. Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania biography : illustrated . oldier—honorable inall. -*! KING, Dr. Cyrus Black, Physician, Surgeon. Of the great professions, arms, law andmedicine, that illustrious trio which hasfor centuries given to the world some ofits noblest leaders and benefactors, thatof medicine is certainly the most votaries, unlike those of arms and thelaw, wage war not with any portion ofmankind, but with the enemies of thehuman race at large, and in their hour oftriumph they hear none but friendlyvoices. The warrior comes from the bat-tlefield bearing the palm of the vic-t
. Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania biography : illustrated . oldier—honorable inall. -*! KING, Dr. Cyrus Black, Physician, Surgeon. Of the great professions, arms, law andmedicine, that illustrious trio which hasfor centuries given to the world some ofits noblest leaders and benefactors, thatof medicine is certainly the most votaries, unlike those of arms and thelaw, wage war not with any portion ofmankind, but with the enemies of thehuman race at large, and in their hour oftriumph they hear none but friendlyvoices. The warrior comes from the bat-tlefield bearing the palm of the vic-tor, hearing at the same time theshouts and plaudits of his triumphantfollowers and the groans and defiance ofthe vanquished; the laurels won in in-tellectual controversy crown the brow ofthe advocate, while the mingled voicesof applause and execration resoundthrough the forum; but the physiciansconquest is the subjugation of disease,and his paeans are sung by those whomhe has redeemed from suffering and pos-sibly from death, and when his weapons •-. y ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY fail to cope with an adversary whom hecan never wholly vanquish, his sympathyalleviates the pang he cannot avert. In the foremost ranks of these helpersof humanity stands Dr. Cyrus B. King,one of the most prominent among thephysicians and surgeons of the Iron was born in Washington county,Pennsylvania, in 1839, the youngest butone, in a family of twelve children bornto Dr. Samuel M. King and Maria(Black) King. The parents were bothnatives of Western Pennsylvania. Hispaternal grandfather, Samuel, was a na-tive of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, of Scotch-Irish descent, and the advent of the fam-ily to the Keystone State antedates theRevolutionary War. Samuel King wasa merchant of Carlisle. He moved toUniontown, Fayette county, near theclose of the past century, becoming oneof the first merchants of that place anda man of note in the community. SamuelBlack, Dr. Cyrus B. Kings maternalgrandfather, came f
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