Background
King, Henry Melville was born on September 3, 1838 in Oxford, Maine, United States. Son of Samuel Hall and Eliza (Shaw) King.
King, Henry Melville was born on September 3, 1838 in Oxford, Maine, United States. Son of Samuel Hall and Eliza (Shaw) King.
Bachelor of Arts, Bowdoin, 1859, Master of Arts, 1862. Graduate Newton Theological Institution, 1862. (Doctor of Divinity, Colby, 1877.
South.T.D., Bowdoin, 1899).
Father of Lida Shaw K. ordained Baptist ministry, August 28, 1862. Instructor Hebrew language, Newton Theological Institution, 1862-1863. Pastor Dudley Saint Church, Boston, 1863-1882, Emanuel Church, Albany, 1882-1891, First Church, Providence, 1891-1906, emeritus, 1906.
Chairman board of managers, 1884-1887, and member Executive Committee, 1874-1882, 1894-1901, 1906-1909, American Baptist Missionary Union.
President Rhode Island Baptist State Convention, 1891-1895, Northern Baptist Education Society, 1875-1882. Trustee Newton Theological Institution, Vassar College, Hamilton Theological Seminary, Rochester Theological Seminary, Worcester Academy, Hartshorn Memorial College, and Brown U. Author: Our Gospels, 1895.
Summer Visit of Three Rhode Islanders to Massachusetts Bay, 1896. The Baptism of Roger Williams, 1897.
Religious Liberty, 1903.
John Myles and the Founding of the First Baptist Church in Massachusetts, 1905. Sir Henry Vane, Junior, 1909.
Member executive
Married Susan Ellen Fogg, September 2, 1862.