Rev. Lucius Kingsbury Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1816-1817 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	REV. LUCIUS KINGSBURY comes of staunch old New England stock and 
is a native of Connecticut, having been born in Andover, Tolland county, 
on the 20th of September, 1828, and being a son of Joseph and Amelia 
(Reynolds) Kingsbury. He received his early educational training in the 
schools of Andover and Hartford, Connecticut, and in 1851 was graduated 
in the Massachusetts State Normal School, at Bridgewater. At the age of 
seventeen years he engaged in teaching, and he continued to follow the 
pedagogic profession for the long period of thirty-one years, 
accomplishing most effective work and proving a valuable integer in his 
chosen field of endeavor. In 1852 he left his New England home and 
removed to St. Louis, Missouri, where he became principal of the Benton 
school, and later an instructor in the high school. In 1862 he was 
principal of a school in Springfield, Illinois, where he remained until 
1868, after which he was for a decade incumbent of the position of 
superintendent of schools of Havana, that state. Thereafter he resided 
for two years in Lincoln, Illinois, still engaged in teaching, and in 
June, 1878, he came as a pioneer to South Dakota, first locating in 
Sioux Falls, which was then a mere frontier village. He was here 
ordained as a minister of the Congregational church and became pastor of 
the church at Canton, Lincoln county, where he continued to serve until 
1886, when he accepted the pastorate of the Congregational church at 
Clark, Clark county, where he remained two years. He then returned to 
Sioux Falls and for several years was pastor of the Livingston Memorial 
Reformed church, with whose upbuilding he was most prominently 
identified, infusing much of vitality into its spiritual and temporal 
affairs, and continuing to serve as its pastor until he had attained the 
age of seventy years, when he resigned the active pastoral duties to 
younger men and has since living retired, retaining 1lis home in Sioux 
Falls, and being held in unqualified esteem by all who know him. In 
politics he is a staunch advocate of the principles of the Republican 
party, and he has always taken a proper interest in public affairs and 
stood for the highest type of loyal citizenship.

	On the 8th of July, 1855, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. 
Kingsbury to Miss Lucy A. Carpenter, of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and of 
their children we enter the following brief data: Frederick G. was 
drowned in the Sioux river, in the summer of 1879, at the age of twenty-
one years; Mary Amelia, is the wife of Rev. W. S. Bell, superintendent 
of Congregational missions in Montana; Howard E. died at the age of 
three years; and Alice R. is professor of French and German in Yankton 
College, at Yankton, South Dakota.