Les universités et leurs fils; l'histoire, l'influence et les caractéristiques des universités américaines, avec des croquis biographiques et des portraits d'anciens élèves et des récipiendaires de diplômes honorifiques. Agriculteur prospère du comté de Balti-More, comme son père, John King, et ce dernier a exercé le devoir de garnison à Baltimoreding la guerre de 1812. Sa mère était l'adaughter d'Edward Day, un vaste propriétaire de la même région. Ayant fréquenté diverses écoles privées dans le quartier de sa maison, il était suffisamment avancé à l'âge de dix-neuf ans pour entrer à l'Université du Vermont comme Sophome, et il était gragu

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Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . prosperous farmer of Balti-more county, as was also his father, John King, and the latter performed garrison duty in Baltimoreduring the War of 1812. His mother was adaughter of Edward Day, an extensive landownerof the same region. Having attended various privateschools in the neighborhood of his home he wassufficiently advanced at the age of nineteen toenter the University of Vermont as a Sophomore, and he was graduated when twenty-two years old..?^fter studying law for a time under the directionof the late Hon. Reverdy Johnson, he became a lawstudent at Harvard, where he took the degree ofBachelor of Laws in 1850, and having completedhis final preparations in the office of the late Hon.John Glenn of Baltimore, he was the same yearadmitted to the Bar in that city. Settling perma-nently in Baltimore, he soon established a lucrativegeneral law business, practising in the various courtsof the state, including the Court of Appeals. Fornearly fifty years he has been prominently identified. JOHN C. KING with the legal profession of Maryland. From iS6rto 1867 he was Judge of the Court of CommonPleas, and it is generally conceded that no localjustice ever acquired a liigher reputation for integ- UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS 12J rity and impartiality. In iSSS he was appointed Noble labored faithfully and diligently for three by the Supreme Court a Master in Chancery in the years, at the end of which time he was admitted as Equity Courts, and continued to serve in that an equal partner. Since then the business has capacity for ten years, or until 1S98, when he increased so rapidly that to-day the firm occupies resigned. Judge King is still in active practice. In six stores. Beside the general cliarge of the large the exciting agitation which preceded the breaking- school-book jobbing business, Mr. N

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