This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Kingsley, Moore Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wEC.2ACE/1302 Message Board Post: R. G. KINGLSEY, merchant, Union Center, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1853.  In 1856, the family moved to Wisconsin and settled first in Monroe, where he received a common school education, and at the age of fifteen commenced railroading as telegraph operator and station agent on the W.W.R.R. now the C., St. P., M. & O.R.R. and followed the same about seven years, being stationed at St. Paul during the last four years, after which, in the Fall of 1876, he went to Tomah and engaged in mercantile business for about fifteen months. He then went to Norwalk and followed the same business at that place until the Fall of 1880, when he came to Union Center and has since carried on a general mercantile business.  June 9, 1879, he was married to Maggie M. MOORE, a native of Canada.  They have one child, Mabel Louise, born Feb 22, 1881.  Politics, Republican. Source: Biographical history of LaCrosse, Monroe and Juneau Counties, Wisconsin, The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago - 1892, p. 394