Albert Freeman Africanus King

Albert Freeman Africanus King an Englishborn American physician who witnessed the assassination of Abraham Lincoln onApril 1865. He was a bystander physician who was pressed into service during the assassination. He was one of a few physicians who served in both the Confederate States Army and the United States Army during the American Civil War. In addition, King was one of the earliest to suggest the connection between mosquitos and malaria.

On January 18, 1841, King was born in Ambrosden, a village near Bicester in the Cherwell District of northeastern Oxfordshire in England. He was the youngest of three children of Edward King and Louisa Freeman. His sister was Stella Louisa Elizabeth King and brother was Claudius Edward Richard King . His father was a doctor interested in the colonization of Africa. He was named Africanus because of his fathers admiration for that continent. He attended Maleys School and the Bicester Diocesan School.

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