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Source: The Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Fulton County
Munsell Publishing Co., Chicago, 1908

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The Biography of Royal M. KINGSLAND 

[Surnames: HICKS, KINGSLAND, LANE] 

KINGSLAND, ROYAL M.

    
A comparatively recent addition to the real-estate brokers and insurance writers of Canton, Royal M. Kingsland established his interests here in July, 1902. Mr. Kingsland belongs to one of the well known families of the State, being a son of George B. Kingsland, for many years a prominent contractor and builder of Peoria, IL. The elder Kingsland was born in Vermont in 1844, and as a young man came to the then small town of Peoria, which continued to be his home during the greater part of time until his death in 1883. He married Helen M. Hicks, of Canton, was was born in 1858, a daughter of Asa Hicks, for many years the owner of a grist and flour-mill at Canton, and a pioneer of Illinois. 
    
Mr. Kingsland was educated in the common school and afterward engaged in educational work for about four years. He then established his present business. 
    
On Oct. 15, 1893 he married Mayme Lane, a native daughter of Canton. 
    
He is an earnest and high-minded Republican. He is well known fraternally, and his standing in the community is materially augmented by association with the Olive Branch, No. 15, I.O.O.F., the Encampment and the Rebeckahs.