Peyton King (physician)
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- This article is about the pioneer physician. For the attorney and plantation owner, see Peyton King.
Peyton King (born 1795 in Halifax County, Virginia) was a medical doctor practicing near Jonesboro between 1819 and 1833. He was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, and had lived in Georgia before coming to Jefferson County. He was the first professional physician to practice in Jones Valley.
On March 7, 1824 King married the former Jane Elmira Findley, daughter of John and Lydia Reese Findley. Lydia Findley married John Martin after her first husband was shot accidentally, and before moving to Alabama.
In 1830 King began a two-year term representing the county in the Alabama State Senate. King moved to Pickens County with his wife, Jane; daughter, Marielle; and son, Hampden Sydney in 1833.
References
- Dubose, John Witherspoon (1887) Jefferson County and Birmingham, Alabama: Historical and Biographical Birmingham: Teeple & Smith, Publishers; Caldwell Printing Works.
- McGuire, Mrs. C. P., Sr (1900) Records of Pickens County, Alabama. Vol. 3. Tuscaloosa: Willo Publishing Co.