Charles Henry King (March 12, 1853 – February 27, 1930) was an American businessman and banker who was instrumental in founding several cities in the states of Nebraska and Wyoming.

He saw opportunity with the expansion of the railroad west and built up related retail businesses, banks and freight operations.

[1] King married Martha Alicia Porter, with whom he had five children who lived to adulthood: two sons and three daughters, two of them born in Chadron, Nebraska.

[3] Starting in the 1880s, King began to set up stores, banks and freighting operations in locations which he expected to be destinations on the westward expansion of the Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad.

Previously known as the First National Bank of Casper, it is now part of the First Interstate BancSystem based in Wyoming and Montana.

King then concentrated on a freight business between the rail line terminus in Casper and the mineral-rich Wind River region.

[7] Perhaps because of scandal arising from Leslie's divorce and allegations of abuse against him, the Kings retired from business in 1913 and moved to California.