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Frederick Alonzo King
b.1876-09-10; d.1924-07-15; New York, NY, US; Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University, 1924-1925 (p.1415)
(contributed by Scott Prentice on 2013-10-14)
Frederick Alonzo King, B.A. 1899.
Born September 10, 1876, in Portland, Maine.
Died July 15, 1924, in New York City.
Father, Joseph Addison King, a merchant; son of Alonzo and Miranda (Prentiss) King; descendant of John King, who came from England in 1636 and settled at Weymouth, Mass. Mother, Irene Whipple (Gladding) King; daughter of Gilbert Richmond and Susan (Burlingame) Gladding; descendant of John Gladding, who came from England to Bristol, R.I., in 1660.
Portland High School. Attended Colby College for two years (1894-96) as a member of the Class of 1898. Entered Yale as a Sophomore in 1896; dissertation appointments Junior and Senior years; member Apollo Glee Club Junior year, University Glee Club Junior and Senior years, and Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Engaged in social work in New York City 1899-1900; resided at the University Settlement of New York City 1900-04 (visitor of the Charity Organization 1900-02; then a probation officer in the New York police courts, being one of the first such officers in the United States); in 1905 started the Litchfield (Conn.) branch of the George Junior Republic and was its director until 1910; in summer of 1910 engaged in investigational and editorial work for the Pittsburgh Survey on the courts of Pittsburgh, studying the whole penal system in operation in that city (associated with Paul U. Kellogg); results of his study were published in the concluding volumes of the Survey; after studying abroad for about a year, went to the University of Wisconsin for special study of labor problems; was a pioneer worker in the Wisconsin State Employment Exchange during the first years of the Socialist administration in Milwaukee and in the State Industrial Commission, serving as superintendent of the state employment office there 1911-13 and living at the University Settlement, went to California in 1913 and for some time lived in the country near Upland, being ill much of the time; afterwards lived in San Diego, where he was secretary of the Associated Chanties during 1914-15; special student in economics at University of California during spring semester in 1916; returned to New York City in October, 1916; during World War served for a time as inspector for the Administration of Labor Standards on Army Clothing, Quartermaster Department, in New York City, and later in Washington in the Training Division of the U.S. Employment Service; since then had been engaged in studies of unemployment, employment exchanges, and juvenile vocational guidance for the Russell Sage Foundation; resided at Greenwich House, New York City, 1917-19; in 1921 and 1922 was associated with William & Leiserson, now of Toledo, Ohio [the "Impartial Chairman"], arbitrator or industrial judge, employed jointly by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (New York local unions for the New York market) and "The New York Clothiers' Exchange" (the employers' association), to settle disputes that could not be settled by the individual employers and union members; at time of his death was assistant director of the "Vocational Service for Juniors," a private organization carrying on vocational guidance and employment work in a number of New York City public schools, as a demonstration of the possibilities in such work; assisted in a study made by the Russell Sage Foundation 1920-24 (published under the title: Publtc Employment Offices; Their Purpose', Structure', and Methods); attended the Friends' Meeting on Stuyvesant Square, New York City.
Married March 8, 1913, in Milwaukee, Edith, daughter of William Lynch and Jane (Patterson) Shatto, of Tustin, Calif. No children.
Death due to pyehtis, complicated with endocarditis. Body cremated Survived by wife and a cousin, Henry P. King, of Portland, Maine.
Born September 10, 1876, in Portland, Maine.
Died July 15, 1924, in New York City.
Father, Joseph Addison King, a merchant; son of Alonzo and Miranda (Prentiss) King; descendant of John King, who came from England in 1636 and settled at Weymouth, Mass. Mother, Irene Whipple (Gladding) King; daughter of Gilbert Richmond and Susan (Burlingame) Gladding; descendant of John Gladding, who came from England to Bristol, R.I., in 1660.
Portland High School. Attended Colby College for two years (1894-96) as a member of the Class of 1898. Entered Yale as a Sophomore in 1896; dissertation appointments Junior and Senior years; member Apollo Glee Club Junior year, University Glee Club Junior and Senior years, and Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Engaged in social work in New York City 1899-1900; resided at the University Settlement of New York City 1900-04 (visitor of the Charity Organization 1900-02; then a probation officer in the New York police courts, being one of the first such officers in the United States); in 1905 started the Litchfield (Conn.) branch of the George Junior Republic and was its director until 1910; in summer of 1910 engaged in investigational and editorial work for the Pittsburgh Survey on the courts of Pittsburgh, studying the whole penal system in operation in that city (associated with Paul U. Kellogg); results of his study were published in the concluding volumes of the Survey; after studying abroad for about a year, went to the University of Wisconsin for special study of labor problems; was a pioneer worker in the Wisconsin State Employment Exchange during the first years of the Socialist administration in Milwaukee and in the State Industrial Commission, serving as superintendent of the state employment office there 1911-13 and living at the University Settlement, went to California in 1913 and for some time lived in the country near Upland, being ill much of the time; afterwards lived in San Diego, where he was secretary of the Associated Chanties during 1914-15; special student in economics at University of California during spring semester in 1916; returned to New York City in October, 1916; during World War served for a time as inspector for the Administration of Labor Standards on Army Clothing, Quartermaster Department, in New York City, and later in Washington in the Training Division of the U.S. Employment Service; since then had been engaged in studies of unemployment, employment exchanges, and juvenile vocational guidance for the Russell Sage Foundation; resided at Greenwich House, New York City, 1917-19; in 1921 and 1922 was associated with William & Leiserson, now of Toledo, Ohio [the "Impartial Chairman"], arbitrator or industrial judge, employed jointly by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (New York local unions for the New York market) and "The New York Clothiers' Exchange" (the employers' association), to settle disputes that could not be settled by the individual employers and union members; at time of his death was assistant director of the "Vocational Service for Juniors," a private organization carrying on vocational guidance and employment work in a number of New York City public schools, as a demonstration of the possibilities in such work; assisted in a study made by the Russell Sage Foundation 1920-24 (published under the title: Publtc Employment Offices; Their Purpose', Structure', and Methods); attended the Friends' Meeting on Stuyvesant Square, New York City.
Married March 8, 1913, in Milwaukee, Edith, daughter of William Lynch and Jane (Patterson) Shatto, of Tustin, Calif. No children.
Death due to pyehtis, complicated with endocarditis. Body cremated Survived by wife and a cousin, Henry P. King, of Portland, Maine.
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