Declaration of Independence

Oh my! My brain just exploded.

William Henry King

Apparently, my great-great-grandfather William Henry King was stationed in Independence, Montgomery, Kansas with the Grand Army of the Republic in 1871 -- exactly when Laura Ingalls Wilder and her family were there in Little House on the Prairie. They were my very favorite books in the late 1960s and 1970s.

I can't help but wonder if "Pa" Charles Ingalls met or knew W.H. King. Laura mentioned the soldiers there.

Did W.H. King's first wife, Angeline Smith King help "Ma" Caroline Quiner Ingalls give birth to Caroline Celeste "Carrie" Ingall's on August 3, 1870?

Were the Ingalls family still there and did Mrs. Ingalls return the favor and help Mrs. King give birth to her second son, Franklin Forest King, on February 11, 1871?

Angeline King died February 13, 1874, and W.H. King married my gggrandmother, Mary Alice Hazelbaker, on July 21, 1874. (Their granddaughter, Alice Thelma Hamilton, married my grandfather, Fred Huls on February 6, 1928 -- the same year William Henry King died on August 26.)

Those two King boys weren't motherless for long!

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Quizzed in Ohio death probe

I have been lucky twice now to score on eBay old press photos relating to the murders: the photo of David Puskin which I primarily use, and now this photo of Dr. S. [sic] Shindel Wingert.

Dr. H. Shindel Wingert

The caption pasted on the back of the photo reads:

With the deaths of two students at the Ohio State University, supposedly from strychnine poisoning, and the illness of at least three others, after partaking of capsules for cold cure, issued from the pharmacy colle(g)e dispensary, university and police officials are engaged in a vigorous investigation. Because of the baffling manner in which only a certain number of the capsules have been found to contain poison out of the bottle supposedly containing nothing but capsules of quinine, has led the authorities to believe the strychnine was administered intentionally. The medicine was issued to students upon prescriptio(n) from Dr. S. [sic] Shindel Wingert, head of the University health services.

Poor Dr. Harry Shindel Wingert apparently never recovered from the scandal. He went on leave after a breakdown in 1926. He returned to OSU in 1928 but died within two months. He was buried in Lancaster Cemetery in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

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