Samuel Franklin Emmons 



and modern languages that she might 

 teach them in turn to him, and thus 

 was founded a close intellectual com- 

 panionship which lasted until his 

 death. 



King's early boyhood days were 

 spent at Newport, but he received 

 his principal school education in the 

 endowed hiodi-school at Hartford. 



As a very young child he showed 

 symptoms of a decided bent toward 

 the study of natural phenomena, 

 which was further developed during 

 long summer vacations, spent in fish- 

 ing, hunting and botanizing in the 

 Green Mountains. 



In 1859 ne became a member of 

 the Sheffield Scientific School, and 

 during the two following years ac- 

 quired a systematic grounding in the 

 sciences of geology and mineralogy 

 under the inspiring teachings of James 

 D. Dana and George J. Brush, at 

 rhat time their foremost exponents. 

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