Dan Christie Kingman (1852 - 1916)

Born 6 Mar 1852 in Dover, New Hampshire

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Died 14 Nov 1916 at age 64 in Atlantic City, New Jersey

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Biography

Dan Christie Kingman was born in 1852 to John William Kingman and Mary Spaulding Christie.^[1]

Dan married Eugenia Jennings and they had four children.^[2]

Brigadier General Dan Christie Kingman is a former head of the United States Army Corps of Engineers.^[3]

Kingman Park in Washington, DC, is named for him as are nearby Kingman Island and Kingman Lake.^[3]

Kingman Pass el. 7,119 feet (2,170 m) is a mountain pass between Terrance Mountain and Bunsen Peak on the Grand Loop Road (U.S. Route 89), just south of Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park. The pass is named for Lieutenant Dan Christie Kingman of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Kingman rebuilt this difficult portion of the Grand Loop Road in the area known as The Golden Gate in 1883.^[4]

Dan Kingman died in 1916^[1][5] and is buried in the Arlington National Cemetery.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Dan Christie Kingman on Wikipedia
2. ↑ United States Census, 1900, database with images, FamilySearch (accessed 4 January 2017), Dan Kingman, Chattanooga city Ward 7, Hamilton, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 66, sheet 9A, family 198, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,575.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Kingman Park on WikiPedia
4. ↑ Kingman Pass on WikiPedia
5. ↑ District of Columbia Deaths, 1874-1961, database with images, FamilySearch (3 December 2014), Daniel Christie Kingman, 1916.
6. ↑ Grave stone of Dan, Eugenia, and Frederic Kingman at Arlington National Cemetary