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GEORGE P. KINGSLEY, JR., president of the Bank of Norman, Norman, Kearney county, Nebr., was born at Freeport, Ill., November 11, 1864. His father, George Kingsley, is a native of Northampton, Mass., while his mother, whose maiden name was Harriet Swift, is a native of Geneva, N. Y. His parents emigrated West in 1853, locating at Freeport, where the senior Kingsley has practiced his profession as a dentist up to within the past few years.

George P. Kingsley, Jr., availed himself of the common-school privileges afforded at Freeport, and in addition spent two years in Hobart College, at Geneva, N. Y. He also spent two years at Cornell University, where he could more successfully prosecute his studies in the higher branches. After he had completed his collegiate education, he secured a position in the Lincoln National Bank, at Lincoln, Nebr. He filled a responsible position in this establishment for two years, when he resigned and came to Minden, Nebr., where he remained a short time previous to his locating at the thriving little city of Norman. He went to Norman, then a village about one year old, and determined to start a bank there, and accordingly, on the eleventh day of August, 1888, he organized the bank of Norman with a capital stock of $10,000. Mr. Kingsley is a young man of fine presence and splendid business capabilities. He is shrewd and energetic and already enjoys a business surpassing his most sanguine expectations. He enjoys the esteem and entire confidence of the community, and is on the broad road to success.