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JAMES KOSSUTH KING, M. D., Ph. D., is President and Medical Superintendent of The Glen Springs Sanitarium at Watkins. No man can occupy this position without possessing those qualities that are worthy of public attention, and justify for him a place among the prominent men of the county. Such a man is Dr. King. He was born in Troy, N. Y., and was graduated from the medical department of Columbia College, New York City, in the Class of ‘77. After his formal graduation he spent six months in several of the celebrated hospitals of that city, gaining valuable experience. When he was thirty years of age he established himself in practice at Clifton Springs, where he remained until the year 1884. Then, feeling a noble anxiety to improve himself in his profession, he went abroad, where he was engaged for two years studying the work of the masters in the great hospitals of Edinburgh, London, Paris, Vienna and Berlin. The last six months of this time he was in the Rotunda Hospital of Dublin.

In 1890 Dr. King, with William E. Leffingwell and Dr. E. D. Leffingwell, established The Glen Springs Sanitarium, which is the leading institution of the kind in the state, the extensive grounds and the ample buildings affording accommodations for more than two hundred guests. Dr. King is Medical Superintendent, and is ably assisted by those engaged with him in this great enterprise. It has won a high position in the regard of the most advanced and scientific medical men of the surrounding country, and many of the leading physicians whose field of practice lies anywhere near it do not hesitate to recommend it to their patients. Consequently its guests are of a most superior class, as might be expected when they come by the direction of such eminent physicians as Charles L. Dana, M. Allen Starr, Alfred L. Loomis and Edward G. Janeway. E. M. Moore, a noted physician of Rochester, is very active in directing patronage to this institution, which is entirely suited to the needs of many of his patients.

Dr. King was married, in December, 1890, to Miss May Warner, daughter of Gen. Willard Warner, now a resident of Chattanooga, Tenn. The Doctor and his wife have one daughter. In politics Dr. King has always been a stanch Republican.