"HISTORY OF OWEN COUNTY 1884" CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884. F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE MORGAN TOWNSHIP IN OWEN CO., IN. PAGE 947 MATTHEW KING, Township Trustee, farmer and stock raiser, was born in Carroll County, Ohio February 3, 1835 and is the second of the four children of William and Margaret (Moffet) King, natives of Pennsylvania and of Irish extraction. In 1849, his parents moved to this state and located on the site now occupied by himself. Matthew was reared on the farm of his father and attended the public schools in Ohio and Indiana, to which preparation he added by careful and continued reading. February 23, 1860, he married in this township Margaret W. Hall, to which union was born nine children--Mary M; William V; Albert H; Howard A; James C; Ida May; Frances B; Parmelia F and LeRoy. Mr. King is a self made man and has done much toward the development of the township, having come hither when the district was a wild, but now controls by ownership of 292 acres, containing a good residence, and other valuable improvements, together with considerable cattle and from 200-300 sheep. In 1880, Mr King was elected Trustee of his township and afterward re-elected. He is a straight-out, earnest Democrat and esteemed citizen. Mr. and Mrs. King are members of the Presbyterian Church. DATA ENTRY: Debbie Jennings