Caroline B. King Timeline
1867 Dec 4th Caroline Blanche Campion born to Caroline (Warren) Campion and Robert William Campion, in Chicago; grew up in Lake View, Illinois. Attended public school and private instruction. Her older sisters described her as “sticking her nose in everything.” And they may have had a point, considering how much she accomplished in her life.
1885 Married John Humphreys McIlvain King. From Illinois, the idealistic couple moved to Idaho to homestead. They farmed and she taught home economics. They had three daughters, Mary Grace (Ramey), Dorothy, and Elizabeth Palmer (Mosley).
1916 Widowed
1917 First WWI dietitian for the US Army, lectured and conducted soldiers’ cooking classes; went to France with Base Hospital 116 in March 1918 which was assigned to Bazoilles-sur-Meuse, Department Vosges, in the advance section to take care of war casualties. She described it as tragic.
1918 Caroline King Cook Book published by Little, Brown & Co., Boston, describing the author as “Domestic Science Lecturer for the University Extension Society of Philadelphia”
1919 Visited England
1920 Bought land at 614 Beechwood Drive, Delaware County, Havertown, Penn., had a house built, named it “Arborcote” [We know what arbor means, and cote means a shelter for mammals or birds–and as an aside–her mother collected flowers, her father collected birds] and developed its steep acreage into gardens.
Circa 1920 : Woman’s editor, and Sunday editor, Philadelphia Press
1920 Began authoring promotional recipe booklets
1924 – c. 1940 Editor 16 years for The Country Gentleman Magazine Women’s Section called Country Gentlewoman. At least two of her three daughters contributed.
1947 December Died two days before her 80th birthday
Booklets, Books, and Magazines #CommissionsEarned Amazon, shop around.
Cooking Booklets by Caroline B. King
- 1920 The Swansdown Cookless Way
- c. 1920 no date (nd) Many reasons for Jell-O co-authored with Lucile Patterson Marsh
- 1922 What Makes the Jelly Jell? for Pen-Jell — not to be confused with the booklet of the same name from 1945-1951 as that booklet is for Certo and Sure-Jell. I have yet to find the rare 1920s booklets, but the recipes could be found “in every carton of Pen-Jell.”
- c. 1923 JELL-O Rhymes. Booklet on Reddit.
- 1923 Franklin Sugar Sweetmeat Book
- 1925 A Cookery Expert’s New Recipes. Hershey.
- 1926 Servel Coldery. Caroline B. King, Sarah Field Splint, and Mrs. K. M. Earle
- 1925 Famous Cooks’ Recipes for RAISIN Cookery. Caroline B. King, Alice De Graf, Sarah Field Splint, Alice Bradley
- 1925-1926 Those Raisin Dishes Suggested in the Window Display And how Famous Cooks Make Them by Caroline B. King, Alice Bradley, Sarah Field Splint, Belle De Graf, and Sun Maid Growers of California
- 1927 35 Appetite Helps For Mother. Flavoring Extracts, color illustrations
- 1929 Modern Desserts, How to Make and Serve Them with Distinction, DeLuxe Ice Cream [I’m looking forward to finding an affordable version of this!]
- 1929 Baking With Wear-Ever Utensils
- 1920s A Cookery Expert’s New Recipes, Hershey. Booklet on Reddit.
- 1930 The Hershey Recipe Book. Booklet on Reddit.
- 1930 Rosemary Makes a Garden
- 1930 Better Coffee Recipes
- 1931 Roasting with Wear-Ever Utensils
- 1939 Mr. Ham Goes to Town.
- 1940 This Recipe Book Tells How to Use, Care For, and Enjoy the New Modern Enterprise No Clamp Chopper.
Magazines
Editor, The Country Gentlewoman section of The Country Gentleman Magazine.
Wrote articles for Ladies’ Home Journal, both magazines were Curtis Publishing Co. magazines from Philadelphia.
Books
- 1918 Caroline King Cook Book: Foundation Principles of Good Cookery, With Recipes. Caroline B. King, Domestic Science Lecturer for the University Extension Society of Philadelphia
- 1941 Victorian Cakes: A Reminiscence With Recipes this copy is the 1980s reprint. The 1941 edition is rare. (I edited Caroline B. King’s biography after reading this book!)
- 1947 This Was Ever in My Dream. autobiographical account of gardening at her home outside of Philadelphia
Newspapers, recipe column and articles —
- c. early 1920s Women’s Editor and Sunday Editor, Philadelphia Press
- 1925 Warsaw Daily Times and the Northern Indianian
- 1927 Cambridge City Tribune – “Culinary expert and lecturer on household science.”
- 1929 The East Boston Argus-Advocate
- 1931 The News-Sentinel – King is described as “Home Economics and Culinary Authority”
- 1931 Clinton Daily Item
- 1931 The Dorchester Beacon
- 1933 The Quincy Evening News
- 1933 Otago Daily Times, Dunedin, New Zealand – Clabber Cookery
