History of Waynesville, (Brantley County) Georgia United States of America

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Thomas Butler King, representative, was born at Palmer, Mass., Aug. 27, 1800; son of Daniel and Hannah (Lord) King; and a descendant of John King, who came from Edwardstone, Suffolk county, England, in 1715, and was the first settler of Kingston, afterward known as Palmer, Mass.; and of Richard Lord of New London, Conn. His father was a captain in the Revolutionary war and removed to Pennsylvania with his family after the war, and died in 1816. Thomas then returned to Massachusetts and lived with his uncle, Gen. Zebulon Butler. He was educated at Westfield academy, studied law with Judge Garrick Mallery of Philadelphia, Pa., and in 1823 settled in Waynesville, Glynn county, Ga., where he became an extensive cotton planter. He was a member of the Georgia state senate, 1832-36, and a Whig representative from Georgia in the 26th, 27th, 29th and 30th congresses, 1839-43 and 1845-49. As a member of the committee on naval affairs he secured the establishment of the naval observatory at Washington, D.C. He was appointed collector of the port of San Francisco, Cal., by President Taylor in 1849, which position he held until 1851, when he returned to Georgia. He was elected a state senator in 1859, and was a delegate at large to the Democratic national convention of 1860. He was a member of the Milledgeville anti-tariff convention in 1832; of the Macon Railroad convention in 1836, of the Young Men's convention at Baltimore, Md., in 1840, and of the Democratic state convention of June 4, 1860. He was appointed a commissioner from Georgia in 1861, to visit Europe to arrange a line of steamers for direct trade with Georgia, and he served as a Confederate States commissioner in Europe, 1861-63. He was married in 1824, to Anna Matilda, only daughter of Major William Page of St. Simon Island, Ga., and their son, Henry Lord Page King, was an aide-de-camp on the staff of Gen. Lafayette McLaws and was killed at Fredericksburg, Va. Thomas Butler King died at Waynesville, Ga., May 10, 1864.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Waynesville, (Brantley County) Georgia

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