John Kingsley Macomber

1849 -

• Name	John Kingsley Macomber
  Born	2 Feb 1849	Northampton, Massachusetts
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I22921	Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest
  Last Modified	12 Jan 2001

  
  

  Father	Kingsley Williams Macomber,   b. 14 Mar 1813, New Salem, Massachusetts ,   d. 13 Oct 1895, , Cass, Iowa  (Age 82 years)
  Mother	Martha Sophia Alexander,   b. 10 Apr 1816, Sunderland, Massachusetts ,   d. 5 Nov 1892  (Age 76 years)
  Family ID	F6120	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Mattie Atwood Locke,   b. 2 Dec 1853, Union, New York
  Married	22 Feb 1877
  Children	1. Elsie Welch Macomber,   b. 19 Apr 1878   2. Mattie Watrous Macomber,   b. 12 May 1879,   d. 15 Jul 1879  (Age 0 years)   3. Jay Kingsley Macomber,   b. 10 Dec 1882   4. Kate Locke Macomber,   b. 12 Mar 1884   5. James Locke Macomber,   b. 9 Feb 1887   6. Sumner Cooley Macomber,   b. 29 Jul 1888   7. Arabella Alexander Macomber,   b. 9 Jan 1890   8. Bertha Jewell Macomber,   b. 21 Sep 1891
  Family ID	F8277	Group Sheet

  
  

• Notes

  John Kingsley Macomber went to Iowa with his father. He Graduated at the State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, at Ames, Iowa, in 1872 and studied at the Institute of Technology, Boston and at Cornell University, where he was Professor of Physics and Librarian six years. He Published in 1876 a series of lectures on "Matter and Force." He practiced law in Des Moines, Iowa starting in 1883. ---------- Reference: "Macomber Genealogy", 1908, Everett S. Stackpole, p 66, 84.