Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-08-13
b. i. KINGSBURY
The Republican Nominee for Sher #

The republican Nominee Tor Sheriff
e. L. Kingsbury, who received the
nomination for the Office of Sheriff at
the late Republican convention, has
during the past 20 years been engaged
in the grocery business in Perrysburg,
where by his honorable methods Of
transacting business and his courteous
treatment Of all people with whom he
came in contact he has won the respect
OF all classes OF people.
AS he is now before the people in the
position of a candidate seeking the
recognition of the public, brief his
tory OF his life, as taken from Beers
Wood county history, is appended;
Edgar l.. Kingsbury. grocer of Per-
rysburg, was born IN Hartford, Conn,
February 2S, ls45.
The Kingsbury family has long held
an honored place in the history of New
England, where the first of the line in
America settled at an early period.
John Kingsbury, the grandfather of
our subject, was lifelong resident of
Connecticut, and was engaged in agri-
culture and at the coopers trade. His
son, Lyman Klngsbury, our subjects
father, was born in Hartford, Conn,
April ID, 1900, and was married to Miss
Almira Brown, a native OF the same
place, born June 12 1906. Her grand
father Brown (given name torgotten)
was Scotchman by birth, and at the
time OF the Revolutionary war was the
owner of craft in which he gave what
aid he could to the Colonial govern
ment. His ship was confiscated by the
British; but nothing daunted, the
lover of freedom joined the land forces,
and fought until independence was
secured. For many years after his
marriage our SUBJECTS father remained
in his native place, following farming
as an occupation, and in 1854 he moved
with his family to the Western Re-
serye," settling in Lorain county, near
Elyria. He was a Democrat in politics,
and he and his wife we're members of
the Episcopal Church. She passed
away April Is, 1867, and he died Octo-
ber %, 1873. They had four children:
Horace, born January 81, 1886, died
May Is, 1873; Edgar L. ny, born jan
uary II, 1888, died January 4, 1874;
Willard, born March 80, 1912 died
September Is, 1852, in Connecticut; and
Edgar L. (2), the subject of this sketch.
Mr.. Kingsbury was only nine years
old when his parents came to
Lorain county, and his education was
secured principally in the district
schools there. AT the age of twenty
two he came to the Maumee Valley,
and cleared farm in Defiance county,
where for some years he followed agri-
cultural pursuits. Becoming interested
in the lumber business, he went to
| Bridgeport, Mich, remaining there
four years afterward returning to De-
fance county. In 1877 he disposed of
the farm, and came to Perrysburg,
where he opened the grocery which he
has since conducted with well-merited
success. In politics he is a Republican.
At the breaking out of the civil war
he first enlisted, as recruit, in Com
panY I, 9th o. V. l.; but owing to his
youth he was not mustered into the
service, although taken to Virginia,
remaining there from November 1861,
to May, 1862. He then returned to
Ohio, and re-enlisted, this time in
Company 1, 47th o. V. l., Capt. J. Fl.
Winder's company, and Col. W. Law
renee, which regiment was for ninety
days. service. but served about four
months in Maryland and Virginia.
While with his regiment Mr.. Kings
bury was taken ill with typhoid fever,
and was sent to hospital at Cumberland
Md, and lett for sometime after the
regiment was mustered out. There his
mother, who had travelled to Cumber-
land, came in order to care for him in
his sickness. For year and oyer,
after his arrival home, he was unable
to perform any kind of labor, and by
the time he recovered, the war was
ended.