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JOHN W. KING, M. D., a young, well-read physician of excellent natural ability of Armada, Buffalo county, Nebr., was born near Indianapolis, Ind., February 10, 1859, and is the son of John G. and Martha (Park) King. The latter was born in Virginia, September 20, 1831, and is still living. John G. King was born in Indiana, February 28, 1831, and was a farmer. He enlisted in Company G, Twenty-sixth Indiana infantry, but only served about thirteen months, when he died in a hospital at Springfield, Mo., August, 1862. He was married to Miss Martha Park, September 21, 1854, by whom he had three children — Bertha (deceased), John W., and Fannie K. Dr. King was reared on a farm near Indianapolis, and provided for his widowed mother after his father’s death. He attended the normal school at Valparaiso, Ind., for two years, after which he spent two years on the old homestead. He began to read medicine with Dr. J. G. Gressler of Bluff Creek, Ind., and afterwards attended a course of lectures at Bennett’s Medical College, Chicago. He then practiced about eighteen months at Waverly, Ind., and in December, 1882, entered the Eclectic Medical Institute at Cincinnati, Ohio, from which he graduated in June, 1883, and then located at Waverly, Ind., where he practiced with excellent success for two years. He came to Armada, Nebr., in June, 1888, where he has since continued the practice of his profession. Dr. King was married to Miss Mary Cheatham. September 22, 1880. She was born June 24, 1856, and was the daughter of William Cheatham, who was a Virginian by birth. She died April 19, 1889, leaving three children — Martha B., Ossie L., and John W. Dr. King is a member of the Odd Fellows, the Modern Woodmen, and Knights of Pythias.