Louis A. King

As printed in 1906

LOUIS A. KING, M. D., engaged in the practice of medicine in Baroda and Lake township, was born in Memphis, Tennessee, September 21, 1869, the only child of Benjamin and Elizabeth L. (Wynose) King. His parents died of yellow fever in the year 1878, and Dr. King was reared in Nashville, Tennessee, by strangers. He remained a resident of that city until seventeen years of age and in the meantime he learned the printer's trade, which he followed in several places for a period of seven or eight years. He afterward went to St. Louis, Missouri, and ambitious to acquire a better education than he had previously enjoyed he entered the high school, from which he was graduated. Determining to make the practice of medicine his life work, he then entered the Michigan College of Medicine and Surgery at Saginaw and completed the course with the class of 1903. He has since engaged in practice and has also done post-graduate college work. He added to his theoretical training broad practical experience by service in the hospital at Saginaw while pursuing his studies there. He spent between two and three years in college and was afterward for eighteen months in the Klondike, where he was engaged in the practice of his profession and in prospecting. He then returned to Saginaw and soon afterward located in Baroda, where he took up his above in 1903. Here he has a good general practice which he draws from the surrounding county as well as the town, and his professional skill and ability are recognized by reason of the excellent results that have followed his professional labors.

On the 15th of May, 1899, Dr. King was married to Miss Victoria Bell Glidewell, a native of Marion county, Indiana, and a daughter of Leander and Nancy H. (Hightshire) Glidewell, who was likewise born in Indiana. Dr. and Mrs. King now have one child, Robert Warner, born May 28, 1905.

In his political affiliation Dr. King is a Democrat, but without aspiration for office,, although he has served as a member of the board of education and as health officer of Lake township. Fraternally he is connected with Baroda Lodge, No. 435, I. O. O. F. and in the line of his profession he is a member of the County, State and American Medical Associations. He is a very amiable man, who makes friends of all with whom he comes in contact. He speaks German as well as English and this is of much assistance to him in his work. He has an unusually large practice for a town of this size and in fact his professional duties make constant demand upon his time and energies, leaving him little leisure.

As printed in A twentieth century history of Berrien County, Michigan (1906). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.