William W. Kingsbury
William Wallace Kingsbury was a Delegate from the Territory of Minnesota.
Education
Born in Towanda, Pennsylvania, he attended the academies at Towanda, and Athens, Pennsylvania. He clerked in a store, became a surveyor, and later moved to Endion, Minnesota in 1852.Political life
He became a member of the Minnesota Territorial House of Representatives in 1857 and a delegate to the Minnesota State Constitutional Convention in 1857. Kingsbury was elected as a Democratic [Party (United States)|Democrat] to the 35th [United States Congress|35th congress] and served from March 4, 1857, to May 11, 1858, when a portion of the Territory was admitted as a State into the Union. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1858 and later returned to Towanda in 1865 and engaged in the real estate and insurance business.Kingsbury was engaged as a commission merchant in Baltimore, Maryland, for three years, after which he moved to Tarpon Springs, Florida, in 1887. He was involved in real estate and mercantile pursuits until his death there and was interred in Cycadia Cemetery.