Submitted by Norma Jean Huss
The subject of this sketch, Mr. E. King, was born in Rosebud, Pope County, Illinois, February 3rd, 1869. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and later on in life took a course of instruction in the International Schools.
He served his apprenticeship at the carpenters trade thoroughly mastering the same. Later he broadened by traveling through the Southern part of the state engaged in his chosen line of work and has helped to construct some of the finest residences that are to be found in this part of the State. In 1910 he moved his family to their present home on Catherine and 7th streets and is at present, proprietor of a planning mill and cabinet shop, located on Pearl and Third streets. Curing the past twenty years or more Mr. King has been engaged in cabinet work and the making and finishing up of office and store fixtures, specializing along this particular line of work. he is considered to be a workman of the highest order and ability, and his services are most always in demand by those who require a workman of skill and ability and that can be relied upon to fulfill his contracts with promptness and dispatch.
Politically Mr. King is a Republican and a genuine dyed-in-the- wool, old fashioned one, and if you doubt the assertion, ask him. He is, and has been for years a member of the Missionary Baptist church and takes an active interest in all affairs that tend to promote the interests of his church and the city and community at large. As a citizen he is public spirited and enterprising, and as a friend and neighbor you may search the city over and you will not run across a more charitably inclined citizen who stand more willing to contribute his time and money to helping a just cause that will U.G. King.
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