Biography of CYRUS B. KING, M.D., of Allegheny

Taken from Erasmus Wilson (editor). Standard History of Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.  Chicago: H. R. Cornell Co., 1898, p.1045.

Available online at the Digital Pittsburgh Collection:

     http://digital.library.pit.edu/pittsburgh

Cyrus B. King, M.D., of Allegheny, one of the most prominent among the
physicians and surgeons of "Greater Pittsburg," was born in Washington County,
Pennsylvania, in 1839, the youngest but one in a family of twelve children born
to Dr. Samuel M. and Maria (Black) King.  The parents were both natives of
Western Pennsylvania.  His paternal grandfather, Samuel, was a native of
Carlisle, Pennsylvania, of Scotch-Irish descent, and the advent of the family in
the United States antedates the Revolutionary War.  Samuel King was a merchant
of Carlisle.  He moved to Uniontown, Fayette County, near the close of the last
century, becoming one of the first merchants of that place.  Samuel Black, his
maternal grandfather, came from Ireland to America, shortly after the Colonies
had declared their independence from the mother country, and was engaged in
farming and glass manufacturing.  He became a large holder of realty in
Pittsburg, was very active in public matters, was prosperous, established the
first ferry from Pittsburg to Birmingham, and died in 1845.  Dr. Samuel M. King
was educated at Jefferson College, and graduated from the Medical Department of
the University of Pennsylvania.  He immediately thereafter began the practice of
his profession at Monongehela City, and continued the same there and elsewhere
in Washington County for about fifty years.  He won emminence in his profession
by his intelligence, industry and high character.  He and wife were members of
the Presbyterian Church.  Cyrus Black King was educated at Columbia College,
Washington, D. C., and at the age of about twenty years began reading medicine
with an older brother at Monongehela City.  In 1861 he entered Jefferson Medical
College, and two years later graduated with distinction.  On the 9th of March,
1863, the day succeeding his graduation, he entered the Union Army as assistant
surgeon, and was at once assigned to duty in the army hospital at Philadelphia,
where he continued to serve until the close of the war.  He was then appointed
superintendent of the West Penn Hospital and the Pittsburg Soldiers' Home and
served in that capacity for four years, still continuing in charge of the
medical department of the hospital for two years longer.  Since that date he has
held a position on the medical staff of the hospital as attending physician.  He
now has a large practice among the better families.  In 1863 he married Miss E.
G. Kerr, daughter of Rev. John Kerr.  She died in 1881, leaving three children:
Anna, wife of Thomas W. Blackwell, Nina D., and Samuel V.  April 30, 1897, he
married Mrs. Frances K. Brown, daughter of Josiah King.  Dr. King is a member of
the following medical associations: American, Centennial, State and Allegheny
County, and has been president of the latter.  He is on the staff of the
Allegheny General Hospital, the Children's Memorial Hospital of Allegheny,
Pittsburg Hospital for Children, and is consulting surgeon for the McKeesport
Hospital.

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1850 Monongehela City, Washington Co., PA
Samuel M. King     WM 54     physician      PA
Mariah -------     WF 49                    PA
John L. ------     WM 30     clerk          PA
William H. King    WM 26     physician      PA
Richard -------    WM 22     clerk          PA
Louiza Baird       WF 20                    PA
Thomas H. Baird    WF 25     lawyer         PA
Josephine C. King  WF 17                    PA
A[lvive] --------  WF 12                    PA
Cyrus -----------  WM 9                     PA
Anne E Baily       BF 19                    VA