Biography of;
Lieut. Wallace Albert King
Extracted from The Norwich
University History Volume II c.1912.
NU is the nations oldest private
military founded in 1819. Several Keene soldiers were either NU
attendees or graduates.
Wallace A. King, son of
Albert and Lucia A. King, was born in Woodstock, VT, February 3, 1837.
He prepared for college at the Woodstock High School and the Westminster, VT.
Seminary, pursuing at the latter Institution a special course in art,
painting, and drawing. He entered the University in 1855, and remained
two years, having in charge the department of drawing."
"Soon after leaving the
University, he removed to Tecumseh, Mich., where he followed his profession
of portrait, and landscape painting, panorama work. On the breaking out
of the Civil War, he enlisted sixty of the eighty-five men of the Tecumseh
Union Cadets: was elected their captain, but declined the office. He
was then chosen first lieutenant and was commissioned. He drilled the
recruits day and night for four weeks and took them to camp in Adrian Mich.,
where they were mustered in as Company G, 4th Michigan Infantry. He was
taken sick with bilious fever and was confined to the hospital for eight
weeks. He was forced to resign his commission, and as soon as he was he
was able, he returned to Vermont. He enlisted in Company B, 7th
Squadron R. I. Cavalry, the "College Cavaliers," and served his
time of enlistment."
"He then followed
his profession in Woodstock, for two years. He was for some years,
foreman of the decoration department of the Hampshire Pottery Company of
Keene, NH also J.S. Taft & Co. He is a member of Royal Select
Masters of Windsor, VT. He is also a charter member of the Pilgrim Fathers
and John Sedgewick Post, GAR of Keene."
"He was married in
1867, to Ada L. Emmons of Woodstock. Three children have been born to
them Wallace Starr, Ada Belle, and Aline M., all now residents of Boston,
Mass."
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