Jute King

Born: May, 1872

Died: February 18, 1930

Children: Ralph W. King

Julius Quarters King, known as “Jute” or "J.Q. King", was a son of Philemon King and Jane Quarters King of Brighton.

He was a farmer, who served as Franklin County superintendent of the poor in 1925. In the book, The Brighton Story, by Brighton town historian Geraldine Collins, she wrote that Jute King lived there in the early 1900s and ran a meat market from a building behind his home. According to a May 18, 1913, article Mrs. Collins found in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, "Jute Q. King completed a very fine country home of fourteen rooms with hot water heat ,and a cobblestone fireplace."

The house, Pine Haven, served for a time as a tuberculosis sanatorium. It burned in 1878.

Malone Farmer, April 28, 1926

Some time ago The Farmer referred to the fact that the original Phil King farm of 125 acres near Gabriels had been sold to Mrs. Carrie M. Smith, of Saranac Lake, formerly of St. Regis Falls, who will spend $2,000 in repairs and improvements, will have cottages for tourists, and a store for tourists' supplies and curios. She has named the place Pine Haven. The King farm was originally 50 acres and was cleared by Phil King, who added to it and made it a productive property. In 1869 Mr. King purchased the Paul Smith farm of 205 acres where he spent the remainder of his life. J. Q. King, son of Phil King, later came to own his father's original farm property. The house was remodeled and modernized by J. Q. King in l913 and is a handsome property. Part of the 18-foot kitchen is the original home which Phil King built in the wilderness.

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