Samuel King (minister)


Reverend Samuel King, was a Presbyterian minister and one of the founders of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
King was born in North Carolina of Scots-Irish parents Robert King and Mary Morrison. He was the 5th of 12 children. He married Anna Dixon on the August 25, 1795 in Sumner County, Tennessee. He founded the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in 1810 in Tennessee along with Samuel McAdoo and Finnis Ewing.