Thomas
S. King
Thomas S. King, secretary and treasurer of the Vehicle Company, is a
native of Wales, and came to the United States in infancy. His parents, Thomas
and Mary (Morgan) King, located in Illinois in 1848, where our subject was
reared and educated at McKendree College, Lebanon, Ill. At the time of the
breaking out of hostilities between the North and South our subject enlisted in
the One Hundred and Fiftieth Illinois Infantry and served, until the close of
the war. He then returned to Illinois, but at the end of one year moved to
Georgia and engaged in the mercantile business for a short time. He was then
engaged in the railway mail service of the United States until he accepted his
present position in December, 1884. The Vehicle Spring Company was organized
in the year 1884, and has $5,000 invested. He is a member of the Masonic
fraternity and the G. A. R. Mr. King's parents were natives of England and Wales
respectively. The father was a local preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church
for more than thirty years before his death; died August 30, 1886. The mother is
still living.
"Goodspeed's History of East Tennessee, Hamilton County." 1887