Captain James Wilkinson Kingsbury was graduated from West Point, 1823; he served with distinction in the army, and especially in the Black Hawk war, when he commanded the steamer Warrior, and with a small company he attacked a large body of Sioux, and prevented their crossing the river and making a junction with a force on the other side; then Black Hawk was captured, and this action practically ended the war. But he resigned after his wife's death, in 1836, and became keeper of US military stores in St Louis
He married at St Louis, May 25, 1830, Julia Antoinette, daughter of John Pierre and Julia (Gratiot) Cabanné...Mr Cabanné was a native of Paris, France, and engaged in the fur trade, as a partner of John Jacob Astor; his wife was a sister of General Charles Gratiot, USA.
Captain Kingsbury had charge of the supplies for the forts in the north and west of St Louis, and for the exploring and fighting parties sent out from time to time. This involved long and sometimes hazardous expeditions through the Indian country, but his headquarters and home were in St Louis with his children. After a few years he resigned, and spent the last years of his life quietly in his home in St Louis looking after his large landed estate
He died 25 Jun 1853 in St Louis. He was a man of quick mind, but great gentleness of manner and kindness of heart, and he had the family sense of humor.