Biographical Sketch of C. P. Kingsbury, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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C. P. Kingsbury was born in the City of Boston, September 26, 1841,
and upon reaching the requisite age he entered the office of the
Lawrence Courier, where he served his apprenticeship as compositor.
After this, he took the foremanship of the Dover Enquirer, at Dover,
New Hampshire, in which capacity he continued until 1862, when he
enlisted in Company K, Eleventh New Hampshire. At the battle of
Fredricksburg he was severly wounded, being incapacitated for duty,
was honorably discharged, returned to Massachusetts, and for two
years was assistant foreman in the State Printing House, at Boston.
In 1865, he came to Chicago, and pursued his trade in that city
until 1869, when he became a resident of St. Joseph, Missouri. He
was one of the original members of the St. Joseph Steam Printing
Company, organized in that year, and, in 1872, sold his interest.
In 1875, with Mr. T. H. Hail, he bought his present establishment,
which they conducted until 1879, when Mr. Kingsbury became sole
proprietor, by purchasing Mr. Hail's interest. This establishment
is one of the most complete in its appointments to be found in this
vicinity, and the trade which he controls in job printing and book-
binding is large and increasing. Mr. Kingsbury traces his lineage
to English ancestry. Is a Thirty Second Degree Mason, and a member
of the Knights of Pythias. In 1859, Miss Lizzie L. Moores, of
Vermont became his wife.

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