King, Francis T., 1817-1891
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King, Francis T., 1817-1891
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King, Francis T. (Francis Thompson), 1819-1891.
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King, Francis T. (Francis Thompson), 1819-1891.
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Biographical Note: Francis T. King was a Quaker merchant who was appointed in 1867 to the first Board of Trustees, The Johns Hopkins University.
He was born in Baltimore, MD, Feb. 25, 1819, the son of Joseph and Tacy Ellicott King. He graduated in the first class of Haverford College in 1835 and entered business in Baltimore. After meeting the prominent English Quaker, Joseph John Gurney in 1838, King devoted great attention to charitable and educational work. King was instrumental in fulfilling the bequest of the Quaker philanthropist, Johns Hopkins, to establish a hospital and university in Baltimore. He traveled in Europe to seek professors for the university faculty and directed the design and construction of the hopital. King was also chairman of the trustees who were planning Bryn Mawr College. Francis T. King died in 1891.
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