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Excerpt from Memorial of the Hon. John Alsop King, Eighteenth President of the New York Historical Society: Read Before the Society, February 5, 1901
John alsop king, late President of the New York Historical Society, departed this life on Wednesday, November 21, 1900. He was descended from an English family, the first member of which in this country, John King, came from Kent, England, about the year 1700, and settled in Boston. John King left, by his second wife, several children, of whom the eldest, Richard, was born in Boston in 1718. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
