Augustus G (1838 –
The second son, Augustus G., was born in East Craftsbury on June 14, 1838, and received his early education in the common school in Canada. He must have been educated in Geneva College when his father moved to Northwood for the purpose of educating his children. He taught in the grade schools of Logan County for four years (1857 – 1861). For two years, 1861 to 1863, he served as a clerk in the neighboring village of Belle Center. During the years 1863 – 1864 he was a student in the Eastman Community College of Poughkeepsie, New York. He then served in the army for a year and then returned to Logan County to accept a position as clerk in a railroad office in Bellefontaine, the county seat. He left that job to engage in the buying and selling of grain. His business contacts may have led him to the job in Kansas City, Missouri, where he became a wholesale dealer in agricultural implements and seeds. While he was engaged in business in Bellefontaine, he married Miss Lou M. Steele of Xenia, Ohio, on December 28, 1869.
In Kansas City, he was largely connected with the city’s commercial growth. He became director of the Commercial Club, treasurer of the Implement and Vehicle Club, president of the Y.M.C.A., president of the board of trustees of Park College. He was also an elder in the Presbyterian Church.
The date of his death is not known, nor any information concerning his family life.
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The second son of John King was Augustus G., was born in 1838 in Craftsbury and grew to manhood on the farm near Northwood. He was a teacher in Logan County from 1857 to 1861, held a position as a clerk in Belle Center from 1861 to 1863, and became a student in the fall and winter of 1863 and 1864 in Eastman Community College in Poughkeepsie, New York. Some time during that year, he became a soldier in the U.S. Army, remaining in the service for a year. He then returned to Ohio to serve as a clerk in the railroad office in Bellefontaine for several years, before becoming engaged in the grain trade in the same town until 1872. While living in Bellefontaine, he married Lou M. Steele of Xenia, Ohio. In 1872 he moved to Kansas City, Missouri where a larger position as a wholesale dealer in agricultural implements and seeds was available. He took an active part in the commercial growth of Kansas City, becoming director of the Commercial Club and treasurer of the Implement and Vehicle Club. He became president of the the YMCA and was elected president of the board of trustees of Park College, and he served as an elder in the Presbyterian Church. He is buried, along with his wife, in a cemetery in Kansas City.