Butte County
Biographies
WILLIAM J. KING, D. D. S.
WILLIAM J. KING, D. D. S.—The
oldest dentist in point of practice in Gridley, and one who has spared neither
labor nor expense in attaining the latest and highest results in his science
and art, is Dr. William J. King, who was born at St. Paul, Minn.,
April 5, 1869. His father was M. J. King, an interesting
sketch of whose life is printed elsewhere in this volume. William J. came
with his parents to California as early as 1871, and so it happened that he was
educated in the public schools of the Gridley district.
Leaving school, Mr. King settled on the
home ranch, four and a half miles west of Gridley, and there he remained,
associated with his father in agricultural work, until he was twenty-eight
years of age. It was a great school ! (sic) that
modest California ranch and its many-sided phases of daily labor and
responsibility, and it is not surprising that when he came to choose
professional work, Dr. King soon made his way into the front ranks.
He took up the study of dentistry at the
Northwestern University of Chicago, an institution everywhere recognized as
having one of the best medical departments in the country, and from there he
graduated in 1901. For a couple of years he practiced dentistry in Chicago, and
then came to Gridley in 1903 and continued his practice here.
With his brother, Dr. King is interested
in other matters than those pertaining to professional work. For the past three
years they have been growers of rice, and as each step they have taken in this
new and important field is in accordance with the experience and teachings of
previous scientific experiments, they are numbered among the county’s
successful rice-growers.
When Dr. King married, he chose for his
bride Miss Nellie Burke, a native of Pomona, Cal., and a popular young lady of
that section of the state. Both the Doctor and Mrs. King are enthusiastic
boosters of the great state in which they reside, and they are loyal especially
to the interests of Butte County and Gridley.
Transcribed by Marie Hassard
16 October 2009.
Source:
"History of Butte County, Cal.," by George C. Mansfield, Page 1247, Historic Record Co, Los
Angeles, CA, 1918.
© 2009 Marie Hassard.
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