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KING, MALCOLM P. (1846-1924)

KING, MALCOLM P., Baptist minister, Doaktown field, 1894-1903; b. Belleisle Creek, Kings Co., N.B., 19 Jul 1846, s/o Malcolm King and Elizabeth Hickson; m. 1882, Keziah Thomas, of Hammonds Plains, Halifax Co., N.S.; d. Chipman, N.B., 17 Feb 1924.

Malcolm P. King was a somewhat younger brother of the Queens County lumberman and Canadian senator George G. King. As a youth, he took a commercial course at the Eaton & Frazee school in Saint John and joined his brother in business. After ten years he withdrew and went to Wolfville, N.S., to study for the Baptist ministry. He was granted a diploma in theology by Acadia University in 1881 and was ordained in 1882, at age thirty-six.

King had his first church at Sackville, N.S., and his second at St George, N.B. In 1886 he went to Cambridge, N.B., and he was called to the Miramichi from there in the fall of 1894. His residence and home church were at Doaktown, but he had three other preaching places, at Blissfield, Ludlow, and New Salem. It was stated that he "loved to serve in quiet, unobtrusive places," which may explain why this was the lengthiest of his pastorates.

King was later based at Newcastle Creek in Queens County and finally at New Minas and Wolfville, N.S., as a supply minister. In 1905 he was granted an honorary MA degree by Acadia. He returned to Chipman around 1909 and lived there until his death in 1924. He was survived by his wife, Keziah Thomas, a daughter, and two sons.

Sources

[b/m] Acadia Record [d] Daily Gleaner 18 Feb 1924 / Acadia archives; Advance 6 Dec 1894; annual 1924; Graves (re. George G. King); Maritime Baptist 12 Mar 1924


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