Background
Kingston was born in Peterborough, England.
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Charles Kingston
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In 1858, Frederic Kingston suffered financial difficulties and when he failed to pay his creditors, a warrant was put out for his arrest. Frederic stowed away on a ship bound for America and made his way to Utah Territory. Charles Kingston and his mother remained in England.
In 1879, Charles Kingston emigrated to Morgan, Utah Territory to reunite with his father.
On 1884-1810-19 he was ordained a seventy in the church by Seymour B. Young, and in May 1886, he began a two-year mission to England. When he arrived in England, he traveled to visit his mother, only to find that she had died earlier that year.
Upon returning to the United States, Kingston settled in Rock Springs, Wyoming, and later in Star Valley in Wyoming. When the Woodruff Stake of the church was created in Uinta County, Wyoming, Kingston was asked to become a counselor to John M. Baxter in the stake presidency.
In June 1897, United States. President William McKinley appointed Kingston as the registrar of the United States Land Office at Evanston, Wyoming.
Later in his life, Kingston moved to Ogden, Utah, where he died and was buried.
Membership
He served in a variety of church positions in the Star Valley Stake of the church, including member of the high council and president of the stake Young Men"s Mutual Improvement Association.
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Religion
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints