He moved with his parents to Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio in 1817.

King graduated from Washington (later Trinity) College in Hartford, Connecticut in 1836, and from Cincinnati Law School in 1839.

Son Harry Crosby King died during the American Civil War, August 11, 1864, while in the 164th Ohio Infantry.

[1] King was active in promoting Akron's Union School System.

In the 1851 election, King came in third to Democrat William Trevitt and Whig Earl Bill.