Joseph C. Kingsbury

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Joseph C. Kingsbury (1812-1898) was a local level leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Kingsbury was a native of Ohio but largely raised in Ohio. He joined the LDS Church in 1832 while living in the household of Newel K. Whitney. In 1836 he married Whitney's daughter Caroline. Caroline died in 1842 and shortly after that Kingsbury left to serve a mission in New England. In 1845 he married Dorcas Moore (who would be the mother of Joseph T. Kingsbury) and Loenza Pond (who would be the mother of Mariah Loenza Kingsbury, a wife of Marriner W. Merrill and mother of Joseph F. Merrill).

Kingsbury came to Utah in 1847. From 1851-1854 he was bishop of the 2nd Ward in Salt Lake City. Starting in 1883 he was a patriarch in the LDS Church. In 1870 Kingsbury married his fourth wife, English native, Eliza Mary Patridge.

Kingsbury was a farmer in Weber County for several years. From 1858 on he worked in the tithing store in Salt Lake City.

In 1985 a biography of Kingsbury by Lyndon W. Cook was published by Grandin Books in Provo, Utah.

Sources

Overland Trails biography of Kingsbury

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Name	Kingsbury, Joseph C.
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Short description	American Mormon leader
Date of birth	1812
Place of birth
Date of death	1888
Place of death

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