When Ora Clarence King was born on 11 January 1880, in Grant, Indiana, United States, his father, Alvin C. King, was 22 and his mother, Julia Elinora Lake, was 17. He married Mary Daisy Morris on 26 September 1903, in Grant, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Harrison Township, Kosciusko, Indiana, United States in 1910 and Sweetser, Pleasant Township, Grant, Indiana, United States in 1940. He died on 8 February 1961, in Pleasant Township, Grant, Indiana, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Mier, Richland Township, Grant, Indiana, United States.
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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