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74-731: David or Dave King may refer to: Entertainment [ edit ] Dave King (actor) (1929–2002), English comedian, actor and vocalist David King (theatre producer) (born 1956), British theatre producer Dave King (Irish singer) (born 1961), Irish vocalist, member of the band Flogging Molly David King (drummer) (born 1970), American drummer for Happy Apple and The Bad Plus Politics [ edit ] David S. King (1917–2009), American politician, Representative for Utah David Orr King (1938–2019), American politician, Representative for Pennsylvania David King (chemist) (born 1939), British chemist, former chief scientific adviser to

148-537: A cholera epidemic, which he contracted while caring for other victims of the outbreak. After her husband's death, Almena frugally held on to the family wealth. She built a large home at 2 Ferncliff Place in Springfield in about 1852, which was long known as the King Homestead. The Springfield City Directory of that time located it simply as "North of Buck Creek." Buck Creek, which is probably wide enough to be called

222-686: A general store . Tarlton was on Zane's Trace , which at the time started at the Ohio River across from Wheeling, West Virginia , and passed through Zanesville , Lancaster , the intermittent state capital of Chillicothe and ended at the Ohio River in their previous home town of Portsmouth. The store prospered and David starting investing in real estate, which built their wealth substantially over their years in Tarlton. All did not go well for David and Almena, however. As David often did, he took his wagon "across

296-549: A temperance convention during their honeymoon. For his part, David Ward King organized the Prohibition Party in Missouri . He often spoke in district school houses on the topic. In Holt County, Mrs. King often went him on his crusades to ban the use of alcoholic drinks. Many were violently against prohibition and, as a result, against David Ward King as well. One time, at Eureka school house, someone went so far as to lodge

370-528: A "private car" and paid him a "handsome salary". His brochure, while not naming them, stated that "four important railroads" had done that. However, the enthusiasm of the railroad for improved roads quickly cooled when their ridership for short trips began to drop off dramatically. With improved local roads, people started travelling locally on their own bicycles (which were the craze of the day) and their own newly acquired automobiles . However, D. Ward King and his "Good Roads" program were already on their way, and

444-481: A Form Master at Haberdashers Aske’s (this edit is by a pupil of his from 1955), and when King got his regular TV show they both gave up their jobs to become full time script writers. led to his compering the monthly BBC-TV series Showcase beginning on January 24, 1955 and being given a monthly series on the BBC starting on October 15, 1955. The next year he turned to singing, while continuing to perform on television. During

518-472: A Lyceum Course (a group of men who met for regular lectures and debates on topics of interest) to Maitland. He later became a life member of the Lyceum Association. The King home was often the headquarters for visiting clergy and for Lyceum entertainers. It was in 1896 that D. Ward King first dragged the road with an old frostbitten pump stock and an oak post. The improvement in the dirt roads it worked

592-540: A Pennsylvania Militia brigadier general. Their son William Rodgers married the sister of Effie Sarah Harrison. All of these Quigley grandchildren, their spouses and families, apparently except Eleanor, moved to Springfield, Ohio in 1831 (source in footnote says 1833). Modern day Littleton & Rue Funeral Home now occupies the Rodgers mansion at 830 North Limestone Street, Springfield, Ohio. Likely on their urging, David and Almena King moved to Springfield as well in 1840. David,

666-529: A backing group called the Keynotes. He also charted with "Christmas and You" (No. 23, 1956) and " The Story of My Life " (No. 20, 1958). He appeared on Decca Records ' All Star Hit Parade charity record in 1956 along with other major Decca artists Dickie Valentine , Joan Regan , Winifred Atwell , Lita Roza and David Whitfield . That record charted at No. 2 in the UK Singles Chart . In 1959, he went to

740-409: A character from the video game Resident Evil Outbreak David King, a character in the novel The Enemy David King ( Dead by Daylight ) , a character in the multiplayer video game Dead by Daylight See also [ edit ] King David (disambiguation) King (surname) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with

814-474: A fence board between the spokes of the two rear wheels of the Kings' buggy so it would hit Ward in the head when he started out. As a result, he had to carefully inspect his buggy, before starting home after these temperance meetings. David Ward left the party later, because he felt prohibition alone was not enough for their platform, but he remained a staunch prohibitionist all his life. The Kings were early members of

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888-512: A house and farm buildings and otherwise developed the farm, overcoming many obstacles. He met and married his wife, Lola Montez Askam King, in the Vanlue community and brought up his family on this farm, which he called "Grassland Farm". He describes his many hardships in his farm journal, which hardships were probably very similar to the ones Ward must have experienced in turning himself into a farmer on his Maitland farm. Logic suggests that Ward's fate

962-481: A long time before it finally claimed her. Her son-in-law, famous Lutheran minister and later Wittenberg professor Luther Alexander Gotwald , happened to drop in while passing through Springfield on a train and was able to greatly comfort her during her last hours. The King Homestead stayed in the King family for a long time after Almena's death. However, eventually it was sold to Chi Omega sorority of Wittenberg University and

1036-618: A recently married young man and began farming there. While living on that farm, he invented the King Road Drag (very famous in its day), which made country roads passable in wet weather and is still credited with making possible reliable rural mail delivery and the practicality of the automobile. Probably as early as 1877 or 1878, his father, Robert Quigley King, obtained some 1,597 acres (646 ha) near Maitland in Holt County, Missouri . Family stories hold that his father received this land as

1110-469: A river at that point, has long marked the north boundary of downtown Springfield. There are tall limestone cliffs on both sides of it. Isaac Ward cut building stone from these cliffs, at the location of present-day Cliff Park in Springfield, that later became part of many of the early buildings in Springfield. There was only the Limestone Street footbridge across Buck Creek at the time Almena King built

1184-563: A small boat and drowned in the nearby Scioto River. Soon thereafter, Almena's mother died of grief. Her Uncle Hannibal Gilman Hamlin (first cousin to Lincoln's first Vice President, Hannibal Hamlin ) became the guardian of her and her brother, Hamlin Caldwell, moved them to Cincinnati and saw to their education. David King married her there when she was seventeen. After their marriage, David and Almena soon moved to Tarlton, Ohio , where David put his store clerking experience to good use by opening

1258-565: A straight actor with some success, starring in the films Pirates of Tortuga (1961), Go to Blazes (1962), The Road to Hong Kong (1962), Strange Bedfellows (1965), Up the Chastity Belt (1971), The Ritz (1976), The Golden Lady (1979), Cuba (1979), The Long Good Friday (1980), Warren Beatty 's Reds (1981) and Revolution (1985). He also appeared in a number of TV series including Hazell (1978), Pennies From Heaven (1978), Minder (episode: "Gunfight at

1332-488: A toddler wandering the streets of Baltimore during a yellow fever epidemic in which both his parents presumably died. David knew only his own name and could tell nothing about his parents. He was found in a Baltimore hotel and taken in by a Robert Quigley who had a farm near Shippensburg, Pennsylvania , and who had "wagoned" to Baltimore for supplies. While Robert Quigley did rear and educate David King on his Cumberland County, Pennsylvania , farm, he did not adopt him, which

1406-400: A very astute businessman, who was already very well off, proceeded to build a significant portion of early downtown Springfield, which was known for long thereafter as "King's Row". Their daughter, Sarah Jane King, was born to them in Springfield on December 20, 1841. Their daughter Almena Caldwell King was also born there on February 1, 1848. Unfortunately, David King died on August 8, 1849, in

1480-471: Is not, as you might suppose, dry and uninteresting. You will find that the novelty of the idea and its practical value will attract a larger attendance than a feature of mere entertainment." Over time, Ward conducted Good Roads campaigns in forty-six of the then-existing forty-eight states – all except Nevada and New Hampshire . He conducted them in Canada as well, including the province of Nova Scotia , where

1554-808: Is today its sorority house. After Almena's death, Rev. Gotwald wrote a loving biography of David and Almena in which he penned this moving tribute to his late father in law. He was a most devoted husband, a firm and yet a most affectionate father, and eminently, honorable and successful, a consistent and faithful Christian, a trustee of the First Presbyterian Church, and an intelligent, genial, liberal, talented and noble man in all things. You are indebted largely to him for most of your temporal blessings which you enjoy, for without his industry, economy and business success, your lot in life would be entirely different. Revere therefore, his memory. Ever think of him gratefully and affectionately, often visit his grave in

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1628-585: Is why David's last name stayed King. The Quigleys were devout members of the nearby Middle Spring Presbyterian Church . David King grew up, regularly attending that church, which began a strong tradition of religious correctness in the King family that beyond question made its way down to Ward. Upon attaining adulthood, Ward's grandfather David King obtained an apprenticeship as a store clerk in Portsmouth, Ohio, where he met Ward's grandmother, then-teenage Almena Caldwell. However, her older brother and father fell from

1702-790: The National Road (present U.S. Route 40 or more roughly Interstate 70 ) went through the center of Ohio . This road started at Baltimore and ending in Illinois . So, the focus of commerce in Ohio shifted from the communities along Zane's Trace to the center of the state. Among the cities the National Road crossed was Springfield, Ohio , where it arrived in 1836 and stopped for ten years while lawmakers argued about where it would go from there. Located at that terminus, Springfield especially boomed during those ten years. Several of Robert Quigley's grandchildren,

1776-495: The RAF and was in the unit's repertory company. On being demobilised, he returned to variety and later became a solo act as a comedy impressionist in 1952. A television appearance on Easter Music Hall in April 1954. Prior to his TV appearances he had a regular weekly radio show. It was for this radio show that Sid Green and Dick Hills first became his scriptwriters. At the time Hills was still

1850-591: The French Foreign Legion during World War I Others [ edit ] David King (artist) (1948–2019), British graphic designer and artist David Ward King (1857–1920), farmer and inventor of the King road drag David A. King (engineer) (born 1961/62), director of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center David H. King, Jr. (1849–1916), New York builder Characters [ edit ] David King ( Resident Evil ) ,

1924-576: The King Homestead, and that footbridge was more than a block upstream. She bought this land from Robert Quigley's grandson-in-law, Isaac Ward, who lived across the street on present-day Fountain (then Market). The Isaac Ward Mansion still stands today and is still occupied. The Kings and the Quigley descendants remained very close, which is why Ward's father gave him the middle name of "Ward", and Ward went by that middle name all his life. One family account credits Isaac Ward with having been particularly helpful to

1998-576: The King family after the death of David King. Isaac Ward also sold a large tract of his land to Wittenberg College, which now forms the eastern part of its campus and is the reason the main road through present day Wittenberg University is Ward Street. The King Homestead was out in the country when first built, which was to get her boys away from the reported 122 saloons near their home in Springfield proper. All three of her sons attended nearby Wittenberg College. Almena Caldwell King died of diabetes on May 30, 1878, from which she had suffered greatly for

2072-409: The King road drag was found better than any other method to work sandy roads, clay roads and rock roads. One Canadian journalist was so impressed that he wrote and published this poem as his tribute to Ward. MY FAVORITE KING By William Edward Park, Chatham (Canada) Daily News. When knights were bold and ladies fair, and all that medieval junk. And when for common folks like us the job of living

2146-460: The Maitland M.E., church and their two older children attended this church with them. The Kings and Lettie "Reed" King, their oldest daughter, became charter members of the First Presbyterian Church of Maitland. The Kings heavily involved themselves in civic and church affairs. He sat as one of the first trustees of Maitland's First Presbyterian Church and taught in the "Sabbath School". David Ward King

2220-1168: The North Melbourne Football Club David King (punter) (born 1981), American football player from Australia David King (figure skater) (born 1984), British figure skater David King (footballer, born 1985) , Australian rules footballer for the Collingwood Football Club David King (defensive end) (born 1989), American football player David King (cricketer) (born 1990), Australian cricketer David King (footballer, born 1990) , English footballer David King (hurler) (born 1993), Irish hurler David King (hurdler) (born 1994), English hurdler Writers [ edit ] David King (graphic designer) (1943–2016), British graphic designer, historian, book author, collector of Soviet art Dave King (novelist) (born 1955), American novelist and poet David King (historian) (born 1970), American writer and historian David A. King (historian) , British-born orientalist and historian of astronomy David Wooster King , American author, member of

2294-639: The OK Laundrette", 1979), Shoestring (episode: "The Teddy Bears' Nightmare", 1980). King appeared in two of the UK's most hard-hitting police series, The Sweeney and The Professionals . His appearance in The Sweeney saw him play Arnold Drake, the leader of a gang of armed robbers in the episode: "Pay Off" (1976), whilst in The Professionals he appeared in the role of organised crime lord Harry Walter,

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2368-577: The Robert Quigley farm. So, it was Robert Quigley's grandchildren, Richard Rodgers, Mary Rodgers, Rachel Rodgers, Dr. Robert Rogers and William Rodgers who lived close to the Quigley farm during David's childhood. They would have been the children with whom David King grew up and with whom he would have been particularly close. Their daughter Mary Rodgers married a Cumberland County neighbor, Isaac Ward. Their daughter Rachel Rodgers never married. Their son, Dr. Robert Rodgers, married Effie Harrison, daughter of

2442-628: The Rodgers families, had moved to Springfield. David's childhood companions were Robert Quigley's Rodgers grandchildren instead of Robert's children. Robert Quigley probably took in David King out of " empty nest syndrome ", since his own children were grown and likely out on their own at the time he found David. According to the Quigley Family History, Robert Quigley's second daughter Jennet "Jane" Quigley married James Rodgers, her Cumberland County, Pennsylvania , neighbor, and continued to live near

2516-886: The UK government David Thomas King (born 1946), Canadian politician, former minister of education in Alberta David C. King , American author, political scientist, Harvard University professor David W. King , (born 1946) American politician from New Mexico David D. King (jurist) , New Hampshire administrative judge Sports [ edit ] Dave King (footballer, born 1940) (1940–2010), English professional footballer Dave King (ice hockey) (born 1947), Canadian professional ice hockey coach Dave King (businessman) (born 1955), Scottish businessman, Rangers F.C. director Dave King (footballer, born 1962) , English professional footballer David King (defensive back) (born 1963), American football player David King (footballer, born 1972) , Australian rules footballer for

2590-538: The United States and hosted the country's high-profile Kraft Music Hall on 19 occasions, but otherwise had limited success despite Mel Brooks joining his regular writers Sid Green and Dick Hills . On returning to the United Kingdom, he found that the public's taste in comedy had changed. Dave's Kingdom ran on ITV in 1964, again made by ATV , but was less successful than King's earlier TV work. King became

2664-668: The background. In the theatre, he appeared in Arsenic and Old Lace , playing Mortimer Brewster, and in Teeth 'n' Smiles (1975/6). He married Jean Hart in 1955, and they had two daughters, Cheyenne and Kiowa. They lived in South Cerney in Gloucestershire. His hobbies included model railways and American folklore . King died in London on 15 April 2002, aged 72. David Ward King King

2738-502: The cemetery at Springfield, Ohio. And always seek to imitate his character and life, thus showing yourselves worthy descendants of such an estimable ancestor. Of all the descendants of the first David King, his creative and industrious grandson, David Ward King undoubtedly did the most to live up to the spirit and the letter of Rev. Gotwald's heartfelt counsel. David Ward King was born on October 27, 1857, in Springfield, Ohio . His father

2812-431: The crown of battle wears. D. Ward's his name and he has fought for better thoroughfares. That can be built without expense. He makes the very rafters ring. With pleadings and arguments – and that is why his praise I sing. For heaven knows we need good roads – good roads to let the farmer pass. To market with his wheat and corn and sugar beets and garden sass. And bring us closer to the farm and bring them closer to

2886-415: The days before powered stone crushers, there was the additional and very arduous task of smashing much bigger rocks down to the right size for use in the respective layers. This work came to be known as "making the big ones into the small ones." Men did it by hand by smashing large rocks with sledgehammers . In many states, convicts did this work and sometimes even built these macadamized roads by working on

2960-413: The early Springfield schools. He later recalled hunting for squirrels in a woods that later became the train station (now demolished) and what would be close to the location of the present Clark County Library. His father died when he was eighteen. Nonetheless, his mother was able to send him and, as they arrived at college age, his brothers to Wittenberg College. At one time, she had them all in college at

3034-556: The end of railroad support did little to stop it. The "King drag movement [came] with a rush." D. Ward King did patent his invention. However, its design was so simple that King did not enforce his patent rights. However, he did make a good living by touring the country conducting and charging sponsoring organizations for "King Meetings" in which he explained to packed houses how to build and use his road drag. Wittenberg-educated Ward was, by all accounts, an eloquent speaker. His promotional brochure claimed that "An address on this subject

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3108-492: The eye, in his parents' home with his fiancée at his side. His death left David Ward King and Robert Leffler King as the surviving sons of Robert Quigley and Harriet King. Ward's sister, Almena Adaline King, married industrialist Harvey Warrick in Springfield, Ohio. She died December 18, 1941, in Cleveland , and he died on April 21, 1942. As Almena's oldest child, Robert Quigley King soon became involved in helping his mother manage

3182-545: The family's real estate holdings in Springfield. He had several retail businesses in Springfield, but his primary activity seems to have been real estate development. The family built the King Building on what was then Market Street and later became Fountain Street, just north of High Street. The King Building became the headquarters for the temperance movement in Springfield and also the location for Bumgardner Studio, where many of

3256-432: The family's real estate undertakings in Springfield. Ironically, in the remarkably parallel lives of these two Springfield-reared farmers, their children were more farm people than they were. In what was the King family tradition, David Ward was an implacable warrior against alcoholic beverages and the saloons that sold them. Leffler King's wife, Lola Montez King, proudly mentioned in her autobiography that they attended

3330-515: The farm by the time he reached eighteen. Leffler, after many years on his Hancock County farm, was finally able to move back to Springfield to help his father manage the family's considerable real estate holdings during his father's declining years. Like his brother, his son Edwin Askam King pretty much took over the operation of Grassland Farm. Although separated by distance, the brothers always remained very close, and they constantly worked together on

3404-416: The first level would be about the size of a human head. The stones in the next layer would be about the size of a fist. The final layer would be of stones of about the size of golf balls . It was grueling work to haul this heavy stone to the places needed, to unload it in the right places and then to spread it evenly over the road surface with only horse-drawn wagons and hand-held shovels and rakes. Further, in

3478-447: The first settlers of Tarlton and who had a large farm just south of Tarlton. Mary Elizabeth King, was born to David and Almena in Tarlton on April 1, 1837, and David King, Jr., later to become a Civil War colonel, was born in Tarlton on September 11, 1839. As time passed, Tarlton began to lose some of its importance. The state capital was moved from nearby Chillicothe (its last location outside Columbus) to Columbus, Ohio , in 1816, and

3552-600: The house to his daughter Almena King Warrick and her husband Harvey Warrick. Robert Quigley King served as Fire Chief for Springfield from 1879 until 1891. His obituary and the History of the Springfield Fire Department both credit him with being Springfield's second Fire Chief. However, the Fire Department History goes on to point out that several others before him performed that function, but did not carry

3626-658: The mastermind of a silver bullion robbery in the episode "Hijack" (1980). Further television appearances included the Rumpole of the Bailey episode "Rumpole and the Blind Tasting" (1987) and as Aidensfield Station Master Roy Hutton in Heartbeat (episode: "Unfinished Business", 1995). The closing scene of the episode features King's character standing on the platform of Aidensfield Station while " Memories Are Made of This " plays in

3700-611: The mountains" to Baltimore to get supplies for his store—a trip that would take him a month every time he did it. While he was away for his trip in the late summer of 1831, he left Almena in Tarlton with their infant children, as he always had until then. Tragically, their three young sons, Alexander Caldwell King, born September 5, 1827, James Hamlin King, born July 3, 1829, and John Quigley King, born July 24, 1831, all died of smallpox within weeks of each other on August 27, August 28 and September 20, 1831. Almena had to deal with this catastrophe alone. Ward's father, Robert Quigley King, who

3774-415: The only asset of value owned by a person who owed him a lot of money as the only available way to obtain payment of that debt. After obtaining this farm in that way, his father retained it, even though this acquired farm was in far-off Missouri. When his father had acquired this farm and decided to keep it, he had to do something with it. Ward was his answer. So, Robert Quigley sent his son Ward to this farm in

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3848-500: The photos of the people who lived in Springfield in the late 19th century were taken. He subdivided land on present-day North Wittenberg Avenue, just south of Wittenberg University, into the "Robert Quigley King Second Addition to the City of Springfield, Ohio." He built his own home at 642 North Wittenberg Avenue. He later moved to live in an apartment in the King Building, allowing his son Robert Leffler King to occupy it. Upon his death, he left

3922-516: The railroad to distant markets. So, in 1903, Ward was employed by the Chicago and North Western Transportation Company to promote its "Good Roads Campaign." During 1904 and 1905 the railroad ran "Good Road" trains over their lines in Iowa . Ward rode these trains to instruct people along the lines on the construction and use of his invention. According to his promotional brochure, the railroad hauled him around in

3996-417: The roads themselves. When these convict crews worked directly on these roads, necessarily outside the walls of the prison, each man was typically chained to the next to prevent runaways. These convict road crews became the infamous " chain gangs " of that day. In the days of horse power, this method was just too time-consuming and expensive to be practical for widespread use. The advantage of the King Road Drag

4070-526: The same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_King&oldid=1197375288 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Dave King (actor) Dave King (born David Kingshott ; 23 June 1929 – 15 April 2002)

4144-474: The same time—and Almena could afford that. When Robert Quigley King first started at Wittenberg, it held classes in the lecture room of the First Lutheran Church. However, while he was a student, Wittenberg moved to what is now the western part of its present-day campus. He was in the first class to graduate from Wittenberg. The history of early Springfield mentions how much he liked to hunt, especially in

4218-692: The seaside summer season of 1956 he performed at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool. He starred in The Dave King Show . During the 1950s he also starred in the same show alongside Shani Wallis . In 1958, King moved to ITV with The Dave King Show which was song, dance and comedy with famous guests of the day. King scored four hits on the UK Singles Chart in the middle of the 1950s. The biggest were " Memories Are Made of This (No. 5, 1956) and "You Can't Be True to Two" (No. 11, 1956), both of which featured

4292-469: The small village of Vanlue . In 1887, he sent his other surviving son, Robert Leffler King (who also went by his middle name, "Leffler"), off to develop that land and farm it. Leffler arrived at this land without buildings in the "thick of winter". There is no doubt that Leffler did not want to leave the ease of the family wealth in Springfield for a hard farm life. However, family members who knew him say he could not stand up to his father. So, he went, erected

4366-470: The spring of 1879 to begin farming it. During that summer Ward helped to thresh grain. However, Ward and Mary apparently did not actually move there until January 1881. There is reason to believe that Ward's move to this farm was not completely voluntary, since, for generations back, there had been no farmers in his family. Years later, Robert Quigley King acquired another large tract of what was this time raw farm land in much closer Hancock County, Ohio , near

4440-493: The title. In those days, Fire Chief was an elected position. It is mentioned both in his obituary and in King family tradition that during a fire at the "whip factory", he was on a roof that collapsed, dumping him into the midst of the flames. However, the other firemen immediately poured their hoses on him, saving his life. He was pulled from the fire, badly injured, but alive. David Ward King often went by his middle name of "Ward", and he wrote it as "D. Ward King". His education

4514-420: The woods that later became today's Snyder Park, which would have been just down Buck Creek from his childhood home at the King Homestead. Robert Q. King married Miss Harriet A. Danforth at New Albany, Indiana , on January 15, 1857. To them were born five children: David Ward King on October 27, 1857; Dr. Thomas Danforth King, who was born on July 20, 1859, and who died December 23, 1889; Robert Leffler King, who

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4588-477: Was Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts , a founder of Harvard College , a judge at the Salem witch trials and on whose estate the city of Framingham, Massachusetts , is situated today. Framingham has a museum named after him. There was a Thomas Danforth in every generation after that, until Dr. Thomas Danforth King, who died before he married his fiancée and had children. He died a slow and painful death from cancer of

4662-482: Was a progressive farmer. He actively sought improved methods of farming. He constantly took measures to prevent washes and soil depletion on his land. He established some of the first bluegrass pastures in his township. He was a life member of the Holt County Farm Bureau . In cooperation with Mr. J.R. Collision, Professor J.C. Crosen, Dr. Ira Williams and others, David Ward King was instrumental in bringing

4736-528: Was an English comedian, actor and vocalist of popular songs . He is remembered for screen roles such as the corrupt policeman 'Parky' in the British gangster film The Long Good Friday (1980) and Clifford Duckworth in the soap opera Coronation Street . Born in Twickenham , Middlesex , England, King left school aged 12 and joined Morton Fraser's Harmonica Gang in his teens. He did his National Service in

4810-512: Was born in Hillsborough, New Hampshire , on August 16, 1809. However, she moved with her parents when she was young to early Portsmouth, Ohio , which is in southernmost Ohio at the confluence of the Scioto River and the Ohio River , where her father established a successful carpentry business. Both of Ward's paternal grandparents had been orphans . Ward's grandfather, David King, was found as

4884-492: Was born on August 13, 1832, in Tarlton, was their first child to survive. Understandably, Almena insisted on going along with David on his supply trips after that, carrying with her the infant Robert Quigley King as a babe in arms. Their next child was Samuel Noble King, who was born in Tarlton on October 22, 1834. He went all his life by his middle name of "Noble". The Kings named him after their country neighbor, Samuel Noble, who had come from Emmitsburg, Maryland , to become one of

4958-424: Was born on August 24, 1863; Almena Adaline King (Warrick), who was born on September 17, 1869; and Margaret "Madge" Caldwell King, who was born on February 13, 1873, and who died when she was fourteen years old on December 30, 1886. Ward's ill-fated brother, Dr. Thomas Danforth King, was a graduate of Princeton and a practicing physician in Springfield. He took his name from his direct ancestor, Thomas Danforth , who

5032-446: Was destined to be much the same. However, in Ward's case, his invention enabled him to turn his fate to his immense advantage. Family members state that the fact that the travels associated with the promotion of his invention took him away from the farm a lot was not something city-bred Ward considered to be disagreeable. In fact, his son David Bryant King had pretty much taken over operation of

5106-597: Was dramatic. Until then, the only way to firm up dirt roads had been to dump layers of stone on them and then press it in with a heavy roller to make a road surface resistant to turning into muck after every rain. This method was fairly effective, but it was also labor-intensive and expensive. These stone-permeated roads were called " macadamized roads". These roads took their name from their Scotch inventor, John Loudon McAdam . Using his method, roads were covered with several layers of stone, starting with large ones and then reducing their size in each successive layer. The stones in

5180-469: Was most punk. When all the world was full of strife, and dangerous and that sort of thing. The cuss who most extinguished life was usually crowned king. But we in better days were born, when men in peace together live. And kings are made to adorn a job that common people give. And earn their living like the rest at banquets and that sort of thing. Oh, nowadays it hardly pays to hold their lofty job of king. But, there's another sort of king who still

5254-599: Was obtained in the Springfield, Ohio public schools and in Wittenberg College (now Wittenberg University) in Springfield. On December 29, 1880, he married Mary Willie (often spelled "Wylie") Burbank of Danville, Kentucky , in Springfield. Mary was born in Danville, Kentucky, on September 23, 1859. Mary was the daughter of Austin Milton and Lettitia (Reed) Burbank. He moved from Springfield, Ohio to this Maitland, Missouri , farm as

5328-558: Was often referred to then and now as "the Missouri farmer", which he was. However, he was born, reared and educated in Springfield, Ohio , and came from a very prominent and wealthy family of that city. David Ward King was the grandson of his namesake, Springfield merchant and real estate developer David King. His paternal grandfather, David King, was probably born in Baltimore , Maryland , in 1796. His paternal grandmother, Almena Caldwell King,

5402-475: Was real estate developer, investor and Springfield Fire Chief , Robert Quigley King. His mother was Harriet Danforth King. As mentioned, Robert Quigley King, was born in Tarlton, Ohio , and was the first child of Almena and David King to survive. Robert Quigley King came to a largely undeveloped Springfield at age nine in 1840, with his sister, Mary Elizabeth, age three and his brother, David Jr. age one. He attended

5476-437: Was that it firmed up dirt roads by leaving a crown in the middle, which caused rain water to just run off, keeping the road dry and firm. Its crowning virtue was that, unlike pressing stone into the mud road surface, it was very quick and very inexpensive. The method quickly caught on. Draft horses , relieved of the need to drag farm wagons through mire, were able to haul a lot more farm produce to railroad sidings for transport by

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