party in 1842; and he was renominated in 1844. As the champion of that forlorn hope he thoroughly canvassed the State, discussing its platform of principles in every county and in almost every school district. He was president of the first United States Liberty party convention, held in Buffalo in 1844, which put in nomination James G. Birney as candidate for President, and Thomas Morris for Vice President of the United States. In 1847 Mr. King was the nominee for Vice President, with John P. Hale for President; both, however, declined the nomination in favor of Martin Van Buren and Charles Francis Adams, as candidates for the Free soil party - the Liberty party there­after being merged into this new party of anti­-slavery principles. After the death of Mrs. King, January 24. 1849, Mr. King withdrew from politics, although he continued, until the day of his death, a warm advocate of the principles for which he had declined all political preferment and personal position from the old Whig party.

    The earnest zeal with which be sowed the seed through the State of Ohio required but a few years to bring forth an abundant harvest of right sentiments, and had its due share in the successful contest for human rights, which resulted in placing Abraham Lincoln in the executive chair in 1861.

  2. ↑ Suffield Vital Records, in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
    KL:147.

    KING, Lester, s. [David & Hannah], b. May 1, 1789

  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 King, Cameron Haight. The King family of Suffield, Connecticut, its English ancestry, A.D.1389-1662, and the American descendants, A.D.1662-1908: comprising numerous branches in many states of the United States, also appendices containing information concerning some of its maternal ancestors. (1908)
    p. 192.

    186
    DAVID6 KING, (Ebenezer,5 Ebenezer,4 James,3 James,2 William,1), born in Suffield, Conn., April 16, 1758; died in Suffield, May 4, 1832; married in Suffield, January 27, 1780 Hannah Holly, born in Suffield June 4, 1758; died in Suffield July 14, 1831, daughter of Rev. Israel Holly. Children all born at Suffield.
    Issue:...

    415 v. Leicester7, b. May 1, 1789; d. Sept. 19, 1856; m. Oct. 12, 1814 Julia Ann Huntington.

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