Joseph C. Kingsbury
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| birth_name = Joseph Corrodon Kingsbury
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1812|5|2}}
| birth_place = Enfield, Connecticut
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1898|10|15|1812|5|2}}
| death_place = Salt Lake City, Utah
| burial_place = Salt Lake City Cemetery
| occupation = Pioneer, clergyman
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- {{Marriage|Caroline Whitney|February 3, 1836|October 16, 1842|end=d.}}
- {{Marriage|Dorcas Moore|November 22, 1845|1869|end=d.}}
- {{Marriage|Loenza Pond|1846|1853|end=d.}}
- {{Marriage|Eliza Mary Partridge|1870}}
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| children = {{Plainlist|
- Joseph T. Kingsbury
- Mariah Loenza Kingsbury
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Joseph Corrodon Kingsbury (1812–1898) was a Mormon pioneer and local-level leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
Biography
Kingsbury was born in Enfield, Connecticut on May 2, 1812.{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofutahcom04whitrich/page/114/mode/1up |title=History of Utah in Four Volumes |volume=IV |first=Orson Ferguson |last=Whitney |author-link=Orson F. Whitney |publisher=G. Q. Cannon & Sons |pages=114–115 |date=October 1904 |access-date=2024-02-29 |via=Internet Archive}} He joined the Church of Christ on January 15, 1832, while living in the household of Newel K. Whitney in Ohio. On February 3, 1836, he married Whitney's daughter Caroline. Caroline died on October 16, 1842 and shortly after that Kingsbury left to serve a mission in New England.
On November 22, 1845, he married Dorcas Moore (who would be the mother of future University of Utah President Joseph T. Kingsbury). In 1846, with Dorcas's consent, he polygamously married Stillman Pond's daughter Loenza, who would be the mother of Mariah Loenza Kingsbury, a wife of Apostle Marriner W. Merrill and mother of Apostle Joseph F. Merrill. As "sister wives", Dorcas and Loenza enjoyed a close relationship until Loenza's death in 1853 from "consumption," likely pneumonia.Joseph C. Kingsbury, A Biography by Lyndon W. Cook (Provo: Grandin, 1985) pp. 150-152 Dorcas died in 1869 from complications in childbirth, leaving Kingsbury widowed for a third time.
Kingsbury came to the Salt Lake Valley in 1847. From 1851 to 1854 he was bishop of the 2nd Ward in Salt Lake City. In 1883 he was ordained a patriarch. In 1870, Kingsbury married his fourth wife, English native Eliza Mary Partridge.
Kingsbury was a farmer in Weber County for several years. From 1858 on he worked in the tithing store in Salt Lake City. He was made its superintendent in 1867.
He died in Salt Lake City on October 15, 1898, and was buried at Salt Lake City Cemetery.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-salt-lake-herald-joseph-c-kingsbury/142369771/ |title=Joseph C. Kingsbury |newspaper=Salt Lake Daily Herald |page=4 |date=1898-10-16 |access-date=2024-02-29 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wvpUAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Kingsbury,%20Joseph%22 |title=The Higleys and Their Ancestry |volume=2, Part 2 |publisher=G. S. Higley |page=981 |date=1982 |access-date=2024-02-29 |via=Google Books}}
In 1985, a biography of Kingsbury by Lyndon W. Cook was published by Grandin Books in Provo, Utah.
References
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- [https://overlandtrails.lib.byu.edu/biographies.php?name=kingsbury-joseph-corrodon Overland Trails biography of Kingsbury]
- [https://archive.org/details/journal-of-joseph-c-kingsbury Handwritten journal of Joseph C. Kingsbury]
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Category:American leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Category:Patriarchs (LDS Church)
Category:American Mormon missionaries in the United States
Category:19th-century Mormon missionaries
Category:Religious leaders from Salt Lake City
Category:People from Weber County, Utah
Category:Latter Day Saints from Connecticut
Category:Latter Day Saints from Ohio
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