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- ANGIE JOSEPHINE KING, attorney and counselor at law,
- Janesville, Wis., is the daughter of John KING and Margaret
(McKAY) KING, both born in Glasgow, Scotland. John KING was a
carriage builder and a first-class mechanic. He was the son of
a Methodist minister, James KING, and both father and son were
accomplished singers. The mother of Miss KING was a superior
woman of Highland Scotch birth, coming on the maternal side from
the "Argyle-Campbell" family. Miss KING was born on
January 23, 1845, in a log house on a farm in Trumbull county,
Ohio, near the present town of Warren. When only ninety days
old she was brought by her parents to Janesville, Wis., where
she has resided to the present time. She attended the public
schools of Janesville and in 1867 graduated from the
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- "Ladies' Seminary" in that city. She entered the
Chicago Law School in 1871, when the great fire occurred, and
she returned to Janesville. Her law studies were pursued at home,
where she read aloud to her blind sister, Mary Agnes KING, and
they discussed together each chapter as they read and made synopses
in their own language. She was admitted to practice in the Circuit
court for Rock county, January 10, 1879, having passed a rigid
examination and being the third lady to be admitted to the bar
in the state. Lavinia GOODELL and Katharine KANE preceded her
in admission. February 17, 1880, Miss KING formed a partnership
with Lavinia GOODELL, who removed in 1881 to Madison, Wis. Miss
KING has remained continuously in the same office block, 26 West
Milwaukee street, since she first began practice. She is essentially
a peacemaker and has settled scores of difficulties out of court
during her thirty years of practice. She won the case of The
State of Wis. vs. James Brown in the Circuit court, succeeded
in having the case of State of Wis. vs. Thomas Inglis reversed
in the Supreme Court, and won the case of the Goodyear Rubber
Co. vs. A P. Burrus over the attorney general of the state and
four of the leading lawyers of Chicago.
- Miss KING is a member of the First Congregational Church,
of Janesville. She is a Republican,
- and in the year 1868 she was elected by popular vote as postmaster
of Janesville, but was not appointed. She has never married.
She is a woman of bright intellect and strong integrity, ever
ready to stand by the right and help those in distress.
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- Taken from "Rock County, Wisconsin, Vol. II"
by William Fiske Brown, (c)1908, pp. 777-778; lithograph from
same book, p. 718.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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