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Rh academy in 1840, and, entering the army as 2d lieutenant of ordnance, served as assistant and in command of various arsenals until he was sent with the armv of occupation to Texas. Subsequently during the Mexican war he was Gen. Wool's chief ordnance officer, and was on the staff of Gen. Taylor at Buena Vista. In April, 1861, he was superintendent of the U. S. armory at Harper's Ferry, when it was burned to prevent it from falling into the hands of the Confederate troops. He was chief of ordnance, ranking as colonel, in the Army of the Potomac in 1861-'2, served through the Virginia peninsular campaign, and was engaged in the seven days' battles before Richmond. He was brevetted brigadier-general, U. S. army, 13 March, 1865, and in July of that year was placed in charge of the U. S. arsenal at Water town, Mass. In December, 1870, he was retired on his application, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He is the author of "Treatise on Artillery and Infantry" (New York, 1849), and also contributed to various periodicals.

KINGSBURY, Cyrus, missionary, b. in Alstead, N. H., 22 Nov., 1786 ; d. at a mission station in the Choctaw nation, Indian territory, 27 June, 1870. He was graduated at Brown in 1812, and at Andover theological seminary in 1815. He was ordained as a missionary at Ipswich, Mass., 29 Sept., 1815, engaged in mission work in Virginia and Tennessee from January till July, 1816, and in September of that year made his first visit to the Cherokees. In October following he attended a general council of the Cherokees and Creeks, and, after purchasing a plantation, began missionary work at Brainard, 13 Jan., 1817. On 27 June, 1818, after travelling 400 miles through the wilderness, he established the first mission station among the Choctaws at Elliot. The Choctaws having sold their lands to the U. S. government in 1830, and removed to the country west of the present state of Arkansas, Mr. Kingsbury, in the summer and autumn of 1834. made a tour among the Osages, Creeks, and Cherokees, and in Decem- ber went to the new country of the Choctaws, settling in February, 1836. with his family at Pine Ridge, near Fort Towson, where he had established the headquarters of the mission. He labored there until the discontinuance of the mission by the American board in 1859, and afterward in the same field in connection with the Presbyterian and Southern Presbyterian boards till his death.

KINGSBURY, Jacob, soldier, b. in Norwich, Conn., in 1755 ; d. in Franklin, Mo., 1 July, 1837. He entered the Continental army as a private in 1775, served in Wayne's Indian campaign, and was appointed lieutenant of infantry, 29 Sept., 1789. He rose by regular promotion to the rank of inspector-general, and, for gallant services on the Ohio river in 1791, was highly complimented by Gen. Josiah Harmar. He was for many years on duty at Detroit and Mackinaw, and afterward at Bellefontaine, Fort Adams, and New Orleans. He retired from the army in 1815, and took up his residence in Missouri. — His son, Julius Jesse Bronson, b. in Connecticut in 1801 ; d. in Washington, D. C, 26 June, 1856, was graduated at the U. S. military academy in 1823, and served in the Mexican war, attaining the rank of major. — Another son, Thomas H. C., b. in New Orleans, La., 23 Dec, 1807; killed at Antietam, 17 Sept., 1862, was colonel of the 11th Connecticut regiment at the time of his death.

KINGSLEY, Calvin, M. E. bishop, b. in Annsville, Oneida co., N. Y., in 1812 ; d. in Bevrout, Syria, 6 April, 1870. In 1826 his father's family removed to Ellington, Chautauqua co., N. Y., where for the first time he met with the Methodists, and at eighteen years of age he became a member of that church. After teaching for several years he was graduated at Alleghany college. Pa., "in 1841, and was at once employed in its faculty, and also ad- mitted on trial to the Erie conference of the Methodist Episcopal church. The next year he was chosen professor of mathematics and civil engineering, and during the years 1843-'4 he acted as financial agent for the college. He was elected a delegate to the general conference in 1852, and afterward to each quadrennial session of that body, till in 1864 he was elected bishop. In 1856 he was chosen editor of the "Western Christian Advocate" at Cincinnati, where he remained eight years. At the general conference of 1860 he was chairman of the committee on slavery, and took an active part in defining the anti-slavery position of the church. His labors in the episcopacy called him to travel extensively, not only over every part of this country, but also in foreign lands. In 1865-'6 he held the conferences on the Pacific coast, and in 1867 he visited the missions in Europe. In 1869 he again visited California and Oregon, then passed to China, and thence to India, intending to return by way of Europe, but died before his purpose could be carried out. His published works are a review of " Bush on the Resurrection " (Cincinnati, 1847); and "Round the World" (1870), the latter a posthumous work.

KINGSLEY, James Luce, educator, b. in Windham, Conn., 28 Aug., 1778; d. in New Haven, 31 Aug., 1852. He was educated at Williams and Yale, where he was graduated in 1799. He afterward taught for two years, first in Wethersfield and then in Windham, and in 1801 became a tutor in Yale. In 1805 he was appointed to the newly established professorship of Hebrew, Greek, and Latin in that institution. He was relieved of a part of his duties in 1831, when a separate professorship of Greek was established, and of another part in 1835, when a professorship of sacred literature was founded, but he continued to instruct in Latin until he resigned in 1851. As a writer of English, President Timothy Dwight called him the “American Addison”; and President Woolsey said of him, “I doubt if any American scholar has ever surpassed him in Latin style.” He published a discourse on the 200th anniversary of the founding of New Haven, 25 April, 1838; editions of Tacitus (Philadelphia), and Cicero, “De Oratore” (New York); and was the author of a history of Yale college in the “American Quarterly Register” (1835); a life of Ezra Stiles, president of Yale college, in Sparks's “American Biography.”

KINGSLEY, William Charles, contractor, b. in Franklin county, N. Y., in 1833 ; d. in Brooklyn, 21 Feb., 1885. Hi's early years were passed on a farm, and after teaching for a time he superintended railroad work in Illinois and Wisconsin, and in 1856 went to Brooklyn, N. Y., where he was a contractor to construct city water-works. He became convinced as early as 1865 of the feasibility of a bridge that should connect Brooklyn with New York, and labored to interest wealthy men in his project. The New York bridge company was organized in 1867, with a nominal capital of $5,000,000. Mr. Kingsley became a shareholder, was made superintendent of the work, was paid fifteen per cent, on the cost, and in 1875 the bridge was placed in charge of a board of trustees, of whom he was one during the remainder of his life. In 1882 he succeeded Henry C. Murphy as president of the board, and saw "the bridge completed and formally opened, 24 May, 1883.