DANIEL C. KINGERY
Among the prominent and successful business men of Seymour is Daniel C. Kingery, who in partnership with N. P. Latimer conducts a large dry-goods store in the city. He is a native of Iowa, born in Adair county in 1873, and is a son of Andrew J. and Sarah (Eshelman) Kingery, natives of Pennsylvania. The family is of Pennsylvania Dutch origin, the father of our subject being a son of Ephraim Kingery, of Pennsylvania. Andrew J. Kingery moved to Illinois at an early date and there engaged in farming and merchandising until the outbreak of the Civil war, when he enlisted in Company I, Fifty-second Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and served for three years and three months. After the close of hostilities he returned to Illinois but in 1868 came to Iowa, locating in Tama county and later in Adair county, at Greenfield, where he resided until his death. His widow survives.
Daniel
C. Kingery is one of a family of eleven children, four of whom
have passed away. He
acquired his education in the public schools of Adair county
and afterward learned the printing trade. He spent one year
engaged in railroad work and then went to Grinnell, Iowa,
where for a number of years he clerked in a general store. Mr. Kingery then
went to Centerville and from Centerville came to Seymour,
locating in this city in March, 1906. At that date he
formed a partnership with N. P. Latimer, of Centerville, and
together they opened a general store, with which they have
since been connected. Their
building is thirty-six by one hundred feet and is well
furnished, being equipped with everything necessary for the
successful management of an enterprise of this character. Every department is
well managed, the stock is always tastefully arranged and the
lines kept new and complete.
In fact the concern has many of the aspects of a modern
metropolitan department store, much of the credit for its
excellent condition being due to Mr. Kingery, who has proven
himself an able, resourceful and enterprising business man of
great power and executive force.
On the 26th of September, 1906, Mr. Kingery married Miss Jessie E. Whittaker, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and they have become the parents of three children. Fraternally Mr. Kingery belongs to the Masonic lodge. He gives his political allegiance to the republican party but has never been eager for office, preferring to perform his public service in other ways. He is interested in the welfare of Seymour and as the years have gone by has won a creditable position as a valued citizen and business man.