Age 29. 326 N. 11th Street, Richmond, IN. Born on 11/24/1913, Richmond, IN. Died of burns (death certificate). Employed at Submarine Signal Co. (signaling devices), of Boston. Leased a cottage with a coworker, Gray Miller, age 26, of Southbridge, MA, dead, and two other youths (not present) at 293 Dedham Street, Newton Highlands (Newton), MA (address shown on the official November 1943 Boston Committee on Public Safety master list of casualties). "King and his roommate had gone to the night club to see the floor show and were suffocated in the fire" (The Palladium-Item, Richmond, IN, 11/30/1942). Spent the past Thanksgiving Day in Indiana visiting his family, then returned to Boston. The Dayton Herald, Dayton, OH, 11/30/1942: "Had King heeded the plea of friends to remain in Richmond over the weekend for holiday parties, he would not have died in the fire..." Graduate of Richmond, IN, High School in 1931. Graduated Earlham College, Richmond, IN, in 1935. Occupation ('39 street listings): chief clerk, B. Johnson & Son (railroad ties), Richmond, IN. Graduate of the Harvard School of Business Administration, 1941. Was single. Was a former Boy Scout commissioner of Wayne Co., IN. Lodged locally at the above cottage but retained his Indiana address as his official residence. Was the older of two fire casualties from Indiana (also Seaman Harry McMullen, U.S. Navy, age 18). Was tall and trim (WWII draft registration, October '40: 6' 0," 160 lbs.). With Mr. Miller were two of 228 fire victims showing "burns" as the primary cause of death on their death certificates, the same count (exact) as those pronounced dead by "carbon monoxide poisoning" (eight more were listed with both origins, while 26 others stated alternate causes or read simply "trapped in burning building"). Parents Mr. and Mrs. Lewis E. and Clara May (Myrick) King, same Richmond, IN, address. Burial at Earlham Cemetery, Richmond, IN. Middle name Myrick.

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