Lassen County CA Archives Biographies.....Kingsbury, Edward 1830 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

EDWARD KINGSBURY.—He was born October 29, 1830, in Summit county, Ohio, where he
remained until seventeen years of age, when he removed to Illinois. In the
spring of 1860 he crossed the plains, stopping at Aurora, Nevada, where he
engaged in mining. He remained there until the fall of 1864, when he came to
Lassen county, but returned to Nevada the next year, stopping at Pine Grove
until the fall of 1868, when he again came to Lassen, and bought the farm of 160
acres in Honey Lake valley, four miles south-east of Susanville, where he has
since resided. In politics, Mr. Kingsbury is a democrat. On the twentieth of
October, 1850, he was married to Miss Casandra Durbin of Illinois, to whom were
born two children: David O., born October 2, 1852; and Charles W., November 20,
1854. His wife died August, 1868, at Mound City, Kansas. He was again married to
Mrs. Cynthia Wentwourth of Susanville, who had one child, Clara I., born April
24, 1866, and who resides with them.

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Extracted from:

Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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