14 Facts About Stanley King

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Stanley N King was born at Troy, Rensselaer County, New York on May 11,1883, the son of Judge Henry Amasa King a justice of Superior Court of Massachusetts and Maria Lyon Flynt.

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Stanley King died on April 28,1951 at his summer home on Chilmark, Martha's Vinyard, Dukes County, Massachusetts and is buried in Amherst, Massachusetts.

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3.

Stanley King was the grandson of Dwight King and Martha Vinton and William N Flynt and Eudocia Carter Converse.

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4.

Stanley King was a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity at Amherst.

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5.

Stanley King graduated from Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in 1906.

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6.

Stanley King married on December 12,1906 at Springfield, Massachusetts, Gertrude Louisa Besse, the daughter of Lyman Waterman Besse and Henrietta Louisa Segee.

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7.

Stanley King was born on 22 Apr 1881 at Bridgeport, Connecticut and died on April 10,1923 at Boston, Massachusetts.

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8.

Stanley King was a 1903 graduate of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York and received her Master of Arts Degree from Radcliffe College in 1910.

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9.

Stanley King married as his first wife, Elinor Stewart Gates, the granddaughter of Frederick Taylor Gates; Stanley King married his second wife Alice Gillette Epps Hotchkiss.

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10.

Stanley King was a member of the Committee on Supplies on the Council of National Defense in 1917.

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11.

Stanley King was a special assistant to Secretary of War, Newton Diehl Baker, Jr.

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12.

Stanley King was elected Director of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, serving for 2 years.

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13.

In 1932, after traveling extensively for several years, Stanley King was appointed the 11th President of Amherst College – the first in the institution's history to have been neither a minister nor educator.

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14.

Stanley King took a great interest in the buildings and grounds of the Amherst campus: the College recovered from the destruction caused by a major hurricane in 1938 by the introduction of new landscaping and the unprecedented construction of new buildings.

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