Jacob Kingsbury was born July 6, 1756, in Franklin County, Connecticut. In 1775, Kingsbury enlisted as a private in the Continental Army. He served in General Anthony Wayne’s Indian campaigns and was promoted to lieutenant of infantry in 1789. On November 24, 1799, he married Sarah Palmer Ellis. Upon promotion, Lieutenant Colonel Kingsbury was given command of Fort Wilkinson, Georgia, and later was one of the principal builders of the fort at Bellefontaine. He was promoted to colonel inspector-general before retiring from the army in 1815. After retiring, he returned to his family home in Franklin, Connecticut, where he died on July 1, 1837. James Wilkinson Kingsbury, son of Jacob, was born September 28, 1801. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in June 1823. The following year, Second Lieutenant Kingsbury was a member of the Atkinson-O’Fallon expedition to the American West (1824-1826). On May 25, 1830, while stationed at Bellefontaine, he married Julia Antoinette Cabanne (1809-1836), daughter of prominent St. Louisan J. Pierre Cabanne. Kingsbury was promoted to the rank of captain by President Martin Van Buren in October 1837 but resigned within the same month. Kingsbury went on to become a military storekeeper in the army’s purchasing department, a position he held until 1843. He died June 25, 1853. Charles E. Kingsbury, son of Jacob, was born July 12, 1818, in Norwich, Franklin County, Connecticut. He was appointed as a 2nd lieutenant in the 2nd Regiment of the Dragoons in 1836. He died June 9, 1837. Thomas Humphrey Cushing Kingsbury, son of Jacob, was born December 23, 1806, near New Orleans. He married Caroline Prudence Ray on May 4, 1834, in Lenox, Ohio. He died August 7, 1880, in Franklin County, Connecticut. Henry Walter Kingsbury was born in Illinois. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in July 1856. In April 1862, he was promoted to colonel of the 11th Connecticut Infantry. He died September 18, 1862, from wounds received at the Battle of Antietam.