Born: Ju­ly 7, 1811, North­amp­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts.

Died: March 14, 1884, North­amp­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts.

Kingsley played the or­gan at the Old South Church and Hol­lis Street Church in Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts. He al­so taught mu­sic at Gi­rard Coll­ege in Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia, served as mu­sic su­per­vis­or for pu­blic schools in Phil­a­del­phia, and com­piled a num­ber of mu­sic books, in­clud­ing:

• Sun­day School Singing Book, 1832
• The Harmonist, 1833
• The Social Choir, 1836
• The Sac­red Choir, 1838
• The Harp of Da­vid, 1844
• The Young Ladies’ Harp, 1847
• Templi Carmina (Northampton, Mass­a­chu­setts: 1853)
• The Juvenile Choir, 1865

Sources

Music

1. Cuba
2. Edwards
3. Elizabethtown
4. Ferguson
5. Frederick
6. Heber
7. Messiah
8. Mount Auburn
9. Newbold
10. Tappan
11. Valentia
12. Ware
13. Williams