Titus King in 1830 moved to Richland Township in Marion County and invested $ in eighty acres of virgin forestland. This land ordinarily would have sold for about a hundred dollars, but on account of it having the Whestone River (later named the Olentangy) flowing through it, with sufficient fall to furnish power for the operations of mills,he paid the additional price for the mill site, which in the days before the advent of steam power, was a valuable asset. He built a sawmill and a wooden factory on this site, and they were known for many years after as King's Mills. Many of the early frame houses in Marion were built from black walnut lumber farmed from King's Mills. later the wooden mill was converted for grinding a high grade of corn meal and feed.
Titus King was the grandfather of George W. king, one of the founders and leaders of the Marion Steam Shovel Company.
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