Elden Kingston

Charles Elden Kingston (1909–1947) was the founder of The Latter Day Church of Christ and the Davis County Cooperative Society.

Elden Kingston was supported by his father Charles W. Kingston, his mother Vesta Minerva Kingston, and his siblings as the leader of the Latter Day Church of Christ. In 1941 Elden Kingston formally organized Latter Day Church of Christ as the Davis County Cooperative Society.

Preceded by
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Leader of The Latter Day Church of Christ
1929 - 1947
Succeeded by
John Ortell Kingston
Leaders in the Mormon fundamentalist movement
Recognized Mormon leaders1
  • Joseph Smith, Jr.
  • Brigham Young
  • John Taylor
Disputed Mormon leaders2
  • Wilford Woodruff
  • Lorenzo Snow
  • Joseph F. Smith
Early Mormon fundamentalist leaders
  • John W. Woolley
  • Lorin C. Woolley
  • J. Leslie Broadbent
  • John Y. Barlow
  • Joseph White Musser
  • Charles Zitting
Leaders of the AUB
  • Joseph W. Musser
  • Rulon C. Allred
  • Owen A. Allred
  • J. LaMoine Jenson
Leaders of the FLDS Church
  • Leroy S. Johnson
  • Rulon Jeffs
  • Warren Jeffs


  • William E. Jessop (one-time de facto leader)
  • Lyle Jeffs (bishop)
  • James Oler (bishop)
  • Wendell Loy Nielsen (one-time legal head)
Leaders of the Latter Day Church of Christ
  • Elden Kingston
  • John Ortell Kingston
  • Paul Elden Kingston
Independents and other leaders
  • Joel LeBaron
  • Ervil LeBaron
  • Alex Joseph
  • Tom Green
  • James D. Harmston
  • John W. Bryant
  • Merril Jessop
  • Winston Blackmore
Notes
Persondata
Name Kingston, Charles Elden
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth 1909
Place of birth United States
Date of death 1947
Place of death United States