Excerpt from Sketch of Horatio C. King

As a faithful, loving husband, a good, affectionate father, an earnest, sincere, devoted friend, none can sur pass him, few are his equals. In qualities of mind and heart, he ranks with the foremost. Every inch the soldier, never forgetful of his Old time service and the wearing of the blue, in his civilian life he is ever the courteous gentleman. To his clientele he gives his best brain, and their interests, while in his charge, are part ofhis Own life. Studious, careful, exact, mindful of every right and deliberate in his judgment. In his law practice he has won a bright and honored name. In temper urbane and polished, he is ever polite under the severest of trials. Careful and discriminating, he rarely commits errors; and when in advocacy, his sword flashes in the sunlight ere it descends. As a public speaker and orator, he ranks high, and his addresses are listened to with at tention and deep interest. He incites pathos and hilarity at will, and he is a ready man, and never at a loss for what to say.

We say these things of him because he cannot stop us. If he could, we doubt whether he would permit a line of his life to be written. He is too modest, by far but de spite the fact that he is backward, we have found our way to the front in getting at the facts which we subjoin.

Within the past few weeks, the Governor of the great State Of New York, Grover Cleveland, from a large num ber Of able, excellent men, has seen fit to select him as a member of his staff, making him Judge Advocate Gen eral of the National Guard of the State. It is a promo tion well merited, conferred by the Chief Magistrate of the Empire State; and, in a soldierly way, just at this time, we intend to tell his life story as we have gleaned it.

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