Frederick Gilbert King

Frederick Gilberts King (1866–1920) was a mining engineer and a pioneer in California's burgeoning oil, copper and natural gas industries during the late-19th and early 20th centuries. King was considered "one of the best-known oil men in the west" at the time.

Mines, oil wells & the founding of the Boston Pacific Oil Company Born March 12, 1866, in Ayelsford, Nova Scotia, Canada, to Frederick Gilberts King Sr. and Julia Ann Miller, King studied mining engineering at Cramlington Colliery in Northumberland, England (approximately nine miles north of Newcastle). He was elected to The North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers on 8 October 1892.

By 1892–93, Frederick traveled to the United States, settling in San Francisco, California, where, by the late nineteenth into the early twentieth centuries, California had become the largest oil-producing state in the country. Frederick, representing eastern interests, explored and inspected mines in Shasta County, California. He made his first major purchase in November 1899, King facilitated one of his more high-profile mining acquisitions: the purchase of the then-famous Mammoth copper mine, located in Kennett, Shasta Co., California. Originally owned by Desda Wallace of San Francisco,

In 1910, King's Pacific Sunset Oil Company, for an injunction to restrain Charles W. Gregg of Colorado, U.S. Waugh, W. Newburg, Morris Newberger, F.A. Cromwell, C.M. Webb, Adeline Webb, U.E. Methaver, and several other of Gregg's associates living in California (charter forfeited in 1911), ($28 million in 2022). Frederick's brother, Charles Tupper King, also served as the company's attorney.

Death Frederick died from a heart attack (cause of death on birth certificate given as "Myocarditis") The following is a news article from the Oakland Tribune describing Frederick's final moments: ($12.8 million in 20122, but she said she only received $14,000 in Aylesford, Nova Scotia (b. 29 April 1832, Justice of the Peace, Aylesford, Nova Scotia Frederick also had two sisters: Mary Isabel King (b. 1864, the first person to sail solo around the world and author of Sailing Alone Around the World.

Frederick King married Hazel Hope Hubbard on 12 August 1914 in Berkeley, California and had one daughter and one son: Frederick Gilberts King III (b. 24 June 1915) John Alden and Priscilla Alden.