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KING, JOHN K. (1845-1929)

KING, JOHN K., Methodist minister, Boiestown circuit, 1879-82 and 1905-08; b. Port Elgin, N.B., 6 May 1845, s/o Henry King and Eleanor Hamilton; m. Mary S. Fletcher; d. Billerica, Mass., 23 May 1929.

John K. King studied for the ministry at Mount Allison College as a mature student and was received into 'full connexion' by the Methodist conference in 1879. With the exception of two years at Tryon, P.E.I., his entire ministry was conducted in rural and small town New Brunswick, in a large number of short pastorates. The six years in total in which he ministered at Boiestown were the most years he spent at any location.

During King's first term, on 1 January 1882, a new church was dedicated at Bloomfield Ridge, a few miles west of Boiestown. When a new church was also dedicated at Doaktown, on 12 November 1893, he was the minister at Bathurst, but he was invited back to be the guest preacher at the opening.

In 1915, while King was the minister at Nashwaak Village, he was accused of making unpatriotic statements and was called before a church court. When he attributed his "un-British" utterances to failing health, he was placed on the retirement roll. He continued to serve as a supply minister, however, until 1926, when he was past eighty.

King and his wife had six children living at home in Boiestown when the census of 1881 was taken. Their daughter Aleitha M. King was the wife of Dr Lorenzo Chapman. It was at the home of another of their daughters that King died in Billerica, Mass., in 1929.

Sources

[b/d] official death records / Advocate 21 Dec 1881, 22 Nov 1893, 31 Mar 1915, 16 Jun 1915; annual 1929; Carleton Sentinel 31 May 1929; Cornish; Walkington


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