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A. T. KINGSLEY, restaurant, Piqua; is the son of Samuel and Betsy Kingsley, and was born in Washington Co., Maine, where his childhood and earliest youth were spent; in 1858, he went to California, where he remained until 1864; previous to this, however, he had been married in 1857 to Miss Abbie L. Bucknan, who died Oct. 7, 1864. That same season, after his return to Miami, he built a schooner and sailed to the West Indies; returning to New York the following spring—1865—he was in that city at the time of President Lincoln’s assassination. Mr. Kingsley came West that season, and started in Detroit, Mich., in the hotel business; after remaining six months, however, he went to Canada, and engaged in the oil trade, but eventually returned to Detroit and resumed his hotel life; he remained in Detroit five years, when he came to Piqua in 1875, where he is at present engaged, and has a fine restaurant on Main street. Politically, Mr. Kingsley is a Republican. In 1875, Mr. Kingsley was married a second time, to Miss Agnes Burley.