Establishment
The church was created in 1977 by the joint owners of the Davis County Cooperative Society Inc., a cooperative created in 1941 to manage and hold the financial assets of the group. The Latter Day Church of Christ is based in Salt Lake City, Utah.
In the early 1920s, Charles W. Kingston was closely associated with Lorin C. Woolley, Joseph Musser, and other prominent Mormon fundamentalists living in the polygamous community of Short Creek, Arizona. They had been excommunicated from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) due to their refusal to renounce polygamy as required by the Second Manifesto issued in 1904 by then-LDS Church President Joseph F. Smith. By 1935, following the death of J. Leslie Broadbent, the Kingstons had split from the Short Creek Mormon fundamentalists by embracing the claim of Elden Kingston, Charles W. Kingston's son, that he had been set apart as Broadbent’s Second Elder and was Broadbent's rightful successor.
Elden Kingston relocated along with his family to Davis County, Northern Utah. He claimed that an angel visited him in a cave in northern Davis County, Utah, and directed him to establish a United Order, or self-supporting society. Elden Kingston answered by forming the Davis County Cooperative Society in 1941. The corporation produces goods and services that are used by members, and sold or traded to other cooperatives and to the public.
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