Background
Henry W. King was born in 1815 in Westfield, Massachusetts, the eldest son of Judge Leicester King.
Ohio Secretary of State Soil politician
Henry W. King was born in 1815 in Westfield, Massachusetts, the eldest son of Judge Leicester King.
King graduated from Washington (later Trinity) College in Hartford, Connecticut in 1836, and from Cincinnati Law School in 1839.
Son Harry Crosby King died during the American Civil War, August 11, 1864, while in the 164th Ohio Infantry. Daughter Julia Huntington married and moved to Chicago. King was active in promoting Akron"s Union School System.
In 1850 he was elected by the Ohio General Assembly as Ohio Secretary of State to a three year term.
A new constitution, adopted in summer of 1851, made the office elective, and an election was scheduled for autumn, 1851, shortening King"s term to January 1852. In the 1851 election, King came in third to Democrat William Trevitt and Whig Earl Bill.
He returned to Akron after his term, and died there November 20, 1857.