Century Necrological Note* 



CLARENCE KING was born in 

 Newport, R. I., January 6th, 

 1842, his father being James King, of 

 the old China firm of King, Olyphant, 

 & Co. He was prepared for the 

 classical course at Yale, but chose 

 the Scientific School and was gradu- 

 ated in 1862. Almost from the por- 

 tals of college, he and his college 

 mate, James T. Gardiner, — par no- 

 bile, — set out, in the spring of 1 863, 

 to cross the Plains with an emigrant 

 train for the purpose of seeing the 

 whole interior of the continent, King 

 making, during the four months' jour- 

 ney on horseback, careful geological 



* Reprinted from the Report of the Board 

 of Management of the Century Association 

 for the year 1901. 



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