Edwin W. King

SOURCE: Weymouth T. Jordan, "Ante-Bellum Alabama: Town and Country".

p44 - "Edwin W. King was born on November 28, 1813 in Georgia. For a time he was a student at the Georgia Athens College, Athens, after which he aided his father [Elisha F. King] in operating the family plantations and other business enterprises."

p50 - "In 1852 when Edwin W. King asumed management of his father's [Elisha F. King] estate he became one of the wealthiest men in Alabama. Although Elisha F. King had had three children, only Edwin W. was alive in 1852."
fn32 - "Edwin W. King married Rhoda B. Langdon on July 25, 1833, she being a member of a prominent Marion family...."

p58- "...Edwin W. King's death on August 10, 1860...."
[end Jordan quotes]


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