Herbert Maxon King, M.D., of No. 86 Jefferson avenue, Grand Rapids, Mich., is a native of Jefferson county, in the state of New York. He received his preliminary education and was prepared for college at North Adams, Mass., and pursued his literary course of study at Dartmouth college, in New Hampshire, but before passing through the entire curriculum there he began the study of medicine. He then entered the university of the City of New York, from the medical department of which he graduated in 1886, and was shortly afterward appointed to the externe service of Bellevue hospital, occupying at the same time a private office for his personal general practice in the city. He was attending physician at St. Chrysostum dispensary, was instructor in diseases of the nose and throat in the New York Post-graduate school, and at the same time was clinical assistant in the Manhattan Eye and Ear hospital.

In the early part of 1890, owing to ill health, Dr. King was obliged to relinquish his professional labors and spend the summer in the Adirondack mountains. In the fall of 1890 he was appointed surgeon in the United States and Brazil mail service, and remained on the ocean, mostly in South American waters, until June, 1892, when he returned to New York City and resigned his commission. He passed the summer in recuperating, and in November of the same year came to Grand Rapids, where he has ever since been engaged in active practice.

In 1897 the doctor attended the National Medical congress at Moscow, and the remainder of the year was passed in visits to Paris, Switzerland, England, and other parts of Europe, and on his return to Grand Rapids he resumed his practice.

The marriage of Dr. King took place February 1, 1893, to Miss Lucy Maples Pinchot,

daughter of Hon. Edgar Pinchot, of Pennsylvania, a member of one of the most prominent families of the Keystone State. She was born in New York City, however, was there educated in private schools, and passed much of her early life in European travel.

Dr. King was a member of the New York County Medical society when a resident of the Empire state, and is now a member of the Michigan State Medical society, the Grand Rapids Academy of Medicine, the Chicago Pathological society and the American Medical association, to all of which he has contributed many medical papers of great value. He and wife are consistent members of St. Mark’s Episcopal church, and the doctor is, beside, a member of and director in St. Andrew’s brotherhood.