Dr. William F. King
Dr. William F. King was raised out on the Darby Plains. He was a brother of Joseph, Benjamin and Sarah King. He studied medicine with Dr. Israel Bigelow, of Pleasant Valley, Ohio. I remember him and Kilbourne Beach as Marshals of the Day one Fourth of July, and they both impressed me as being particularly handsome, graceful, courtly and distingue. He practiced in conjunction with Dr. Israel Bigelow, he attending mostly to the visiting of patients, and the old Doctor to the office business. He married Miss Diana, daughter of Dr. Israel and Polly (Brown) Bigelow, and died not many years afterward, at Pleasant Valley.
From History of Madison County - W. H. Beers [Chicago, 1883]