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3 " Y ~HISTORY OF DALLAS COUNTY.
traveled started with mules and wagons.
The journey was a tedious one, and, as their
provisions ran short, they cut their wagons
to pieces and made pack-saddles while on the
Rocky mountains, and were thus enabled to
make greater speed the rest of the way.
After ninety-one days he reached his destination,
and engaged in mining at Deer creek,
crossing on Newby river, remaining thus
employed fourteen months. He then returned
to Kentucky, making the journey by
water,' being two months and seven days
en route and arriving June 1, 1852.
Tlhe following September he started with
horse teams, in company with his father-inlaw's
family, for Texas, and arrived in Dallas
on the 2d of November. He purchased
240 acres of partially improved land southwest
of Dallas, where he lived one year.
Then he bought a half section of land,
one mile west of that place, which, however,
he sold three weeks later. He then purchased
200 acres of wild land that he improved
and on it has since made his home.
He has added to this property and now owns
500 acres here and has another farm of 100
acres. Mrs. Taylor's parents have both
passed away, Mrs. Harris dying July 4, 1861,
at the age of fifty-six years, and Mr. Harris,
June 10, 1874, aged seventy-two.
To Mr. and AMrs. Taylor twelve children
have been born, namely: Charles Thomas,
now of Lisbon, Dallas county; Mary Josephine,
wife of Charles Brotherton, of this
county; William Hamilton; James UHenry,
of Oak Cliff; Mattie Bell, wife of E. D.
Langley, this county; Rumsey Eugene, a
physician of Lancaster, Dallas county; Emory
Alvas, of Clay county; Harvey Dews, of
Clay county, Texas; Bettie Ann, Nancy
Cordelia, Amanda Dora and Dick Harris.
Mr. and MIrs. Taylor are members of theCumberland Presbyterian Church, of which
he is an Elder. He is eminently a self-made
man. By his strict integrity, his honorable
business methods and his genial manner, he
has won the confidence and esteem of all who
know him.
R. DAVID KING, one of the pioneer
physicians of Dallas county, was born
in Bedford county, Tennessee in 1818,
the second of seven children born to Needham
and Rebecca (Hicks) King, natives of North
Carolina. The parents were married in the
latter State, and in 1814 emigrated to Bedford
county, Tennessee, where he M as engaged
as a farmer and carpenter, and later in life
practiced medicine. He lived in many different
places in Mississippi, Missouri and Illinois,
and his death occurred in Conway county,
Arkansas, in 1858; the mother died several
years before, in McNairy county, Tennessee.
Dr. David King, the subject of this sketch,
was reared to farm life and received a limited
education in the schools of Bedford county,
Tennessee, and at the age of twenty-one years
he left home and earned money with which to
educate himself. He studied medicine at
Fairfield, Tennessee, attended lectures at Cincinnati,
Ohio, and afterward graduated at that
institution. He returned to Fairfield and
practiced medicine some two years, and in
1851 removed to Dallas county, settling near
where Oak Cliff now stands. He bought -a
farm of prairie and timber land, which he
improved, and at the same time was engaged
in the practice of medicine. He frequently
had to go a distance of thirty or forty miles,
having a practice over a large extent of territory.
Dr. King remained on his farm
until 1870, when he retired from practice
and came to the city of Dallas, and the next
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Lewis Publishing Company. Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County, Texas., book, 1892; Chicago, Illinois. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth20932/m1/620/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.