“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


CHARLES KING,  broom-maker;  Palmyra; born in East Windsor, 
Conn., Nov. 17, 1826; came to Wisconsin about 1839, locating on Turtle 
Prairie, Walworth Co., where he lived two years; he was a resident of 
Walworth Co. about fourteen years; was in the pottery business in 
Whitewater, and owned the Whitewater Hotel, which he sold in 1853; 
came to Palmyra and opened a blacksmith-shop, in which he worked 
about three years; Mr. King enlisted in 1865, in Co. E, 46th W.V.I., was 
stationed with his regiment at Athens, Ala,; the regiment did guard duty 
until its discharge the same year.  Mr. King married Miss Almira 
Spurbec, who died in 1850, in Whitewater; he married Miss Martha 
Bush in 1852; they have two children – Frank and George.  Mr. King is a 
Republican, and is liberal in religion.


Submitted by:  Linda Pingel  (LPingel@worldnet.att.net)