KING, KARL L.
(1891–1971)
KARL L. KING (Born in Paintersville, Ohio, 1891 — Died in Fort Dodge, Iowa, 1971) Karl King began his long career in music by buying a cornet with money earned by selling newspapers. He was born in Paintersville, Ohio, but his family moved to Canton, Ohio, in 1902 and it was there that he bought a cornet, exchanged it later for a euphonium which he played in the local Thayer Band, and by the time he was seventeen, had his first composition published. At the age of nineteen he began playing in…