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WESLEY EDWARD KING, attorney, with offices at 13 Main Street, Champaign, 1ll., wo.s born in Kinmundy, Marion County, 1ll., May \\, 1876. His parents were William Lovejoy and Harriet S. (Forshee) King, the former of whom was born and reared at Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio., and whose father and mother were respectively of German and Scotch extraction. Wesley Edward King's father followed the occupation of a farmer and merchant in Kinmundy until 18'J2.when he retired from active life and inove-1 to Champaign, dying there August 22, 1900, at the age of sixtytwo years. He was one of six brothers who enlisted in the Union Army in response to President Lincoln's call for 75,000 volunteers in April, 1861. Of the six brothers there is one survivor. They all passed safely through the war, with the exception of one who was severely wounded in battle. The five who have since died had their lives shortened by the hardships and exposure incident to army life. None was taken prisoner. William L. served as a cavalryman four years and three months. After the close of the war he settled in Marion County, 1ll., and there married Harriet Salada Forshee, daughter of Colonel Thomas Wesley Forshee, M. D., who served as staff officer under General Rosecrans, and who, as a captain, was the first drill-master at Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio, having previously served as a cavalryman in the Mexican War. He married Harriet Hoar, a first cousin of the late Senator Hoar of Massachusetts. The subject's mother was born in Indiana and reared in Vellow Springs and Urbana, Ohio. She is fifty-five years of age. The death of Colonel Forshee occurred at the home of his daughter, Mrs. King, in Champaign, 1ll., February 11, 1903, when seventy-eight years old. The father of our subject at his death left a widow and five children, namely: His widow, Harriet S. King; and children? Sarah A., who married L. C. Rohrbougb; Charles W.; Wesley E.; Louis B., and Ethyl M.
Wesley E. King attended the common and high schools at Kinmundy, and then entered the University of Illinois. In the meantime having spent a year in the West, in 1897 he was graduated from the University with the degree of A. B. After leaving college he engaged in newspaper work, being connected with the "Daily Express," at Defiance, Ohio, as assistant editor, until April, 1898, when ho resigned to recruit a company of volunteers, of which he was commissioned Second Lieutenant, O. N. G., by Governor Bushnel1. He was mustered into the United States service at Camp Bushnell, Ohio., July 2, 1898, and served as Battalion Adjutant and Assistant Quartermaster at Chickamaugua, Ga., and Knoxville, Tenn. He was then sent to Washington, later to New York, and subsequently to Havana, Cuba, where he served as Acting Regimental Adjutant under Lieutenant Colonel Bulger at Cienfuegos, Cuba. Returning to Defiance, Ohio, in May, 1899, ho continued to do newspaper work for awhile, and then entered the law office of Captain T. J. Smith, at Champaign, in September, 1899. He was admitted to the bar in May, 1902, receiving the degree of B. L. in the law department of the University of Illinois in June, 1902. On June 15, 1902, he began the practice of law in Champaign, where he has since contiued successfully to follow his profession.
Mr. King was married September 11, 1902, to Wilhelmina Marie Groweg, at Defiance, Ohio. She is a daughter of Adolph and Wilhelmina (Wallenberg) Groweg, both of whom were bom and reared in Baden, Germany, and now reside in Defiance, Ohio. Mr. King is affiliated with the Masonic and Odd Fellows Orders, is a member of Alpha Tau Omega Greek Fraternity, and he and his wife are members of the Presbyter
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