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Nahum P Kingsley

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Nahum P Kingsley

Birth
Shrewsbury, Rutland County, Vermont, USA
Death
Mar 1914 (aged 80)
Rutland, Rutland County, Vermont, USA
Burial
Rutland, Rutland County, Vermont, USA GPS-Latitude: 43.6072056, Longitude: -73.0074473
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Nahum was the son of Harvey and Elvira/Alvira Gleason Kingsley, who are buried in this cemetery. He was the brother of Levi Gleason Kingsley and Elizabeth W Kingsley Higgins (Albert W), all who are buried in this cemetery. His obituary said he died March 14, the Rutland Town records of his death show March 13.

Nahum married Adelaide Harriet Keeler in Brandon, VT, on 1/5/1859. They had no children. She died in March 1906, and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery.

Obituary: ... After a short time spent on his father's farm in Clarendon, Nahum came to Rutland during the year 1855, and was employed as clerk in a clothing store. The next year he became engaged in the jewelry business and located in Brandon. In 1875 he gave up his business in Brandon and returned to Rutland, where he became engaged in the sale of Western lands. He was at different times VP of the Merchants National bank, VP of the State Trust company and a part of the time a trustee of the organization, and several years before his death he was a director of the Clement National bank. He was a member of St Paul's Masonic lodge of Brandon and while a resident in Rutland was very much interested in the Old Ladies' home on North Main street, to which institution he gave $5,000 several years before his death. Nahum died after several weeks' illness, during which time he was confined to his bed. He had been in ill health for several years. He was survived by one brother, Gen L. G. Kingsley of No. 73 Pine Street and a sister, Mrs A. W. Higgins, of Grove Street.
Nahum was the son of Harvey and Elvira/Alvira Gleason Kingsley, who are buried in this cemetery. He was the brother of Levi Gleason Kingsley and Elizabeth W Kingsley Higgins (Albert W), all who are buried in this cemetery. His obituary said he died March 14, the Rutland Town records of his death show March 13.

Nahum married Adelaide Harriet Keeler in Brandon, VT, on 1/5/1859. They had no children. She died in March 1906, and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery.

Obituary: ... After a short time spent on his father's farm in Clarendon, Nahum came to Rutland during the year 1855, and was employed as clerk in a clothing store. The next year he became engaged in the jewelry business and located in Brandon. In 1875 he gave up his business in Brandon and returned to Rutland, where he became engaged in the sale of Western lands. He was at different times VP of the Merchants National bank, VP of the State Trust company and a part of the time a trustee of the organization, and several years before his death he was a director of the Clement National bank. He was a member of St Paul's Masonic lodge of Brandon and while a resident in Rutland was very much interested in the Old Ladies' home on North Main street, to which institution he gave $5,000 several years before his death. Nahum died after several weeks' illness, during which time he was confined to his bed. He had been in ill health for several years. He was survived by one brother, Gen L. G. Kingsley of No. 73 Pine Street and a sister, Mrs A. W. Higgins, of Grove Street.


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