Lacrosse County WI Archives Biographies.....Kingsley, George L. 1829 - 
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GEORGE L. KINGSLEY, Superintendent of the saw-mill of the La Crosse Lumber 
Co.; has been in his present position since February, 1873; he is a native of 
Northampton, Mass.; born in 1829, son of Lyman and Caroline (Strong) Kingsley. 
Was married in Lebanon, N. Y., in 1853, to Elizabeth A. Jones, of Deerfield, 
Mass.; came West in 1844, was one year in Davenport, Iowa; from there he went 
to Michigan and lived in Grand Rapids and Muskegon till he came to La Crosse 
in 1873; was in charge of some of the best mills in those places during his 
residence there; was also in charge of a mill at Davenport. He has three 
children - Ida M., Wallace S. and George L., all at home. In 1862, he went 
into the United States Naval service on the Mississippi, under Commodore 
Porter, as Second Engineer, and was in the service nearly two years on the 
boat Chillicothe.

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From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 768.

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