Descendants of Gen. Edwin Davis King met on the campus of Judson College on April 4 to witness the unveiling of the college’s newly restored portrait of King, who was one of three primary founders of Judson.
The painting was made by King’s daughter, Margaret Eliza, and was finished in 1876, 14 years after King’s death.
King became a Marion businessman, plantation owner and trustee at the University of Alabama.
King also assisted in the 1841 founding of Howard College in Marion (now Samford University in Birmingham).
He loaned his office for the printing and distribution of The Alabama Baptist newspaper that was published in Marion from 1843 to 1852.
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