Ensign H. King is one of our soldier ministers. We have enough of them to make a goodly Veteran's Society. Their annual camp fires light a good many hearts that did not go to the war, but who have, and always will have, an affection for those who did, an affection that grows in proportion to the length of time that separates between them and those days that tried men's souls. Chaplain King was born near Newcastle, Penn., January 28, 1838. His parents were devout Methodists, and so reared him that he never knew when he was not a child of God. He joined the Church in Iowa in 1853. He was licensed to preach in 1860. He enlisted in company I, Fifteenth regiment, Iowa Volunteers, in November, 1861. He began as a private, but was promoted during his first three years through the office of first sergeant, second lieutenant, first lieutenant, to be chaplain of the regiment. He served in this last office until regularly mustered out at the end of the war in August, 1865. He immediately began his work as a pastor, supplying a charge until the time of the Des Moines Conference session in 1866. After eight years of successful labor in that conference, he came to California. In 1888 he was compelled to take a superannuated relation, in which he remains. He resides at Napa.
SOURCE: Charles Volney Anthony, Fifty years of Methodism, p. 346-7
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