Samuel Franklin Emmons 



tigations into the deeper problems of 

 geology, to carry on which had been 

 one of his motives for giving up ad- 

 ministrative duties on the Geological 

 Survey. 



In his financial affairs, King had 

 difficulties to contend with that few 

 of his friends realized, and which 

 would have completely discouraged 

 a man of less sanguine and buoyant 

 temperament. 



At two successive periods in his 

 youth, those to whom he would natu- 

 rally have looked for financial support 

 were overwhelmed by commercial dis- 

 aster, leaving him to provide not only 

 for his own wants but for those of 

 other members of his family. In his 

 later life circumstances entirely be- 

 yond his control more than once baf- 

 fled or annulled the efforts he was 

 making to establish himself on such 

 a financial basis that he would feel 

 justified in applying his entire time 

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