Charles F. Kinzel (1854-1917) was born in Jefferson, Wisconsin, and died in Kansas City, Missouri. He worked as a conductor for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. He married Fredrica R. Kinzel (b. Rebensdorff) in Chicago, Illinois, in 1881. Kinzel was a student of John P. Filbert, a student of Mary Baker Eddy's, in 1887 before becoming a student of Eddy's himself, completing her Primary class in March 1888. He joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on March 31, 1894. Kinzel was a member of First Church of Christ, Scientist, St. Joseph, Missouri. He was listed in the directory of The Christian Science Journal as a Christian Science practitioner in St. Joseph from 1896 to 1898.

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