John King

1843 - 1916  (72 years)

• Name	John King
  Born	15 Sep 1843	Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	1871	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  	Lawyer
  Residence	1871	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  	C. Presbyterian
  Residence	1874	43 Benton St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  		43 Benton St., Kitchener, Ontario William Lyon Mackenzie King stands in front in 1922
  Occupation	1881	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  	Barrister
  Residence	1881	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  	Presbyterian
  Occupation	1891	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [3]
  	Lawyer
  Residence	528 Wellington St. N., Kitchener
  Residence	1891	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [3]
  	Presbyterian
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-81666
  Died	30 Aug 1916	Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada   [4]
  Buried	Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, York Co., Ontario   [4]
  Person ID	I81666	Generations
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2025

  
  

  Father	John King,   b. Between 1812 and 1813, , Aberdeenshire, Scotland ,   d. 9 May 1843, Montreal, Ile De Montreal, Quebec  (Age ~ 31 years)
  Mother	Christina McDougall,   b. 1821, Glasgow, , Lanark, Scotland ,   d. Nov 1900, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 79 years)
  Family ID	F34477	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Isabel Grace MacKenzie,   b. 1845, New York City, New York, USA. ,   d. 1916, Ottawa, Carleton Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 71 years)
  Children	1. Isabel Christina Grace "Bella" King,   b. 15 Nov 1873, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 4 Apr 1915, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 41 years)   2. William King,   b. 1874, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   3. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King,   b. 17 Dec 1874, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 22 Jul 1950, Gatineau Park, Carleton Co., Ontario  (Age 75 years)   4. Janet Lindsey King,   b. 27 Aug 1876, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 24 Jan 1962, Simcoe, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada  (Age 85 years)   5. Dougall McDougal "Max" King,   b. 11 Nov 1878, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 19 Apr 1922, Denver, Denver, Colorado, United States  (Age 43 years)   6. Mary King,   b. 1879, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	4 Mar 2025
  Family ID	F21278	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  And John King must have looked like a "catch" to Bell, as she drummed her fingers impatiently on the kitchen table in her mother's house. He was quite the dandy in his narrow grey trousers and smart, black wool jacket, with its nipped-in waist and grosgrain lapels. In an age when personal cleanliness was sometimes lacking, John was reassuringly fastidious: his moustache and beard were always neatly cut and combed, and the nails on his long, tapering fingers were carefully trimmed. Although, like Bell, he was virtually penniless and no part of Toronto's wealthy elite, he had everything that she felt was missing in her own past and future. He was a well-educated, bright young man, with every prospect of becoming a wealthy lawyer. John and Bell had much in common. Both came from the same vigorous, Presbyterian stock that had been part of the great surge of immigration to Canada in the early half of the century. John King's parents, like Bell's, were transplanted Scots. But there was a crucial difference in their Backgrounds. John King Senior was no rebel; he was a soldier of the Crown. Born in Aberdeenshire, he had been educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and had joined an immensely respectable regiment: the Royal Horse Artillery. During the 1837 Rebellion, he was stationed as a bombardier at Kingston, where he defended the interests of the Crown, Governor Sir Francis Bond Head and the Family Compact against the likes of William Lyon Mackenzie. The elder John King married another Scots emigre, Christina McDougall, but he died before their son was born in 1843. For a while, Christina King ran a boarding house in Toronto (Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, who headed the United Canada's first Reform government in 1848, alongside Robert Baldwin, was said to be one of her lodgers). But finding it increasingly difficult to raise her son John on her own, Christina eft Toronto and moved in with her brother and sister, Dougall and Flora McDougall. Mrs. King, The Life & Times of ISABEL MACKENZIE KING, by Charlotte Gray pg 65

  
  

• Sources

  [S158] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1881, Div. 2 Pg. 5. [S229] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1871, Div. 1, Pg. 39. [S1592] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1891, Sec. 5 Page 71. [S3231] Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8161506.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 15 Sep 1843 - Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada Occupation - Lawyer - 1871 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - C. Presbyterian - 1871 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - 1874 - 43 Benton St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Barrister - 1881 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Presbyterian - 1881 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Lawyer - 1891 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - - 528 Wellington St. N., Kitchener Residence - Presbyterian - 1891 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - 30 Aug 1916 - Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada Buried - - Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, York Co., Ontario  = Link to Google Earth