Paul Howard King

Background

King, Paul Howard was born on August 22, 1879 in Arapahoe, Nebraska, United States. Son of John S. and Agnes (Smead) King.

Education

Graduate Dowagiac (Michigan) High School, 1895-1898, honorary alumnus University of Michigan.

Career

Page, Minnesota House of Representatives, 1893-1895, Michigan State Senate, 1897-1899. Assistant secretary Michigan Senate, 1901. Journal clerk Michigan House of Representatives, 1903-1907, chief clerk, 1909-1911.

Admitted to Michigan bar, 1904.

Secretary Michigan Constitutional Convention, 1908. Assistant to secretary-treasurer Grand Rapids, Holland & Chicago Railway, 1911-1914.

Operating receiver Pere Marquette Railroad, 1914-1917. Referee in bankruptcy, United States District Court, Eastern District of Michigan, since 1919.

Secretary Republican State Central Committee, 1910.

President Detroit Council of Churches, 1930-1931. Director Detroit Young Men's Christian Association, 1924-1929. Director Michigan Red Cross War Fund campaign, 1917, director of publicity, 1918.

Director publicity 2d Liberty Loan drive.

Achievements

• Paul Howard King has been listed as a reputable lawyer, state legislator. by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Detroit Charter Commission and author original draft of city charter, 1917. Trustee Roosevelt Memorial Association. Member American (Chairman of Commission on bankruptcy), Michigan and Detroit, bar associations.

Mason (32°), Knight of the Order of the Thistle

Club: Rotary (ex-president Detroit.

Connections

Married Sarah Amelia Bidwell, January 29, 1910. Children: Martha Bidwell, Sarah Bidwell (Mistress J. H. Garlick, Junior.

Father:

John South. King

Mother:

Agnes (Smead) King

Spouse:

Sarah Amelia Bidwell

child:

Martha Bidwell King

child:

Junior King

child:

Sarah Bidwell (Mistress J. H. Garlick King