Brief Life History of William
When William Kingsley was born in May 1852, in Smithfield Township, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Isaiah Adnah Kingsley, was 42 and his mother, Ruth Sloan Brown, was 36. He lived in Newark, Newark Valley, Tioga, New York, United States in 1870.
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- William Kingsley, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: William Kingsley -
- William Kingsley in household of Ruth S Kingsley, "United States Census, 1860"
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World Events (8)
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863 · Battle of Gettysburg
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the places called Kingsley, in Cheshire, Hampshire, and Staffordshire. The placenames derive from Old English cing ‘king’ (genitive cinges) + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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