Career
Kingsbury was a native of Ohio. Caroline died in 1842 and shortly after that Kingsbury left to serve a mission in New England. Kingsbury came to the Salt Lake Valley in 1847.
From 1851 to 1854 he was bishop of the 2nd Ward in Salt Lake City.
Starting in 1883. 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 West. Cook was published by Grandin Books in Provo, Utah.