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ROY BROOKS KING
KING, ROY BROOKS, Real Estate, Los Angeles, California, was born in Bristol, Tenn., Feb. 23, 1873, the son of Joseph Lynn King and Ademlia (Brooks) King. He married Cora Mae Hurley at Bristol, Tennessee, on August 12, 1901.
Mr. King received a common school education at Bristol and followed this with a year’s course at the Knoxville (Tenn.) Business College. He then returned to Bristol and entered King College, from which he was graduated in 1892.
Upon completing his studies, Mr. King went to Paterson, N. J., and entered the electric car shops there with the intention of mastering the electric railway business. At the end of two years he was made Auditor of the Paterson Street Railway Company, remaining with them about five years.
In 1899 he resigned and went to New York, where he was connected with the Auditor’s office of the Metropolitan Street Company for about two years. Leaving there in 1901 he went to Pittsburg, Pa., and was made Assistant Superintendent of Electrical Construction for the Pittsburg, McKeesport & Connsville Railway Company. He resigned this place at the end of two years and in 1903 moved to Los Angeles.
For a year after arriving in Los Angeles, Mr. King was connected with the Electrical Construction Dept. of the Pacific Electric Railway Company, but gave this up to enter the real estate field. He was manager of the House and Lot Dept. of Mines & Farish until they dissolved partnership in the early part of 1912, at which time he organized a firm of his own with Myron H. Wells. Under the name of King & Wells, with W. W. Mines & Co., they are engaged in the realty business.
He is member, Los Angeles Realty Board and the Chamber of Commerce; the California, Los Angeles Athletic and Los Angeles Country Clubs.
Transcribed
by Joyce Rugeroni.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 748,
International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2011 Joyce
Rugeroni.
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