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KING, ALBERT THOMAS (1887-1982)

KING, ALBERT THOMAS, United Church minister, Red Bank and Whitneyville, 1936-38, and Douglastown and Nelson, 1948-52; b. Islington (London), England, 5 Oct 1887, s/o Edward W. King and Annie E. Wellington; m. Anne Jefferson, of Hull, England; d. Calgary, Alta, 31 Dec 1982.

Albert T. King, who spent his childhood and youth in London, England, began to do missionary work for the Congregational church in 1915 among the fisherfolk of the Orkney and Shetland Islands. In 1919 he crossed the Atlantic to Little Bay East, Nfld, where he served as both a preacher and medical missionary. In 1922 he accepted the pastorship of the Congregational church at Sheffield, N.B., and in 1925 he was the last man to be ordained to the ministry of the Congregational Church of Canada. Two days afterwards, the Congregational church was joined with the Methodist and Presbyterian churches to form the United Church of Canada, of which he then became a minister.

Before being called to Red Bank in 1936 King was minister of the United Church at Rothesay, N.B., for six years. He spent two years at Red Bank and Whitneyville, departing in 1938 for Oromocto, N.B. He served briefly there and at two other locations in the region, and then returned to the Miramichi in 1948 as minister of Douglastown and Nelson. He held the pastorate until 1952, when he moved to Fort Macleod, Alta. He retired in 1955 but continued to preach part time until 1972. When he died in Calgary in 1982, at age ninety-five, he was survived by a daughter and two sons, one of whom was also a United Church minister.

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[b] King family data (official records) [d] UC Observer Mar 1983 / Advocate 8 Jul 1936; annual (Alta) May 1884; Betts (CC); UC Observer Aug 1980; Walkington


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