Clarence King — Geologist 



Daniel King, the emigrant, who 

 came to Lynn, Massachusetts, in 

 1637, was a younger son of Ralphe 

 Kinge of Watford, Hertfordshire, 

 England. His great-grandson, Ben- 

 jamin, moved from Salem, Massa- 

 chusetts, to Newport, Rhode Island, 

 and, according to family tradition, 

 was a man of scientific tastes, who 

 occupied himself with philosophical 

 instruments and assisted Benjamin 

 Franklin in his early experiments in 

 electricity. Samuel King of Newport, 

 son of the latter and great-grand- 

 father of Clarence, was a portrait- 

 painter of merit, who numbered 

 among his pupils Washington All- 

 ston, and Malbone, the miniaturist. 

 On his mother's side, one of King's 

 great-grandfathers, William Little, 

 was a graduate of Yale in 1777, and 

 received an honorary degree from 

 Harvard in 1786. Another, Ashur 

 Robbins, graduated from Yale in 

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