Lassen County Biographies

Edward Kingsbury

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Nov. 2004

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


 
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.  
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. � Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 502-503