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EPHRAIM T. KING, an old and highly respected resident of Jamestown, was born on his father’s farm in Saratoga county, New York, August 17, 1818, and is a son of Elisha G. and Sarah (Wight) King. The King family is of early New England stock and has always been noted for its industry and thrift. Joseph King (grandfather) came from Connecticut and settled at an early date in Vermont. Not finding this congenial to his ideas he again gathered his possessions about him and went into Saratoga county, this State, where by hard labor he made him a home where he might wrap the mantle of his couch about him and rest in peace. During America’s second struggle with the mother country, he forsook, for the time being, the quietness of home life and shouldering his flintlock marched off with many of his neighbors to repel the invader. When success to his country’s arms was assured, he returned to his family, which he left when duty called, and continued to farm until his death. His wife was Thankful Hames and ten children was the result of the union. He embraced the faith of the Baptist church some time before his death and passed away in its consolation. Jacob Wight (maternal grandfather), too, was of New England origin, and was known as a good citizen in the locality where he lived. Elisha G. King (father) was three years of age at the commencement of the present century, and was born in New England but came to Saratoga county with his father and hewed himself a farm out of the forest where he lived all his life, following agricultural pursuits and died, a communicant of the Universalist church, although earlier in life he was a methodist. In life Mr. King was a whig who voted as he felt disposed and with no desire for political honors.

Ephraim T. King began life acquainted with hard work and remained in Saratoga county until he was thirty years of age, when he moved to this county and located near the present town of Falconer, where he engaged in the manufacture of half bushel measures. This work was continued for fourteen years when he bought a farm of twenty-five acres within the present municipal limits of Jamestown, and is also the owner of thirty acres just outside the city and for nearly a third of a century has cultivated them, conducting his work with skill. Among the many republicans of his locality, he is one of them, and is recognized as an influential and highly respected citizen.

He was married twice. His first wife was Maria Scribner, and after her death he married Susan J. Washburn, a daughter of Luther Washburn, of Saratoga county, this State. This last union has been blest with four children: Frank B., who is married to Mary Edwards, of Saratoga county, and is now engaged in the manufacture of gloves and mittens in Jamestown, where he resides; Sidney, superintendent of an oil lease at Titusville, Pa., and married to Lottie Dunn; Ida M., and George at home.