Samuel Franklin Emmons 



behind a mingled feeling of pleasure 

 and regret among all who had the 

 privilege of knowing him. 



King was a man of remarkably ro- 

 bust physique, and showed through- 

 out his physically arduous life powers 

 of endurance that are rarely equaled; 

 yet it was one of the penalties of 

 the highly sensitive and nervous 

 organization, which rendered possi- 

 ble his marvelously acute and delicate 

 perception, that he was subject to 

 sudden and almost unaccountable 

 break-downs in which he suffered 

 intensely. His last severe illness 

 was an attack of pneumonia in the 

 early part of 1901, which followed 

 an examination of a mining property 

 during very inclement weather. 

 From this he recovered, but tuber- 

 culosis, the seeds of which were 

 supposed to have been sown during 

 a trip to the Klondike during the 

 previous summer, made such rapid 

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