Kingsbury, Gilbert D. d. 1877

Gilbert D. Kingsbury (d. 1877) was a writer, farmer, and postmaster, born in Dartmouth, New Hampshire.

He attended Lebanon Academy (1848 to 1850), studied law in New York in 1851, and taught school in Florida (1851-1854). Using the name F.F. Fenn, he returned to New York and married a woman named Anna. As F.F. Fenn, he became the postmaster of Brownsville, Texas, in 1858, and his wife died a year later. A unionist at the outbreak of the Civil War, he was imprisoned and charged with treason. Escaping across the Rio Grande to Matamoros, Mexico, he returned after the Union captured Brownsville. After the war, Kingsbury remarried, had a son, E.G. Kingsbury, and lived as an orator until his death in 1877.

Source: "Kingsbury, Gilbert D." Handbook of Texas Online. Accessed January 26, 2011.http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fki26.