When Plato King was born on 16 May 1767, in Bolton, Tolland, Connecticut, United States, his father, Gideon King, was 37 and his mother, Charity Tucker, was 24. He married Elizabeth Marsh about 1798, in East Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 26 October 1842, in Middlefield, Geauga, Ohio, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Middlefield, Geauga, Ohio, United States.
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English: nickname from Middle English king ‘king’ (Old English cyning, cyng), perhaps acquired by someone with kingly qualities or as a pageant name by someone who had acted the part of a king or had been chosen as the master of ceremonies or ‘king’ of an event such as a tournament, festival or folk ritual. In North America, the surname King has absorbed several European cognates and equivalents with the same meaning, for example German König (see Koenig ) and Küng, French Roy , Slovenian, Croatian, or Serbian Kralj , Polish Krol . It is also very common among African Americans. It is also found as an artificial Jewish surname.
English: occasionally from the Middle English personal name King, originally an Old English nickname from the vocabulary word cyning, cyng ‘king’.
Irish: adopted for a variety of names containing the syllable rí (which means ‘king’ in Irish).
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