Philip Wheaton Rives King was born in Paris, France , June 12, 1878, the son of David and Ella (Rives) King. His father, whose parents were Dr. David King ( B.A. Brown 1831 , M.D. Jefferson Medical College 1834) and Sarah (Wheaton) King, was engaged in business in China for many years, as a partner in the firm of Russell & Company, tea merchants. In 1889 he was the United States commissioner of horticulture at the Paris Exposition . The first American ancestor of the King family was Philip King, who came from England in 1689 and settled in Taunton, Mass. One of his descendants was Job King, who married a Miss Williams, through whom Philip W. R. King was descended from Rogers of the “ Mayflower.” Job King's son , Dr. David King, who received both the B.A. and M.D. degrees from Brown, in 1796 and 1821 , respectively, was the great-grandfather of Philip King . Through his mother, who is the daughter of Francis and Matilda (Barclay) Rives, he traced his ancestry to Robert Rives, who came to this country from England in the seventeenth century and settled in Virginia. Another ancestor was Lawrence Washington, the grandfather of George Washington .His preparatory training was received at the Farnborough School in Farnborough, England, at the Fay School, Southboro, Mass., at the Institut Selig in Vevey, Switzerland, and at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., where he graduated. He took the select course in the Sheffield Scientific School. He went to Mexico about 1904 and formed a partnership, which, under the name of Burton & King, acquired the El Progresso mine, near Suaqui de Batuc in Sonora, and other property. The mine was worked for some years. He then resided in New York City and in Newport, R. I., until 1916, since which time his residence had been in Paris, where he was engaged in horticulture at the time of his death. From December, 1917, to October, 1919, he served with the Y. M. C. A. , as Directeur des Foyers du Soldat with the 3 , 104, and 4e armées in the French auxiliary service. In May and June, 1918, he was at the defense of Villers- Cotterets. He was an Episcopalian and attended the British Embassy Church in Paris. He died December 31 , 1922, in Paris, from typhoid fever. Interment was in the cemetery at St. Germain , France. He was married August 15, 1906, in New York City, to Gertrude, daughter of Wilding Brown, who survives him without children . He also leaves his mother, a sister, two nephews, and a niece.