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Horatio Collins King was the son of Postmaster General Horatio King and the nephew of Dickinson College President Charles Collins. A graduate of Dickinson College, class of 1858, King was admitted to the bar in 1861 and saw active service in the Civil War from 1862 until 1865. A songwriter, King...
Location: MC 1999.9
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Legal Affairs, Literary Pursuits, Military Affairs and Conflict, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government, Travel and Tourism, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Diaries and Journals, Essays and Dissertations, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Newspapers and Magazines, Poetry and Lyrics, Scrapbooks, Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1840-1859, 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939
Collection Inventory: 
mc1999.09.pdf
Horatio Collins King details his life in post-war New York City society, including his work as a lawyer, his second marriage to Esther A. Howard and honeymoon at Niagara Falls, and a trip to Nebraska aboard the new Union Pacific railroad. Transcript included.
Location: MC 1999.9, B3, F2
Subject: Legal Affairs, Personal and Family Life, Travel and Tourism
Format: Diaries and Journals
Time Period: 1860-1879
Esther H. King writes to Whitelaw Saunders regarding her late husband, Horatio Collins King.
Location: I-SpahrB-1958-36
Subject: Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1900-1919
