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VOL. V. /NO. 1. 

JANUARY 1902. 



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CHARLES DEAN KIMBALL. 

GOVERNOR OF RHODE ISLAND. 

Family 1 1 i - 1- >ry, page 815, Family Nbws for 1899, pages 284— 3C9, for 1900, page 52, 

for 1901, page 292 for portrait. 

NO ONE of Kimball lineage will read the following- sketch 
of Gov. Kimball, who was inaugurated Jan. 7, 1902, "without 
a feeling of pardonable pride, not because of the office its sub- 
ject holds, but because of its portrayal of character of one who 
has reached a position, with every upward step marked by 
qualities unusual in the modern politician. Every patriotic citi- 
zen will rejoice at the several similar examples our country has 

witnessed during- the past year or two, and every one of Kimball 
blood will again rejoice in this particular case. The Providence 
Journal tells this interesting- story : — 

Hon. Charles Dean Kimball was elected to the Gen- 
eral Assembly of 1894-' It was his first step into 
political life. Thereafter until his election as Lieutenant Gov- 
ernor in 1900 he was annually returned to the House of 
Representatives. Acting Gov. Kimball's public career has been 
confined to the State House. 

It may be cited as a curious coincidence that he was Chair- 
man of the legislative committee that framed the constitutional 
amendment having- to do with the elevation of the Lieutenant 
Governor-e'ect in event of the death of the Governor-elect. 

He is one of the youngest Rhode Islanders to fill the office 
of Chief Executive. He was born in this city Sept. 13, 185 ( », 
and was roared within its confines. "Deany" Kimball attended 
the Bridgham school and graduated from it ; the boys used to 
call him "Deany," and perhaps the same "boys" have not for- 
gotten the schoolday appellation and sometimes use it, now that 
^he is Acting Governor. 

k He was of the Bridgham school class of 74 ; three years 
iter — class of 77— he graduated from the Providence High 
|bhool. Into business he went forthwith. His father was a 
■ember of the pork packing firm of Kimball & Colwell, and the 









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Ling man followed in his father 1 »tsteps. Today he is 
Tr the Kimball ' Co. incorporated), Treas- 

the What Cheer B l ompany and President of the Pall 
Rivei Provision Company. 

iture he took a more active part than do ilie 

ma ' Rhode Island lawmakei He was a vigorous oppon- 

custom to pay committees for alleged n ervices, 

and b ht the two-pa] a-day grab with characteristic 

r. In er the Governor's legislative record the 

two most interesting* and important items discoverable, 

. if jrou chose, his connection with the constitutional 

tnendment .alluded to above. A review of the record may 

pr. >\ e int< r< sting 

harles Dean Kimball's first House appointment was to the 
joint committee on accounts and claims not a very busy commit- 
ordinarily, but quite so in '94-'95. The year before there 
had been a legislative deadlock a Republican Senate and a 
Democratic House and no joint committees in consequence, 
ace the committee on accounts and claims [1894-'95] transact- 
ed practically tw<> years business. The Speaker also placed Mr. 
mball <»n the State property committer, which assured his 
name appearing on the Manual once again, but which meant 
little 

The following year he was retained on the State property 
mmittee and had a berth on the committee on education, 
neither of which positions furnished work enough to make a 
young man's hair turn gray. About that time unpleasant 
things were being said about the Kingston Agricultural College. 
The Legislature determined that the institution needed investi- 
ting and a committee was appointed to find out what the talk 
amounted to. Senator Watson of South Kingston was Chair- 
man of the body and Mr. Kimball one of the members. The 
investigation failed to bring anything- very bad to light. 
In l896-'97 he had an opportunity. The House of that 
period took a step foward by adopting a set of rules and regula- 
tions for governing itself which was a decided improvement 
over the oldfashioned and out-of-date rules previously in use. 
Mr. Kimball was the second member of the committee on rules 
and regulations that year, the committee whih framed the sys- 
tem adopted by the House. That part of the reg-ulations relat- 
ing to the House calendar was Mr. Kimball's special idea, and 
he had a good deal to do with the various other measures. 
Probably he considers his connection with the rules committee 
productive'of one of his most important achievements while a 
Representative. The value of the service can best be apprecia- 
ted by legislators, not being- of a nature that would appeal very 
much to the public 

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manship. He was placed at the head of the committee on special 
legislation of the House, 1897-'99 ; was retained on the House 
rules committee, and accorded a seat on the joint rules an I 
regulations committee. The latter body kept quiet during the 
year. Nothing- of especial liveliness occurred in the 
counsels of the special legislation committee. This is the sub- 
body that has referred to it a goodly proportion of the proposed 
freak legislation that annually drifts into the State House, but 
doesn't get any farther the committee's files or the doubtful glory 
of securing a resolution of indefinite postponement. Matters 
bearing on liquor and labor legislation and changes in the Con- 
stitution are considered by it. 

Mr. Kimball had a chance to learn a few things about the 
cotton industry of the State and its relation to the single tax 
theory the same year he won the Chairmanship, He was placed 
on a special committee to see what, if anything, was needed to 
help the industry, which was then reported to be in a more or 
less depressed condition. The body held public meetings in 
this city, Pawtucket and Woonsocket, but the investigation 
created no widespread excitement. Xews of the sittings, how- 
ever, reached New York, and Lawson Purdy, the single tax 
advocate, came on expressly to address Mr. Kimball and his 
associates. He tried to show that the trouble with the cotton 
industry was the present system of taxation. Evidently Mr. 
Purdy failed to convince the legislators, for they did not advo- 
cate single tax in their report as the remedy needed. In fact, 
the report was chary of recomendations ; it suggested how nice it 
would be if Congress would enact some uniform labor hour laws, 
so that Northern mills might more successfully compete with 
those of the South. 

It was mentioned above that Mr. Kimball was opposed to 
the annual last-day-of-the-session committee grab game. He 
was one of the few who fought the game to death. It had been 
a growing custom — "custom" sounds pleasanter than, "grab," 
and may be used with propriety, now that it is out of vogue for 
good. It began with committees that met between legislative 
sessions, held hearings and transacted business, the members of 
which thought they were entitled to some compensation — they 
could not even draw the regulation dollar a day the members 
used to receive while the Legislature was silting, before the 
constitutional amendment was adopted. So they presented bills 
for Si' 1 !! — more or less — the last day of the session. The money 
was voted without much discuss'on. By and by other committees, 
which hardly ever held meetings in session time, and never 
during recesses, managed to find something to do by which they 
would have an evewinking excuse to join the little game of grab. 
And the "custom" grew rapidly in legislative popularity. 

Mr. Kimball fought it. He fought it on the ground that 



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ih, tablished, w< <1«-<1 by mam mem- 

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that tbi . 1 « 1 n hoBestlv believed they were 

doing n<> harm in acc< pting the monev for little or no a< tual s< 
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which d d they wei ititled to extra com] tioB. 

bill v ntn duced aad d to the committee ob a 

:n-. : Mr. Kimball's prot< 

H ommitt< Kplaifled his position an 1 made 

ar that if the measure was reported favoralby he would 

its pass; mi the floor. The bill was rep >rted tmfavor- 

ai.lv. (hi. of tli*' commitleemeB, however aot coflteat to 

• his "right" to some booty, introduced a resolutiou 

aj>; ;;itin^ to himself and his fellows the reduced fee of $25 

h. That weut through. 

Ob aaother occasioB Mr. Kimball opposed a grab of $175, 
and he was a member of the committee that was to be beaefite 1 
if the "custom" prevailed. As a matter of record it did prevail, 
his opposition being futile. In due time the Representative 
from Providence received his check for Si 73. which he promptly 
returued to the State Treasurer with a Bote explaining that he 
must refuse the money, because he did not consider himself 
morally entitled to it. This action created not a little sensation 
in State official circl< 

In the General Assembly of 1898-99 Mr. Kimball had the 
same regular committee appointments as the year before, and in 
addition a place on the joint committee delegated to see what 
was best to be done about the proposed new Constitution. It 
will be recalled that the people had just defeated the measure, 
giving it a majority of votes, however, but not the necessary 
three-fifths demanded by the Constitution. Although the 
measure was defeated, there appeared a general sentiment in 
favor of briaging the question again before the people, and the 
province of the joint committee was to determine if the proposi- 
tion should be accorded another chance, with or without tinker- 
ing. The committee voted to try it on again, and on the second 
occasion the proposed new Constitution was beaten out of sight. 

Mr. Kimball was Chairman of the House committee on 
cial legislation which framed the amendments to the Consti- 
tution, adopted in November, 1900, among which was the provis- 
ion relating to the elevation of the Lieutenant Governor-elect in 
the event of the death of the Governor-elect. Four of the lead- 
ing features of the amendment were : The abolishment of New- 
port as a capital of the State, raising the pay of members of the 
General Assembly to $5 a day, changing the date of election, 



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and providing a specified quorum for the grand committee, a 
majority of each house. 

Mr. Kimball, in the the last year of his General Assembly 
career, 1899-1900, served on the special legislation committee. 
In the days before the custom of the members voting themselves 
two newspapers was abolished, the Representative from Provi- 
dence refused to avail himself of the privilege, and always 
opposed it. Dr. Garvin of Cumberland and Representative 
Alexander Crumb of Westerly were others who vigorously 
wielded the anti-two-papers-a-dav cudgel. The Governor's last 
appointment was on a joint special committee on transfers. 
This body made no report, and is now dead, expiring with the 
last General Assembly. Thus ended the Hon. Charles Dean 
Kimball's legislative record. 

Just a fact or two about the Governor, outside of the State 
House. He and his wife have a pleasant home on Wood street 
in the 7th ward, and one daughter, Marion, 15 years of age, 
brightens it. He is a hard working man of business, but finds 
time to take an interest in the Kim wood Club, the West Side 
Club, the Providence Central Club, the Unitarian Club, the 
Pomhara Club, Adelphoi Lodge, A F. and A. M., and the Prov- 
dence Royal Arch Chapter, of all of which organizations he is a 
member. 

MEANING OF RATTLESDEN. 

FROM a recent monograph on the origin of the name of the 
town in England from which Richard Kimball emigrated to 
America in 1634, we take the following : 

In the "History," the suggestion made by Hollingsworth in 
his book on Stowmarket, with reference to the origin of the 
name of our villiage, was given with a certain reservation. 

Professor Skeat, of Cambridge, to whom application has 
been made recently as to the probable derivation, says that the 
names of English villiages are of English origin, and he rejects 
Holinswbrth's guess altogether. 

"Den" is a varient of dean or drne^ a vale or valley. 

"Rattles" is probably the genitive case of a man's name, 
but in the absence of information as to the earliest form of the 
word, nothing definite can be determined. 

A known name is Hrethel, and this, cr Raedwulf, might 
give "Rattl," but at present the matters must be left open. 

Rattlesden, then, would signify Rattle's Valley. Mr. Mor- 
rison, it may be remembered, described the town as surrounded 
by hills. 



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Supplemental Notes to Family History. 

JUDGE k. S. tait's link, 

Pag< 235, Family News, Feb. 1899, Russell Smith Taft t X. 
1).. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Vermont. He is 
not m< ntioned in the Kimball Book i Orinda Kimball, Charles 
Kimball and Charles Kimball again, i Just where this line 
connects with Richard's line on the mother's (Orinda's) side 

is n< >\ yet known. 

But taking up the male line, we reach Richard as follows, 

R. S. Taft, (Orinda Kimball 8 , Edith Chase 7 , [married Charles 
Kimball] Henry Chase , Timothy Chase*, Isaac Chase 4 , Mar- 
tha Kimball 8 , Henry Kimball 2 , Richard Kimball 1 .) On the 
I hase sid^ Edith traces two generations back of that of 
Richard Kimball, and one beyond that of Henry Scott and 
Martha Whotlock, parents of Richard's wife Ursula Scott. 
( >n her mother's side she was distant cousin of President 
John Adams, and on her father's side, of Jud<*-e Dudley 
Chase of the Vermont Supreme Court and of Salmon P. 
Chase, Secretary of the Treasury in President Lincoln's 
Cabinet and afterwards Chief Justice of the Supreme Court 
of the United States. 

Charles Kimball born Pomfret, Conn., November, 1763; 
died Feb. 7. 1S40. Married against his parents' will at 
Townsend, Yt., aboui 1785-6, in her sixteenth year, Edith 
Chase, as above, born either in Sutton or Upton, Mass , died 
Aug. 27, 1848 — both dying- at Starksboro. Little is known 
of Charles Kimballs early life. He was indentured to Dea- 
con Dike of Thompson, Conn., until he was twenty-one. He 
was a valuable servant and asked for his freedom which was 
not granted. He must have had an eye to business for at 
eig-hteen he was able to buy fifty-two acres of swampy land 
in Athens, Vt., for thirty-six pounds of depreciated currency, 
(In 1S97 this land was valued at $3500 He remained with 
Deacon Dike three years long-er. After his marriage Mr. 
Kimball settled upon his farm in Athens and remained there 
until after the birth of his first, and perhaps his second 
child, when, prior to Aug-., 1791, he removed to his father- 
in-law's, in Townsend, and remained with him until after 
the summer of 1800. His farm in Athens being* occupied by 
his brothers-in-law Henry Chase, Jr., and Elias Chase, the 
latter purchasing- it October 11, 1795. In 1822 he removed 
to Starksboro, and resided there in the family of his son, 
Horace T., until his death, and his widow Edith remained 
there also until her death ; both are buried in the cemetery 
near by. Taking- into consideration the hardships of his 
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Dike were not pleasant, his acquirements in the rudiments 
of a common school education were above the averag-e. 
Ready with the pen and proficient in numbers, he was often 
a teacher in the district schools, g-enerallv in that of his 
residence, for his own elder children were among- his pupils. 

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Wyman, b. Athens, Nov. l. 1788 ; d. Uerlin. xMich.. 

Apr: J8, L8I 

Rhoda, b. Athens or Townshend, ab, 1700 : d. \Veb- 
Br, N Y\ March 16, L819. 

Hepsibah, b Townshend, Nov. 11, 170:2: d Webster, 
N. Y . Jan. 6, : - - 

Edith, b. Townshend, Sept. 28, 1704; d. Deerfield 
March 1 1. 1882. 

Charles, h 1 >wnshend, Jan. 31, 1797 ; d. Westford 
» October 17, 18 

ORINDA, b Townshend, Jnly 21, 1799 ; d. So. Bur- 
lington, Feb. 12, 1861. 

Henry Chase, t>. Ludlow. Dec. 15, 1301 ; d. Horicou 
\ y. Feb. 15, 1874. 

Judge Taf1 says: " Uncle Harry," as In- whs familiarly called, 
was tin- pet and the 'bachelor" of the family. He was affianced at 
;in early day I >ung lady who withoul n<>ti«-.- to him married an- 

other, an t after th it * □ ■••  • m i ii I any disp >.sitiori to try a 

second venture. H»* inherited from his father the vocation of a 
teacher in the distr tools, and the late AmosC. Spear of liur- 

Lington told me that he attended the school taught by him in Dis- 
trict No. i in Shelbnrne eleven consecutive winters. F<>r several 
v«-ais be was engaged in navigation on the Champaign or Erie canal. 
Ilr was for n long time ;i resident of Starksboro, being 1 a justice of 
the peace. S >me time after the rem »val of his sister. Mrs. Ross, to 
Horicon, he rem >ved there ami rem lined until his death. 

Lucy, b 9 rewsbury, Jan. 23, 1804; d. Hunting-ton 

Jan l"». 1864. 
Horace Torrey, b. Shrewsbury, Dec 28, 1806; d. Hor- 

icon, N. V. Dec. 14. 1899. 
Cordelia, l>. Shrewsbury, Oct, 28, 1808; d. Horicon, 

N. Y. Feb. 19, 18 
Calista, b. Shrewsbury, Apr. 1810; d. Richmond 
Aug. 1813. 

Wyman Kimball [Charles, Charles, Charles, etc.] born 
Athens, Vt., Nov. 1, 1788, died Berlin, Michig-an, April 28, 

I s ' >5 ; married probably in Walling-ford, Conn., in 1809, 

Dolly Jackson, born Fitzwilliam. N. H-, Aug - . 5, 1791 ; died 
Nov. 21, 1865. He was a carpenter; when married lived 
first at Walling-ford ; in 1812, lived for a year or more in 
Richmond. Then returned to Walling-ford where he resided 
until after 1825. After this he lived in Rutland, then in 
Pittsford. In 1830 he and his son-in-law John L. Beebe, 
with what tools they could carry, walked to Michig-an, work- 
ing- at their trade by the way. The family remained in 
Pittsford until the summer of 1831, when, in charg-e of Pliny, 
the e'dest son in his seventeenth vear, thev went by oxteam 

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Whitehall, by canal to Buffalo, by steamboat to Detroit 
and by sailvessel to Black River, now Port Huron. He re- 
sided there and in Bruce, Berlin, Washington, Ray, Arma- 
da, and again in Berlin, where he died. 

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Rhoda A.. l>. WalHnjrford, Sept. i '.. 1810. 

I . .- 1 \- i 1 1 : i . l». R ichmond, Juoe 19, I S 

Pliny D., b Wallitigford, l ».  1814. 

lietsey Fidelia, b. Walling-ford, <><-t i:,. 1816. 

Diaotha, 1>. Walling-ford, Nov. 6, 1818. 

Lawson Alonzo, i>. Wallingford. s «'i»t. It. 1821. 

( "liarlrs W.. I.. Walling-ford, Oct. 16, 1823; d. Wal- 
lingford, Feb. 22, 1 8 

Orinda E., b. Wallingford, Aug. 25, 1825; d. Michi- 
gan, March 20, 1835. 

Darwin !>.. b Rutland, Jan. 19, 18 - 

Franklin Orson, b Pittsford, Sept. 9, 1831. 

Rhoda Kimball (Charles, Charles, etc.) born at Alliens or 
Townshend, Vt. about 1790; died Webster, X. Y. March 16, 
1819 ; married Jan. 1813, Joseph Bates, born 1781 ; died 
Aug. 1, 1821. The\' lived in Williston where he owned a 
saw mill. In 1815 went to that part of Penfield, X. Y., now 
Webster. The family are buried near the lake in Webster. 
His father's name was David, probably died in Vermont. 
His mother went to Penfield with him, died Sept., 1821, ae 
"2 years. After the death of his wife Rhoda, he married 
Lois Savage; left no issue by her. 

CHILDREN. 

Lamira Bates. l>. Williston. Nov. 7. 1813; d. Penfield 

Aug. 16, 1828 
Lousia Bates, b Williston, Jan. 28, 1815 ; d. Penfield, 

Nov 10, 1831. 

Hepsibah Kimball [Charles, Charles, etc.] born Town- 
shend, Vt., Nov. 11, 1792 ; died Webster, N. Y., Jan. 6, 
1868 ; married Sept. 19, 1813, Richmond, Conn. William 
Thornton, born Jan. 4, 1796 ; died Webster, N. Y.. Sept. 
15, 1867. 

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Calista Thornton, b. Richmond. June 27, 1*14. 
Melissa Thornton, b. Richmond, Sept. 26, 1815 ; d. 

Webster. Nov. 26, 1831. 
Melinda Thornton, b Richmond, Sept. 2G, 1815. 
Melona Thornton, b. Webster, Nov. 25, 1 S 1 7 . 
Adeline Thornton, b Webster, Feb. 25, 1820 ; d. 

Rochester. N. Y., Aug-. 16, 1895. 

Edith Kimball [Charles, Charles, etc.] born Townshend, 
Vt., Sept. 28, 1794; died Deerneld, March 11, 1882; mar- 
ried, March 16, 1813, Harry Holister Graves, born Williston, 
Vt. Aug-. 12, 1792, son of Thaddeus Graves. In 1794 was 



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taken by his uncle William to Richmond. In March 1833, 
removed to Michigan where his brother-in-law, Wyman 
Kimball lived. In August 1834, he removed to Osceola, 
Livingston, county, Michigan, then eight miles from the 
nearest neighbor, and thirty from a store or mill, at first liv- 
ing in a tent, cooking by a log fire and sleeping on the 
ground, keeping a fire during the night to keep the wolves 
away. Before winter he had a log cabin, drawing the floor 
for it seventeen miles. The following year he had many 
neighbors, the country was so quickly settled. He lived in 
this and adjoining counties of Lapeer and Macomb, until 
his death in Metamora, in Lapeer count}', Nov. 4, 1864. 

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Orpha Orinda Graves, b. Richmond. Vt., Jan. 21, 

1814; d. Webster, Dei. 30, 1830. 
1 harles Kimball (Graves, b. Webster. Dec. 4. 1815. 
Marv Graves, b. Webster, Nov. 29, 1817. 
William Graves, b Webster, May, 27. 1820. 
Rhoda Graves, b Webster. Oct. 19, 1824. 

Charles Kimball I Charles. Charles, etc.) born Townshend 
Vt., Jan. 31, 17 ( »7 ; d. Westford, Oct. 17, 1879 ; married Oct 
If), 1825, Caroline Stevens daughter of Andrew Stevens of 
Williston, Vt. He was a clothier. 

CHILDREN. 

Almira Wealthy, b. Colchester, July 30, 1826. 

Sarah Florilla, b. Colchester, Sept. 10, 1828 

Wyman, b. Colchester. Nov. 12. 1830. 

Charles, b. Essex. Aug. 10, 1832. 

Andrew Stevens, b. Huntington, Oct. 17, 1836. 

• lane Ann, b. Hinesburg. Dec. 25, 1839. 

Orville H.. b. Hinesburg. Feb. 3, 1842. 

Son. b. Jerico. Sept. 21, 1844 ; d. Oct. J 9. 1844, buried 

in Jerico. 
John Wesley, b Burlington, Dec. 6, 1845; d. Aug. 13, 

1847, buried in williston. 
Louise A., b. E^sex. July 28, 1848 ; d Sept. 9, 1851, 

buried in Williston. 

Orinda Kimball ( Charles, Charles, etc. ) born Townshend 
Vt., Julv 21, 1799; d. South Burlington, Vt. Feb. 12, 1861 ; 
married "Richmond, Vt., Jan. 1, 1822, Elijah Taft, born 
Arlington, March 12, 1796 ; died South Burling-ton, Jan. 5, 
1881. 

CHILDREN. 

Eleazer Taff. b. Oct. 14, 1822. 
William Kimball Taft. b. May 31. 1824. 
Calista Adaline Taft. b. March 7. 182fi. 
Charles Wellman Taft. b. Jan. 19, 1828. 
Antha Orissa Taft. b. Feb. 21. 1830. 
Orpha Orinda Taft, b March 7, 1833. 
Russell Snrth '1 aft. b. Jan. 28, 1835. 
Eva Taft, b. Feb. 3, 1837: d. Feb. 6, 1837. 



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Eliram I t, b March *, 1838 

Lai m.i llepsibah Talt, b. May -i. 1840. 

Lu* . Kimball (Charl . I harl( born Shrewsbuy, 

Vt. Jan. 23, 1804 ; d. Huntington, Fan. 15, l v »>} ; married 

Gideon T. born Uxbridge, Mass. March, 2. 177'.. 

di< «i Nov. 17. Lti II. rem to Huntington prior to 

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mti Taft, b. Feb. 14, 18 
Henry Taft, b Sept. 16, 1820 ; d. young. 
Edith' I: 1 aft, b \|>ril 20, i- 
EienryTaft, b. March 2, 1828; d. Starksboro, Dsc. 31, 

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irdelia Taft, b Sept, 22, 1830 
Calista Taft, b. ipr. 12, 1832. 
Willard s. Taft, b. Oct. 9, 1833. 
Wyram N. Taft, b. June 19, 1835. 
[nfanl Taft, b. June 10. 1836 : d. jronn 

on s. Taft, b. Aug. 13, 1837. 
(triii. la L. Taft, b. May 13, 1839. 
Levi A. Taft, b. March 9, 1841. 
Milo S. Taft. b. Dec 24, 1843. 
Cynthia E. Taft, b July 16, 1845. 
Ann L. Taft, b. Apr. 19, 1848. 

Horace Torrey Kimball [Charles, Charles, etc.] born 
Shrewsbury, Vt., D . 2-. 1806; died Horicon, N. Y. Dec. 
14. 1899 ; married Dec 3, 1829, Jan • Ann Strong, born 
Lebanon, Conn.. July 5, 1805, died Horicon, X. Y. Apr. 8, 
1876. They resided in Starksboro until 1851, then removed 
to Hunting-ton and in 1862 to Horicon. 

CHILDREN. 

Nancy Strong, b. Starksboro, Aug. 24,1837; d. Nov. 

10, 1839, Starksboro. 
Helen Clarissa, b. Starksboro, Feb. 14. 1841. 
Julius Jerome, b. Huntington, Jan. '■'>. 1853. 

Cordelia Kimball [Charles, Charles, etc.] born Shrews- 
bury. Vt., Oct. 17. 1809 ; died Horicon, N. Y., Feb. 19, 1896, 
married April 5, 1840, Linsev Ross, b. Wallingford, Feb. 24, 
1813, died Horicon, N. Y. Sept. 23, 1862- 

CHILDREN. 

Sylvia Ross. b. Starksboro. April 29, 1841. 
Austin A. Ross, b. Hinesbur?b, Oct. 8, 1842. 
CaSftius A. Ross. b. Hinesburgh, Aug 1 . 15, 1844. 
Leonard A Boss, b. liolton, June 19, 1848. 
Amelia Ross, b. Bolton, May 18, 1849. 

Page 660. — No. 2144a. Samuel Choate Kimball* (Samuel* Jere- 
miah Jeremiah' 7 John 4 Caleb 3 Caleb 2 Richard 1 ) born Dunbar - 
ton, N. H., Aug-. 5, 1831, died Denver, Colorado, December 



January 1902. 11 



18, 1899; married Manchester, N. H., December 30, 1849 
Lydia Ferrin of Manchester, born Goffstown, N. H., 
Aug-ust 15, 1829, died August 21, 1853 ; married 2nd Esther 
Ann Taft, born Swanzey, N. H., September 14, 1829. He 
was a carpenter and manufacturer, and lived in the towns 
of Dunbarton, Manchester and Littleton, N. H., in Burling- 
ton, Vt., and in Fort Collins and Denver, Colorado. The 
widow still lives in Denver. 

« HILDBEN. 

i Eugene ("boat 9 bon Manchester, X. H. Oct. 13. 1851. 
ii Clara Ella 9 born Littleton. N. H., June 27, 1853 : 

died Manchester, N. H. July 26, 1873. 
iii Mary Louise* horn Lurling-ton, \t. Oct. 3, 1860; died 

Burlington, Jan. 26, 1862. 
iv Walter Lewis 9 born Burlington, Vt.. June 27, 1863. 
v Florence Esther 9 born Burlington, Vt , Sept. 17, 1865. 

Walter Lewis Kimball 9 (Samuel Choate 8 Samuel 7 Jere- 
miah' 1 Jeremiah" John 4 Caleb 3 Caleb 2 Richard 1 ) born Burling- 
ton, Yt.. June 27J1863 ; married Silverton. Colorado, July 17, 
1899, Georgia Mclvor, born Cape Breton Island, N. S. Nov. 1, 
1873. Lived at Burling' ton, Fort Collins, Denver and now 
at Silverton, Colorado. lie is a hardware clerk. 

CHILD. 

i Edgar Walter 1 " born Silverton. May 23. 1901. 

Florence Esther Kimball' [Samuel Choate 8 Samuel 7 Jere- 
miah 1 ' Jeremiah 5 John 4 Caleb 3 Caleb 2 Richard 1 ] born Burling- 
ton Vt., Sept. 17, 1865 ; married Fort Collins, Col., Oct., 29, 
1891, Ephraim Myers Hendrickson, born Poplar Flat, Lewis 
county, Kentucky, Oct. 2 ( >, 1856. He is a dealer in hard- 
ware. Lived in Burlington, Fort Collins and Denver. 

CHILD. 

i Victor James Hendrickson 10 born Fort Collins. Col. 
Sept. 27. 1892. 

Pagfe 236. --Elizabeth Ham 8 , daughter of John and Mary Moul- 
ton [Kimball] Ham, born Canterburv, X. H., May 9, 1821, 
died Dec. 19, 1869, married Nov. 12, 1840, John Lyford, 
born Dec. 8, 1815, died Dec 9. 1888. 

CHILDREN. 

i Ariana Ham Lyford. born Jan. 20. 1842 : died Mar. 

22, 1845. 
ii Mary Elizabeth Lyford. born July 5, 1844, died Nov. 

1, 1882; m. July 19, 1869, Smith X. Ellsworth of 

Concord. N. H. 
iii Joh Ham Lyford. born Sept. 15, 1846; m. 1st, Nov. 

27, 1887.' Etta Hannah Lyford: m. 2nd. Addie 

C. Dow. of London. N. H. She died Sept 8, 1895; 

4 children, 
iv Abbv Ann Lyford, born July 15. 1848, died Sept. 18, 



1 2 Kimball Pamtlv N. w . 

 

m I >d - 18" i arence W w hitcher, <>f 

\ Ariana Ham Lyford, bora Ocl :.. 1850, died Apr. 18, 

vi Estelle Lyford, born Jan 28, 1853, ; m. C -Jml- 

kins. of BelmoDl . 
vii < lara Kimball Lyford, born July 15, 1855; m. Dec. 
3' . William V Batchelder, of New VorkCitv. 
viii Amanda Flora Lyford, bora Jan. 27, 1858; m. Wil- 
liam Moulton, of Bopkinton, N II. 



PERSONAL. 

Capt. W. \V. Kimball, CJ. S. N., has been ordered t<> the 
command of the gunboat Concord of the Pacific squadron. 

Benjamin A.mes Kimball, President of the Concord & Mont- 
real R. N. of Concord, X. H.. sailed Jan. 4, for Egypt and will 

visit Alexandria, Cairo, and up the Nile to the First Cataract. 

An Eastern paper says: — Col. W. A. Kimball, the well- 
known traveling passenger agent of the Maine Central railroad, 
a Rockland man dropped dead in Boston ; he has not been with 
the Maine Central latterly. 

Mrs. Benj. W. Kimball of Bethel, Me., who for some time 
has been at the Maine General Hospital in Portland for treat- 
ment, is considerably improved in health and has gone to Fram- 
ingham, Mass., to spend a few weeks with Mr. Kimball's sister, 
Mrs. Mabel Bean. [See History p. 978, No. 2238 iv, probably.] 

A Gardiner, Me., dispatch Nov. 21, 1901, says :— Charles 
H. Kimball, aged 48, died yesterday morning at his home on 
Water st. He was born in Gardiner, the son of S. W. and Sarah 
L. Kimball, and had always lived in this city. He is survived 
by a wife, three children, father and one sister. Interment in 
Oak Grove cemetery. 

The Boston Globe says : — The only woman billposter in 
the world is Miss Cora G. Kimball of Philadelphia. No ladder 
is too high for her, and when at work she wears a short skirt, 
high boots, and a felt hat. Her work is giving the fullest satis- 
faction, as she is prompt and reliable, and she is absorbing a 
good share of the business of the place. 

The New England Historical and Genealogical Register of 
Boston speaks of the News as ' l a paper which is the only one of 
its exact kind published in the country,,' and adds, "This is the 
fourth year of the publication of the 'Kimball News,' and it is 
regretable that an enterprise so favorably noticed by genealogi- 
cal authorities should not be properly sustained." 



January 1902. 13 



WHAT "INTS" MEANS. 

VjANY readers of the Family History have noticed the ablre- 
lVl viation "Ints" in connection with marriage dates. It is 
not found in any list given by any dictionary or cyclopaedia 
that we have found. Prof. Sharpies, in answer to a question 
sends the following explanation: 

4 Ints." 'Pub." Both these terms are frequently found 
after dates. They both signify the same. That is that the 
date ol marriage is unknown but that the parties declared their 
intention of marriage at the date given. But did not take the 
trouble to have their marriage recorded. 

Following the old English law requiring the publishment 
of the bans, here in New England it has always been required 
by law that parties intending marriage should procure a license 
from tin- town clerk. He on his part being required to keep a 
record of such intentions. This record in many cases is the 
only information wo have in regard to the name of the wife. 
They were very eareless in those days about returning the 



marriage. 



A KIMBALL HOSPITAL. 

MIE Marion Hospital Company of Marion, Ind., is not onlv 
I a hospital but also a training school for nurses. The build- 
ing is large and well furnished, lighted by electricity with hot 
water radiators in every room. The company officials are Glen 
D. Kimball, M. D. president, Thomas C/Kimball, M. D. treas- 
urer, and Earl A. Kimball, secretary and manager. Abner D. 
Kimball, M. D. of the same family is surgeon at the Soldiers 
Home in Marion. 

These are some of the members of the family frequently 
mentioned of late in the News as among the descendants of 
M >>es and Jemima [Clement] Kimball. (History page 103. ) 
As mentioned in last issue of the News, fragmentary records 
only' lave been given of this branch of the Kimball family which 
is a very large one widely distributed, through many states. 



We have a letter from a Kimball cousin mentioning the 
payment of $5.00 by his father to an agent to help recover an 
estate in England There are no estates in England longing for 
American claimants, — no fortunes in "chancery'' pining_ like a 
heart sick maiden to be captured and carried away. It is all a 
great old swindle. Keep hands away from fire or get burned. 






14 Kimball Family News, 

FRAUDULENT HERALDRY. 

r PIIK Boston Globe January 9, contains the f< »11« >wi n lt - 

The annual meeting of the New England historic-gen< a- 
logical society took place yesterday afternoon. 

Tlir consensus of the various reports of officers .'m<l com mi t- 
*> was that tli«- society was in a prosperous condition, gaining 
in membership ;m<l resource , 

The committee <>n heraldry reiterated its complaint, made 
in several past years, of an alleged inn-. use of fraudulent herald- 
ry. The report stated that not for 100 years past lias there been 
a time when false coats of arms have been so shamelessly dis- 
playi d as at present. 

The committee recommends that all Americans refuse t<> 
displav e<>ats of arms, whether they are descendants <>f famlies 
once entitled to bear them or not, since the republic provides no 
laws to regulate their use, and an indiscriminate indulgence of 
the tad only serves to bring the whole science of heraldry into 
contempt. 

The report suggests some sort of united action by the vari- 
ous genealogical and historical societies to discountenance the 
use of spurious arms, a large proportion of w r hich are found in 
books in the libraries of the genealogical and other libraries. 

The report which aroused the most enthusiatic demonstra- 
tion of the meeting was that of the committee on graveyard 
inscriptions, w T hich reported good progress in the matter of per- 
manently recording such inscriptions in various parts of New 
Krgland. The gravestone records of the Boston cemetery 
department were especially commended for their completeness. 

The urgent necessity for hurrying the work was illustrated 
by a statement that a compilation recently made in a certain 
locality showed that onehalf the stones recorded 16 years ago 
have since dissapeared. 

As such inscriptions often prove the validity of titles, great 
stress was laid upon their utility, and the meeting finally adopt- 
ed a resolution recommending legislation that shall insure a 
systematic prosecution of the compilation of all such records 
throughout New England. 

A notable departure from traditional custom was shown in 
the election of a woman to the council — Miss Helen Frances 
Kimball, a daughter of the late Moses Kimball. 

Among the vicepresidents chosen was Judge Russell Smith 
Taft, L. L. D., of the Vermont Supreme Court, son of Orinda 
Kimball. See Supplementery notes on another page. 



January 1902. i 



ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF EVELYN P. KIMBALL. 

THE November number of the News merely mentioned the 
death of Miss Kimball. Mr. Sumner Kimball, Lovell, Me.' 
sends a Biddeford paper with details. She was born in Lovell' 
Sept. 1, 182^>, and there her early life was spent. The Family 
History page 507 gives her name as Evaline, daughter of Wil- 
liam Kimball. No. 1012. We have here another case showino- 
how much is untold in the History. Of Evelyn's eleven brother's 
and sisters but two are left, Mrs. Caroline Hutchins, Biddeford, 
Me., and Mrs. Lucy Garland, Cohoes. N. Y. 

William", father of the above William, was a soldier in the 
Revolution, and \v;is the father of eleven children, nine of whom 
became heads of families. Sixty-six children were born to these 
parents, but only ten are given as herds of families, although 
over thirty are known to have married. 

Evelyn 1'. Kimball*, died Nov. 13, 1901, from a fall down 
stairs, 'flu.' Biddeford Journal says: — 

It is not known whether Miss Kimball attempted to descend 
the staircase and fell or whether she missed her footing- wmile 
passing near the head of the stairs between two of the upper 
rooms, as she was unconscious until death took place an hour and 
a half after the accident, at 8:30 in the evening-. 

Miss Kimball was stopping- at the home of Dr. Robie Blake, 
of Cornish, and the first any of the family knew of the accident 
was when she screamed as she lost her balance and fell. 

Dr. Blake rushed to the stairs and found Miss Kimball lying 
at the bottom. Everything- possible was done for her, but medi- 
cal skill was unavailing. Miss Kimball was a frail woman and 
at her advanced ag-e the shock of the fall was too great for her 
recovery. 

Miss Kimball struck on her head and shoulders when she 
fell. One collar bone was broken in three places and there was 
a bad contusion over the rig-ht eye. One of the blood vessels 
beneath the rig-ht eye was ruptured. The physicians stated that 
death was caused by the shock due to the blow on the head. 

The news of the sudden death of Miss Kimball came as a 
great shock to her relatives and acquaintances in this city. She 
left here about a month ago to visit the family of Dr. Robie Blake. 

Miss Kimball had a large circle of friends here and by all 
she was esteemed as a woman of high character and uncommon 
personal attributes. She had been for many years a member of 
the Universalist church and took deep interest in its work. 
While here she was a constant attendant and contributed liber- 
ally to its support. Her age was 75 years and 2 months. 



16 Kimball Family News, 



KIMBALL UNION ACADEMY ASSOCIATION. 

1IOSTON lias a Kimball Union Academy Association that 
' holds annual reunions. This school is located in Meriden, 
N. EL, was founded by Daniel Kimball, No. 305, History, pa 
197, and is one of the most notable educational institutions in 
Nevi England. A notice of the last meeting* of the Boston 
Association lias been sent to the News, and although the reunion 
was held April 7. 1901, the story is as good as i t but of yesterday. 

The Boston Kimball Union academy association held its 
fifth annual reunion last evening at Young's hotel. Fion. Sam- 
uel L. Powers, 70, presided. About 75 were present. After a 

collation the company sal in a circle about the room and talked 
about one another in former years and in the present. 

Rev. Dr. K. K. Clark, '69, made a popular speech in which 
lie said many happy, bright and earnest things about the alumni. 

Dr. Clark said there was still a place for such schools as 
Kimball Union academy. It had retained more of the old 
character than many institutions of the kind, especially of the 
religious element. 

There were also speeches by Atty Gen Edwin G. Eastman 
'».'' of New Hampshire, Rev. W. H. Davis 7<> and Charles H. 
Ames '68. W. H. Powers made a memorial address on the late 
Hon. W. H. Hale and the late Charles P. Clark, the well-known 
railroad man. and Alfred S. Hall gave a similar address upon 
the late F. G. Clark of New Hampshire and the late Rev. J. M. 
Dutton. 

Regrets were received from U. S. Senator Burnham '61 of 
New Hampshire, Gov. Jordan of New Hampshire and others. 

Officers were elected as follows : G. W. Bryant, pres., Edwin 
G. Eastman, Hon. W. J. Forsaith, Edwin B. Hale, vice pres., 
Mrs. H. C. Barrows rec. sec, Edwin A. Phelps cor. sec, Charles 
A. Jewell treas. 



A HEAVY LOSS. 

A press dispatch from Newbury, Vermont, of Nov. 5, 1901, 
says : At 7 this evening tire destroyed the barn of Frank E. 
Kimball of Newbury. Eighteen horses, 100 head of cattle, and 
4<> hogs were burned. More than 100 tons of hay, a large quan- 
tity of grain, farming tools and carriages were also destroyed. 
Mr. Kimball's loss will exceed $15,000, partially covered by in- 
surance. The cause of the fire is unknown. (Fam. Hist, page 
942, No. 2124— ii.) 









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912 North Kansas Avenue, 
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Sons oi Vne Rmer icaii Re\ro\\i\Aoxi 

Officers of the National Society. 

President General 

Hon. Walter Beth Logan New York City. 

Vice Presidents General 

Hon James Denton Hancock Franklin, Pa. 

Hon. Tli dinas Pitts Detroit, Mi< 

Hon. Horace I >a\is San FYa ocisco, I 

Hon. John Whitehead Morristown, X. .1. 

Hon. < • A . Pearre Cumberland, Md. 

Secretary General 

pt. Samuel Eberly Gross (KM Masonic Temple, Chicago, 111. 

Treasurer General 

Il<>n. Cornelius Amorv Pugsley, Westchester County National Hank, 
PeckskiU, X. V. 

Registrar General 
A. Howard Clark Smithsonian Institution. Washington, I). C, 

Historian General 
irg-e Williams Bates 32 and 33 Buhl Building, Detroit. Mich. 

Chaplain General 
Rev. Ethel bert D. Warfield. D. D Eastoc, Pa. 

Officers "Kansas Society. 

GU8TAVU8 F. ElMBALI.. President Station A, Topeka 

\\ illiam E. Coxnkllkv. Sec. and Hist Topeka 

Jonathan" Dorr Norton, Treasurer Topeka 

Joseph Lewis Eldridge. Registrar Topeka 

Joseph T. Lovkwei.l. First Vice-Pres Topeka 

John Taylor Blrris. Second Vice-Pres Olathe 

Richard Oliver Elting, Third Vice-Pres Kansada 

Frank Matthew Xelsox. Fourth Vice-Pres. .Burlingame 

< rEORGE Bowers Snyder. Fifth Vice-Pres Hays 

Ellwood Davis Kimball. Sixth Vi~e-Pres Wichita 

A. W. Clark, M. D., Seventh Vice-rres Lawrence 

/flbanacjers. 

George Dennison Hale Topeka 

Avery Washburn Topeka 

Jo hx Brier Topeka 

Nathan Frank Handy Topeka 

Albert D. Washburn Topeka 

Thomas Stewart Lyon Topeka 

Frederick M. Kimball Topeka 

Dr. William Smith Topeka 

S. G. Stewart, M. D Topeka 

Homer Boughtox Topeka 

J. M Meade Topeka 

Daniel R. Anthony Leavenworth 

John E. Junkin Sterling 

S. F. Woolard Wichita 

Edward C. Little Abilene 

All officers are ex-qfficio members of the Board of 
Managers. 




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Topeka, Kansas, February, 1902. 

RANDOM RECORDS, OR KIMBALL FOOTPRINTS. 

|)R()1*. S. P. SHARPLES has sent the News a big batch of 
1 unidentified Kimballs. He writes that he has 250 pages of 
them. They will not be very interesting reading, but they may 
prove to be of great value. 1 where they may 

find welcom It will be well to look these lists over, and re- 
port if any help van be afforded. Prof. Sharpies writes: I 
was \vr\ doubtful about bothering you with this accumulation 
of odds and ends. But in this connection I can only quote you 
from the Psalm of Life, "Footprints that perhaps another see- 
ing shall take heart again." S< me times a lew hints gathered 
at random will untangle a problem that we havelong worked at. 

For instance. I was at Plymouth a few yearsagoand found 
on the old records the statement that Nicholas Webster marri< d 
Content Bishop. This record enabled me to trace Nicholas and 
his brother Stephen fSwn Gl< ucester, Mass. to Pembroke and 
then to Berkley and within a few days to New York state. 
And have given a man a full set of ancestors. He had been 
trying, in connection with his father, to find out for about six- 
ty years to what branch of the Websters he belonged. It is 
only within a week that I have found the last link of proof 
which was where his great grandfather was married. This 
was also in an isolated record in a town where Websters have 
never lived. So for years whenever I have found Kimball or 
Webster records I have made a note thereof. Th.3 enclosed is 
made up from these random records. 

I have almost everything that has been published in this 
country in regard to the Kimballs. These records that I now 
send you are mostly from manuscript sources. The chief of 
these being the records at the state house in Boston and various 
town records in Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire and 



Kimball Family News, 

Vermont. Doubtless various error will be found in them. But 
lx>w are we to correct these errors if people will not write and 
tell us what they are? Any queries as to this list should be di- 
rected to me .'ind not to the News. I will gladly send blanks to 
all asking for them. I ge\ better results when these blanks are 
used. S. P. SH XhM'LKS. 

imballs who have not been identified. These nanus 
have been found on various record . 

Joseph Kimball m. Melissa. Children, Joseph Herbert b. 
Mar. 15, 1854. Frank Ladd b. July 21, 1855. Residence, Boston. 

David Kimball, wife Hannah. Child. John Westley b. 
July 2-'. 1850, Boston. 

* James S. Kimball, b. Hanover, X. H. wife Louisa M. 
Child, James Henry b. Get. 15, 1850, Boston. 

Samuel L. Kimball, m. Sarah Brewster, Dau. Feb. 2b, 1852 
Boston. 

George Kimball, b. New Haven, Conn. m. Ella M. Dau. 
Julia m. Sept. 11, 1872 Edwin Rand. 

Gilman Kimball, wife Catherine, child Ada Maria b. Sept. 

6, 1852, d. Nov. 6, 1852, Boston, Mass. 

Edward Kimball, b. Rowley, Mass. m. Emma A., child 
Ellen Theresa b. July 26, 1852, d. Aug. 28, 1853, Boston, Mass. 

Charles Kimball' m. Margaret CTConnell child Margaret 
E. b. 1852 m. May 15, 1882, John J. Connell. 

William C. Kimball m. Sarah A. Smith b. Mar. 8, 1816. 

Children. 

Annie C. b. Dec. 15, 1855, d. May lf>, 1867. 

Willie S. b. June 8, 1858, d. Aug. 10, 1858. 

Edmund b. Aug. 10, 1859. 

Stiles Kimball m. Susan K. son John B. b. July 27 d. Sept. 

2, 1855. 

Daniel F. Kimball m. Elizabeth, dau. Elizabeth b. July 

7. 1856. 

John Kimball m. Bridget, son John b. Oct. 12, 1858. 

Richard Kimball m. Betsey Coverly of Franklin, N. H. and 
had, Mantin Van Buren Kimball b. Hill, N. H. April 7, 1835 d.* 
Boston, Mass. Jan. 10, 1894, m, May 15, 1856 Elizabeth M. 

Chipman b. d- Jan. 8, 1894. 

Children. 

William b. Oct. 5, 1857, d. Oct. 26, 1857. 

Henry W. b. Nov. 30, 1858, m. July 2'V 1887, Ella F. Miller. 

Edward Rich b. Feb. 28, 1860, d. Aug.^10, 1861. 

Carrie b. Nov. 16, 1866, d. July 17, 1867. 

Arrilla F. b. Nov. 19, 1868, d." Jan. 6, 1870. 

Albert b. Dec. 25, 1870, d. Apr. 15, 1871 



Nellie L. b 



c. 43, lo/u, a. i^pr. id, 15/1. 
Jan. 26, 1876. d. June 2, 1876. 



Januarv 1902. 1«» 



Henry W. Kimball and EllaF. Miller, dau. Edith Henrietta 
b July 19, 1890 

Samuel S. Kimball m Sabina, -on b Oct. 28, 1864, 

Charles Kimball, m Mary, child Mary Elizabeth b Feb. 20, 
1865. 

[saac B. Kimball m Catherine, child Mary Cb 1843, m June 
12, 18 >5, Charles 11. Bieler of Boston. 

Ebenezer Kimball b Ipswich, m Mary J. Ilarring-ton, resided 
in H«»>t<»n ( children ; daughter b May 16, 1867, son b Jan. 23, 
1868, Gertrude b April 12. 1871, d Juno 2'', 1873, Walter b April 
1<>, 1873, d September 7. 1873, daughter b September <», 1876, 
Ebenezer E. b March 28, 1857, Ella C b February 19, 1855, 
Daniel d Noveml »2, Fall River. 

Ebenezer E Kimball b March 28, l v; «. m December 14, 
1882 Margaret E. Sullivan. 

Children. 

Ellen b July 1884, d August 25, 1884. 

Mary 1 < October 3, I 

Edward b ( October 22. 1886, d September 22, 1887. 

Ebenezer b July . ; 

Timothy b November 26, 1891. 

MaryO. Varney Kimball b 1832, m July 3, 1868, Henry 
Fisher. 

William Kimball b Salem, m Elizabeth, ^<>n Joseph <i. S. b 
1837, m Juh 13, I Esther II. Smith, residence. Boston. 

William F. Kimball m Berinda, sou Frank Seaborn b May 
28, 1870. 

Lorenso S. Kimball, b X. S m Annie M. b Eastport, son, 
Eugene Thomas b April 3, 1875, Boston. 

Janus M. Kimball m Elizabeth, daughter Ethel May b Nov. 
22, 1876. 

Henry Kimball m Hattie, son Henrv b Feb. 8, 1879. 

Edward B. Kimball m Emily H. son Robert b May 3, 1880. 

Frank Kimball m Lottie, son Franklin b July 15, 1881, d 
August 13, 18*2. 

Samuel Kimball m Abigail, son Thomas A. Kimball b 1854 
m Deeember 18, 1878, Josephine Mulray b 1859. 

Children. 

I harles W. b October 1881, d April 21, 1882. 

Mary Francis b February 7. 1^- : . 

Thomas Edward b August 1, 1885. 

William J. Kimball m Mary F., son Francis T. b February 
<>, 1869. 

Charles D. Kimball son of John and Maria Kimball, b 1843, 
m September 24, 1866, Carrie Richards b 1^-44. 

Edward Kimball m Lousia S., daughter Annie b June ."<>, 
1873, Boston. 



2<> Kimball Family News, 

Jeremiab Kimball b New Brunswick, m Patience. 

Children 

William A. b 1867 m August 8, 1874, [da M. Bezanson. 

Francis Stevens b Marcb 13, 1883. 

Arthur F. b Holdenville, N. B. 1870, m August 8, 1894 
Etta Josephine Curtis of Boston. 

Edward D. b Kingston, N. B. m L894 Blanche M. Robbins 
i if B( >ston. 

Sanford K. b RLoldenville, N. B. m June 25. 1894 Hattie E. 
Elliot. 

John G. Kimball b Nova Scotia, actor, m Julia J. of Boston. 

Children. 

John Albert b March 12, 1884, d November 14, 1888. 

Ella Agnes b May 17, 1888, 

Henrietta G. b May 1890, d July 13, 1890. 

Frederick W. b May 15, 1892, July d 10, 1892. 

Frank F. Kimball of Brookline m Mary J. child Nathaniel 
Moore b Boston January 18, 1884. 

Henry W. Kimball m Catherine, child Henry b October 1, 
1885, d November 22, 1885. 

Henry F. Kimball m. Alice, child b November 9, 1885. 

Fred Kimball m Annie, daughter Mabel Florence b August 
7. 1886 d August 21, 1887, Boston. 

Betsey A. G. Kimball b 1827, m November 21, 1847, Wil- 
liam G. Lavers b 1824. 

William G. Kimball m March 17, 1884, Huldah George. 

Eliza Kimbi.il b 1831 m January 18, 1850, Robert Greendrod 
b 1831. 

John M. Kimball b 1831 m May 7, 1850 Sarah A. Buroughs 
b 1832. 

Otto Kimball b 1831, m May 29, 1844, Charlotte Devons. 

Sarah A. M Kimball daughter William, m November 29, 
1849, Cyrus W. Bemis. 

Obadiah D. Mayo, b 1830 m July 9, 1851 Henrietta C. Kim- 
ball b 1834, daughter of Hezekiiih. 

Anna M. Kimball m November 26, 1851 Samuel M. Davis. 

Charles H. Kimball b 1833 son of Isaac, m January 1, 1855 
Margaret E. Kiernan b 1836. 

Wvman Kimball b N. H. son of Wyman and Sabrina 
(Blanev; Kimball, m September 30, 1865, Laura Scott. 

Joseph Kimball b Boston, son of Joseph and Sarah Kimball 
m April 9, 1869 Mary E. Williamson. 

Edwin PI. Kimball b Cincinnati, Ohio, son of Abel and 
Sarah Kimball, m January 29, 1870 Marietta H. Speare b 1848. 

Elizabeth P. Kimbalf b 1849 daughter of John R. and Eliza- 
beth A. Kimball, m February 24, 1870 Charles A. Torrey b 1834. 

(to be continued next MONTH. I 



February 1902. 21 



MARRIED. 

At East Bethel, Me.. October 16, 1901, Miss Lillian Kim- 
ball and Roscoe Conklin Clark. The bride is the eldest 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Kimball No. 2233 Family 
History The Norway ofthe25th says the wedding 

reception was a splendid affair, and adds: The many pretty 

and substantial presents laid upon the table bespoke the high 
esteem in which the young people were held in the community. 
This marriage takes away one of Bethel's best and most experi- 
enced school teachers. 

A later paper just received from cousin Sumner (2448) of 

Lovel, who sends us so many Maine items, says of these same 

cousins: The friends of Mr. and Mrs. C. M Kimball of Bethel, 

Me., gave them a great surprise party on the evening of Feb- 
ruary 7. Daughter Hester w;ts in the secret and engineered the 
surprise with great su< 



QUERY. 

Wanted To learn more of the antecedents ol Alphonzo 
Towle Kimball, bom in Stowe, Me* Sept. 7, 1871, son of Joseph 
and Afrida Towle) Kimball and grandson of Moses and Mary 
(Smith Kimball; married June 3, 1900, Mildred Harriet East- 
man. Resides, Kearsarge, N. K. 

Anna Kimball, married Charlestown, X. H. Dec. 3<>, 17'**, 
John Eastman born in Connecticut and died in northwestern 
Ohio. They had children : 1. Apolus, 2. William, 3. Theron, 
married and had children, John, Leonard, Martha, Laura and 
Etta, 4. Levi, married and had children James and Alonzo, 
5. John, 6. Malintha, married Adams: died near Lon- 
don, (). Says her oldest brother was born in Charlestown, when 
the family moved to Ohio, 7. Lucy, married and died in Madi- 
son county, Ohio, 8. Anna, not married and died March 13, 
1895 in Illinois. Who was this Anna Kimball? 

Timothy Kimball, had son Miles, father of Mattie Kimball 
married J. M. Cause, Og-den, L^tah. Who can g-ive more infor- 
mation? 



22 Kimball Family News, 



SOME s< >UTHERN KIMBALLS. 

The News has received the following letter. 

Columbus, Ga., L902. 

Dear Sir: As requested I give you herewith as much 

of my f.'imilv history as I now have from my father: Possibly 

his letter puts it as well as I can and I copy it herewith, viz? 

My great grandfather was David, lived in Virginia and 
moved to N. Carolina: married I think) Miss Bell: raised ,-i 
large family and I recalled seeing most of them but do not re- 
member tlu-ir order or whether there were any girls. 

The boys names were Gideon, Ransom, Robert, Christopher 
David, and I think one was named Samuel. I did not see him or 
Gideon but saw the others when I was quite small, and Benja- 
min was my grandfather: He had only two sons and three 
daughters. My father was born in N. Carolina and was named 
William. His brother was John and married Miss McKnchin 
word not plainly written) and they raised a large family of 
children: two of the boys were named Randolph and Mivabo,my 
uncle John moved to Louisiana about 1847-8 or 9 and after- 
wards my father moved there and my two brothers "Ben'j. 
Franklin" and k4 George WhitfieLd". 

My mother was Mary Hinton and her mother was Rachael 
Hightown. 

My father was born in 1805 in N. C 

My grandfather married in N. C. a Miss Cokely, I think, 
she had a brother w r ho moved in 1852-3 to Corrall Co. Georgia. 

My aunts were Francis (married Isaac Haud, raised a large 
family;, "Nancy" f married A. C. Farrel, an Englishman and 
school teacher) and Mary who was called also Policy married 
James Moore. 

They all raised large families but my aunt Mary died before 
I left Georgia and moved to Florida. 

There was a 7 year law 7 suit between my father, uncle John 
and my grand father and the three sons-in-law 7 of grandfather on 
the other side over negro property which was entailed on my 
grandmother and her heirs which severed friendship between 
us and the sons-in-law of grandfather. 

My uncle Christopher had 10 children, Wm. being the old- 
est son and he lives near McDonough Ga. Nearly all the boys 
died or were killed in the war. The girls were MarthaCmarried 
Thesby Crone) Mary, (married Robert Chappell ) and Francis 
'married Archibald Brown who lives at Locust Grove, Georgia 
where I was raised. ) and one married a man named Sullivan of 
whom I know but little. He was a N. C man & I think a clever 
fellow. 

I think my uncle Christopher's youngest son was named 
John. 



February 1902. 23 



My father had several cousins, my grandfather's brothers 
children but I do not know which of his brothers they were, 
one was named John T. and one James who were Baptist 
Preachers and lived in Butts Co. Ga. 

They were considered g"Ood, men and line preachers. 
I learned that one cousin of my father was named Blauton 
and lived at Greenville, Alabama and one was named Joseph and 
one Samuel; one I have forgotten the name of. 

Mv father once corresponded with one of our kin in Alaba- 
ma tiamed Edmond Kimbell. 

I know all the brothers of my grand father were honest and 
hard wording men fond of their dram but I do not think they 
ever got drunk. 

Mv mother Hinton had a good many sisters one of 
whom married my uncle Robert Kimbell and they raised a large 
family: One marri d Mr. Camer >n, one a Adams and one a Free- 
man of Conet r County? Ga. and one married Mr. Beuety of Ala- 
bama. Cameron was of Chattorga County, Ga. Your Father 

Whitman Hill Kimbkll. 
( )\ Greenwood Florida since 1855 about. I 
The copy is not literal but substantial. My father is now 
7<> years old and writer well for one of his age. He married my 
mother Elizabeth Johnson near Griffin, Spalding County Georgia 
and their children were as follows: 
Mollie, died before marria. 
Masfsrie Elizabeth, unmarried. 
William Thomas. 

Fannie, married R. C. Long of Greenwood, Fla. 
Benjamin Bascom, of Oakwood, Texas 
Sarah E.. unmarried. 
James Bartow, Columbus, Ga. 

George Hinton, married J. E. Going Columbus, Ga 
Florence Hill, married Samuel Kay of Columbus, Miss- 
M3 father married the second time a widow, Mrs Georgia 
Applewhite of Greenwood, Fla and had the lollowing children 
by her, viz: Stonewall Jackson, John Franklin, Robert and 
Susie. 

All the children are living- save the first who died of Ty- 
phoid fever after being grown. 

I may be able to g-ather more information later from Win, 
L- Kimbell of McDonough, Ga., now an old man and if so I will 
communicate it to you. 

I have a wife whom I had the good fortune to marry in 
Topeka Kansas, in Oct. 1898. She was on a visit there to her 
cousins, the Drs. Auton and Clement Smith. Her name was Ab- 
bie Jostphine Fraser of Pekin, 111. We have one son James 
Fraser Kimbell. Yours J. B. Kimbell. 



Kimball Pamih N ws, 



DR. KIMBALL BUI S A FARM. 

Dr. T. C. Kimball and son, Earl A. Kimball, have purchas- 
ed a farm of J. L. Barley, two miles north of this city on the 
Marion and Largo road, and will start ;i modern stock and poul- 
try farm. Mr. and Mrs. Earl A. Kimball will reside on the 
faim. They will move t" their new home March 4. 

The place is beautifully situated on high ground overlook- 
ing the Mississinewa river and tin- city of Marion and will make 
a charming suburban hom< . The tract includes sixty-five acres 
<>f land «>n which is situated a dwelling containing seven rooms. 
It is the intention of Kimball and Son to raise poultry by tin- 
use of incubator-.. ;i number of which have been ordered and 
will be here in a short time. — Marion fad., Gazette. 



A SUGGESTION 

Sarah Louise Kimball of San Franci-co writes: 
"Roy T. Kimball wants to know how he can help the News 
otherwise than by liberal contributions. I suggest you ask for 
a write up of his tanneries, the building- up of which has been 
chiefly due to his ability and untiring energy. He i^ Lfoing to 
put in a new engioe soon and yesterday we went with Mr. Mor- 
rin (Engineer of the Mills Bldg. ) through the engine rooms of 
this building — a wonderful place. Mr. Morrin fasted 40 days 
recently and looks like a new man — at least 20 years younger."' 
This is a gojd sujge;ti on It has often been siid that the 
Kimballs have not been prominent in poitics, and this is to their 
credit too. Eut they have been prominent in the industrial life 
of the country and are so yet. It would be interesting to know 
more of the details nf the various manufacturing industries now 
building up and supporting the material interests of the nation. 



On September 11, 1001, Asa M. Kimball of Rock Village 
Haverhill. Mass., was seriously wounded by a bull, which tossed 
him high in the air with terrific force, throwing the body 
agaist the rafters of the barn. His injuries w T ere considered 
verv serious. 



February 1902. 25 



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DEATH OF A VETERAN. 

James Kimball of Norwich. Conn., a veteran of the Civil 
AVar, died suddenly recently. He was born in Led yard on 
March 7. 1836, and had lived in Norwich the last forty-five 
years. When the Civil War broke out he enlisted in the Twen- 
ty-sixth C. V., as a nine-months' man and served one year. He 
took part in the battle of Port Hudson, where he was wounded. 
He was a member of Sedgrwick Post, No. 1, G- A. R., and Som- 
erset Lodge, No, 34 F. and A. M. He is survived by his wife, 
an only son, Janus A. Kimball of Norwich, two brothers, 
John Kimball, a twin brother, of Norwich, and Erastus Kimball 
of Preston and two sisters, Mrs. John Babcock of Uncasyille 
and Mrs. Fred Chittenden of New London. 



George W. Kimball is postmaster at Yershirc Yt. 

David P. Kimball contribute- 00. to the Harvard Medi- 

cal School fund of over J 750,000 necessary to secure the Rocka- 
feller gift of one million. Altogether it makes available anoth- 
er million by J. P. Morgan. 

The NEWS for 1900 and 1901 will soon be ready in bound 
form. The price will be the same as for the volume containing- 
the numbers for IS >8 and 1899 or S 1.60 postpaid. Of the new 
volume the supply will be very limited, only sixty copies being- 
left for binding". 

Royal James Kimball, died in New London Conn. Feb. 13, 
1902, aged 79 years and nine months after a week's illness. He 
was the oldest Free Mason in Connecticut, holding- the Masonic 
veteran association's medal. He was twice married but left no 
children. Family History p. 501. 

Eugene C. Kimball of Fremont N. H. has taken to himself 
a partner, Miss Francena Sanborn Carter of the same place. 
But they went down to Medford Mass. and were married in the 
Congregational parsonage and had a reception at the home of 
the bridesmaid, Miss Carrie E. Worlev. He is omitted from 
the history but the News would like to hear from him. 



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Kimball Pamili News, 



SUBMARINE B< >.\TS. 

I ommander Kimball, United States Navy, an expert <>f 
original and independent mind, discusses the value of submarine 
boats in the latest Proceedings ol the Naval Institul He 
reaches the conclusion that the type is demanded by vital con- 
ditions of coast protection. His arguments deserve intelligent 
consideration, as, unlike submarine visionaries, he assigns the 
boats their proper place as instruments of offensive defence, 
and denies that they arc substitutes for battle ships, the primary 
a pons of sea war. 

The chief tactical value of submarines rests, he urges, upon 
their undoubted power to keep hostile fleets at least tewnty 
miles from a defended point. This, he reasons, makes bom- 
bardments impossible and so extends the blockaded line a-^ to 
leave wide intervals for the escape of contained vessels and for 
the passage of merchant craft. 

He doubts their usefulness in other probabilities of war, 
because their speed is slow, their range is limited and their in- 
vulnerability due to submersion is sure to be sacrificed when 
they emerge, as they must, to correct a line of approach. 
Their strategic value depends upon the limitations they set to 
an enemy seeking to attack in the absence of the home fleet, 
upon their ability to strike, day or night, and upon the numbers 
that at small cost can be provided for great stretches of coast. 

Commander Kimball quotes foreign practices in confirmation 
of his beliefs. He emphasizes particularly the dictum of a 
high naval authority in England, who declares that submarines 
will be of incalculable benefit to the United States, as they ren- 
der the littoral practically secure against attack by any country 
excepting such as have naval bases within easy striking dis- 
tance. Altogether this presentation of the case is the strong- 
est, the calmest and the fairest yet made on our side of the 
water. — N. Y. Herald. 



Mrs. Frank Kimball of North Main street Natick, Mass., 
has a cat which is winning many prizes at various exhibitions. 
She has won this season two silver cups, three silver medals and 
six first prizes. 



When in St. Louis recently the editor called at the office/of 
Major Thomas Dudley Kimball and found that he was in north- 
ern Kansas. He lives in Kirkwood, but has an office in St. 
Louis as General Agent of the New York Life Insurance 
Company. 



February 1902. 27 



CORRECTION. 

The first paragraph on page 33 of the History is entirely 
wrong-. In the old families of Salisbury and Amesbury atten- 
tion is called to the fact that Elizabeth Severance, if that was 
her name, died the same day she was born. The Historian of 
the Severance family re-vived her and made her marry Samuel 
Eastman. But Samuel Eastman married Elizabeth Scriven 
daughter of John Scriven Dover N. H. Further, Abigail East- 
man was not the daughter of Thomas and Abig-ail (French) 
Eastman but was the daughter of Roger Eastman and Jerusha 
Fitts. The above error was caused by following published rec- 
ords which I supposed to be correct bu f further investigations 
have shone were wrong. 

P. SHARPLES. 



The Chicago Tribune, giving a half tone illustration says : 

A large bronze statue of the Indian maiden Weenonah, on 
exhibition at the Art Institute, is the work of a Chicago artist, 
I .abelle Moore Kimball. The statue will be the principal figure 
in the decoration of a fountain to be placed in Central Park at 
Winona, Minn. The Indian mniden, to whom Winona is in- 
debted for a name, plays a part in the Indian legends of the 
Northwest. She was the daughter of a chief, and threw herself 
into the lake because of disapointment in love. Isabelle Moore 
Kimball is a teacher of sculpture at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, 
but much of her work has been done in Chicago. The News 
adds that she is the daughter of D. W. Kimball of Mclntin , 
Iowa, and a niece of W. W. Kimball the Kimball Piano maker. 



John Milton Kimball who has been two years in California 
has returned to the home of his father, John Melville Kimball, 
of Manhattan, Kansas. 

Dr. Glen D. Kimball of Marion, Ind., has been nominated 
for the legislature from Grant county, and as a nomination is 
equivalent to an election in that district, he is sure to get there. 

Munsell & Sons, Albany, N. Y. who deal in genealogical 
books advertise the Kimball History for S7.00. A cousin writes 
that she found a curio store, offering it in Boston for S7.50. 
The publishers price is $6.00 but there are only a few copies on 
hand. The price is sure to advance. 



28 Kimball Kamih News, 



THE LATE M)W\ 11 KIMBALL. 

A REGENT number of the News asked for more particulars 
regarding* the death of the Hon. John Hazeti Kimball, who 
died suddenly September 26, 1901, at the residence of his son, 
Dr. Samuel Kimball of Boston. A writer from his home, Bath, 
Me., in the Boston Globe^ says : — 

Mr. Kimball was born in Concord, N. II. July 14, 1823, and 
educated at Concord, Fryeburg and Phillips Andover academies. 

In 1843 he went south and taught school in Maryland for 
twoyeai Returning north, he studied law with Judge Samuel 
Wells of Portland, and was admitted to the Cumberland bar in 
December 1846. In 1848 he removed toTopsham, and in August 
\^Y) came to Bath. 

For a few years he practiced law and then became engaged 
in the insurance business and navigation. He built a fleet of 
vessels, including the ships John H. Kimball and Eclipse and 
the bark C. O. Whitmore. He was a director in the Androscog- 
gin and Central Vermont railroad and a large owner of land and 
cattle in the west. He was the first treasurer of the Bath sav- 
ings institution, which office he held for 25 years, was presiden- 
tial elector in 1872, representative in the state legislature in 
1878-79, and senator from 1883 to 1887. 

In religion lie was a Cong-reg-ationalist and was a member 
of the Central Church. He served two years in the board of 
aldermen and was on the board of assessors several years. 

In November 1851 he married Annie Humphrey of Bruns- 
wick. His second wife is a daughter of the late Dr. S. F. Dike 
of this city. He is survived by a w T ife and live sons, Edward H. 
and Fred H. of the firm of Kimball Bros of this city, Dr. Samuel, 
John M. of Boston, and Harry W., who is superintendent of a 
cotton mill in Atlanta, Ga. 



Richard Kimball, son of Richard Burleigh Kimball the au- 
thor, writes from Meridian, Texas, making the following 
suggestion : — 

I w T ould be glad to have a new corrected edition of the Fam- 
ily History brought down to the beginning of the present cen- 
tury and then, as the family seems prolific, perhaps it might be 
well to continue the record separately for the descendants of eacy 
of the sons of the original Richard. 

Prof. Sharpies is now spending a season in Florida. 



January 1002. 2 ( > 



DIED. 

Mrs. L. F. Kimball, wife of Georg-e F.Kimball, 3341 Michi- 
gan avenue, died unexpectedly at the family residence yester- 
day morning at 5 o'clock of peritonitis She has been ill only 
a few days. Mrs. Kimball was a native of New Hampshire and 
came to Chicago with her parents at an early age. Her maiden 
name was Lydia Frances Rust. She Nvas married to Mr. Kim- 
ball in 1875. Her husband and a son. Weston C. Kimball, sur- 
vive her.— Chicago Record, Jan. 2<>. 1902. 

A Hanover, Me. New- item of Dec. 2<>, vol, ^avs : 
Our community was shocked, last week, by the sudden 
death of Adams Kimball, one of of our leading citizens. He 
contracted a sudden cold which developed into pneumonia and 
he lived only a tew da; Since his wife's death, a few years 

ago, Mr. Kimball has lived with his son John, whose estimable 
wife has done everything lor his comfort that an own daughter 
could do. History page 241, No. 403 iii 

In Simsbury, Conn., October 2 K of heart paralysis, follow- 
ing diphtheria, Kenneth W. Humphrey, son of Arthur E. and 
Nellie C.Humphrey, age 1 <> year-, 1 month and 12 days. A local 
paper says his death was a great surprise to the community, as 
he had been -reported as improving - . He was an exceptionally 
bright little fellow. Although but 6 years old, one would 
judge him to be nearer 15. He was a busy child, and delighted 
to help in the care of the horses, cows, and everything- about 
the place ; could readily distinguish one head of stock from 
another, and could give the g-ood points of a horse or cow in a 
manner that was both accurate and amusing-. He took great 
comfort being with his grandfather, J. C. E. Humphrey, and 
saved him a great many steps during- his busy hours. In fact 
Kenneth was the stand-by for them all, and should a farm im- 
plement be mislaid he was the one to find it. He was also a 
bright little scholar and a favorite in the school, as his even 
disposition was sure to win friends. His death is a heavy blow 
to his parents and relations, as well as the community. — Fam- 
ily History page 1023. 






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GE< >RGIA'S PATRK ►TIC WEEK. 

A SERIES "i unusually interesting patriotic events made 
notable the last week in November, 1901, in Augusta, Ga. 
Indeed, it is doubtful it' anything ol like character any where 
in the country, during the year excelled this manifestation of 
patriotic and historic interest. 

Tli- G orgi a Society of Colonial Dames had worked long 
and persistently to raise means toerect a monument to commem- 
orate the site of old Fort Augusta built by order of grand old 

neral < Oglethorpe whose memory the whole country in common 
with the state of < rgia, cherishes ;md honors. During the 
Revolution the fort was taken by the British and named Fori 

rnwallis. During the war it was taken and retaken thn 
separate times. The late Spanish war aroused a new interest 
in the preservation of this historic spot and money was freely 
eriven. The monument is a handsome Celtic cross fifteen feet 
hififh, and stands almost under the shadow of St. Pauls Episco- 
pal church, which was built originally close by the fort. At the 
dedication there were several addresses of rare historic interest. 




Chateau Le Vert today. 
Another event of the week was the State Convention of the 
Georgia Daughters ot the Revolution, under whose auspices was 
the opening- of the Meadow Garden property and the turiing it 
over to the National Society D. A. R. The Augusta papers de- 
clared this to be the most important event of the week. Meadow 
Garden was the home of Governor George Walton, one of the 
signers of the Declaration of Independence. It is a historic spot 
of the south. Here lived his talented daughter Octavia, after- 



January 1902. 



31 



wards Madame Le Vert, a notable southern beauty, wit, traveler, 
writer, and perhaps it may be said political diplomat. Near by 
was her later residence. Chateau Le Vert, which was the scene 
of another event of the week, and here is the grave of this 
charming- woman, an actual daughter of the Revolution marked 
by a fitting monument. 








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Antique Bed Room in Chateau Le Vert. 

The closing event of this exciting week was the reception 
given the Colonial Dames and the D. A. R. at the Chateau Le 
Vert, now the property of Col. Daniel Burns Dyer, the Presi- 
dent of the Augusta Electric Railway. Col. Dyer is himse'f 
deeply interested in every movement of this kind. He has a 
large collection of antique and revolutionary relics, and probably 
the largest Indian collection in the United States, owned by a 




Fireplace in Chateau Le Vert, 
private individual. The >ld colonial residence he has improved 



; - Kiml>;ill Family News, 



and repaired, retaining all its old historic associations. The 
eption to th( se patriotic so< ieties, was the social event of the 
ek, and Augusta papers were lavish in their details of the 

affair. The News is indebted to Col . Dyer forthe illustrations 

shown herewith. 

[NTERESTING HISTORICAL DATA. 

Mr. Sumner Kimball of Lrovell, M •.. has placed the News 
under heavy obligations by sending two pamphlets of great in- 
terest, "The Fryeburg Webster Centennial" and the "Fryeburg 
Webster Memorial." Soon after graduating from Dartmouth 
. Daniel Webster became principal of Fryeburg, Me., 
academy. That was just one hundred years ago the first of 
January, when he was eighteen days less than twenty years 
old. The Centennial proceedings were intensely interesting. 
Several letters never before published were read. Sometime 
ago a Fourth of July oration delivered by Webster in 1S< )2, sup- 
posed to be lost, was discovered with these letters, they having 
been rescued from a lire years ago. It is interesting to note 
that the peroration to this address is precisely the same as 
closed his last address in the United States Senate fifty years 
later. 

Then the Ipswich, Mass. Historical Society send proceed- 
ings of their late annual meeting, Dec. 2, 1901, much of which 
relates to Colonial and Revolutionary times. The growing in- 
terest felt in the gathering and preserving of these old historic 
facts and incidents in the east may well be cultivated in the 
newer parts of the countrv. 

The News has also another interesting document, relating 
to the battle of Bennington. This battle, as is well known, 
was the real turning point in the Revolution, although this is 
usually and very properly said to be the battle of /Saratoga, 
where Burgoyne surrendered. But it was the result at Benning- 
ton that made the victory at Saratoga possible. The diary of 
Captain Peter Kimball of Boscawen, N. H., has long been con- 
sidered high authority in reference to the battle of Bennington 
and is carefully kept in the archives at Concord. A copy of 
this Diary has been furnished the News and it will be given in 
a future number. 






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VOL. V. /NO. 3. 

A\/\RCh 1902. 





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Published by 

G. F. KIMBALL, 

912 North Kansas Avenue, 
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Sons ol \,Yie Rmericaxi Re\ro\\A\AOii 

Officers of the National Society. 

President General 

II. .1,. Walter Seth Logan New York City. 

Vice Presidents General 

Hon James Denton Hancock Franklin. Pa. 

Hon. Thotnas Pitta Detroit, Midi. 

Hon. Horace Davis San Francisco, Cal. 

Hon. John Whitehead Morristown, N. •' 

Hon. G A. Pearre Cumberland, Md. 

Secretary General 

Capt. Samuel Eberly Gross 604 Masonic Temple, Chicago, 111. 

Treasurer General 
Hon. Cornelius Amorv Pugsley, Westchester County National Bank, 
Peckskill, N. V. 

Registrar General 

A Howard Clark Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. 

Historian General 

-• Williams Hates 32 and 33 Buhl Building, Detroit, Mich. 

Chaplain General 
Rev. Ethelbert 1). Warfield, I). 1) Eiiston, Pa. 

Officers Ikansas Society. 

GUSTAVUS V. KlMBALL. President Station A. Topeka 

\\ ieeiam E. Connellky, Sec. and Hist Topeka 

Jonathan D«»BB NOBTON, Treasurer Topeka 

Joseph Lewis Eldbidge, Registrar Topeka 

Joseph T. Loveweee. First Yice-Pres Topeka 

John Taylob BubBis, Second V 7 ice-Pres Olathe 

Richard Oliveb Eeting, Third Vice-Pres Kansada 

Frank Matthew NELSON, Fourth Yice-Pres.. Rurlingame 

Geobge Bowers Sn vdkr. Fifth Vice-Pres Hays 

Erewood Davis Kimball, Sixth Yi-e-Pres Wichita 

A. W. Clark, M. I).. Seventh Vice-Fres Lawrence 

< rEOBGE Dennison Haee Topeka 

Aveev Washburn Topeka 

Jo en Bbieb Topeka 

Nathan Frank Handy Topeka 

Albebt D. Washbubn Topeka 

Thomas Stewart Lyon Topeka 

Frederick M. Kimball Topeka 

Dr. William Smith Topeka 

S. G. Stewart. M. D Topeka 

Homer Boughton Topeka 

J. M. Meade Topeka 

Daniel R. Anthony Leavenworth 

John E. Junkin Sterling 

S. F. Wooeard Wichita 

Edward C. Littee Abilene 

All officers are ex-qjfficio members of the Board of 
Managers. 



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Topeka, Kansas, March, ?902. 




MRS. ALBERT KIMBALL. 

Died in Lovell Me. March 2nd 19 2 Mrs. Caroline Carleton 

(Barnard) Kimball wife of Albert Kimball . [See K. F. Hist. 
pp. 1039. No. 2446. She was the 7th child of Nathan Barnard 
b. July 23. 17% in Harvard Mass. and Eliza Munroe b. Dec. 13, 
1802 in Waterford Me.] 

Mrs. Kimball was born Nov. 27. 1836in Bridg-ton Me. With 
the exception of a few years her married life had been passed in 
Lovell. Her last sickness was. short being" confined to her bed 
scarcely one week's time. During her illness she was very pa- 
tient although being- aware she might be called at any moment 
through heart failure 

Mrs. Kimball's life had been such as to win the respect and 
friendship of a large circle of her townspeople. She leaves a 
husband and two children I both married Mrs. Arthur G. 
Knight of Dorchester Mass. and John B. Kimball 2nd who with 



34 Kimball Familv News, 



his wife reside on the home place. Also two sisters, Mrs. Hen- 
rv F. Dresser of Lrovell Me. and Mrs. Ann Maria Maxfield now 
in Ki verside California! 

The funeral services were held at her late residence in No. 4 
Lovell "ii Tuesday March 4th, 1902. Rev. D. K. Burntaam, pas- 
tor of the Cong*. Church officiating*. A large gathering of rela- 
tives and friends were in attendance. A true wife and affection- 
ate mother has been called from our midst. 

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IN BEHALF OF THE CAT. 

A Boston paper reports this: 

A.S sp >nsor for the bill before the Massachussett legislature 
to require the licensing 1 of cats, Representative Moody Kimball 
of Newburyport finds himself locally famous. 

But Mr. Kimball is satisfied that the proposition is a good 
one. He seriously believes, notwithstanding - the gibes of the 
flippant, that the bill is in the interest of public health nnd is 
also a thoroughly humanitarian measure, and while he does not 
make the claim that the idea originated with himself, he is very 
glad of the opportunity to stand back of the proposition. 

The petition which accompanies the bill contains some 75 
signers, most of whom live in Haverhill or Groveland, the latter 
place being the home of the woman with whom the idea orig- 
inated. 

This was Mrs. George W. Rodigrass, who is neither a fan- 
cier of cats nor against the breed, and she received her inspira- 
tion from Helen M. Winslow's book on "The Cat." That is the 
reason that Helen M. Winslow, author and club woman, appears 
as chief petitioner in the list. 

Mrs. Rodigrass came to the conclusion that the state ought 
to protect cats, and she asked Mr. Kimball to introduce the pet- 
ition an:l bill that all cats shall oe licensed. 

Mrs. Rodigrass found many whe ageed with her that there 
were altogether too many unkempt, uncared foi and starving 
cats in almost every community in the state, and the signers of 
the petition agreed also that some way should be provided to le- 
gally put out of the way the abandonded cats which infest every 
neighborhood of any considerable size. 

Latterly it has also been demonstrated that cats carry infec- 
tious diseases, and Mr. Kimball says that in some of the states 
the authorities have been killing off stray felines on that ac- 
count. 

The bill is a long one. It contains eight sections, and has 
been referred to the commitee on probate and chancery. 



March I'M):. 35 



INTERESTING ALL-ROUND LETTER. 

The following- is a variety letter, interesting- in several 
ways. In reference to previous articles in the News, mentioned 
herein, probably some of the errors pointed out may be our own. 
However we are unable now to recall any authoritv for state 
ments made. As to the varied spelling used bv the Ames fam- 
ily Prof. Sharpies gave certain facts in a previous number. 

It is well to know that anv one has a right to spell his name 
as he choon's and this right should 1 e respected. Members of 
the same family mav do this. This right was recognized by the 
English courts as long-ago as 1714 and has not been changed 
since, neither in England nor America. 

To the Editor of the Kimball News: 

Last summer we rented our sea-side cottage for four months. 
We were there six w< eks before vacating it June 1st. In July 
we went up to Cape Breton where we spent seven happy and 

contented week's in Baddeck on the shores of the beautiful 
Bras d' Or. 

We came home in a round about way, going from there 
through the Northumberland Straits, the whole length of the 
St. Lawrence by water to Toronto, stopping at Quebec and tak- 
ing 1 in the Saguenay River, also sto] ping at Montreal and To- 
ronto then across Ontario to Lewiston and then Buffalo and the 
World's Fair, not forgetting Niagara Falls. It was a most de- 
lightful trip long to be enjoved in memory. We again had six 
weeks in our cottage returning- to Boston for the winter Novem- 
ber 15th. 

I have not very much in the wav of news to you. The wid- 
ow of my oldest uncle Jacob Kimball Fam. Hist, pp.558 died 
last April lacking only two days of reaching- the venerable age 
of ninety-one. As I was away all summer" I did not rend so 
carefully as usual the summer number of the "news" I was 
therefore quite surprised to read Mrs. Kendall's letter, and your 
note added thereto. Of course I immediatelv referred to the 
previous number and was much surprised to find it incorrect in 
almost every particular. In the first my husband, as Mrs. Ker- 
dall asserts is not dead. In the second place, mv mother was 
Ann Ames, and not Eames; but her mother, my grandmother 
was Joanna Eames, and married mv grandfather Deacon Ezra 
C. Ames. It was his grandfather Benjamin Ames, w^hq fought 
at Bunker Hill. I should be 'erv much pleased to know who 
furnished you with the item on page 2 ( )4 of the NEWS of 1901. 
Also you say in your note on page 359 of the news that the cor- 



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rection of Ames to Barnes was made by one of the family. I 
may have written you thatmy little daughter's name was put in 
incorrectly as it is given in the History page v, -2 ;is Joanna 
Ames whereas she was named for her great grand mother Joanna 
Games as well as her aunt Joanna Games Kimball, my Bister', 
whose name is also put in the History as Joanna Ames which is 
als.» incorrect. But my mother's name was Anna Ames. The 
complication comes from my grandmother being an Barnes and 
marrying an Ames. My mother's name and ancestry is L, r i' 
corre< tly on page 560 oi the I [istory, but the middle name of my 
sister and my child should be Eam< I wrote it so to Mr. Shar- 
])1< s. but probably h or tin- printer thought that I had made a 
mistaki and spelled the name either way indiscriminately 
whereas we arc obliged under the circumstances t<» be very par- 
ticular about the putting oil' or on of tin- letter "E". There is 
<>in- tiling- in which I am much interested, and sometime I hope 
b ( - able to trace it out. My mother's grandfather and great 
grandfather were named Benjamin Aims. Now among- our 
Kimball cousins there is belonging in Concord N. H. one of the 
name of Benjamin Ames Kimball. I am anxious to find ou f if 
he is in any way connected with my mother's ancestors. It 
seems a queer coincidence. I saw Mrs. Kendall at the Bradford 
Academy Club last Saturday. She is a charming lady, eighty 
years young as Oliver Wendell Homes Slid of Mrs. Julia Ward 
Howe. I have been trying to persuade her to write the Nkws a 
letter and if she does you may be sure it will be not only very 
interesting but reliable. 

Very sincerely yours 

Ella F. K. Johnson. 

167 Newbury St., Boston Mass., March 11th, 1902. 



George A. Kimball is treasurer of Lovell, Me. 

D. W. Kimball, father of the Chicago Sculptor of whom 
mention was made in last number, has removed from Mclntire, 
Iowa to Riceville. 

A. S. Kimball was elected moderator of the Norway, Me. 
town meeting- without contest and Frank Kimball was elected a 
member of the School Board. 

Merton L. Kimball of Norway, Me. passed successfully 
through a siege of appendicitis. He is a son of Hon. Alfred S. 
Kimball. (News for 1898 pp. 112.) 



March 1902. 37 



DEATHS. 



NKWTON A. KIMBALL. 



At Danville 111. Feb. 7, 1902 the boyhood companion of the 
editor of the Family New-. He was the firs' 1 : of the three broth- 
ers, only children of their parents, to pass away. In 1869 he 
married Isabella ' Cassidy Slavens the widowed mother of a 
young- daughter, Rodney, now Mrs. Will Da}- and became the 
only father sin- ever knew. A son was born that died 
in infancy and later a daughter Lillian. In childhood and in 
womanhood the father's love and devotion went out to the two 
daughters alike and was alike returned. Thev were all present 
at the end. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church and 
of the Odd Fellowswho held special services at receiving vault. 
The four Danville daili< s gave extensive mention of his life and 
(hath and the following extract is made from that of the Demo- 
crat. 

Newton A. Kimball, the veteran undertaker and funeral di- 
rector, died very suddenlv last evening about 3 o'clock at the 

family residence, 330 North Gilbert street. He was in his usual 
good health two hours before the end came, and while it was 
known that he was a sufferer from heart disease and was likely 
to be called off anv time, his death was nevertheless a surprise 
and shock to the family and friends. 

He is survived by a wife and one daughter, Miss Lillian 
Kimball and a step daughter, Mrs. Will Day, and brothers, 
Nelson F. Kimball of Weiser, Idaho, and G. F Kimball of Tope- 
ka, Kan. He was a nephew of H- M. Kimball, the well known 
furniture dealer, now retired. His father, G, H. Kimball, died 
several ^ears ago, about 1838, and his mother passed away dur- 
ing the summer of 1901. 

Mr. Kimball was probably the first exclusive undertaker 
and embalmer in the city. Prior to his entering the business 
some of the old furniture dealers kept coffins in stock and prac- 
ticed the profession of undertaking so far as it had progressed 
up to that period. But when Mr. Kimball opened up his under- 
taking parlors and prepared to devote his entire attention to 
the business, the science of embalming had not been developed, 
or rather was not in vogue to any great extent. Where nowa- 
days the undertaker has full charge of the arrangements of lay- 
ing away the dead, to the extent of every detail, in those early 
times the undertaker was generally also a furniture dealer and 
aside from trimming and selling the caskets seldom took direct 
charge of funerals. Mr. Kimball introduced the science of em- 



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balmiflg- in this city and assumed personal charge of funerals. 
He was in business here upwards of twenty-five years, but seve- 
ral jrears ago sold ou1 to Berhalter iV Olmsted, who are still lo- 
cated in the same building where Mr. Kimball was in business 
for so long a time. A.fter retiring from the undertaking busi- 
ness Mr. Kimball moved to Chicago, where he resided a short 
time, after which he returned to this city. 

Mr. Kimball was horn in Lowell, Mass., on the 3rd of Sep- 
tember, 1837, and was therefore a few months past 64 years of 
age. Ele came west with his parents about 1857. The family 
resided in the northern part of Illinois about a year, after 
which they removed to this county and settled on a farm south* 
west of the city <>n the site of what is now the county farm. 
The subject of this sketch clerked in the grocery store of N. 
Bateman for a number of years. Later he entered the railway 
mail service and was employed in that capacity for a short time. 
He then entered the employ of his uncle, H. M. Kimball, who 
was in the furniture business. After working- for his uncle a 
number of years, he started in partnership with Mr. Morrison, 
and under the firm name of Kimball & Morrison they c mducted 
a retail furniture store for a number of years. Shortly after- 
ward the firm dissolved partnership and Mr. Kimball entered 
the undertaking- business. 

EDWIN M. KIMBALL. 

We find the following- in Haverhill. -Mass. News items. 
Have no dates. The funeral of Edwin M. Kimball, who died 
suddenly of heart disease at Georgeton Tuesday, was held from 
the residence of his brother, Melvin Kimball, on Cedar st. yes- 
terday afternoon. The burial was at Elmwood cemetery. Hist, 
pp. 871. 

MRS. GEORGE F. KIMBALL. 

In Chicago, 111. Jan 25, 1902 aged 53 years, Lydia Frances 
Rust was born in Great Falls, New Hampshire. She was first 
married to J. Weston Taft, who died from injuries received in 
the w T ar. Her second marriage was to George F. Kimball, the 
plate glass manufacturer. Her final illness was of short dura- 
tion, and everything that could be done to delay the inevitable 
proved of no avail. To her family and relatives her death is a 
sudden blow as it came when she was in apparent good health. 

Mrs Kimball leaves surviving her, besides her husband 
one son, a daughter having previously T died. She was a woman 
of many beautiful traits of character, and she was particularly 
gifted as a singer. 

The funeral was held Monday from the home on Michigan 
avenue. Burial was at Rose Hill. 



March 1902. 39 



FRANKLIN L. HOBBS. 

At Fryeburg Center Me. Feb. 20, 1902 aged 78. Mr. Hobbs 

was a life-long resident of Fryeburg, and a man of sterling in- 
tegrity of character, kindly, peaceful, an excellent neighbor and 
friend. He was the eldest son of James Hobbs, a prominent 
man in Fryeburg and Lovell. He leaves a sister and brother in 
Lovell, Mrs. John Emery and John Hobbs; a wife, Bertha Kim- 
ball and six children. Isaac. Edwin, James, Mrs. Frances Farr- 
ington, Hulda and Lily, the latter caring for her parents at the 
old home. Family Hist, pp 509, 

STEPHEN K. KIMBALL. 

Died recently (date not given) at Paris Me. after ashortill- 
ness from blood-poisoning. Mr. Kimball recently had a severe 
attack of chilblains which he himself doctored. He drew the 
heels to a blister and the medicine entered the blood and poison- 
ed it. He was the s<>n of Jonathan and Satina Bessey ) Kim- 
ball of Woodstock', formerly of Bridgton. For several years he 
has been engaged in the manufacture of carriages. Hist. pp. 
835. 

MARGARET PI.UMMEH BROWN. 

In Norway, Me. suddenly of heart failure. Jan.' 22. 1902 
Mrs. \V. T. Brown of Waterford, Me Mrs. Piummer was born 
in Waterford, August 26, 1834, the daughter of Samuel and 
Jane Kimball Piummer and has always resided in that place. 
June 10, 1869, she was united in marriage to Waldo T. Brown, 
who with one daughter, Ljuise M. Brown, a teacher in the 
Waterford schools, survive her. Hist pp. 274. 



MYRA PEARL MCALLASTER. 

Mrs. G. A. Kimball, of Lovell, Me. mourns the loss of her 
sister Myra. who died Jan. 25. 190 i. She was a lovely girl who 
fell a victim to consumption. I Hist. pp. 503 No. 1015. iv. ) 

LYMAN L. KIMBALL 

In Revere, Mass. Mar. 4. 1902. No particulars. Hist, 
pp. 742. I 

T. D. Kimball was one of the prominent members of the 
St. Louis G. A. R. to take part in annual memorial services 
over the dead of the year. These meetings are held near the 
anniversary of Gen. Sherman's birth, this year on Feb. 8. 



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I ( >NRAD BRYANT KIMBALL. 

Our very close young cousin, youngest son of the late 
Edwin A. Kimball (Januarj News 1899) writes a private letter 
on his late home coming*, from which we take the following': — 

1 'Returned lasl October after nearly two pears of European 

rience spent a year in Paris six months in Berlin and 
several months traveling and you may be assured I enjoyed 
those two years to the fullest extent. Was employed by the U. 
S. I ommission at the Paris Exposition a9 special service man in 
the U. S. Post Office in our National Pavelion my knowledge 
of French being the means of my getting this p tsition. After 
the Exposition I had several months good vocal study with a 
French teacher a Monsieur Hardy-The. 

Upon leaving Paris I went to London for the Queen's fu- 
neral [and a great pageant it was] then on to Berlin where I 
spent six months under the tutelage of Herr Alfred Blume who 
for 25 years was a noted vocal teacher in London. 

Incidentally I studied pretty hard on German and am glad 
to say made some progress in what Mark Twain declares is a 
very tough proposition for a foreigner to tackle. 

The German and French are of course great help to me in 
my singing, for since my return have made more of a specialty of 
recital work 

Whenever you come to Chicago cousin Gustavus I would be 
very glad indeed to meet 3011 and have a little visit and perhaps 
bore you with some pictures I took while away. Had great luck 
fori an ameteur, I think. 

Sister Maud joins me in wishing you and your family a 
prosperous and happy \ ( )02. Verj sincerely yours. 

Shortly before our recent visit to Danville, Conrad accom- 
panied by his sister Maud gave a musical recital in that enter- 
prising city, their former home, where are now buried their 
parents and ours. Referring to this occasion the old Danville 
Com "ercial said : — 

Especially fine was the singing of Mr. Kimball at the Opera House 
last evening". His voice is a baritone of rare quality, and it is backed up 
by the proper temperament and intelligence. 

From an article in Music we extract : — 

Among the younger singers of Chicago few have a more promising 
outlook than Mr. Conrad B. Kimball, the oossessor of a fine bar tone voice, 
ambition and much good training. Mr. Kimball was born in Providence 
R. I., but cams West early in life. He graduated from the University of 
Illinois, and in Chicago received most of his musical education. Although 
working along general lines. Mr Kimball aims more particularly at song 
recitals, and during the past musical season has suncr often in musical and 
social circles with fine success. His repertory embraces a variefy of old 



March 1902. 41 



English ballads and standard songs of the German and French schools. 
The German songs Mr. Kimoall has taken the pains to prepare in two ver- 
sions, German and English, and he is ready to sing either one according 
to the fancy of the listeners, who may prefer a greater or less degree of 
"chiaro oscuro" in the poetic department of Iheir songs. As Mr. Kimball 
has an attractive stage presence, and is young as well as ambitious, much 
may be expected of him later on. 

The following- from his old university paper Illini : — 

Conrad 15 Kimball of Chicago, so well known in University circles, 
sang at the chapel yesterday morning. Ilis voice, always so sympathetic 
in quality, has gained in resonance and dramatic power, while his style 
has broadened materially. 

While abroad he took part in several concerts. The Paris 
edition of the New York Times says : — 

Last night's concert at the United St-ites Pavilion was one of the 
most successful <>f the Thursday evening' series. The program was very 
interesting, including as ii did. several or the well-known American mu- 
sicians in the City. * * * 

Probably the greatest success of the evening was the singing of Mr. 
Kimball, who was in excellent v dee. Mr Kimball came to Paris about 
eight months ago. From here he will go to Berlin for further study. 

From Paris Herald \— 
Mr. Conrad Kimball, baritone, of Chicago, scored a great success, 
winning several recalls after each number. His voice is rich, clear and 
resonant, and he sings with great expression and finish. 

Word is received that the Hon Benjamin A. Kimball, pres- 
ident of the Concord & Montreal railroad, who is spending- the 
winter in Egypt was suffering from a severe attack of acute 
pneumonia at Assouan, Egypt. His son Henry Kimball of Con- 
cord, N. H. has been summoned to his side by a cablegram from 
Mrs. Kimball. 

Elizabeth, daughter of Mr and Mrs. Curtis Kimball Davis, of 
the Moses Kimball line mentioned elsewhere, is and has been 
for two years a student at the Woman's College in Baltimore 
where she stands high. Last year she won third prize for Col- 
lege poem according to ihe Des Moines Musical Journal, which 
publishes it with her portrait. 

The Kimball Family News n^tes with keen regret the 
death of John Ward Dean late librarian of the New England 
Historic-Genealogical Society. He was known and beloved by 
all the leading historians and librarians of the country. With 
them the memory of his kind and helpful nature will never fade. 
From the first number of the News he gave it encouraging 
words, and so made him its debtor. 



42 Kimball K.ninh News, 



MARRIED. 

In Rum ford Palls, Jan, 21, by Rev. J. D. Graham, Horatio 
N. Outhouse and Edna L. Kimball. 

In North Bridgton, Sept. 7, by Rev. A. G. Fitz, Harry W. 
Kimball of Bridgton and Lena May Ripley of South Paris. 
Kimball News < vt. L900 pp, 160. 

II i:\ki.d Wai.kkk. 

At Lovell, Me. ( >ct 9, L901, Mary E. Hearld and Preston B. 
Walker at the home of the bride's mother. The bridegroom is 
a son of Barnes and Lucy (Kilgore) Walker. Hist. pp. 510. 

A dainty collation, and Mrs. (i. W. Walker and Mrs. J. B. 
Kimball, 2d, Hist. pp. 1039 No. 2446 11, presided at the tabic 
assisted by Lillian Palmer, Hallie Walker and Georgia Abbott, 
while Mrs. L . L. Stearns presented the quests in departing with 
boxes of wedding cake. A great number of valuable gifts test- 
ified to the high esteem in which both bride and groom are held. 

Mr. and Mrs. Walker departed on the bridal trip and visited 
Niagara, Montreal and the Pan-American. 

C. A. Kimball of the Kansas Courtland Register was one of 
the speakers at a late banquet at which Gov. Stanley and U. S. 
Senator Burton were also among- the stars. 

The first number of the Compatriot News representing- the 
Kansas Society of the Sons of the American Revolution has 
been issued by the Kimball Printing- Co. of Topeka. Any read- 
er of the Kimball Family News who would like a copy may ad- 
dress as above. 



t .' 



The curiosity entertained by all civilized nations of in- 
quiring into the exploits and adventures of their ancestors, com- 
monly excites a re -ret that the historv of remote aofes should al- 
ways be so much involved in obscurity, uncertainty and contra- 
diction." — Hume's Introductory sentence to his famous History. 

The remedy for future regrets of this nature will largely be 

found in the genealog-ical and family histories now g-etting- to be 

so common. These, in addition to our more complete g-eneral 

historic records will save future ag-es from the uncertainties 

that now shroud the history cf ag-es alrealy passed. 



March 1902. 43 



MOSES KIMBALL No. 283a. 

Family Hist. Page 103 Moses 5 (Abner,* Ebenezer,* Benja- 
min, 2 Richard, 1 ^ born Haverhill, Mass. Nov. 8, 1747: died in 
Ohio Nov. 9, 1828: married Hopkinton N. H. Oct. 16, 1771, Jem- 
ima Clement. Moved to Ohio, above Wheeling- in 1801. The 
News has many calls for history of this family, and has given 
fragments in different numbers. The History says Moses was 
orderly sergeant in Capt. Isaac Baldwin's Co. at Lexington, 
which is possibly a mistake. It is also said he was at Bunker 
Hill and at Saratoga at the surrender of Burgoyne. Reference 
to th Q proper records is wanted. The News has several calls 
for evidence that will enable his descendants to join patriotic 
societies. The Fam. Hist gives only the above facts: 

Moses and Jemima had a lars^e family at least three sons 
and many daughters. On page 252 News for 1901, reference is 
made to this family and more on page 314. Omitting details 
we here recapitulate what has heretofore been said and add 
some new matter. An effort is making to complete these rec- 
ords and Glen D. Kimball of Marion Ind. is interesting himself 
in it. Other descendants of Moses 5 may do well to write him. 

The children of Moses* were sons Abner, xMoses, Charles, 
and daughters, Marion, Betsey, Mina, Abiah and four others 
not known. 

Abner Kimball 6 settW in Coshocton O. and had sons, Jos- 
eph, Moses, and Abner B. and daughter Jane (married 

Davis ) and three others not named. His son Joseph 7 has two 
sons living, one in London, Ohio and one in Converse, Ind. 

His son Abner B. 7 lives in Converse, Ind. and has two sons, 
Finley A. Brooklyn, N. Y. and Frank S. a teacher in Converse. 

His daughter, Jane Kimball Davis, lived in Converse, but 
on page 2^2 of the News it is said she lives in Coshocton Ohio. 

The News now hcS a letter from Mrs. Curtis Kimball Davis 
of Knoxville. Iowa whose husband is doubtless a son of Jane 
and they have a daughter who wishes to join the Daughters of 
the American Revolution. 

Moses G. Kimball 6 born died Marietta Ohio in 1876 

married had children: — 

Dr. Abner D. 7 Marion, Ind. 

Dr. Thomas C. Marion. Ind. 

These sons H. H. and M. F. and Chas. M. andF. B. of Neo- 
desha. Kansas, and Mrs. MaryTanguary of Neodesha. and Mrs. 
H. Flinn of Marion. Details are here omitted as they may be 
given hereafter when Dr. Glen D Kimball gets the more com- 
plete records of the descendants of Moses 6 

Charles Kimball 6 was born in Portsmouth N. H. Dec. 8, 
1794: died in Tonica, 111. Dec. 26, 1876: married 1st : 



44 Kimball Family News. 

m. 2d_ Mansfield: m. 3d Mar\ Kirk Kendall of Kentucky. 

He was a soldier in fch arof 1812. He had one child l»v first 
wife, nine by the second, and one by the third. 

CHILDREN. 

i Jane born died married Swing 

ii Thomas Mr nsfield, born 18 married 

Lives in Centralia, Mo. 
iii Moses Clement, born 18 married lives in San 

Qi< g"o ( .ii. 
iv Mary Ann. born died married Joseph Wiles* 

Li vi sin ( )hi< ». 

v William 1\. born died Normal 111. 

18 

vi Caroline, born_ married Washington Wiles. Lives 

in 

vii Sarah, boin married A. Whisner. 

viii Ebenezer L. born Lives in Vandalia, Mo. 

ix John Wesley, l>orn_ Lives in Burlington Kans. 

x Eliza, bom married A. Evans of Normal, 111. 

xi (harks Marcus, born, Ripley, Ohio, May 13, 1860, married 
Waterville X. Y May 11, 1889, Frances Mabel Putnam, b. Oris- 
kanv Falls X. Y. Mar. 7, 1870. He is an Episcopal Clergyman 
at Buffalo X. Y. They have one child, Gladys Mary, born 
Brookville, Pa. May if, 1890. 

Abiah Kimball", born died married 

Joseph Jeffries. ^They had one child, Moses Kimbj.ll Jeffrie. 
Five- in Hillsboro, Wisconsin and probably others. 

Another daughter of Moses'- -born died 



married Smith: had at least one cnild. Charles L. 

H. Smith. Lives at 83 Virginia St. Wheeling- West Ya. 

Presumablv another daughter Jane 6 , who married 



Davis, was the mother of Curtis Kimball Davis now of Knox- 
ville, Iowa. Information wanted on these points. See Family 
News lor 1898, pp. °<>— <)l and 107 and for 1901, pp. 314. 

Now here is a fair amount of data and it ought not to be 
difficult for the family together to till up the record. There is 
a lack of information regarding the daughters of Moses and 
Jemima Kimball. The Smiths, Jeffries, and Davise^ may be 
able to throw some light on the record. Everv detail should be 
given, name, date, place of birth, marriage, death etc. The 
children and grand childre should all be given in detail. Note 
the style in the history or in supplementary notes in the News 
and follow it. 

Our cousin Thomas Mansfield Kimball of Centralia, Mo. 
mentioned above, sends something in brief barely mentioning 
his brothers, but not a word as to his sisters nor of any of the 



March 1902. 45 



children. We want all there is of it. So of the Neodesha 
branch. Are there any children there? Cannot the Rev. C. M. 
Kimball of Buffalo give us some help? 

Just as the News was going- to press, a second letter comes 
from Mrs. Curtis Kimball Davis of Knoxville, Iowa in which 
she writes: 

"Now 1 must say I was under the impression that Mr. 
Davis's branch of the Kimball family had been better looked up. 
Tarn sorry it was not, for hud any cne asked grandfather Kim- 
ball, in five minutes he could have traced the line back to Moses 5 
of Revolutionary fame." 

The News is not clear in this matter. As we have it, Jane 
(Kimball) Davis was not the daug-hter of Moses 5 the revolution- 
ary soldier, but of his son Most s C 6 , and sister of Abner B. 7 
who lives at Converse, Ind. These records are not clear, espe- 
cially concerning- the daughters. The News is anxious to clear 
up this line. 

Mrs. Davis writes that her husband believes that his grand- 
father Kimball ( who would be Abner 6 ) came from Montpelier 
Vt. and from there to Warren. Ohio: thence to Coshocton, and 
that his wife's name was Deeper We have no record of 

the time or placeof AbnerV birth or his mnrriage. He was the 
eldest son of Moses and Jemima Clement. They did not move to 
Ohio until 1801, on thirty years after their marriage. In that 
time they might have lived in Montpelier, and Moses even 
born the e. In that Case they must have moved back to New 
Hampshire, since the voungest son Charles, was born in Ports- 
mouth in 1794, seven years before they moved to Ohio. Where 
the several daug-hters were born we do not know. 

Of Mr. Curtis Kimball Davis, we may add, that he has 
been a member of the Idaho legislature and is now a prominent 
citizen of Iowa. 



C. H. Kimball of Boston is one of the champions of the 
Bank officers Bowlin Association. 

Mrs. R. E. Kimbell, ot Kensing-ton avenue, Chicag-o spent 
Mardi Gras week in New Orleans with a party of friends. 

At the annual meeting- of ihe New Eng-land Society of Chi- 
cag-o C. F. Kimball, representing- Maine, was elected one of the 
Vice-Presidents. 

F* J. Kimball has been elected president of the Norfolk and 
Western railroad which is under the control of the Pennsyivania 
Central. He has been chairman of the board of directors. 



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RANDOM RECORDS OR KIMBALL FOOT PRIMS. 

rhese iinperfed records are printed t.. assisl in the indentification <>f 
anrecorded memb ^rs of the family. Any <»?)<■ knowing any thing of t In- in 
should write t<> Prof. Sharp es, I I Broad St Boston and aot to the Ni 

Jane Kimball b 1850 dan. of James and Abigail Kimball m. Sept. 18, 1- 

Robert E McFarland b. 1850. 
Mary I ■". Kimball b. L841 m. Sept l. 1874 Asa II. Hnse b. 1821. 
Julia EL Kimball dau. of John ES. Kimball and Lucy P. m. June 14, i 

Samuel Applet* n. 
Anna I. Palmer Kimball b. L839 m dan r.\ L874, Martin Giles, b. L840 
Florence Kimball l> 1851. m. June it. L874 Francis W. Cheyney b« i- 

Benjamin F. Kimball b. Manchester X. II and Sophronia ( |'b. 

Petersford Vt. 

i BILDREN 

Clifford C. b. 1856, m. May 15, 1877, Matilda B. Hutchinsb 1855. 

Myron R. Kimball b. 1857, Manchester X. H. m. Mar. 14, 1885 America LiU 

lie Adams. ( hikl Esther Lillian b. Feb. 3, 1888. 
David F. Kimball son of I avid b. 1834 in. Mar. 23, 1854 Rlizabeth Barm-.s. 
Joshua B. Kimball b. New York, 1830 son of Francis m. Nov. 1. 1854 Jane 

Gibson b. England 1831. 
Mary F. Kimball b. 1830, dan. of Isaac, m. July 30, 1854 Joseph M. Oxford. 
ista H. D. Kimball b. 1825 dau. of Caleb, in. Mar. S. 18C3, Henry C. Far- 
go b. 1836, son of Elisha. 
Fannie E. Kimball dau. of William of Pawtucket m. May 30, 1857. (leorge 

H Gerrisb of South Boston. 
Thomas J. Kiml all b. Rumney 1824, son of .Tobn m. July 30, 1857 Mary B. 

Richardson b. U31 dau. ( f David. 
Walter H. Kimball b. X. Y. 1825 son of Nathaniel m. Mar. 8, 1853 Phebe 

A. Gordon b. 1836, Dau. of Joel. 
Susan B. Kimball b. 183 t. dau of David and Mary m. Nov. 21, 1858 Jane. 

F. Marston b. 1832. 
M try A. T. Kimball b. 1839 dau. of Henry aid Abigail P. (Smith) Kimbal 1 - 

m. June 15, 1877. Edward M. Wlnslow b. 1831. 
Helen (Paterson) Kimball dau. cf Freeman and Ruth Paters( n. b. 1857 m. 

May 22, 1880 Samuel 1). Sargent b. 1855. 
Susan E. Kimball b. 1838 m Jan. 5. 1881. George F. Griffin b 1830. 
Henry A. Kimball b. Kindle N. II. m. Tryphena ( )Son Charles b. 

Hartford Ct. 1851 d. Mar. 20, l^.»t m. Dec. 8, lssj Florence P. Reed. 

Edwaid Kimball m. Nellie ( ) 

CHILDREN. 

Anne b. June 30, 1873. d. Aug-. 22, 1873. 

Dau. b Nov. 8, 1874. 

Orrin T. Kimball m. Maria E. ( ) Dau. Blanche Maria b. May 20, 1873. 

Olive A. Kimball m. Mar. 13, 1852 St-phen M. Raich. 



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Hiram Kimball b. 1820 Antwerp N. Y. m. May 8, 1852 Sarah E. Hayes b. 
1832. 

Almira Kimball b. 1830 dau. of Timothy cf Boston, m. Dec. 20, 1852 Georg-e 
E. Mooney of Portland Me. 

John R. Darker b. 1819, m. Feb. 31, 1853 Sarah E. Kimball b. 1828. 

Amanda M. Kimball b. 1*28 dau. of Israel and Sarah m. July 7, 1800 Theo- 
dore It. Cole b. 1839. 

Adaline M. Kimball b. 1828 Barton Vt. m. Sept. 20. 1800 William D. Good- 
now, b. 1844. 

Mary S. Kimball b. 1842 dau. of .lames and Sarah m. Aug-. 8, 1862. John T. 
T. Clark b. 1830. 

George T. Kimball m. Louisa M. ( ) b. 1829. d. Sept. 15, 1854. 

Abner D, Kimball m. May 11, 1845 Roxana J. Caldwell. Dau. Eaugenette 
Francis b. Mar. 5, 1846, d. July 30, 1846. 

George Kimball m Rebecca I > Sou George Lewis b. June 1849. 

George Kimball m Mary P. ( ) 

CHILDREN. 

Olivet D. b. Jan. 31. 1848. d. Aug. 11. 1857 
Emily .1, b. Sept. 23. 1850 d. <>cl. 19, 1850. 

Elizabeth (Huddleson) Kimball b. Salem 1812. m. April 15, 1855. James 

Wallace b. 1822. 
Samuel Kimball m. Elizabeth ( ; Son Frank b May 14. 1853. 

Joseph Kimball m. Elizabeth) ) b. Kittery Me. Dau. Sarah E. b. 

Mar. 13, 1857. 
Harvey Zury Kimball b. Newport R. I. May 24. 1811 d. Maiden Mass. May 

15.1886. Son of Zury Kimball b. Conn, and Mary ( ) b. R, I. m. 

Lucy D. St ckney. (St e Stickrey Rook. ) 

They lived for many years in Charleston Mass. 
CHILDREN. 

Amanda M. b. June 3, 1834 m. June 30, 1859 James D. Rracket. 

Harvey Zury b. Apr. 17. 183*,. d. Apr. 20, 1836. 

Anna Maria b. May 12. 1839 d. Aug. 15, 1840. 

William H. b. Nov. 27. 1840. m. Aug. 7. 1882 Marg-aretta (Cross) Upton. 

Isasc Eselic b. May 3. 1842 d. May 4. 1842. 

Edward Everett b. Mar. 12. 1843 d. Mar. 13. 1843. 

Lucy Maria b. Aug-. 13. 1845 d. April 24, 1853. 

Samuel N. b. April 24. 1848. 

Zury H.gmam b. Jan. 18, 1850 d. April 25. 1S31. 

Everett S. b. Aug-. 14. 1851 d. Sept. 5, 1852. 

Ella Cora b. Jan. 24. 1853 d. Aug. 15. 1855. 

Lucy Ma:ia d. March 6. 1854 d. Aug-. 5, 1855. 

Lillie S. b. July 27. 1856 d. Oct. 6, 1856. 

Frederick J. b. May 5. 1858. 



Kimball Family News, 

nin Kimball m. Lyd ) 

< HILDRE> 

l. ten i». Oct 19, 1859. 

d V b ivM in July i. 1880 Mary E Mullen. 
Isabella b. Oct 15, 1857. 

Thomas J. Kimball m. ( ><-t B, [848Sarab Crocker. 

William E. Kimball m Mary A. ( Dan. Nellie Alice b .Jan. 19, 181 

Elizabeth Wilev Kimball b. 1817 m Mar 8 18.' I William Wiley b. 1813. 
e Kimball b. 1850 Dan of James and Abigail Kimball m. Sept. 18, i- 

Etobert F McFariand. b. I860. 
Martha Kimball b. in. Nov. •''.. 1833 Clem«-i;t Noyes Jr 

Abigail Kimball in. July 4, 1880 Benjamin Phipps. 
Lyman Kimball m. Int. .Tunc 2*. 1835 Cynthia G. Hobart. 
Hannah Kimball of Maiden m. Int. Sept. 9, 1833 Benjamin doing. 
Mary Kimball of Lowell m. Int. Feb. \. 1838 Fred \. F'ske. 
Timothy Kimball m. int. Aug. 7. 1848 Margaret Kelley. 
Fanny Kimball o! Chester X. H. in. Int. Aug. 23, 1818. Nathaniel Rea 
Sarah S. Kimball dan. of Thomas and Olive Kimball m int. June •''.<). 1851 

David C. larnnm b. 1833. 
Susie Kimball b. 1861 dau. of Freeman and Catherine Kimball m. Oct. 2, 

1882 Charles Hefferman b. 1858. 
Sylvania E. Kimball b. 1855, Dau. of John and Hannah (Farnum) Kimball 

m. Mar. 31. 1875 George li. Gardner, b. 1852, 
Mary ( Severance ) Kimball b. 1837 in. Oct. 22, 1872 Reuben W. Field, b. 

1820 
Harriet U. Kimball b. 1801 in. Oct. IT, 1859 Solomon Kam b. 1795. 
Mary Ann Kimball b. 1801 m. Sept. 7. 1845 Abraham Parker b 1789. 
Charles S. Kimball m. Oct. 27, l s 4*< at Dracut Mary A. Hayes Son ixirn at 

Lowell Nov. 25, 1851. 
Mary Kimball dan. of Timothy and Catherine ( Harrington ) Kimball m. 

Int. May 1864 David Sullivan. 
Charles W. Kimball b. 1804. Kennebunk sen of Charles O. and Louisa G. 

Kimball m. Nov. 24. 1887 Lillian Haskell b. Nov. 24, 18C6, d. April 3d, 

1890. 
Eugene M. Kimball d. 1859 Mt. Holly Vt. m. Nov. 19. 1887 Madge G. Gat- 
comb b. 1863. 
Helena S. (OBrien) Kimball b. 1800 Ireland m. Jan. 1. 1887 Oliver P Hazard 

b. 1835 Richmond Va. 
William A. Kimball b. Portland Me. m. Catherine E. Davis b. 18:>4. d. 

Jan. 13, 1890. Child. Catherine E. b. Oct. 10. 1889 d. Aug-. 17. 1890. 
Charles R. Kimball m Clara M. ( ) Child Charles A b. Jan. 7. 1889. 

John T. Kimball 1840 m. Aug-. 10, 1870 Abbie F. Rice b. 1849 

CHILDREN. 
Annie F. b. 1872 m. Charles E. Boothby May 20, 1£92. 
James b. April 24. 1889. 



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THE NEW CIVILIZATION. 

We give herewith an abstract from the introductory ad- 
dress made by the editor of the News, at the banquet given 
February 22, 1 ( J<>2, by the Kansas Society of the Sons of the 
American Revolution. 

Compatriots and Fellow Citizens: 

The farther away we get from the occasion, that, in part, 
calls us together tonight the deeper grows the significance of 
that era. With these passing years as we study the events of 
the American Revolution period the farther back must we go to 
learn the primal causes that led to the contest that made this 
country the historic nation that it is. 

The time was, not many years ago, when the American Rev- 
olution was regarded as a mere local event. The causes that 
led to it were said to be the stamp act, taxation without repre- 
sentation, and some other equally temporary evils, that might 
be exaggerated or remedied. 

From our present point of view we see things in a modified 
light. We recognize the Puritanic influence of New England, 
the Catholic patriotism of Maryland, the Huguenot devotion to 
liberty in the Carolinas and we understand the sentiment that 
united them with the English churchmen of Virginia in opposi- 
tion to the unreasonable demands of the English king. And we 
are now able to further recognize that all the controversies and 
all the labors of that age were but the means in the hand of an 
omnipotent power for the advancement of certain ends. 

In the light of the present dav we are able to discern the 
two great epochs in the world's history. There have been many 
other notable epochs, but thev dwindle away as the foothills 
sink down as one ascends the higher mountain. These two 
main epochs are the Christian era and the American era. One 
is marked by the birth of Christ the other by the American Rev- 
olution. This will doubtless seem to many an extravagant as- 
sertion. But there is alreadv much evidence to support this 
view. 

The American Revolution was the direct and logical corol- 



lary of the highest Christian civilization. This term civiliza- 



50 Kimball Family News, 



tion musl be understood in no restricted sense. The term is rel- 
ative. What is civilization in one age may be barbarism in one 
more enlightened, ami hence Prof. Bare defines ii asa state of 
society nexl to barbarism. 

In an age of high civilization it is not easy to separate the 
nmral ami the religious from the civil and the political. And 
so all along down the years of the Christian era there have pre- 
vailed positive ideas as to civil as well as to religious liberty. 
It is interesting t<> note theantiquity as well as the prevalence 
<>f these ideas. In connection with tin- English people and the 
American Revolution it is particularly interesting to note the 
vigorous growth and persistency of tin- idea that man is entitled 
t<> freedom. Years before the heptarchyand long before Caesar 
set foot "H British soil the fundamental principle of the Declara- 
tion of Independence lay dormant in the British Isl< s. A thou- 
sand years before the Christian era Keltic people from the far 
east had spread over Europe. They settled in Gaul and then 
crossed over to the isles of the west. They made their homes 
in the glens of Scotland, the fens and morasses of Ireland, in 
the mountain fastnesses of Wales and in the forests of England. 
Under their crude laws every man was born a freeman. They 
were a rude people and as we would now say barbarians. But 
every man was free. Personal freedom was the dominant idea. 
It became an inherent principle. In later years when the proud 
Norman overcame the land this principle was virile and aggres- 
sive. It is to the dogged insistence of this principle of liberty 
by the Keltic races that England itself owes its present liberal 
goverment and the United States its republican ideas. 

If time permitted one might easily trace the growth of 
these liberal sentiments, step bv step, from the Norman invasion 
down to the American Revolution. This would include both 
religious and civil controversies; but they must be omitted^ 
The discovery of America was a necessary incident in the plan 
of Christian civilzation. It afforded an asylum and a field for 
expansion. 

The American Revolution followed as a natural outgrowth 
of years of developement. It marked a new era, with more gen- 
erous system of government and advanced ideas in regard to 
civil and religious freedom. 

But it did more than this. The influence of the new nation 
began to be felt throughout the world. Every European nation 
felt the pulsations of new life. For one hundred years this 
country drew to itself the bone, and sinew, and the brain of the 
old world by a kind of attractive warmth, that the governing 
classes refused to recognize. That the United States was a 
power equal to themselves the powers of Europe refused to ad- 
mit even until within the last decade. Nothing but brute force 
could command their respect. At length came the opportunity 



April 1902. 51 



with the Spanish war. The result came like lightning- from a 
clear sky. It startled every powerful nation on earth. Today 
not a country questions our standing-. Not one that does not 
respect and fear the United States. 

A short summing up is all that is left to us. The Ameri- 
can idea, as it is termed, is now dominant in every South Amer- 
ican and every Central American country, not always in perfec- 
tion, but in a growing degree. Every nation in Europe has 
been more or less liberalized. The mother countrv of England 
has extended the right of suffrage to a degree that fifty years 
ago, her statesmen declared to be impossible. One hundred 
years ago English jurisprudence recognized over 150 crimes 
punishable by death. Imprisonment for debt was common. 
She built up colonies by the transportation of convicts who were 
often deserving" and honest men. Now this is changed. For- 
eign statesmen who a few years ago spoke with contempt of the 
American Republic now complain that we are Americanizing 
the world. 

And this is the new civilization. It is a civilization that is 
doing away with the remnants of the old classic civilization. 
It enables us to distinguish the difference between Greek pat- 
riotism we have so long worshipped and the Keltic patriotism 
we have so long forgotten. The Kymric races were born free 
and therefore born patriots. The ancient Greeks were made 
patriotic by rule. One of their laws compelled every citizen to 
choose in favor of one side or the other in all contests. It was 
supposed to be conducive to patriotic feeling. It is not an un- 
pleasant reflection to know that the Keltic idea has become the 
important feature in our civil belief, while all that remains to us 
of the Grecian theory is the general sympathy that we still 
feel for the under dog in the fight. 

It is a significant fact that as the Anglo-Saxon rises, the 
old Latin races decline. The blood that came down from the 
Caesars has lost its vigor. Spain need not be mentioned. Italy 
is weakening, and France is not all that once was, and owes 
much that it is to its foreign blood. The teutonic nations are 
dominating the earth. England, Germany and the United 
States form the world's great triumvirate at the opening of the 
wonderful Twentieth Century. Who will venture to saj that 
the country of Washington is not the chief of these? 

In closing I cannot refrain from calling attention to the fact 
that seventeen signers of the American declaration of Inde- 
pendence were of Kymbrian birth in whom lived the spirit of 
their ancient forefathers, and I may add that the archaic sig- 
nification of the term Kymry was to turn and to overturn, and 
so our forefathers whose memory we celebrate tonight in over- 
turning their form of government made a Kymric as well as an 
American Revolution. 



52 Kimball Family News, 

THE WOES OF A PROOFREADER. 

The following is a paper read by Miss Florence Kimball 
the proofreader on the Top ' State Journal, before the Kan 
Women's Pr iation, held in Topeka, April 10. Per- 

haps some who have complained of the errors in the Family 
History or in the News may enjoy reading it. 

It is generally conceded that a woman cannot keep a secret. 
Thi^ is to a certain extent true. Women can't. That is, most 
women. r.utsomc can. and in blushing modesty, T confess I am 
one of the Som<  I have kept a growing accumulation of se- 
crets ever since I began work as a proofreader, and the reason I 
am now telling them is not because it is impossible for me to 
remain silent any longer, but because I am weary of the burden. 
The quantity has been increasing at the expense of the quality, 
until now my patience is at an end. 

In filling the position of a proofreader on a daily paper one 
finds himself confronted with an exacting proposition. Were I 
not so tired of that overworked expression, I would say that the 
occupant of such a position lives a strenuous life. 

He is there to find fault, to criticize, and to see only the 
wrong- in everything that comes beneath his notice. No lati- 
tude is allowed. This fosters as a leading- characteristic a spirit 
of criticism that is difficult to throw off out of working hours. 
And this cultivated power of hypercritical observation does not 
confine itself to a special line of work, but includes everything- 
from the most insignificant errors to those of the greatest 
importance. 

A proofreader is not permitted to subordinate the unpleas- 
ant and disagreeable elements of his work, but he is required to 
g-ive them his best thought and greatest consideration. 

This forced development in my nature has warped a once 
charminp" disposition. / am not to blame for being- a fault 
finder. That has been forced upon me to such purpose that I 
could not hold my position were I less of a crank. 

I have been ground between the upper and nether mill- 
stones of two departments in the office in my endeavor to satisfy 
each and at last I have determined to assert the independence of 
individuality and "g-et even" with the world in this public 
manner. The upper millstone in this case is the editorial staff 
upstairs, while the mechanical force in the composing- room 
represents the under millstone in the most active manner. I 
belong- to neither one department nor the other and the wav in 
which I am called down by each in turn is most ag-gravating-. 

The laws of the Medes and Persians are as written in sand 
compared to the rule "follow copy M in a printing- office. That 
was the direction g-iven me before I took my place at my desk, 



April 1902. 53 



and that was the advice of the foreman, when I questioned him 
on a disputed point. A friend who had had experience, sent 
me a note of advice, the gist of which was "follow copy." I 
was so thoroug-hlv imbued with this rule that I think I could 
have followed copy had I. been reading- proof blindfolded. 

Just at this period of my career a redhot political story was 
handed in by the political reporter for the State Journal. In 
hasty writing- an kk out" had been made which was overlooked 
in hurried reading - . The printer, living up to the Golden Rule 
of the office, followed copy, and this accommodating proof- 
reader did the same. 

Not that I did not notice that something was wrong-, for I 
did. It sounded incomplete and no sense could be made of it. 
This was not unusual, however, for I never have been able to 
make sense of apolitical article, but the waning influence of my 
school days was still strong enough to bring before me the 
necessity of a subject and a predicate in a sentence. Here was 
the subject; but no amount of diagraming could find the "do- 
word" and I fianlly decided that in political articles predicates 
were unnecessary. In the course of terse but emphatic explana- 
tions the next day, however, I le irned that I was to follow copy 
only when copy was correct and not otherwise. 

In this way the position of editor is sometimes unavoidably 
combined with that of proofreader. This is very well when the 
proofreader has unlimited time in which to read proof and can 
consult the writer or look up authorities, but when newspaper 
matter is carelessly written, as it often is in the rapid prepara- 
tion necessary, it is generally certain to g-et in the paper like 
copy, and if so, the responsibility rests with the author. At 
the same time, I have an idea that the managing editor thinks 
we proofreaders should know when to call the writer down. 

Shortly after this episode I again had a perplexing piece of 
proof. It was while Mr. Fred Collier was manag-ing- editor of 
the Journal, and as his copy was usually correct I hesitated 
some time before returning- the article; but one sentence was so 
evidently unfinished that I had no choice but to submit it to 
him. I showed him the copy, pointing out the incomplete sen- 
tence. After reading it over he handed it back, saying- he saw 
nothing wrong; what was the matter? 

I read the paragraph out loud : "The Karnival Knights 
will see that Kansas Avenue is brilliantly illuminated with ro- 
man candles, rockets, red fire and some." "There," I said, 
triumphantly, "it isn't finished. You see it ends 'and some. 1 
It should say some 'what'." 

Mr. Collier became suddenly very weary. " 'And some' is 
a slang- phrase," he said, in a tired tone, and he explained it. 
This is the reason I now have "Artie's Book on Modern Slang" 
on my desk alongside my Webster. 



Kimball Family News, 



In addition to the positions of proofreader and editor, I am 
metin ailed upon to till thai of censor. In spacing out a 
lumn lay the foreman came to me in a greal rush and 

said that "North Topeka" wastoo long : would I kill ;i three 
line item? I blue penciled the least important paragraph and 
never thought of it again until the next daj when ;i woman 
lied at the Journal office and asked to see Miss Kimball. She 
was from N  ■■■'■ Topeka and was a manicurist and hairdresser. 
I me that she bad sent in an item the day before and it 
had n >t appeared. Why was it? On being asked what it was, 
she said it was a personal, mentioning the that sin- had 

been ing thi day with a friend in Topeka. I felt like 

if it were in her professional capacity, but instead, I ex- 
plained the crowded condition of the paper, that the omission 
- unintentional and would lie remedied. "Very well," she 
said. "I have lived here twelve years and have furnished you 
lots of s >ci< ty news, and I think the Journal should treat me 
white." 

But these are not my only troubles. Often it is in making 
the corrections that the most aggravating blunders occur. The 
rule is to mark every transposed letter. This necessitates re- 
setting- the entire line, and in so doing- the chances are even that 
a worse mistake will be made than that of the original error. 
One such I recall that convulsed the office. 

Miss Brewer had written up an elaborate party. In fact, it 
was a function. In one line in the proof the letters of the word 
k the" were transposed. The correction was marked. Imagine 
my horror when I read in the Journal that evening- that "the 
rooms were elaborately decorated with syringes' instead of 
syringas. 

I have read in the proofs that the Maine was blown up irr 
Havana harbor by a tornado. 

That Governor and Mrs. Stanley received the visiting- poli- 
ticians with great hostility. 

That the larg-e attendance of Ethiopians at the Methodist 
church Epworth Leag-ue convention was gratifying-. 

That a noted Roman Catholic divine on being- advanced to 
the cardinalate, 'had become red hot," for "had received the 
red hat." 

In the obituary notice of a prominent Topekan I read that 
"he has now reached his harem" when "haven" was meant. 

I have read that a party of Topeka society people were in 
the country, enjoying- a "truly moral life " Rural was intended. 

These are all the faults of others. Were I to beg-in to tell 
you of where I am to blame there would be no end to the woes 
of this proofreader. 



April 1902. 55 



GEORGE A. KIMBALL NO. 2468. 

Just as it goes to press the News learns of the death of 

another of its earliest patrons. And so they are passing- away. 

The Family History opposite page 1046 gives his portrait. The 

following- sketch from the Boston Globe, April 14, 1902 is more 

complete and contains incidents of much interest: 

GREENFIELD, April 14— Ex-Sheriff George A. Kimball, 
75 years old, died early this morning of pneumonia, after an ill- 
ness of less than a week. He arrived home from California only 
a fortnight aero, seemingly in good health. 



George A. Kimball one of the strong men of Franklin coun- 
ty, was born at Walpole, X. H. Feb. 27, 1827. He observed his 
75th birthday while on his recent visit to California. 

Early in life he learned the trade of cabinet making. He 
was first married Nov. 27, 1848, to Miss Lucy Haviland Torrey 
of Plymouth. When the discovery of gold in California was 
announced Mr. Kimball was seized with the gold fever. In 
California Mr. Kimball had many adventures He worked at 
mining and at his trade. He returned by way of the isthmus of 
Panama and the company had a variety of exciting adventures. 

One of his companions on the return journey, although nei- 
ther man knew it until years later, was Capt. Josiah A. Rich- 
mond of Shelburne Falls. A chance remark only a few years 
ago in relation to the death of one of the company brought out 
the fact that Capt. Richmond read the burial service fo; the dead 
at the time the man was buried at sea. Each man 'hid known 
the other for years but neither knew that they returned from 
California together until a few years ago. 

After his return from California Mr. Kimball was baggage- 
master on the Old Colony road. Coming to the vicinity of 
Greenfield he was for 11 years on engineer on the old Vermont 
& Massachusetts road running from Fitchburg to Brattleboro. 

He had a narrow escape on the Greenfield loop on the old 
bridge which formerly crossed the road to Cheapside a short dis- 
tance below Greenfield. The bridge had been hastily construct- 
ed. Mr. Kimball was told to take his engine and push two load- 
ed cars out onto the bridge. He did so. the bridge and loaded 
cars went down 50 feet to the road below, but fortunately his 
engine remained on a portion of the bridge which did not 
break. 

Mr. Kimball later became master mechanic on the Vermont 
valley system, with headquarters at Bellows Falls. Giving up 
railroading he came back to Greenfield and associated himself 
in the livery stable business with the late L. D. Joslyn. 



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Mr. Kimball was shortly after appointed deputy sheriff, ;i 
iti«'!i which he held 10 years. He was elected high sheriff 
and held the office IS jrears, retiring in L893. 

Hi- was elected as a republican independent, but while in 
office became an independent democrat and a warm admirer pf 
( rrover Cleveland. While holding the office of sheriff he settled 
many estates, notably thai of Calvin \V. Shattucl* of Shattuck- 
ville. 

He served twice as selectman of Greenfield and was f<>r 
years one of the directors of the Packard national bank. He 
had served Republican lodge A. F. and A. M.. ;is worshipful 
master. He attended St. James Episcopal church. 

By his first marriage there were four daughters. The only 
one living is Mrs. F. A. Pond of Greenfield. He was married 
Dec. 2, 1886, to Mrs. Ellen, the widow of the late Lieut. Wil- 
liam Barrett. She survives. By this marriage there were no 
children. 

It is thought his recent return from California was too early 
and the climatic change brought on pneumonia. 

The History is manifestly wrong- as to the date of the mar- 
riage. 

SOME THAWED OUT KIMBALLS. 

In the number of the Oxford County Advertiser for April 4, 
I which I sent you ) I noticed the following- names. Our early 
spring is accountable for this — no doubt — and the Kimballs show 
up. 

In Norway Items — I and 2 Hon. A. S. Kimball and wife — Law- 
yer. 3 and 4 (His son) M. L. Kimball and wife — Lawyer. 
'[News June, 1892.] 

In North West Norway — 5 Everett Kimball — Farmer. 

In Waterford — 6 John Kimball. 

In South Waterford — 7 Winfield R. Kimball — Contractor and 
Builder. 8 Mrs. E. P. Kimball. 9 Sumner Kimball. 

In Bethel- -10 Mrs. E. P. Kimball— Teacher. 11 Miss Flo- 
rence E. Kimball — Daug-hter. 12 Mabel A. Kimball — Hist, 
pp. 978, No. 2238- V. This is the only one found in His- 
tory. Some others are mentioned in the News. 

In Naples — 13 Samuel Kimball. 

In North Bridgton, Sweden Items — 14 Geo. R. Kimball. 

In South Albany — 15 Sam Kimball. 

I think this quite a crop of Kimballs to appear in one small 
County paper and all living at the present time 

SUMNER KIMBALL 2448. 



April 1902. 57 



MOSES KIMBALL AGAIN. 

The article on page 43 of the March News has brought out 
some facts. Capt. Isaac Baldwin was not at Lexington. We 
intimated as much. There was not much military or organiza- 
tion at Lexington. Moses was in Capt. Baldwin's Co. at Bun- 
ker Hill and so was Phineas Kimball [History pp. 177] who en- 
listed April 23, 1775 the same day as Moses four days after Lex- 
ington. Capt- Baldwin was from Concord, and was killed at 
Bunker Hill, as may be seen below. Capt. Aaron Kinsman and 
Capt. Gordon Hutchins also went with companies from Concord 
and other towns. Abraham Kimball [History pp. 169] our own 
ancestor also from Hopkinton, may also have been in Capt. Bald- 
win's Co. although possibly in Capt. Kinsman's as intimated on 
pp. 272, April NEWS, L899. 

Mr. Guy S. Rix, genealogist and author of the Eastman 

History, writes from Concord, April 9, 19(>2, as follows: — 
Dear Mr. Kimball:- 

Refering to page 43 of the Kimball News about Mcscs Kim- 
ball. He enlisted from Hopkinton, X. H. in Capt. Isaac Bald- 
win's Co. April 23, 1775. He was a sergeant. His captain 
was killed at the battle of Bunker Hill. Time in service 
three months 16 days. This record can be found in Vol. 
page 50, N. H. Rev. rolls. Other Moses Kimball's were in the 
revolutionary service, but it is impossible to tell whether he is 
the one. He may have been in the battles mentioned on page 
103 of the Kimball History, but there'are no means of verifying 
it. The Rev. rolls of N. H. are very imperfect, as most all rolls 
are. 

Also the following: — 

To the Editor of the Kimball Familv News: 
Dear Sir: — 

In reply to the inquiry made in the "News" March 1902 
concerning the descendants of Moses Kimball 283a would say 9 
can supply little additional dates. I have in my possession the 
old family Bible of Charles Kimball 6 containing records of his 
family which I can give vou if desired. 

In regard to Moses Kimball having been a soldier in the 
war of the Revolution would state, I have a copy of "Abstracts 
of Revolutionary War Rolls." While I cannot copy the whole 
document would* say that I find therein the following state- 
ments: — 

"On Pay Roll of Capt. Isaac Baldwin's Co. Col John Stark's 
Reg't to Air;. 1st 1775." "Sergeant Moses Kimball entered 



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their service April 23, 17* u On Regimental Coal Roll Oct. 

I in Paj Roll Capt. I >< arbor^ I in I ol. Arnold's 
hment f<>: I nada." 'v. Paj Roll Capt. John Hale's Co. 
which marched from Hopkinton and t<>wns adjacent Sept. 1777 
ami joined Northern Continental Anm .it Saratoga." '*Ser- 
Kimball enlisted in their srr\i* - pt, 28, 1777" 
Tb ii.iv t^<-t "Rev, War Rolls" from which these quo- 

made bear the seal x>f the stat< oi New Hampshire 
and 1 tli. in t«» be authentic. 

R< mil v Yours, 

I HAS. M. KIMBALL. 
South Side Parkway, Buffalo N V. April 8, 1902 

Phineas Kimball who was in Capt. Baldwin's Company 

at Bunker 1 1 ill was in Capt. John Hale's Co. in Oct. 1 775. 



ANOTHER MAINE POET. 

Mrs. Jennie K- Snow Kimball, whose poems occasionally ap- 
ir in the Advertiser, lias been asked to write for a certain pe- 
riodical. They advised her that they have copied some of her 
poems from other ] apers, and would he pleased to have her fav- 
or them with her imniis. The product of her mind are certain- 
ly ol a high standard, and show a purity of thought and purpose 
not excelled. Anyone who enjoys sweet thoughts expressed in 
verse cann >t fail to appreciate the fruit of her pen, and even a 
careless reader cannot fail t<> observe a strong roetic talent. 
1 rtainly the s<>il of Main- is doiu£ its share in producing so 
mam writers of sweet verse. — Oxford Me. Advertiser. 



Miss Marguerite Kimball of Brookline, Mass. is a student 
in Radclifl Colleg at Cambridge and Elizabeth Gardner Kim- 
hall ol Nashua. X. H. is there also taking a special course. 

Gov. Charles Dean Kimball, Sarah Dexter Kimball and 
Walter Hammond Kimball are members of the Rhode Island 
Historical Society. The late James Madison Kimball had been 
a member over 2<» years. [May News. 1899 pp. 280.] 

John Sherman the emigrant ancestor of Gen. W. T. Sher- 
man came from England in 1634, the same year as Richard Kim- 
ball, and both settled in ^Vatertown Mass. He was the grand- 
father of Roger Sherman, signer of the Declaration of Indepen- 
dence. 



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MARRIED. 

The Kansas City Star made the following announcement, 
some weeks in advance and time has substantiated the predic- 
tion: 

The marriage of Miss Matie Toothaker. daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. W. H. Toothaker of Kansas City. Kan., to Mr. C. A. 
Kimball, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Melville Kimball of Manhat- 
tan, will take place at the bride's home, 728 Garfield avenue, 
Kansas City, Kansas, on April 16. Miss Toothaker has been 
prominently identified with women's culture clubs in Kansas 
City, Kans., for four or five years, and is a young woman of lit- 
erary ability. Mr. Kimball is a young lawyer who studied un- 
der Senator Burton and Senator Hessin. 

The NEWS welcomes her to the family fireside. 
But Charles Augustus was beaten by his younger brother by 
two or three weeks as may be seen from the following from the 
Manhattan Republic of March 28. 

A very quiet but pretty wedding was that of Mr. Perley 
Kimball of College Hill and Miss Mildred Foltz which occurred 
at high noon yesterdav at the home of the bride in Zeandale. 
Only the immediate relatives of the two young people were pre- 
sent. An elaborate luncheon followed the ceremony. 

The groom appeared in the regulation dress while the bride 
was most charmin^-irowred in a dainty and stylish gray lans- 
downe. Mr. and Mrs. Kimball left immediately for their new 
home on College Hill. A big reception will be given in their 
honor to-night at the home of the groom's parents, Mr. and Mrs. 
J. M. Kimball. [Family Hist. pp. 940.] 

At Brockton Mass. April 2, 1902:— 

Fred A. Chilton and Mis^Marv Carleton Kimball, daughter 
of Mr. and Mrs. Ezra T. Kimball, were united in marriage at 
the home of the bride's parents, Rev- H. Clinton Hay performed 
the ceremony. The bride was g-owned in white peau de cygne, 
trimmed with lace, and carried lilies of the valley. Miss Lucy 
V. Stone of Baltimore, Md., was maid of honor. She wore 
white muslin over pink silk and carried pink roses- William 
Ellison of Xewton was best man. There were nearly 100 guests 
present. A reception followed the ceremony. [Hist. pp. 938.] 

Married at Boston, April 2, 1902. Sarah S. Kimball daugh- 
ter of the late Daniel Kimball Jr. [Family History Xo. 1668] 
and Clifford E. Constable of Southampton, England. The wed- 
ding took place at noon in the home of of the bride's sister. Mrs. 



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\V. Power Wilson Granby road, Black Bay and was largely at- 
tended by the relatives and immediate friends of the family. 

The bride was gowned in yellow crepe-de-chine profusely 

trimmed with rich lace and wore .1 large picture ha1 covered 

with black plumes. Following the ceremony there was ;i small 

eption and after a trip Soutb Mr. and Mrs. Constable will 

make .1 journej around the world. 

A dispatch from Portland Me. says: 

Mr. Robert B. Swifl and Mrs. Cora I). Kimball were mar- 
ried last evening at tin- residence <»t the bride, 4<» Forest ave. 
Rev. Dr. Henry Blanchard officiated. 



DEATHS. 

A Haverhill M;iss. dispatch to the Boston Herald, March 

2'». 1902 sivs: 

Victor ( ). Kimball, aged 26 wars, died at the home of his 
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Warren Kimball, on Highland avenue, 
to<lav. after <-i brief illnrss from pneumonia. He was a nativeof 

this city. After his school life he entered the shoe factory of 
Kimball Bros., at Kennebunk,Me., and upon attaining his ma- 
jority, was admitted to partnership with his father and uncle. 
Last fall the firm, which removed from Kennebunkto Lawrence, 
dissolved partnership, and the deceased, with his father, started 
in the shoe business in this city. lie was universally esteemed 
both in business and social circles. He was a member of the 
Pentucket Club of this city and the Boston Boot and Shoe Club. 



PERSONAL. 

Mr. Marshall Kimball of Greenville, N. H. visited Kansas 
this month. 

Charles Kimball is a Methodist minister recently located at 
New Salem, Kansas in the Winfield district. 

Mrs. T. C. Kimball and daughter May of New York City 
sailed from Boston, April 2, 1902 in the steamer Oceanica for 
Europe to be gone until October. S 

In connection with the notice of the death of his mother 
Mrs. Albert Kimball in last issue, an additional note might have 
been given regarding- her son John B. Kimball 2d. 

He was married Lovell, Me., April 20, 1892, Cora Merrill 
Bemis b. Oct. 22, 1871. Daughter of Moses K. and Ellen Wiley 
(Osgood) Bemis. 



April 1902* 61 



NOTES OF TRAVEL. 

About the middle of December, 1901 my sister Anna and 
myself went with an excursion to Old Mexico, and returned the 
last of January. We had a fine trip and saw much to interest 
us of a people new to us as their manners and ways of living" are 
so unlike our own. Although Mexico is a republic it is very 
different from ours in many respects*, the line dividing the high- 
er and lower classes is so sharply drawn The wealthy live^ in 
luxury and quiet elegance while the poor and lowly barely exist. 

We came out of Mexico feeling that we have no poor with 

us. In the citv of Mexico one cannot go half a block without 

running upon begg ars, old and young beg-. The children are 

the most successful' for their childish appeals for a few "ciento 14 

(pennies) one cannot deny. 

The churches and cathedrals exceeded in splendor and mag- 
nificence anything- we had ever seen many of them having cost 
several millions of dollars, and much of the labor has been 
given by the Mexican Indians who though poor and ignorant 
are very religious quite a contrast often between thesplendorof 
the churches and the unutterable misery of most of the worship- 
ers. They seem a happy people however obeying- the Scriptures, 
in that they take no thought for the morrow, for i^ they have 
enough to eat for to-day it is all they want. We visited many 
quaint old towns, among- them Oaxaca nearly three hundred 
miles south of the Citv of Mexico, and from there out to the 
the ruin? of some thirty miles. These ruins date back so far 
that it is not known what they were nor when they were built. 
They seem to have been temples and palaces, the walls in many 
instances are well preserved, and the work upon them and many 
of the figures is very Egyptian. 

The Aztecs had no knowledge of their origin, neither had 
the Toltecs, so you see they must be of great antiquity. 

We found each town of one thing. Oaxaca was. the only 
place we could get the genuine hand woven wool Indian Serape. 
Pueblo made a specialty of onyx, Guadalajara of pottery. 
Agnas-Calleruta of drawn 'work and so on. The people with 
whom we traveled have spent much time abroad, and said that 
many of the old towns we visited reminded them greatly of 
places in Egypt, and sometimes of Southern Italy. 

• Joan Kimball Clark 

Melrose, California. 



W. S. Kimball has moved from Stark, Kansas to Mound 
Citv where he thinks he is settled down as a Kansas fixture, 
having bought the Opera House block 50x80 feet with a Dry 
Goods and general store below and Opera House above. 



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RANDOM RECORDS OR KIMBALL FOOT PRIMS 
rhese imperfect records are printed t.« assist In the indentification of 
nn recorded members of the family Any one lenowing any thing of them 
1 write to Prof. Sharpies, Broad St. Boston and not to the News^ 



James Kimball b. Nov 12, 1825 D May 8, 1879. m. Feb. 24, 1848 Mary 

\.i.r i e l linan b Jan. B. IS 

Vinn) Kimball b. Chelmsford 1832. Dan. of Etochney and 

I izaheth Winn. m. Jan. 20, 1887. An frusta D Jaquieth, b. 1827 
I i w Kimball i> Biddteford Me. 1867 Son of I aac an I Sarah Kimball 
[11. m. June 10, 1888 Minnie Belle Rice i>. 1869 Waltham 

Mass 
Ann;.- M Kimball l» 1868. Washington I) c Dan. Charles U. and Annie 

\ Kimball, m Jan. 26. 1888, Henry A Frost, b 1868 
i: ,ii Robinson) Kimball b. Scotland in Nov 28. 1888 <'h:«rh-s Manning. 

Ps G Kimball b 1857. m. Feb. 12. 1888 Clars M. Morrison b. 1868. 
John A Kimball b. 1867 Rlackstone Mass Ron of ' ; «•< u-^'- W and Barbara 

in. Sept. 29. 1888 Emms J. Calcntt h 1- - 
Eli/.-i J. Kimball 1». 1862, New Haven Conn Dan Daniel B. and Eliza I'. 

Kimball m. Sept. L6. 1889. William I'. Jramer b. is.-,:',. 
Ellen H. Kimball b. 1 s ''.l Bradford Msss. Dan. William and Melvina m. 

< »<•• 26, l--'.' John R. Remret h 18< 
Hart'-. F. Kimball b. 1868 B\rton Vt Dan. of Georsre and Mandarins <H<>1- 

man) Kimball m Jan. 17. i^'.i Nathan E Martin b. 1862. 
Helen L Kimball b. Lynn Mas-. [865. Dan. William H. X. and R. E. Kim- 
ball m 1889 Charles F PoPard. 
Jennie R Kimball b. 1862 Lincoln Me Dau. David and Lizzie m. Oct. 16, 

1889 Edward E (ntler. 

Nellie Kimball b. 1864 Middletown X. H. T)an. David and Delia m. 

June 25. 1889 Thomas E. McCarthv b. 1862. 
Emily C Kimball b 1867 Tn . Dec. 26. 1889 Georere R. Wyman b. 1*07. 
Thomas I.'. Kimball Son of Thomas L. and Marv R Kimball of Cineinatti. 

m Sept. 25, L889, Annie L* McPhail Dan. of Andrew M, and Hannah W. 

McPhail. 
Charles A. Kimball b. X. 11. m Tiara F. Children, Ella Florence Sabina b. . 

Nov. 5. is'.. (i Charles Alfred b. Feb 24. 1893. 
Albert Kimball b Waterburv Me. m. Celia McLaughlin Son Albert b. July 

1890 d. Oct. 8. 1890. 

Thomas A. Kimball m. Mary J. ( ) Child. Ethel Abigail b. Oct. 16, 1890. 

Mai L. Kimball b. 1869m. Sept. 8. 18Wi William A. Riee b. 1865. 

Hannah E. Kimball b. 1827 Dau. of William and Electra C ) 

Whittle of Westminster \ t. m Nov. 22. 1890 David Tolles. b. 1838. 

Thomas Kimball m. Apn'l 4. 1738 Jane Succumb. 

William Kimball b 1764 d. 1796 m. Feb 9. 1786 Lvdia Rixby. 

Caroline Aiumsta Kimball m Ausr. 18. 1825 Daniel Hudson. 

Sarah Ann Kimball b. Exeter m. Mar. 4. 1827 William A. Carver. 

Elizabeth Kimball m. Mar. 8. 1«30 Perley Laurenee. 

Richard Kimball rf Rind g-e X. H m. April 28 183^ Joanna Heustis. 

Elizabeth Kimball m Dec. 5, 1843 Isaae DeSt. C. Woodbury. | 

Emeline Kimball b. 1861 Washington Me. Dau of Solomon and Lucinda 
(Bruce i Kimball m. June 20. 1880 John F. Finley b. 1844. 

Otis S. Kimball b. May 27. 1848 Kennebunk Son of Tsreal and Sarah 
(Rhodes) Kimball m. July 18. 1886 Sarah 11. Walker b. 1836. 

Alice E. Kimball b. 1863 Dau. Horace and Lavinia Kimball m. June 26, 
1887 Ernest Mills b. 1865. 

Alice M. Kimball b. 1867 Wevmouth Mass. Dau. of Charles and Emma W. 
Kimball m. Dec. 26. 1887 Granville E. Williams b. 1863 Son of Gran- 
ville \V and Persis H. Williams. 



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Annie E. Kimball b. 1867 B jston Dau. of George H. andMary A. Williams 

m. May 19, 1887 William J. Ambrose. 
John Kimball m Eliza | ) Child flenrietta b. Feb. 17. 1892. 

Willis Kimball b. Porter Me. m. Isabella M ( ) Child Dorothy A. b. 

Jan. 11, 1892. 
Robert W. W. Kimball b. 1861 St. Johns N. S. m. April 12. 1S93 Margaret 

E. McEloron 
William Kimball b. Portland Me. m. Catherine ( ) Child William b 

March 1891. 
Frank Kimball m. Catherine M. ( I Child William b. Jan. 10, 1891. 

Frank R. Kimball m Mary J. I ) Dau. Margaret Scollans b. June 21. 

1893. 
George L. Kimball m. Agnes RLgby Dau. Mildred F. b Chelsea Nov. 4. 

1893. 
Nellie R. Kimball b. 1857 Lubec Me. Dau. of Sabina IT. and Arabella E- 

Kimball m May 21. 1891 Amory T. Sperry b. 1831 Brooklyn X. Y. 
Charles Kimball m. Paulina ( ) Dau. b. Dec. 10, 1894. 

Mary C. Kimball m. feeb. 27. 1856 Concord N. H. 
The above are all from the Boston Records, as are also the following 

deaths. 
Henry Kimball b. 1821 d. June 14. 1876. 

Attie M. Kimball b Hilton X. II. Feb. 1856 d. June 15, 1876. Dau. of Wil- 
liam S. and Harriet Kimball. 
Ruth (Thornton) Kimball b. Plattsbnrg X. V. 1837 d. Nov. 30. 1877. Dau. of 

Jacoband Mary Thornton. 
George W. Kim -ail b. Westminster Vt 1*59 d. Dec. 28, 1877 son of Wil- 
liam K. and Hannah E. Kimball. 
Abigails. (Eaton) Kimball, b. Oct. 20. 1816 d. Mar. 30. 1879 wife of Jede- 

diah Kimball dau of Rufu> and Sarah Eaton. 
Charles I) Kimball b. 1834, d. Jan. 17. 1880. son cf William E. and Esther 
A. (Coverly) Kimball b. Sanbornton X. II. d. Feb. 12. 1880. Daughter 
of Nathaniel < Joveley 
Mary A. (Buckley) Kimball d. Feb. 12, lsso Dau. o: Richard and Polly 

Bncklei . 
Louisa Kimball b. Halifax 1839 d. May 25. 1880. 
Hiram I) Kimball b. Canada East 1829 d Mar. 8, 1850. 
Anna Kimball b. Spring-field 1847 d July 10. 1871. 
Abigail Kimball b 1876 Charlestown d. July 21. 1797. 
Mary J. Kimball b. Sept. 18, 1885 d. July 20, 1886, Edmund E. and Mar 

traret. 
Benjamin F. Kimball d. Dec. 22. 1890. 
Ellen A (Rus>el) Kimball b. Conway X. H. 1840 d. Mar. 10. 1888. Dau. 

Criah and Betsey Russell. 
Kuth (Robinson) Kimball b. 1^29 d. June 14. 1889. 

John Wesley Kimball b July 1850. died Oct. 20. 1850 David and Hannah. 
Charles X Kimball b. 1827 d. Jan. 8. 1853 Isreal and Sarah. 
Caroline M. Kimball b. 1804 d. June 15. 1850. Dau. of Michael and Mary 

Roulston. 
Elizabeth G. (Smith) Kimball b. Ipswich 1774 d. 1858 Dau. Thomas and 

Elizabeth Smith. 
Georo-eanna Kimball b. 1827 d. July 3. 1859 Dau. Isreal and Mary Kimbalb 
Xancy Kimball b. 1801. d. July 4. 1859 Stephen and Ednah Kimball ot 
Xewbury. . 

Annah G. (Scouton) Kimball d. Feb. 10. 1860 Dau. Stephen and Abigail 

Scouton 
Hannah W. Kimball (Wido*-) d. May 12. 1861 b. Lyman Me. 
Fanny W. Kimball b. Bethel Me. d. Xov. 14. 1861. Dau. George W. and 

Mary B. 
Lucv P. Kimball b. 1817 d. Aug. 14. 1866. 



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Elizabeth B. French) Kimball b. Bangor Me. 1820 d. Aug-. 31, 1868. Dan. 

of John French. 
Barriel Kimball b. 1841 d. April 25, 

Et1 M. Kimball b. 184*3 d. May ». 1870 1 Married I b. Waldeboro M<-. 
I. izabeth Kimball b. 1833 d. Nov 21, 8 

Thomas R. Kimball b. 1811 Danville Vt. d. Jan - - J< e and Eliza- 
bei h. 

hard Kimball b. 1800 d. May 17. 1872 Richard and Betsey of Springfield. 
Joanna Kimball b. Feb. 5, 1795 d. Mar. 30, L873. (Widow) 

Kimball b. L785 d. April 3, ton Hill and Mary of Plainfield. 

ea II. Kimball b Gardner Me. 1846 d. June 5, 1873 Joseph N. and 

Nancy. 
An i d Kimball b. Frankfort Me. 1836 d. Sept. 12, 1873 wife of Royal 

A. Kimball. 
Daniel H. Kimball b. Bangor Me. 1837 d. Feb. 24, 1873 Daniel and Lydia S. 
Maud F. Kimball b. Dec; 8, 1869 d. Feb. 24. 1873. William II. and Barriet 

L. 
[nezG. Kimball b. Dec. 16, 1863 d Feb 27, 1874 John and Susan H 
Mary Kimball b. April 20, 1861 d. May 23, 1874 George W. and Mary. 
Charles b. Jan. 1853 Bayzeth Ohio d. July LP, 1874. Stephen and Margaret 

Kimball, 
bherine (Freeman) Kimball b. 1804 d. Mar. 27, 1885. Wife of Isaac Dan. 

of Jonathan and Eunice Freeman. 
Caroline Kimball b. 1812 Maine d. Aug 29, 1866. 

Anne D. Kimball b. Jan. 26, 1.849 d. April 10, 1864. John and ( atherine. 
Mary Ann Kimball b. Nov. 1862 d Dec. 28, 1864 Charles and Hannah. 
Eugene F. Kimball b. 1845 d. Mar ;:.'. 1867 John F. and Susan. 
Mark Kimball b. Kenneounk d. \h-c. 27, 1866 Roxbury. 
Edward W. Kimball b. Kennebunk 1838 d. Jan. 15, 1867. Joseph. 
Rebecca (Belcher) Kimball b. Mansfield 1802 d. Feb. 12, 1867. 
Daniel Kimball b. Se] t. 30, I860 d. Feb. 10. is,;;. 

Frank B. Kimball b. Oct. 21, 1872 d. Jnim -.'9. 1881. Joseph F and Mary E. 
Susan EL (Morrison) Kimball b. Cumberland Mr. Feb. 21, 1824. d. May 29, 

1881 Dau. Ephraim and Eunice Morrison. 
Margaret Whittier Kimball b. Haverhill 1843. d. Sent. 21, 1881 Dan. of Sol- 

<>mon and Elizabeth Whittier. 
Mary K. Kimball b. 1 840 Maine, d. Oct 24, 1883. 
Lucy (Boyle) Kimball b. Truro N. S. d. Stc.neham July 4, 1880. 
Dudley E. Kimball b. 1843 d. Dec. 3. 1844. 
S1 irling Kimball 1>. 1804 d. Jan. 18. I-';.".. 
Ann Kimball b 1820. d. Feb 6, 1845. 

Samuel Kimball, b Sanbornton 1838 d Nov. 1883 Richari and ?]liza. 
John F. Kimball Newburyport b. 1 *04 d. Feb. L 1882 John Kimball. 
Mary (Valory) b. Salem 1809 d. Jan. 31. 1886. Abraham and Elizabeth 

Valory. 
Catherine' Kimball b. 1*22 d July 19. 1*44. 
Mary F. K mball b. 1^47 d. Jan. 20, 1855. 
Catherine G. Kimball b. Lunenburg 1788, d. April 14. 1850 Samuel and 

Mary. 
F. Theobald Kimball b. 1848 d. July 29, 1850 Frederick N. and Susan E. 
Joseph C. Kimball b. Quincy 111. 1845 d. Aug. 29, 1850 Oliver and Sarah. 
<M-orgeF. Kimball b. 1831, d. Dec. 19. 1892 John Kimball and Catherine E. 
William C. Kimball b. Krandon Vt. Feb. 28, 1832 d. Mar. 29, 1S94 Lorenzo 

\Y. and Prudence Kimball. 
Phebe O. (Johnson) Kimball b. April 23, 1825 d. July 8. 1890 Joseph and 

Sarah Johnson of Blue Hill Me. 
Vicnoria (Hutchinson) Kimball b 1*44 Charleston d. Mar. 8, 1890, Daughter 

of James W. and Anna Hutcinson. 
Marion L. (Abams) b. Feb. 14. 1*37, Dudlow Vt. d. Jan. 27, 1890. Dau. of 

Amasa and Lucy Adams. 



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utimball* family Views 

Vol. V, No. 5. G. F KIMBALL, Publisher. Terms, $1.00 a year 



Topeka, Kansas, May, 1902. 



THE BENNINGTON CAMPAIGN. 

Captain Peter Kimball was an influential citizen of Bosca- 
wen, N. II. During the Revolutionary period, he and Col. Hen- 
ry Gerrish were the leading spirits of the town. He served in 
four campaigns, in one as a private. 

The Rev. Mr. Price said he w T as a man of "unwavering in- 
tegrity" and soon came into public notice. He moved from 
Bradford, Mass., where he was born, Oct. 16, 1739, to Boscawen, 
in 1765. When Washington evacuated Lon^ Island, Peter 
Kimball was one of the eight who went from his town to join 
the army. The next year Col Gerrish was raising supplies, and 
Capt. Kimball had organized a company that awaited events. 

Orders trom Col. Thomas Stickney, who lived in Concord, 
reached Capt. Kimball July 1, to be ready with his company to 
march at a minute's warning to oppose Gen. Burgoyne, who 
was advancing from Canada to Lake Champlain. Capt. Kim- 
ball's company marched July. 4 1777. 

CAPT. KIMBALL'S DIARY. 

"July 1st 1777 orders came from Col. Stickney to me to muster and 
Equip one Quarter part of the Company to march at a minits warning- and 
in consequence of the same we met to git the men. 

"July 4 orders came to march 13 men Immediately to tie [Tieonder- 
oga.l 

"saterday we marcht to perrytown [SuttonJ and Loged thare. 

"Sunday fi we marcht to Qnity and Log-ed thare. 

■•Monday 7 we marcht to No 4 and Loged thare & drawd 4 Day allow- 
ance. 

"tuesday 8 we marcht to Cavendysh and Loged thare 

■•Wendesy 9 we marcht to No 4 again. 

"thursday 10th we marcht to Unity and Loged. 

"fryday 11 we marcht home." 

The cause of this return was the receipt of the news that 
Ticonderog'a had been evacuated on the nigdit of July 6. But 
Burirovne was marching- on. The British attacked and defeated 
C >1. Seth Warner at Hubbardton. Vt-, the next day. Vermont 



Kimball Faraih News, 



i riders to New Hampshire, declaring" that it their state 

w;i rrun, New Hampshire would become a border state and 

subject to .1 like fate. This communication was written 

Jul 

N< w Hampshire A - emblj was in • r on the 17th, 

.ind in .: at quandary. The militia was read)', but there was 
mon< It was then that John Landon offered all his cash, 

all in i r plate, and his three hundred ho j-sheads of Taba ro 

nun. le Assembly was excited with patriotic ardor. The 

wh was aroused. John Stark was on his farm. He 

was or I to take the field. Capt. Peter Kimball worked 
July 20, on his farm. Two days latn- he r c ived hi 5 or 1 ;rs to 
marc He had 22 men, and four others joined him. At Con- 

ird Herbert joined him with 31 m Col. 

nmanded the regiment, with Lieut-Col Emerson 

[imball's diary is one of brief details. He gives 

Lrticulars o battle of Bennington. Tw > lines only and 

these include the mere mention of his w >und, which he says was 

it. It will n that the r :giment followed the enemy to 

illwater but did not remain to take part in the battles that 

1 in the surrender of Burg >yne. It is mtim ited that this 

was because the men were not willing to accept the $10 each 

offered by Gen. Gates. It is not only possible, but probable 

that this was not the true n ason. 

en. Stark- had served his country well, but had b :en super- 
ded by an officer of inferior grade, and retired from the ser- 
vice feeling that he had n >t been well treat  1 He had refu - 
serve under the ntinental Congress but accept 1 a c >mmis- 
►n from his state. His was enabled to act independently. 
lie was to defend the frontier. When the British invaded 
Vermont he f »a r.it an 1 w >n the battle of BsnnLngt m. But he 
could not serve under Gen. Gates. This is doubtless the reason 
why Gen. Stark and his New Hampshire soldiers returned homo, 
and not the reason assigned by Capt. Kimball. 

CAPT. PETER KIMBALL'S DIARY, "OXTIXl'ED. 
''July 24th marcht to Salsbury with 22 men and Loged in order for No 

4 [Charleston.] 

•frvday 25th we marcht to sevil and Loged tliare. 
'Saturday 2fith we marcht to Mr Grout's at No 4 Log-en thare. 
"Sunday 27th we marcht to town [Charleston] and Drawd 4 Days al- 
lowance. 

"Mondav 28 we marcht about 4 mile and Logerl at Rockingham. 



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••tuesdy 29 we marcht to Kent and Loged thare. 

••Wendsdey 30 we marcht to Brumley & Loged at Capt Kelleys. 

"thursdey 31 we marcht over the green mountains to manchester to 
Head Quarters & Loged thare. 

"fryday august 1st we Drawd 2 days allowance. Nothing extraordi- 
nary hapened this Day 

"saterdy 2 the scouts beat in a Drove of cattle. A rainy Day. 

"Sunday 3d Col Stickney came into camp in the Rain. 

"Mondey 4th nothing extraordinarj' hapened this Day. Abner Chace 
joined our Company. 

•tuesdy 5th sim Danford come in and joined us. 

"Wendsdy nth general Stark come in. 

"thursdy 7 orders came for a scout to go to the crick [Otter Creek.] Lt 
Col [Emerson] 1 Capt [Kimball] 4 sub 83 officers (privates?) encluded pa- 
raded at the generals at 7 o'clock evening. Dismist & ordered to meet, at 
7 oclock in the morning. 

•frydv 8th marcht about 100 men for the crick. Col Emerson com- 
manded, marcht in or 12 miles campt at Danbury. 

"Sater lv 9th marcht about 3 miles and Brakfast at a tory house then 
marcht to Dedham & campt 

■•Sundv 10th we marcht to Rutland ' ook 2 hogshead of Rum £ marcht 
back to 1 tedhara and Loged tnare. 

"monday 11th sent .1 party A: found 2 barrels of rum & some shugar. 

"tuesdy 12th we marcht to fisks and Loged. Alarm was made. 

"Wendsdv 13 we marcht and campd with the Drove and cargo. 

"thursdy 14th we marcht to Manchester. 

"frydy 15 we marcht to Bennington. 

"Saterday 16 we formed the Brigade & had a battle with the enemy in 
which I Received a slite wound. 

••Sundv 17 I went & viewed the ground where the Battle was & re- 
turned to camp, and Laid in camp all Day. 

"Mondy l> we Lay in the camp sent out scouts Berried some Dead. 

tuesday l'.'th I went to town to see the sick A wounded. Rote a Let- 
ter to send home. 

"wen-day 20 we Lay in our camp & I went A: viewed the ground 
where the battle was. 

"Thursdy 21 we left the Lines & marcht about 2 miles & Quartered in 
a barn at one abbots. 

••fryday 22 we Lay in the barn. Nothing extraordinary hapened this 

Day. 

"Saterdey 23 I went to town to see the sick and wounded. 

"Sunday 24th I went to see the sick to town the afternoon went to 

meeting. 

"monday 25th I went to town to the Vandue of the plunder. 

•■tuesday 26 sarch was made for plunder in the company. 

"Wensday Aug- 27 I went to Vandue. 

"thursday 2s Nothing extraordinary hapened this day. 

"fryday 29 I went to Vandue. 

"Saterday 30 I went to see the ground where the battle was with Lt 
Center & Dr flanders. & the soldiers come in from Boscawen (another 
company that arrived after the battle.) 

"Sunday 31 major Head Died about Sun Rise. Burried at Evening. 

••Sept Monday 1st we built a Booth to drink tody in. 

"tuesday 2 timothy Johnson had a discharge from the army. 

"wensday. 3d timothy Johnson went of home. 

"thursday 4th I went tu Vandue & bot a hatian (Hessian) gun for 49 
shillings. 

"frydey 5 ordered to be ready to march to Ranzelers mills, and I went 
to town and saw the Baymen (Breymen prisoners) march for manchester 



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Sater e A Ba rrickl | ha tracked i t hare. 

-  • h I wenl t<» Head Quartern and Drank Bome whiskey al 

Mondi nothing extraordinary hapened 1 1 1 i -— Day. 

• lesdey 9th ordern came to hold ourselves in Rcdiness to march to- 
rn* »rr H ] I >e for Still wa t  

Huh we march 1 i"< ambr ind Loged. 

'thursiay il we marchl t<> Still water and campt the Bast side of 
rl i,l; i hare I sa w Nehemia li ( larlton 

we march! over the River and cam pi on the Wesl Bide, 
orders came to march and we swung our packs and 

mai il 3 miles a joined tin ntinental army a campl in the wood. 

Sundy lith 1 wenl through the Encampmenl to see my acquaintance, 
ire 1 sa  hemiah Carlton and in the afternoon Mr Hibben preachl u 
an 'ii 

"Mondey 1 5th orders came to parade the Regl & accordingly we was 

• a i ol Ashley told us thai it was the Desire of Gen] Gates thai we 

• • month Longer & be would give ten Dollars a man a the 

» nifd N< t inclined to stay on thai consideration & at night General 

'in- into -imp. 

 - y lt'ith Nothing extraordinary tlapened this Day. 

•• \\ t i y it we Lay in our camp. 

"thursdy 18 I Left the camp <& march 1 to Benningtown & Loged al 
Mr. Abbot's 

"frydey 19 I went to town a gut the plunder money for the company 
£] 13 -7 which was in the Benningtown fight of my company. 

Saterdey 20th marchl to Shaftsbury A gut Brakfast from thence to 
Man ster <S gut dinner then to the mountains & Campt. 

Sundey 21 mar -lit to Capt Ritty's gut Brakfast the n to Kint (Kent?) 
at I )]• L< »ged t ha re. 

"mondey 22d we marcht to No 4 A Loged at Col Hunts. 

"tuesdy 23d I marcht to Unity and Loged at Capt Hun toon's. 

"Wensday 24 I marcht to Perrytown and Loged thare. 

"Thursdy 25 I gut home. 

■•The plunder money at Bennington Divided to 2250 men. 

■" \ Return of the killed a wounded General Starks Brigade in 3'e a<-- 
t ions ;i t I !enn ingtown. 

"Col Bubbert Regt 3 killed 7 wd 
"Col Nichols Regt 9 killed L3 wd 
"Col Stickney R< g1 2 killed 18 wd 

 total 14 killed 38 wd 

"ITEM*. 

"Charlestown July 28 1777 | ' 

£ s. p. 
"paid for clove water for the company — 10 — 6 

paid for brandy — 9 — 

Lieut Harbert paid for iiread — 1 — 

Capt paid for Bread — 1 — 

"Benning-town August 31 
•(apt Webster Dr to 0—12—0 

Paid to Daniel Cran."' 

This was Capt Ebenezer Webster of Salisbury, father of Daniel and 
Ezekiel. 



May 1902. 69 



£ s. 
"Paid for Sarg-t Abbot 0—3—0—0 

Elk. Danford Dr 0—3—6 

Asa Corser Dr — 6— 

Wm Jack man Dr — 6 — 

paid for Lieut Harbert — 1 — 1 

paid Ensig-n Bohonnon Lieut Harbert — 9 — 

* "Benning-town— 5 1777 

li this Day settled our mess & find that our expenses at mr Abbot is 
— 13 — 2. paid by Lieut Harbert. 

"•11 Batches of Bread Baking- 16s.— 6 for the company 2s. — to each 
mess of the (regiment'.') 

for Baking 8 — 5 — 7 — 

4 Bakings — 6— 

"Sept 1777 s 

■Lent to Elknh (Elkanah) Danford 12—6 

£ s. 
Lent to Capt Webster . 0— 1— 0— 0'' 



AT FAULT SOMEWHERE 

Referingr to Moses Kimball mentioned in March News. 
Prof. Sharpies writes: 

I think if you will apply to the Pension office at Washing- 
ton you will get Moses Kimball's Record. I have an abstract 
made by Mr. Morrison which is substantially the same as given 
in the History p. 103. If you will come to Boston I will be 
pleased to show you many rolls of companies who were out on 
the Lexington Alarm. I think the service is good for a mem- 
bership in the D. A. R. This is a case where there is no trouble 
about the identification as his age is given on the pension Roll 
at Washington. "Moses Kimball m Oct. 16, 1771 at Hopkinton 
N. H. Jemima Clement. He was b. Nov. 9, 1747 he d. Nov. 9, 
1823" He was at Lexington, Mass. in 1775 Capt. Isaac Baldwin's 
Co. Was orderly Sergeant. They removed from N. H. to Jeffer- 
son Co. Ohio, town of Warren in" 1801. He was at Saratoga at 
the taking of Burgoyne and at Bunker Hill." 

In our last issue were given extracts from the N. H. Rolls 
to which we row refer. 

It will be noticed that Mr. Sharpies still holds that 
Moses was at Lexington in Capt. Baldwin's Co. The records 
quoted last month show that Moses enlisted in Baldwin's Co. 
Apr. 23, 1775, four days after the battle of Lexington. The 
Family History itself page 177 says that Phineas Kimball en- 



tnball Family News, 



a ( .;. John Stark's regiment, and in [saac 

v. 

The Lexington waa foughl April 19. The news 

: mpshire at Concord on the morning of the 20th 

II; i om ord and Boscawen. ( In that da j * <»l. 

at work in his saw mill. Charlton's Hist. N 

II. 

A- Putnam left his ]»l«»\v in tin- furrow Stark loft his saw in 

Within the nexl two days several companies were 

in that neighborhood. Capt Aaron Kinsman and Capt. 

mpanies from Concord. Capt. Gerrish raised a 

from Boscawen and tin- neighborhood and Capt. Isaac 

win raised another whether from Hopkinton and Warner we 

are not able to say. Hut all these companies belonged to 

giment which wasat Hunker Hill, but could not have 

en at Lexington if these records are correct. See News. p. 

::: April L899. 

Mos - Kimball was from Hopkinton and was in Isaac Bald- 

wi- impany. It has always been understood that Abraham 

mball, wb -lived in Hopkinton, was in the battle of 

Bunker Hill, and he too may have been in Baldwin's company. 

the battle of Bunker Hill. June 17, the Revolution- 

arv army in N< v." England was fairly well organized, vvith Gen. 

Ward in command. Washington arrived early in July and the 

nization per I d. In April at the time of the raid upon 

"ii and Concord there were organizations of minute men 

in some towns and in others no militia organizations of any 

kind. 

To be sure there were companies, or parts of companies at 
Lexington and Concord. But it is not probable that they were 
recently organized or what may be termed Revolutionary War 
Companies. The country was full of old military companies 
that had been organized and served in the Indian and French 
wars. One of these with a history was the Grafton Company. 

Another was the company from Acton. Major Buttrick 
had command of the minutemen and gave the order to fire. The 
Xew Hampshire military organization under Col. Stark had its 
beginning April 23, 1775, and the term of enlistment was for 



May 1902. 



eight months. Col. Stark went with his regiment to Cambridge, 
where the Revolutionary army was organized His regiment 
was quartered at Medford. On the morning of June 17 Col. 
Stark was ordered to support Col. Prescott at Bunker Hill, and 
here Capt. Isaac Baldwin was killed. 



DEATHS 

CHARLES KIMBALL. 

A boy about 13 years old, drowned near Farlinville, Linn 
Counts, Kansas, May 27, 1902. Not in History. 

MRS. G. CK BAILEY. 

Mrs. Giles O. Bailey of Bridgeton Me. died at her home 
April 9. She was a sister of Alfred S. Kimball of Norway. 

•■■ News p. 112 June 1898.) Mr. Bailey was formerly edil 
of the Portland Sunday Times Her mother is still living at 
the age oi ears. 

R M. SAWYER. 

In Winchendon, Mass., April 26, 1902, Ralph Marshall 
Sawyer, only son of Ernest L. and Mary Lillian 'Kimball ) Saw- 
yer aged 13 years, 2 months and 10 days. Family History p. 
1078, No, : : -ii. The News extends its sympathy to the par- 
ents and the three sisters. This sadness came while the grand- 
father Marshall Kimball of Greenville, N. H. No. 2291 was 
visiting in Kansas when he called upon the News. 

JAMES P. KIMB \LL. 

Colonel James P. Kimball, U. S. A. assistant surgeon gen- 
eral of the United States army retired)', died Saturday Apr. 19, 
1 ( N>2 at Onteora-in-the-Catskills. at the age of sixty-two. He 
was a graduate of Hamilton College and the Albany Medical 
College, and became assistant surgeon of the One Hundred and 
Twenty-first New York Infantry in January, 1865, being mus- 
tered out in the following July. In Mav. 1867, he was appoint- 
ed an assistant surgeon in the regular army, and reached the 
grade of lieutenant-colonel and deputy surgeon-general on Feb. 
1, 1900. He was subsequently retired with the next higher 
rank. (Not mentioned in Family History.) 

BDWARD H. KIMBALL. 

Mr. Edward H. Kimball of Bath, Me., died Friday after- 
noon, May 23. 1902, after a long illness, caused by an accident 
two years ago. He graduated at Bowdoin College in 1876. La- 
ter he spent a year studying law in Paris, and was admitted to 



1 I .mill v N." 



th, S He then attended Boston LJniversi- 

raduated in I and afterwards formed ;i part- 
i th Judg< Mi In 1890 he was the acting treasur- 

►ath Savings Institution, and the following year 
rship with his brother Fred in the grain busi- 
Tv while at work aboul an engine, M 

struck on the the head b\ a bolt on the fly 

wheel, ;m<l he n >vered from the cl int. II. • !• 

widow, daughters and a son. H« wasforty- arsold. 

He was 1 the Hon. John H. Kimball of Bath 

w' ■• - pi mber 1901. 1 fist. | 5.] 

( IRRIN \. KIMB \I.L. 

Mr. Orrin A. Kimball, treasurer of the Emerson Piano 

Boston, died Wednesday night, April 16, 1902 on a 

r Phoenix, Ar. The body was taken to Boston. 

Only twenty hours before his death he was married to Miss 

Lottie I. Wells. He had been in Arizona since January. He 

nt the wintrr.it' 1900 1901 there and the winter before that 
in Flordia, as he could not stand the rigors of the New England 

mate. Mr. Kimball was born in Hanover, N. H., Mar. 23, 

14. On Oct 10, 1861, he enlisted in Company B, Sixth Ver- 
mont Volunteers, and served three years. He began busin< 

in his native town in the furniture trade. Later he went to 
Brattleboro, Vt., where he was employed by the Estey Organ 
 >mpany. He < ame to Boston in 1872, and went to work for the 
Emerson Piano Company. Soon afterward he was placed in 
charg the finishing department of the works, and this posi- 

tion he held until the purchase of the plant in 1879 by the pri - 

it Emerson Piano Company, which consisted of himself. P. H. 
Powers and Joseph Gramer. Since the reorganization in 1879 
he had held the the position of treasurer and general superin- 
tendent of the factory. 



Miss S. N. Kimball, of Bethel, Me., recently fell and broke 
her arm. 

stant Surgx-on-Ueneral U. S. A. James Putnam Kim- 
ball has been retired. [Hist p. 743.] 

There are some of our readers who would enjoy that book 
"The Overland Stage to California" that our friend Root adver- 
tises on cover of the Xev It would have been strang-e if there 
had not been some adventurous Kimballs in the days of the 
Overland Stage. And so there were. Mr. Root tells of several 
who drove a Concord Coach across the plains in those days. 



May 1902. 73 

FRUITS FROM RANDOM RECORDS. 

Abigail S. Eaton Kimball was the wife of Jedediah Kim- 
ball 14 ( >2-i Jedediah is given in the History as having had three 
children but his wife's name is not given, p. 63 News. On p. 
19, William E. Kimball m. Berinda ( ) son Frank Seaborn b. 
May 28, 1870. Mrs. Henry Duffy 1453-iii) who furnished the 
above information in regard to her cousin Jedediah, says; I am 
almost sure William was the son of Jedediah and Abigail; when 
quite young- he went with his Uncle Eaton to live in Java and 
about thirty vears a°;o came back to Boston to visit his mother 
bringing his wife and four children; while coming over a child 
was born to them on board the Steamer, and they named him 
Seaborn «>n account of his having been born at sea. William 
went south and remained awhile, afterwards returning to Java. 
S aborn died very young, I think in this country. After ar- 
riving in Java his wife died leaving him four children who were 
sent to Boston to live with his sister and be educated. By his 
cond wife he had Children but I know nothing of them. Wil- 
liam died about seventeen years ago. 



HE GOES TO FLORIDA. 

Prof. Sharpies writes that he is about to go to Florida 
where he will remain most of the summer. They are erecting a 
phosphate plant at Cedar Kev-. He does not say so but we 
take it that he is the chemist of the company and otherwise in- 
terested. He also >ays that no sympathy need be wasted on 
him for being in that state in the summer as they have a sea 
breeze every evening and the climate is more endurable than 
that of Kansas, and the News vouches for it that Kansas is 
more endurable than most of the Middle States; in fact Kansas 
climate is delightfu 



Camping- in Colorado 

is one cf the most delightful and inexpensive ways of spending 
a vacation. A book with the above title, containing full details 
of where to go. necessary camp equipmeut. and its cost, either purchased 
or rented, with full and accurate information for the inexperienced is 
being prepared by the < ireat Rock Island Route, and will be sent free, 
with other Colorado literature, on application to E. W. Thompson. A. <r. 
P. A. Topeka. Kansas. You will be astonished to find how cheaply the 
outing can be made. 



James A. Kimball of Salina, Kansas, is a member of the 
Republican State Central Committee. 



Kimball Famib N< 



Kimball of Wi [daho, has become a member 

h 5 ol the Sonsol the Am n Revolution. 

! 

i Kimball Union Academy 

100 j nt. The sum of $5,- 

\ ad< my fum K imball ; ad< ra 

M in tin P \, U 

I nd jr. late p- >i this mid continent 

th< mosl successful political workers in|the 

d in landing his candidate i<»r governor, W. J. 

rly » mber -at-large. History p, !<>2o. 

C '\ M. Kimball of Polk Street, Topeka, presented t; 

pupil PolV S hool, on memorial day with beautiful silk flags. 
r 400 flags t< it. Hi  laude Frederick is just 

unoting a coal mine scheme in Jewell count Hist. p. 

Mrs. Julia Frances Shultz of Grantville, seven miles east of 
Topeka, has just returned from a prolonged visit to her uncle, 
ter Edison Kimball of Mountain View Cal. He attended 
the Pacific < Reunion last year. She has many j^ood words 

for tti lifornia members of the family. She will hereafter 

make her home in T a. Kist. p *" 

On April 6 the large stone worsted mill at Pascoag, R. I. 
was pra Lily destroyed by fire. The fire broke out in the 

picker room and had gained such headway before being* discov- 
d that when the villagers were aroused they could do little 
the structure. The mill was a three-story stone build- 
in t»- and was built about eight years ago. The loss on the ma- 
chinery is estimated at $50,000 and on the building- $30,000. 
r.'»th were insured. The mill was owned by Horace Kimball of 
Providence. 

nnouncement is made of the marriage of W. P. Tutker 
and Stella Victoria Kimball of Manhattan, Kan. June 12,. 1902. 
The News learns that they are to live in Old Mexico. Mr. 
Tucker is a graduate of the Agricultural College Class of '92 t 
id she of the class of '94. She is a sister of Fred G. Kimball 
<o has served the post office department so efficiently in Alaska 
of whom the News has made frequent mention. Her sister Sa- 
rah Bertha, married Prof. Dickens of the College and was the 
artist who made the drawings to illustrate the various publica- 
tion of the School, especially the entomological and horticultur- 
al designs. Family History p. 940, 



May 1902. 75 



PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. 

The News takes the following- from a late number of Les- 
lie's Weekly, under the heading- above. 

The News has heretofore had something- to say of Col. 
Dyer who formerly lived in Kansas City and who so royally en- 
tertained the Colonial Dames and the Daug-hters of the Ameri- 
can Revolution in November last as detailed in a recent issue. 

"Colonel D. B. Dyer, of Augusta, Ga., has the distinction 
of being the only Republicun who has ever been on the staff of 
a Democratic < rovernor in Georgia. Colonel Dyer, who is the 
Southern representative of the Jarvis-Conklin Syndicate, and 
president of the street railway and electric company of Aug-usta, 
is a Republican in national affairs, but hispopularity in Georgia 
is such that when Governor Candler was selecting the "colo- 
nel," who are indispensable on all social affairs of state, "the 
man from Kansas" was made one of his aids. Colonel Dyer 
owns Chateau le Vert, the home of the famous Madame le Vert, 
and he has tilled it with rn almost priceless collection of ante- 
bellum furnishings. In his music room is a spinnet over a hun- 
dred years old, an old Stradivarius, and a music-box wonderful- 
ly inlaid with g-old and mother-of-pearl. His buffet shows a 
silver service presented to Madame le Vert by Lafayette, a 
huge, heavily carved loving-cup with the royal coat-of-arms 
and monogram of the Czar of Russia, presented to Governor 
Pickens, of South Carolina, by Alexander, and a wonderful col- 
lection of cut-glass decanters and toddy tumblers that w T ere 
used bv Southern planters of ante-bellum times. He has a rare 
collection of miniatures and jeweled snuff boxes, each of which 
could tell a tale of famous belles and court g-allants. But -Colo- 
nel Dyer's love of curious is not confined to things of bygone 
davs, for his collection of Indian relics, which took the first 
prize at the world's fair at Chicago, and which is now on exhi- 
bition in the public library at Kansas City, is the finest private 
collection in the world. 

CORRECTION. 

Pag-e 5S9, No. 1183, Freeman, should be Truman. Same 
correction on p. 316 and 8 r *9. Truman Kimball married Hannah 
(not Anna 1 L. Brown. Their daughter Betsey married Dennis- 
on (not Dennises Burroughs. Their daughter Eliza Ann mar- 
ried John Stark Burroughs and was always known as "Stark" 
a name not given in Historv. 

Pag-e 900. The name of Samuel Swett's second daughter 
is Adelia Eliza mot Elizabeth. ) 



76 Kimball Family News, 

SUPPLEMENTARY N< >TES. 

Pag< 594, No. 1196. Aaron Kimball 7 Job* Abraham* 
A.imn* David Benjamin 1 Richai married Deborah Quinby« 

I- d .i^ having only three sons; i Aaron Rauton, ii Dan- 
iel Seldon and iii Dennison Johnson. The latter now living in 
[x>well Mass. Married Sept. 14, 1854 Sophia Queen Coburn; is 
not reported as having children. 

Besides these three sons Aaron Kimball' had several daugh- 
nrtli Hannah* married John Johnson and they had 
two daughters. One of these married Elisha Hewitt of Bristol 
Vt. and died Jan. 19, 1902 leaving six children. The other 
daughter married Frank Hall lives in Enfield, N. H. have tour 
children and have buried two. This information is furnished 
Mrs. K. A. Frank I [all. 

It may be seen that here is a good deal of buried or unwrit- 
ten <»r unknown family history. It belongs to the Abraham 
imball branch and that of the Editor of the News. Abraham 
1 . 25<> fought at Bennington. He had twelve children ten of 
whom, certainly, and probably all, left families. His descend- 
an1 very numerous vastly more so than the history shows. 

The News solicits all possible information regarding; this 
branch. It is well represented in all parts of the country in the 

lie west, in the east and on the Pacific Slope. Can we not 
erest them in gathering in the loose family threads. If so we 
n make a g-ood Abraham Kimball book. 

We quote the following from the closing- part of Mrs Hall's 
letter, it shows how the family history has been distorted 
through traditions. She says, kk I wish I could give you more 
information. I know there were three brothers who came from 
Ipswich, England to Ipswich, Mass. -that one of them went to 
Hopkinton. Aaron was his name. Abraham I suppose was 
his son, but he might have been his brother. I believe there is 
a Kimball History but it is of Richard's descendants and he was 
a brother of Aaron's and settled in Haverhill, Mass." 

Now the News readers know that this is all traditio^ and 
mostly wrong but they would be surprised to know how much 
there is of it among intelligent and well read members of the 
family who have neither the History nor the News. 

P^or the benefit of hundreds therefore we repeat that only 
two brothers, Henrv and Richard came from Suffolk county 
igland in April 1634 and settled in Watertown. Ma: . Rich- 
ard soon moved to Ipswich. Henry left few descendants and 
his family is practically extinct. Richard's are numerous and 
embraces all the known Kimball descendants in the country in 
both male and female line. Aaron who settled in Hopkinton 
was the son of David who was the son of Benjamin the tenth 



May 1902. 77 



child of Richard. Abraham [Xo. 250] was the sixth child of 
the twelve born to Aaron and his wife Susanna [Smith] Kim- 
ball of Hopkinton. 

COUSINLY LETTERS. 

Mrs. Laura Kimball Smith [Xo. 1217] whose home is in St. 
Louis, writes under date of April 20, 1902: — 

k4 I am visiting my niece Mrs. J. F. Lyon [History p. 603] 
sister of Col. D. B. Dyer of Augusta, Ga~ [p. 909.] I was vis- 
iting- in New Hampshire last September and October, in West 
Plymouth the old home we left in 1834 [Laura Ann Kimball 
was then 18 years old — Ed. News.] I also visited in Hudson 
my nephew Dr. Alfred Kimball Hills. [Hist. p. 601, News 
Feb. 1899 p. 229.] From there I went to Boston, Brighton, 
Quincy, Cambridge, Maiden and visited relatives. I had a very 
pleasant visit with mv sister Nancy C. K. Hills. [Mother of 
Dr. Hills said in Hist. p. 601 to be deceased— Ed. News.] 
She spends the winter with her daughter Mrs. Oliver Gragg- in 
Brig-hton. L. K. SMITH. 

Mrs. Smith will be 86 years old June 20, 1902 and her sister 
Mrs. Hills was 88, Jan. 17, 1902. They come from that long- 
lived family of Joseph and Nancy I Currier ) Kimball of Hopkin- 
ton then of Groton X. H. which moved to Elgin 111. in 1834 
[Hist. p. 323.] Joseph died the next year and his widow sur- 
vived 53 years and died Sept. 22, 1888. She celebrated her one 
hundreth birthday, Sept. 26, 1887. [Fam. NEWS Feb. 1898 p. 
20 and Sept. 1898 p. 145.] 

/. V. Kimball, Hillsboro, 111., has been graduated as an M. 
D. Xot in History. I His record is wanted. 

At the annual communication of the grand lodge "of Masons 
for Maine, A. S. Kimball of Norway was elected Grand^Master 
of the Grand Lod^e 



CLOUDCROFT 

is a splendid summer resort high up in the Sacramento Mountains, in 
New Mexico, on tne El Paso Short Line (Great Rock Island Route). If 
you are looking- for rest and recreation, you can find them at Cloudcroft. 
The mountain breezes, fresh with the fragrance of the great pine forests, 
bring health and cool nights. Cloudcroft gives all the pleasures and ben- 
efits of a sojourn in the mountains. Its siory is best told in a handsome 
booklet just published by the Great Rock Island Route and which can be 
had free on application to E. W. Thompson. A. G. P. A.. Topeka, Kans. 



Kimball Familv News, 



RANDOM RECORDS OR KIMBALL FOOT PRINTS. 
rhese imp. records are printed to assist in the indentification of 

unrecorded members of th< ily \i ^ny thing of them 

1 write to Prof. Sharpie a cord Vvenue Cambridge M >"d 

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Vhapail (Perkins) Kimball b 1807 Kittery Med Oc1 26. 1891 widow Samuel. 
Annie Kimball b. 1887 d. Nov 5, 1891, dan Lyman Kimball oi Yarmouth 
M< 

rine Murphy Kimball wife of John Kimball b Ireland d Sei.t 15, 1891 
dan Jeremia Murphy and Mary Flynn, 
William Kimball b 1891 d July 5, 1891, son of William Kimball and Cath: 
:  Kimball. 

Mai E Kimball b N H. 1817 dau of Jesse and Polly m Oct 31, 1859 Dan- 
iel E. Stearns b l 816. 

Kimball b X II. 1813 m April 6, 1859 Benry ( zzens b 1808. 
Mai Kimball b N. B. dau Ephraim and Maria in Feb L5, i- Sylv< 

r W. Bar • 
Marshall E. Kimball m April 24, 1886 Annie M. Buckland. 
A. Kimball b Me m July Charles E. Batt. 

P Kimball m . 1858 William S Hall. 



N >tes on unknown Kimballs. By S. P. Sharpies- The; 
names have been collected from various sources. But mainly 
fr< >m town Records. 

A.ME8BULY MASS. 

Annie Kimball b Amesbury M iss July 5 1785. d of .John Henry Kimball b 

W.-'K Me. and Emma Francis i b Lawrenceburg Me. 

Adelaide Kimball b .Mar M. is;7 d Cromwell ,V Miriam ( ) 

Lydia Vanboria Kimball m Francis Little Feb 1843. 
James L. Kimball b Aug 28. 1870, s .lames B. and Sarah L Kimball 
Mary Kimball m Feb 1.'',. 1745 Theopbillus Griffin. 
Hannah Kimball m Nov 28, 1-":: Micajah Kelley. 
Sarah Kimball m July 3, 1828 Joseph Wells. 

ABINGTON MA8S 
Joseph F. Kimball son of Edmund and Calista Kimball of Marlboro Mass. 
m Berlin Ma— April 15, 1857 Elizabeth Martha Baker 1) 'Sept 20, l*::<'» d 
May 26, 1893 dau of William Baker and Tan zey Barrows. & 

CHILDREN 
Charles William b Nov -.'7. 1864. 
Nelly b April 4. 1870 ,1 Sept 13, 1-70. 
Lizzie Tanzey b Berlin. Mass June 17. 1862 m Nov 23, 1881 Harry Gifford of 

Berlin, Ma---. 
Charles William Kimball b Nov 27, 1864 m Oct <;. isss Keatrice B. Bates. 

Children Leonie V. b Feb 25, 1890. Robert Lathrop b Feb 2, 1 <\>4. 

Daniel W Kimball b Thompson Conn m Vary F. Reed b Charlestown 
Mass. 

CHILDREN 

Mabel F. b Feb 18, 1875 d Sept 2. 1875. 

Grace E. b Aug I, 1872 m. Dec 20. 1893 Frank W. Tennaut. 



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Nellie F. b April 1870 d. Oct. 12, 1-7". 

Annie M Kimball b Me m Dec 24, 1878 Frank P. Smith at Boston. 

XOETH ADAM-. 

Mack Kimball b New York m Mary I ) 

( hild Nelly b June 10, 1863. 

Adeline Kimball b 1838 m Oct 5, 1-:.-. (reorge W. Estes b 1838 

George Kimball m Mary Ann Daniels b Dec 24. 1827 d Mar 27, 1883. 

CHILDREN. 

Nathan b Sept 4 1844 d Sept 29, 1868 at Williamstown. 

Mary Jane b May 14, 1849 d Oct 3, 1864. 

Martha A b May 22, 1852 m April 15, 1870 Frank E. Shepardson. 

Cora A. b Aug 5, 1858, d Mar 1>. 1859. 

i arrie A. b Aug .".. 1858, d Aug 11. 1859, 

Lois N b April 21, 1864. 

John W b Feb 3. 1868. 

Nathan Kimball 1, 1844 d Sept 368, m 0?t 13, 1866, Hattie M. 

Hodgman b No? 24, 1868, -an George F. b duly 6, 1868 d Nov 25, 1868. 
Barriel Kimball b 1828 Oriskaiy Fall- X. Y. Dan of ^olon Kimball m Sept 

11,18. 58. Jared <lark b 17'.'.".. 
William I). Kimball ami Marv i ) had a child b Nov 19, 1859 at Ifoosic 

Falls. 
Daniel 4. Kimball b - m Dec 30, 1849 at Pownal Vt Lydia E. Hosier b 

Fonda N Y 

< mi.niu n 
Alida '■'. b .May 6, 1850. d .him- 29, 186 
Nellie A. b July 2'',. 1856 m. Oct 28, 1885 Frank B. Watson. 

Oliver S. Kimball b Wales Mass 1833, m Dec 19. 1862 Pownal Vt. Mary 

Humphrev. b 1841 Child John S b Nov 3. 1863. d Nov "7. 18 
Henry If. Kimball b 3 Manchester Vt m d Nov 24, 1859 m Nov -jr.. 1855 

Laura F Hnrd b 1836 Dau Henrietta b Nov 19, 1859 m Dec 14. 1882, 

Joseph R. Edwards. 
Stephen Kimball b Bennington Vt m Mary A. i I Son Fred b July 10, 

1 868 Bo< >sic Mass 

Andrew Kimball b Burtonville m Emma. Had a dau b Dec 30, 1879. 

John W. KimbaH b Adams m Mary E Orcott b New York. 

CHILDRKX. 

Ellen b Feb 20. 1886 d Feb 21, 1386. 
Son b Dec 2. 1887. 
S,»n b March 12. 1892 
Charles W. b Oot 4. 1893. 

James T. Kimball b Londonderry m Emily E. I ->n b Sept 11. 1870. 

Adeline P. (Tyler} Kimball m Aug- 6, 1880 Charles H. Allen. 

Jonas Kimball b m Annie ( | Son Archie b Stamford . Conn Mar 

10, 1890, d Mar 17. 1890 
John Kimball m Eliza | ) b Centreville R. I. Child Henrietta b Feb 1892, 

Doston. Mass. 
1 rife Kimball and Susan Kennedy child b Mar 10.1893' 



Kimball Family Nev 



\ 1:1 i \- i - -\ . m \-- 

William Kimball ' in Jan ' - I Mari Inn < aldwell b 1841, 

• mi Mil N 

eis b Sept 12, I80S, m May 17, i v,, i Carrie Waldron. Child Bertha 
l 

,: r. K mball m Frances A Burgoyne child Gertrude L i» June 26, 
I July 30, 18 

i harles II Kimball b N " m Ida M Lawrence child Mille Christina b 
July 3 

L8H1 \ M 1 . MAP 

M. D a i: Kimball son Henry O. b Jan 5, 18« 

LNDOVER, MASS 

tnin Kimball and Mary Barker. child Rebecca b Feb 11, r 
Joseph Kimball and Lydia shiJd Ann L. b June 28, 1853. 

John Kimball 1> 1770, d Sept 2. 1851, m Rachel, b \::\. ,1 M-, r <j. 1837 Son 
John b 1813, m Nov 30, 1854 Susan Badwell b 1829. 

M \ RR1AGE8, \ N DOVEB MASS 

Lydia Kimball m Sepl 21, 1780 Stephen [n galls 
Zerviah Kimball m Nov 27, 1760 William Crombie. 
Lydia Kimball m Dec 27, 1748 James Farnum. 

Kimball m May 2, 1 7-7 Gilbert I'hadwick. 
Elizabeth Kimball m Sept 14. 1745 Humphrey Holt. 
Mary Kimball m Oct IT 1778 Daniel ("ark-ton 3rd. 
Betsey Kimball m Nov 25, 1802 Dudley Tyler. 
Mary Kiibball m Nov 3. IT'.*:. Hutchinson tag-alls of Blue Hill Me. 
Baruard Kimball m Betsey Porter Sept 17. 1797. 
Mary Kim nail m June 20. 1848 George Mclntoch. 
Harriet D. Kimball (Wid I m Sept 14. 1862 Josiah X. Brown 
Nancy Kimball <>f Bradford m 0c1 1799 Kdmuxid Johnsou. 

Betsey Kimball ra June 10, 1806 Joel 'Towns 
John Kimball of Bridgeton Me m Feb 23. 1808 Mary Barker 
Susanna Kimball m June 16, 1812 Isaac Checkering 
Sarah Kimball of Bradford m Nov 15. 1812 Michael Carleton 
S illy Kimball m April ".'7. 1820 Ephraira Fuller. 
Dolly Kimball m Mar 23, 1826 Elijah Gould. 
Eliza Kimball m Oct 19, 1839 Hilliard White. I 

DEATH8,- - A NDOVER MASS 

(harle< Kimball b 1836 d May I, 1842 

Sarah I'. Kimball <1 May 15, 1*:>1 dan of Asa. 

Harriet E. Kimball b March 26. 1835 d Nov 8, 1882 wife of Frank B. 

Betty iLeei Kimball b 1819, d Dec 30. 1880- 

Dolly Kimball b d August 2, 1822, dan. of John. 

John b 1799 <1 Oct 14. 1834. 

Eliza (Foster) Kimball b Jan 22, 1833 d Nov 27, 1892 daughter of Charles 
and Lucy (Austin) Foster. 

BEVERLY MASS 

Hiram Kimball m 1867 Lizzie Plummer. 



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THAT HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 

Some months ago the News suggested the formation of a 
Kimball Historical Society whose object should be not only the 
gathering of Historical Family material in our own country, 
but the raising of a fund for further investigation of the older 
records in England. It was generally agreed that Prof. Shar- 
pies was the one to undertake the work, and $500., was the 
minimum sum to be raised for the purpose. Numerous promises 
of subscriptions were sent in ranging from SI. 00 to $25.00 but 
the full amount was not promised. One member of the family 
agreed to add.SlOo.on whenever the S500.00 might be secured. 
Subsequently another proposition was made which was not act- 
ed upon to any considerable extent. It was that of Capt. F. M. 
Kimball of Topeka that twenty or twenty-five members unite 
and raise the amount by equal subscriptions He agreed to be 
one of the fifty, or twenty-rive or twenty to raise --the $500. To 
this proposition less than a dozen have so far responded. There 
Certainly must be more than twenty-live who can well afford to 
pay $20, each for this purpose. The advantage of this propo- 
sition is that it would not only secure the _S100.« additional 
promised, but it would at the same time secure the smaller sums 
that have been subscribed, which would raise the total amount 
perhaps to SS< hi., and the larger, the fund the more thorough 
the investigation. • 

Another suggestion made by Mr. Frank Reed Kimball of 
Salem, Mass. is that some one of the skillful genealogists who 
frequently visit England with similar objects in view, may be 
secured to do the work. This would be less expensive, but the 
results could hardly be so satisfactory. 

It is hoped this matter will riot be allowed to drop and the 
News will be glad to receive suggestions from those who may 
feel interested. It will also be desirable that it have attention 
during the current year, while the News remains as a means 
for intercommunication. 



M Kimball Family News, 

ORIGIN OF DECORATION DAY. 

In the September News for 1900 appeared a short article <>n 
the origin of Memorial day in reply to a claim put forth l>y Mrs. 
John A. Logan tliat her husband first suggested the observance 
of the beautiful custom of decorating the graves of our soldiers 
on that day. The following article from the Washington 
Times of May 30, l ( »<»2. would seem to settle the controversy if 
one any longer rxists. 

1 min th< Washington Times) 

Every ex-soldier who today participates in memorial excer- 
cises at the various cemeteries pauses in his work of honor and 
remembrance to pay a silent tribute of respect and thankfulness 

to the memory of Mrs. Martha G. Kimball, who originated the 
beautiful and impressive custom of decorating the graves of 

those who died in defense of their country. 

The story regarding- the inception of Mrs. Kimball's idea 
regarding a national memorial day and the immediate steps 
taken to make it practicable is short, but none the less interest- 
ing. 

In traveling through the South Mrs. Kimball noticed that 
the Southern women were assiduous in their attention to the 
graves of Confederate soldiers, and that those of the brave fel- 
lows who fell fighting in the blue were sadly neglected. 

It at once occurred to her that it might be possible, with a 
lively agitation of the subject, to have a day set aside by the 
Government on which to look after the graves of our soldier 
dead. 

With this object in view, she wrote to Gen. John A. Logan, 
then commander-in-chief of the G. A. R., presenting her views 
on the subject with an eloquence that at once enlisted his active 
co-operation, and resulted ultimately in the issuance of what is 
known as Order No. 11, which went into effect on May 30, 1868, 
and established a memorial day. 

Three dajs prior to the first general Decoration Day, on May 
27, the House of Representatives passed a resolution instruct- 
ing the officers in charge of public buildings and grounds to 
prepare and transmit, so far as practicable, to each of the nat- 
ional Union soldiers' cemeteries selections of flowers from all 
the public gardens for the purpose of decorating the graves of 
the brave and honored dead; in response to which, on the same 
day, Gen. N. Michler, the officer then in charge, informed the 
committee of arrangements that all the flowers that could be 
gathered from those sources would be placed at the disposal of 
the committee for the very laudable object for which they were 
intended; and in addition to those supplied for the national 



June 1902. 83 



cemeteries in the neighborhood of Washing-ton, a small box had 
been sent to each of those at Gettysburg-, Fredericksburg, 
Petersburg, Winchester, and Baltimore. 

The origination of Memorial Day has often been ascribed 
to an unknown German soldier a ho wrote a letter on the sub- 
ject prior to that of Mrs. Kimball, but the following direct 
proof is furnished by Junius Simons, of this city. 

"I was a clerk at the House of Representatives and Gener- 
al Logan's private secretary at the time, and saw all the cor- 
respondence relating to the matter; heard General Logan tell 
his friends and other callers that he was indebted to Mrs. Kim- 
ball for the suggestion to decorate our soldiers' graves; saw 
him hand Mrs. Kimball's letter on the subject to read, and 
heard General Log-an state to General Chipman his views and 
wishes, out of which 'Order No. 11' grew, and during the Pres- 
idential canvass <>f that year, on which I went with him, he re- 
ceived many encomiums wherever he went for the inauguration 
of memorial Day, and he never refrained from giving Mrs. Kim- 
ball full credit for the idea, feeling quite content and apprecia- 
tive for the share of honor that naturally and properly flowed to 
him for putting it into practical and p rmanent operation." 

Although at one time a resident of this city. Mrs. Kimball 
spent the closing years of her life in West Philadelphia, and 
her remains rest in West Laurel Hill Cemetery. 

Mrs Kimball was a woman of singularly sweet disposition. 
Her sympathy for the oppressed and needy was practically un- 
bounded. No duties were imperative enough to turn her aside 
from a call for assistance. Numberless stories might be told 
illustrating her charity and goodness of heart. 

Men of eminence in the nation were her warm friends, con- 
scious of her womanly qualities and ever ready to do her a ser- 
vice. Grant, Sherman and Sheridan, of the great generals; 
Anthony J. Drexel, George W. Childs, Vice President Henry 
Wilson, to whose grandchild she gave her stanchest friendship 
in the hour of trouble: Generals Hooker and Butler, Andrew 
Johnson, Benjamin Butterworth. Treasurer Spinner, Senators 
Poote, Washburn, Foster, Ben Hill, of Georgia; C. P. Hunting- 
ton and General John A. Logan were intimate friends, and the 
name of nearly every noted man in the North during and im- 
mediately preceding the war might be added to the list. 

The late George W. Childs once expressed his admiration 
of Mrs. Kimball in the following words: 

"She has done more good deeds and said more kind words 
than any woman I have ever known." 

Martha G. Kimball was born in Portland, Me., in 1840. 
She was a woman of dignified beauty and possessed rare magne- 
tism. She was present when the Stars and Stripes were restor- 



Kimball Family News, 



ed at Fori Sumter and assisted in pulling 1 the flag to the top of 
the staff. She had a larg Election of war relics, among them 
lui n l; tin* original plan of Anderson ville prison, and the chair 
used kv Jefferson Davis when he was president of the Confeder- 
acy. 

Mrs. Kimball died April 21, 1894. 

\< v Tin. BDITi »k < >r THE NEWS. 

There arc a few slig*ht errors in the above <» r at leasl a fe*w 

oversights. There are fewer than in most , ants. The idea 

of decorating" soldiers' gTaves bad its origin in the south. < )n 
this point all s< < m to agT< The first suggestion was bv Mrs. 
Lizzie Rutherford) Ellis of Columbus, Ga. The first memorial 
was luld in that city. April 2<>. 1866 and Col. J. N. Kam- 
sey delivered the address. 

Six months later. Oct. 6, 1866, Col-. A. H. II. Dawson, who 
had served in the Confederate Army delivered a powerful ad- 
dress in Brooklyn, N. Y. in which he referred favorablv to the 
matter and gave renewed interest in the south to the idea, but 
it seemed to have had no special effect in the north. 

In the spring- of the next year, (1867) Mrs. Henrv S. Kim- 
ball was visiting in Georgia where she become familiar with 
the observance of Memorial Day as related above and with the 
results stated. The names therefore connected with the origin 
of Memorial Day throug-ht the country are Mrs. Ellis the first to 
sug-g-est it. Col. Dawson the endorser, both Confederates, Mrs. 
Kimball, who is said to have acted the ang-el's part and Gen. 
Log-an who by virtue of his office became the promoter. So it 
was a combination of Confederate and Union forces that estab- 
lished the beautiful custom. And this as it should be. 

Mr. Guv Kimball for fifty years a resident ot St. ClaTl* Co., 
Mich, has moved his family to 6411 Ingleside Ave. Chicago, 111. 
Mr. Kimball is a descendant of Amos Kimball. 

Miss Jeanetta W. Kimball formerly of North Andover, 
Mass.. has lately won first prize of $10 in an art competition. 
Miss Kimball's design which was that of a punch bowl was re- 
produced in the May issue of the t4 Keramic Studio, " a mag-azine 
devoted to china painting - . 

Sumner Kimball of Lovell, Maine sends the NEWS a photo- 
graph of his home with little Ruth standing on the piazza. 
Another view shows a part of the farm. In both, distant views 
of Mount Washing-ton, in New Hampshire, are seen about one 
hundred miles distant. It makes the News feel that a few days 
spent in such a home would be a delig-htful relief. See October 
News 1898, History p. 1039. 



June 1902. 85 



APPOINTED ASSISTANT PASTOR. 

Rev. Thatcher Raymond Kimball, recently appointed assis- 
tant pastor of St. Stephen's Episcopal church, Florence st., Bos- 
ton is not a stranger to the people of that parish. Since his or- 
dination to the priesthood several years ago he has made his 
home in the clergy house of St. Stephen's parish, and when 
not engaged in his clerical duties elsewhere has given part of 
his time to assisting the clergymen there. 

He is a young man, 33 years old, and claims Boston as his 
birthplace. He was born in 1873, and received his early educa- 
tion in the city schools and in a private educational establish- 
ment. His classical course was begun in the Roxbury high 
school, where he graduated in the class of '91. He then enter- 
ed Harvard, and followed the usual academic course until 1895, 
when he graduated. Having chose the ministry for his life 
work, he began his preparation for it in the Episcopal theolog- 
ical school at Cambridge, where he spent one year. From 
there he went to the General theological seminary, Chelsea sq. 
New York, and after a two years' course there graduated, and 
was admitted to the ministry in 1898. 

Returning to his native diocese of Boston he was appointed to 
the charge of the Episcopal church of St John the Evangelist 
at Duxburv. For three years he ministered to the spiritual 
needs of the people there, all the while making his home at St. 
Stephen's, Florence st. In April of last year he was appointed 
to the parish of St. James in West Somerville, and up to the 
time of his nomination as assistant at St. Stephen's, a couple of 
weeks ago, retained his connection with the West Somerville 
parish. 

Rev. Mr. Kimball is a young man of pleasing appearance, 
and agreeable address. He has done excellent work in the par- 
ishes where he has been located, and has a friend in every par- 
ticular member of them. His zeal and efforts for the spiritual 
advancement of the people have recommended him strongly to 
his ecclesiastical superiors, and it is expected by those who are 
fully acquainted with him that he will successfully carry out 
the work begun in St. Stephen's under the ministry of Rev. Mr. 
Torbet, Rev. Mr. Talbot and Rt. Rev. Bishop Brent. 

The Chicago Record-Herald announces the marriage of 
Samuel J. Tebo and Kate Kimball. Further particulars wanted. 

The announcement is made of the engagement of Miss 
Ethel F. Kimball, of Macwohoc, Maine, and Mr. David E. 
Hayes, of West Pownal, Maine. Miss Kimball is a teacher of 
the public schools at North Yarmouth, and Mr. Hayes is the 
agent of the G. T. R. R. at Pownal. 



Kimball K.nnilv News, 

- 

OUR UTAH C( >USINS. 
• »ur l 'tali cousins have n.-t followed the example of the Cal- 
ifornia cousins in the organization oi .1 Kimball Association 
but the descendants of Heber C. Kim hall have be< >me accustom- 
ed t<> the observance of each anniversary ol his birthday Jinn- 
14. L801. And so this day was observed again this year. It 
was, says the Deseret News, "amosl impressive and interesting 
asion. 

"The assembly was called to order by Joseph Kimball, who 
acted as toastmaster, and who made a speech of welcome to 
those who had assembled to do honor to his father's memory. 
The opening prayer was offered by Prest. Joseph K. Taylor. 
Lucy W. Kimball, wife of President Kimball, gave a breii but 
impressi r e talk full of reminiscences of the- departed. Mrs. 
Alice K. Smith, who spoke on the topic, "Mv Father as I Re"* 
member Him," gave one of ttu- most feeling and impressive ad- 
dresses of the afternoon. J. Golden Kimball spoke on the sub- 
ject "Heber C. Kimball as a Prophet and Some of His Prophe- 
cies," describing the wonderful prophetic gifts possessed by his 
father. Bishop O. F. Whitney, grandson of President Kimball 
spoke on his personal traits and characteristics, his remarks 
being both humorous and pathetic. 

READY REFERENCE HELPS. 

This is the title of a little book recently issued by our ener- 
getic cousin, Duran Kimball, 113 Adams street, Chicago. It is 
pocket size of 208 pages well bound in cloth and the price is 50 
cents. His circular says: 

It contains army, commercial, farmaceutical, legal, mechan- 
ical nautical, naval, transporttational and other terms and ab- 
breviations, with brief definitions and explanation, frequently 
used foreign words and frases translated, tables of weights and 
measures, both common and metrical, sizes of paper and envel- 
opes, values of foreign coins, plan of U. S. land surveys illustra- 
ted, etc. We have never seen an}* book which puts into such 
convenient and accessible form just the information required 
for everyday reference. 

DR. J. H. KIMBALL DEAD. 

Dr. John H. Kimball, a well-known physician, civil war 
surgeon and Hawaiian official, died at Bridgeton, Me. June 18, 
1902. 

Dr. Kimball praticed his profession many years. In the 



June 1902. 87 



civil war he served as surgeon in Maine reg-iments. From 1882 
to 1891 he was in the Hawaiian Islands, as g-overnment district 
physician and the last year as chief medical director. Upon 
the death of King- Kalakaua he returned to Bridg-eton, where 
he was accorded a public reception. He resumed practice and 
continued there until his death. 

On Hawaiian matters he was high authority, and while in 
that country he made especial studies of the leprosy and vol- 
canic features. 

Dr. Kimball leaves a wife and two daughters. He was a 
veteran Odd Fellow and active in other local spheres. He was 
70 years old. Hist. pp. 1112—1120. 

MARRIED. 

KIM BALL-NAY. 

In Skowheg-an, May 25, Edward J. Kimball and Miss Nina 
M. Nay. 

KIM BALL-COFFIN. 

In Roxbury, April 2, by Rev. Charles F. Carter of Lexing-- 
ton, Georg-e Woodbury Kimball of Waltham and Josie Lane 
Coffin of Roxbury. 

KIMB ALL-ROBINSON. 

In Los Ang-eles, Cal., April 3, Rev. John Hovey Kimball, 
pastor of Congreg-ational church at Sebastopol, Cal., and Miss 
Estelle Ann Robinson. Hist. p. 992. 

TUCKER-KIMBALL. 

Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Kimball of Manhattan Kansas announce 
the marriag-e of their daug-hter Stella Victoria to Mr. Walter 
Percival Tucker, Thursday June 12, 1902. They|will be at 
home alter July 15, Avino Est de Durang-o, Mexico. See May 
number of News. Hist. p. 940. 

KIMB ALL-BUNKER- 

A pretty home wedding- took place at the residence of Mr. 
Charles E. Hersey, 36 Edwin St., Ashmont, last evening-, the 
contracting- parties being- Mr. Geo. Kimball and Miss Ethel 
Maud Bunker. The brother of the groom was the bestmanand 
the sister of the bride, Miss Sadie L. Bunker, bridesmaid. The 
service was performed by Rev. Arthur L. Bumpas of the church 
of the Ascension. After a short wedding- tour the young couple 
will reside on Brookside st., Dorchester. — Boston Globe May 16. 

ANDREWS-KIMBALL 

Kennebunk, Me., June 11— Mr. Fred Washburne Andrews 



Kimball Familv News. 



and Miss Josie M. Kimball were married this afternoon al the 
resident the bride*9 parents, Mr. and Mrs. Haven Kimball, 
on High Street. The bride was gowned in white organdie, 
with Valenciennes lace, white satin and ribbons, carrying brides 
roses. Rev. A. C. Fulton officiated. The maid of honor was 
Miss Mary L. Andrews, and the ringbearer was Miss Rhoda 
Dean Miss Martha A. Sleeper played the wedding march. 
A unique feature was the presentation of pictures of the princi- 
pals instead of wedding cake. Hist. p. 1114, No. 50-i. 



DEATHS 

MKs. sARAH N. KIMBALL- 

Mrs. Sarah X. Kimball was killed by tin- collision of an 
electric car and a carriage at Quincy, M.-i^s., Saturday night 
April 12. 1902. 

HORACE FRANKLIN SMITH. 

Son of James W. and Apphia Jane 'Kimball) Smith. 
Pag"< 886 of Family History, born Nov. 4th 1S57 died at Corona 
X. Y. Feb. 3rd, 1 ( M>2. Leaves a widow Alice Keenan Smith 
and two children. Hattie Frances born Feb. 6th. 1893, Clarence 
Franklin born Mar. 20th, 1895. 

JOHN K. KIMBALL AND WIFE, 

John R. Kimball of Reley Township, Clinton County, 
Mich., who had been suffering for many years, became tempor- 
arily insane, the last of April, and on the 29th, killed his wife 
Betsey M. Kimball and then killed himself. Mrs. Kimball was 
about 72 years old and their family relations have always been 
the most pleasant. With his wife he had lived on the farm for 
about twenty-two years. Three sons and two daughters, all 
married, survive them. 

ARABELLA (k 1MB ALL) GOODWIN. 

Mrs. Arabella Carter Goodwin on Sunday June 6, at 5 p. m. 
at her home with her daughter, Mrs. Edwin C. Rowe at Bethel, 
Me. Mrs. Goodwin had been in poor health for nearly a year 
and a half. She was born at Rumford Point and was the daugh- 
ter of the late Moses Kimball. On February 26, 1851, she mar- 
ried Alvan B. Goodwin, and removed with him to the Waldo 
Pettengill farm, where they resided until 1862, and where was 
born their only child, Mrs/ E. C. Rowe. In 1862 they removed 
to Bethel, where they passed the remainder of their lives. The 
late Mr. Goodwin was for many years deputy sheriff, and both 
were prominent among the townspeople. Mrs. Goodwin -leaves 



June 1902. 89 



one sister, Mrs. G. A. Hastings of Bethel. She was a strong 
Universalist and was a member of the Bethel Church. Her age 
was seventy-two years. Hist. p. 690, No. 1439-vi. 



LUCY D. KIMBALL. 
Mrs. Lucy D. Kimball, a widow of Henry Z. Kimball, died 
on Monday at her home in Maiden, Mass. June 16, 1902 at the 
age of 84 years, 2 months and 5 days. Mrs. Kimball was a 
daughter of Wm. Stickney, of the old firm of Stickney and 
Poor, and was born in Boston, but had lived in Maiden for 
many years, and was well known in social circles and benevo- 
lent and charitable organizations. She was a daughter of the 
Revolution, and was one of the original promoters and founders 
of the Old Peoples' Home and was a member of Old and New 
and local societies. The interment was in Woodlawn Ceme- 
tery. Not in History. 



PERSONAL. 

Eugene Kimball of Chicago has recently invested $100,000 
in Chicago real estate. 

George W. Kimble of Paris, 111. writes that although he 
is not a "ball" he takes much pride and interest in the News 
work and his statement is made good by practical results. 

At the request of our good friend Sumner Kimball of Lov- 
ell, Me. the manrgers of the Boston & Maine railroad have 
sent the News a very attractive bird's view of the White 
Mountains in New Hampshire and the country for 200 miles a- 
round. 

Mrs Maria Freeman-Gray grandaughter of John Kimball 
( Fam. Hist, page 408 and Family News, May 1900) has return- 
ed to her home in San Francisco after d.n extended visit of about 
two years in her native state, Massachusetts and in various 
eastern cities in the interest of her work for Peace and Arbitra- 
tion. 

She reports having met with many earnest, well-informed 
advocates of this cause, whose combineo efforts in the various 
peace organizations are doing much to mould public opinion in 
the right direction. 

Her sons, the Gray Brothers, of San Francisco have, during 
the past year, enlarged their Brick plant, so that it is now one 
of the most extensive works of its kind in this country. 



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SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES 

Page 692, No. 1445— Hi. Daniel M. Kimball born Jan. 31, 
l ^-4>. ai^-«l married Oct 9, 1873, Ellen Packard, daughter 

of Stephen and Lousia Penlej Packard; born Woodstock, Me. 
t. 9, 1847. Mr-. Kimball is a sen «>1 teacher. She has an 
adopted daughter, Florence 1011m. Sin- has written poems 
some «•!" which have been published in the Oxford County Ad- 
vert! ser. 

Herewith we publish another which she entitle-: 



YE SAVE DONE [TUNTO ME. 

Have y<m spoken words of comfort 
To a wanderer on life's way — 

<>h. the need of kind words spoken 
To the weary while you may. 

Have you pray- r> for those who weep 

( »ver lost and loved ones dead 
Have you sought them on life's jour- 
ney. 
And they heard one pi aver .you've 
said? 

Oh. the longing- and the waiting" 
Of the homeless and sad-hearted — 

Waiting for some word of cheer 
To restore the loved and parted! 



.Icsus. Master come and belli na 

\v we journey day by <\uy: 
Help ns follow in thy footsteps 

Follow thee, the life, the way. 

When on earth a true example. 
None like this was ever known: 

If on earth today we know 

Thou wouldst cheer the sad and 
lone. 

If we help a fallen brother 
As our Savior did while here, 

If we wash the weary feet 
Lovingly He standeth near. 

If on life's toilsome journey ever 
You would His disciple be, 

Surely you will hear the words 
•"Ye have done it unto me." 



Miss Florence Ellen Kimball born April 11th 1889 in Mill- 
town, Me. Adopted when six years of age by Mrs. Ellen 
(Packard i Kimball of Bethel, Me. Miss Florence is the second 
little girl to write a piece for the "News." 

Her first-copied from the Oxford County Advertiser is 
given in Feburary and March number, page 232 Shejis not a 
niece of Sumner F. Kimball as there given. She has written 
many letters for the children's column in her own county paper 
and through her own composing has very plainly showed up 
the bright side of life as seen by many little children who live 
in the country towns of New England. 

Capt. F. M. Kimball of Topeka has been elected President 
of the Waconda Oil and Mining Company and his son Claude 
secretary. The company is organized to mine coal in Jewell 
County in this state, and possibly may strike oil. The shaft is 
already down and they are working- a thirtv-six inch vein of 
coal. 



June 1902. 91 



ADMIRAL DEWEY'S PEDIGREE. 

Georg-e Denison, b. 1620; came to New England with fa- 
ther, 1631; married about 1640, Bridg-et Thompson; who died in 
1643. He then returned to England, enlisted in the army of 
Cromwell, was wounded and was nursed back to life at the 
house of John Borodell, whose daughter he afterwards married. 
He afterward returned to America, served as captain in King- 
Philip's war and died in 1694. 

George Denison m. (1) Bridget Thompson, and had 
Hannah Denison. who m (2) Joseph Saxton. and had 
Mercy Saxton. whom. (2) William Dewey, and had 
Simeon Dewey, who m. Anna Phelps, and had 
William Dewey, who m. Rebecca Carrier, and had 
Simeon Dewey. wh<» in. l'rndence Yeoman s, and had 
Julius Dewey, who m. Mary IVrrin. and had 
Admiral George Dewey. 



GENERAL GRANT'S PEDIGREE. 

John Lothrop, born in Etton, Yorkshire, England, in 1584; 

graduated at Cambridge, B. A.. 1605 and M. A., 1609; curate at 

K^erton in Kent, loll 1623; turned independent and became 

the second pastor of the first independent church in London; 

was thrown into prison and fled to America in 1634, the same 

year that Richard Kimball came over; became pastor of the 

churches at Situate and Barnstable, Mass., at which latter place 

he died Nov 8, 1<>53. He had fourteen children among - whom 

was Samuel. 

Samiiel Lothrop m. Elizabeth Sc-udder and had 
Abigail Lotbrop. who m. John Huntington, and had 
Martha Huntington, who m. Noah Grant and had 
("apt. Noab Grant, who m. Susannah Delano, and had 
■"apt. Noah Grant, who m. Rachel Kelly, and had 
Jesse Root Grant, who m Hannah Simpson, and had 
Ulysses Simpson Grant, general and president. 

CORRECTION. 

Since writing; you last December I have found that the 
Kimball Genealogy is in error in stating- that Elizabeth, daugh- 
ter of Corporal John Kimball, married Thomas Carleton. I 
have found the record of the marriag-e of Thomas Carleton and 
Elizabeth Haselting", February 7, 1694-5 at Bradford, Massa- 
chusetts. It mig-ht be well to note this in the next issue of the 
Kimball News. This fact has been discovered with the aid of 
Mr. Stephen P. Sharpies, one of the compliers of the Kimball 
Genealosfv. 

Very respectfully, 

Edward A. Claypool. 



92 Kimball Family News, 



A BEAUTIFUL LIFE. 

In the death <>t Miss Susan Kimball, at noon Saturday, May 
31, there passed away one ol the most devoted ol Christian 
workers and noblest of noble women. Her removal is ;i loss to 
the community; to the neighborhood in which she lived; t<> the 
church of which for more than 70 years sin- was a faithful mem- 
ber: a^ well as to the home of which she was the sun and cen- 
tre. Of modest, quiet, unassuming life, sin- still had a person- 
ality so magnetic, so earnest and sn unselfish, that her impress 
was left upon all who came within her influence. At the age 

of sixteen she united with the church. To all her pastors she 
was an inspiration and a tower of Strength. To her classes in 
Sunday school, where she taught more than 60 years, she talk- 
ed not only of their lessons, but of "wisdom's way" and her in- 
fluence led many a younger friend in the path of virtue and 
holiness. Bitterness and malice and seitishness had no place 
in her life or character; but truth, fidelity and goodness were 
strong elements in her make up. She was trusted and trust- 
worthy, a genial companion, a sturdy friend, and a help to all 
with whom she came in contact. She was intelligent and well 
read; interested in all the vital questions of the day; tolerant of 
new opinions and willing - to adopt new ways if they did not 
conflict with principles of right; and her long, well-rounded life 
was full of blessing and benediction. Her physical endurance 
was remarkable and until her last illness she was as active as 
any woman of half her years. On the day before her birthday, 
she was taken seriously ill. It has been a custom for nieces, 
nephew r s and friends to meet at her home on this anniversary, 
and, knowing that a large company w T as to assemble, she insist- 
ed that the party should be held, in spite of her illness. No 
word of complaint escaped her lips to mar the pleasure of the 
guests, who little realized that this gathering was to be the 
last of its kind. 

Miss Kimball was the only daughter of Deacon John and 
Susan (Lord; Kimball and was born in Ipswich, Feb. 4, 1815. 
Her two brothers, John and Jeremiah, passed away many years 
ago. An adopted sister was called home two short years ago. 
Miss Kimball was the last of her generation, although such 
women belong to all generations. Her youthfulness and cheer- 
fulness of spirit made her as pleasant a companion for the 
young as for those advanced in years. She was the beloved 
"Aunt Susan" of many households. Although never married, 
Miss Kimball has trained to noble manhood and womanhood 
five children, orphaned or motherless nephews and neices who 
now "rise up and call her blessed." Her nearest relatives are 
three nephews, John E. and Howard Kimball in Salem and 



June 1902. 93 



George Kimball of Manchester. A great-niece, who has been 
as a daughter in the broken home, also survives the aunt whose 
heart was large enough to include in its embrace all who need- 
ed help and care. Her death was in keeping- with her life, 
peaceful and calm ; a simple slipping- away from the home on 
earth to the home in Heaven where so many dear ones awaited 
her coming-, and where her Master's "Well done, good andfrith- 
ful servant" fell tenderly on her ear. 

Funeral services, which were larg-ely attended, were held at 
the South church on Tuesday afternoon. Seldom has so larg-e 
a gathering been seen at any funeral of private individual, but 
none were too old or too young-, too rich or too poor to do rever- 
ence to the good woman. The casket was hidden by a profus- 
ion of beautiful flowers which spread out in abundance on altar 
and pulpit, as her love and helpfulness had brimmed over into 
other lives. Rev. Mr. Waters and Rev. Mr. Pierson of Somer- 
ville conducted the service, the latter reading- the Scripture les- 
son and the favorite hymn of the deceased, "Gently, Lord, O 
g-entlv lead us." Mr. Waters gave a brief sketch of the beauti- 
ful life of Miss Kimball, offered prayer and g-ave the benedic- 
tion. The hymns, • 'Abide with me" and "One sweetly solemn 
thought" were tenderly sung by Carl Brown, a young man in 
whom Miss Kimball took a great interest. The interment was 
at the South cemetery. — Ipswich, Mass* Chronicle. 

The name of Alonzo Kimball appears as the designer of the 
title page of the May number of "Advertising Experience" 

George Edward Condon of Watermm, 111. is preparing a 
history of the Condon and Boies families. He sends the News 
a few Kimball items. Our readers can reciprocate by calling 
the attention of any known members of these families to Mr. 
Condon's work. 

E. P. Kimball, of Virden, is named as one of the assistant 
secretaries of the Illinois State Democratic Convention. He is 
a son of Henry M. Kimball formerly of the Carlinville, 111., 
Democrat, a very stanch republican paper despite itsfname. 
Hist. p. 592. News p. 267, April 1899 and p. 285, May 1899. 

The Rev. John C. Kimball of Sharon Mass., who sends the 
sketch that the News has entitled "A Beautiful Life," says 
that the obituary is in no respect overdrawn ; that in fact it 
would not be easv to exaggerate the beauties of such a charac- 
ter and such a life. Fam. Hist. p. 659, No. 1359 iii. For her 
three nephews mentioned see Hist. pp. 1068, Nos. 2541, 2543, 
2544. 



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RANDOM RECORDS OR KIMBALL FOOT PRIMS 

imperf< printed to assist in the indentiflcation <»f 

an recorded mem 1 family \n\ oae knowing any thing of them 

Bhoald write to Prof. Sharpies, >rd Avenue Cambridge Mass. and 

l(r\ I KL1 M k88 

Hiram Kimball m 186*3 Lizzie Plummer. 

• mi DR1 

Anna Marin l) Lowell Mass. 0c1 17, 18 - 
Hiram b « helsea Mass. March 28, 1 - 
James f; m Mass. ~~ tnber 24, 1871. 

Albert Warren h Albany New York Feb. 6, 181 
Charles Justin b Salem -Ian 17. 1877. 
• :i b Dec 28, 187$ 

< aroline M. Kimball b Dec 13, 1850 d ^ug 17. 1803. 

BARRE. MA88 

Hiram Kimball b Augusta, Me. 1810 d Worcester. Mass. Aug 14, 1854, m 
1st. Anna S. I in 2nd July 21, 1844, Clarissa A. Stebbins b Bak- 

er sfield. Vt She married 2nd November 7, 1** ". George R. I bamber- 
laine. 

CHILDREN 

Wilbur Fiske b 1840. 

Clara Elizabeth. 

Horace Walter b Aug- 22, 1847. 

ge Washington b 1850 m June 4. 1800 Sarah W. Rutherford of Mel- 

r< >s 
Laura Jane b Oct 10, 1853. Becket, Mass 

.Maria Kimball b Springfield, N. EL 1833 m Aug 17. 1873 Thomas Smith. 
Anna M. Kimball b Cooperstown. N. V. 1855, married Oct 7, 1870 Joel L. 

Dani< 

Caroline Kimball b 184G d Jan 26, 1845. 

BELLINGHAM, MASS. 
•-'-org-e H. Kimball b Wrentham. Mass. m Miranda b IS'.- d Aug 25, 1870. 

( HILDRKN 

1 1-eorge M. b July 28, 186i. 

Jennie W. o 1870 m May 30, 1801, Richard Dewey of Worcester. 

BLLLERICA. 

Elizabeth N. (Grinnell) Kimball b Hillsboro N. B. July 16, 1802 d Sept 20, 

1881. 
Philena P. (Spofford) Kimball b Dec. 13, 1800 d May 0, 1891, dau Thomas 

and Nancy Spoffori. 

BOYLSTON. MASS. 

Rev. Henry S. Kimball b Candia. X. H. m Carrie ( ) b Goffstown, 

child Fannie M. Russell b Jan 2, 1870. 

Charles Kimball b Jaffrey N. H. m Agnes ( ) b Scotland. Child John 

Cowan b Sept 22, 1884. 



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BRAINTREE. 

Joseph Kimball in Sarah G. ( ) Child William G. b Oct 16, 1847. 

BLACKSTONE, MASS. 

Joseph C. Kimball b R. I m Amanda M. Warfield b 1846. 

CHILDREN. 

Fred W. Kimball b Oct 17, 1867 m Oct 19, 1893 Ida F. Sherman b 1874. 
Minnie Maria b Feb 12, 1870 m June 30, 1888 Waltei N. Thompson, Child 
b April 29, 1858 Wrentham. 

Widow Amanda M. Warfield Kimball m July 11.1874 John R. Tuft. 

John A. Kimball b N. II. m EmmaCalcutt b N. H. 

children 

Clarence H. b Sept 9, 1881. 
I rib May b Oct 7. 1894. 

Emeline A. (Johnson) Kimball m Dec 25, 1855 James G. Arnold. 

BROCKTON. MASS 

Charles F. Kimball b Me m Eliza E. Gorman, b Quincy, Mass Dec 1849 d. 
Feb 19, 1894, daughter of James and Rose Walsh Gorman. Child Lula 
Gertrude b Oct 14, 1883. d July 21, 1894. 

Sidney M. Kimball b Wells, Me m Fannil M. Bodge, b May 3, 1845, d June 
25, 1889, dau of Andrew and Mary M. Bodge. 

CHILDREN 

Susie Mabel b Jan 24. 1886. 

Sidney P. b April 22, 1887, d Sept 26. 1890. 

Frank S. and Calista Kimball had a son Fred Kimball b Brookfield Vt. 
1859 m April 17. 1884, Luella L. Wright b Pocassett, 1862. They had a 
son R. C. Kimball b Dec 13, 1889. 

BROOKFIELD, MASS 

Martha A. Kimball b 1858, dau of James M. and Rhoda Kimball m Sept. 9, 

1875. John Matoon b 1854. 
Carrie E. Kimball b 1866, m June 8, 1887, Palmer P Johnson b 1840. 

BROOKLINE, MASS. 

John Kimball b Gloucester. Mass m Jane M. ( ) b Boston, Mass. 

Child Susan R. Kimball b Mar 14, 1857. 

Frank R. Kimball b Woburn, Mass. m Mary F. ( ) b Brighton. Mass. 

CHILDREN. 

Ethel M. b Aug 16. 1881. Cottage City, Mass. 
Arthur Wallace b April 16, 1890, Boston. 

BLANFORD, MAS8. 

Julia Kimball b Jan 5, 1885. d May 14. 1893, dau of Charles R. and Abbie 
(Bean) Kimball 

BRADFORD. MASS. 

Charles Kimball m Harriet Huntress 

CHILDREN 

Charles H. b April 5. 1846. 



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Son b Aug '.'. 1847, d Bepf Id, 1847 

Ahin Kimball b 1817, m Mar 27, 1865, Margaret Little b 1821, «i Sepl 
If 

de G Kimball i> \ mesbury 1837, «i:m of Leonard and Adelaide Rim* 
ball in Justin E Ten ney. 

  >i in«- Kimball t> 1841, iau of Joseph Kimball m Nov .'7. 1877 Francis 
Ellis b L839. 

James ll Kimball m Mary Jane i I child Julia Booster Kimball b Aug 

15, 181 

ink r. Kimball b Mar 2, L853, son of James, and Martha p. Kimball. 

Cha • Story Kimball b Aug 10, 1855, son of Joseph P. an. I Sarah II. Kiiny 
ball. 

Mary Kimball baptised June 7, 1761, daughter of William. 

I. a t>ur(. m Buckley Kimball b Oct 81,1855; boh of Joseph P. and Matilda. 

Battie S. Kimball b 1855 Groveland, dan of John and Maw Kimball m 

Jnly 2, 1871 Prank W. Duranl b L850. 

<• i Kimball 1> Aug 24, 1875, «iau of William I', and Sarah L (Fqes.) 
Willie Martin Kimball b Sepl 8, 1859, son of John and Martha Kimball. 
Harry Benjamin Kimball b Sept 13, 1880, Bon of Benjamin Kimball b 

Farmington, Me and Luella (Ball) Kimball. 
Carrie Gertrude Kimball b Npxthwood, N. II.. dan of Sazen K. Kimball; 
Vddie Hill Kimball m June 9, 1894 Ernest L. Frost: 

h Kimball -> April 1807 d dan 9, 1872, son of Rhoda Kimball m April 27, 

1831 11'iMiia Parker. He was aJaorse dealer. ► < 

CHII.I>KKN 

Eliza Jane b Dec 14. 1833, m May 11. 1854 Nathaniel Marble. 
Emma L. b 1836, m May 11, 1854 William H. Bu trick. 
Caroline b Dec 4. 1837, d Dec 25, 1837. 
Charles Gilbert b Nov 13, 1838 . . . 

Laura Ann b 1841, m May 18, 186] J. Lewis Brown of < Iroveland. b 1*32. 
Mary E. b Andover 1845, m dan 25, \^\'-'> Moulton C. (ieorge of (rruveland. 
Seth b Aug 23, 1849, m March 29, 1869 Ann J. O'Donnell b 1847. 
Frank M. b 1852, m April 12, 1879 Grace B. Crabtree b 1857. Their son Ed- 
die Kimball was b dan 16, 1892. 
Fannie P. b Nov 16, 1854, m dan 20, 1874 Andrew d. George. 
Ilellenb m Oliver R.' Gill. 

Abbie D. 

William Kimball m Harriett ( ) 

CHILDREN 

William Francis b Dee 7. 1830. ' 
Charles Henry b Sept 13, 1836. 

Seth b Aug- 1843 d Dec 22, 1850. 

Betsey b 1772 d June 7, 185(3 widowr. 

Sarah b 1802, d Mar 20, 1843 

Betsey b 17*33, d July 29, 1843. 

Elizabeth M. b July 31, 1828, d Dec 11, 1873, married. 

Susan E. (Knox; b Nov 1857, d Dec 11, 1884. dau Eli and Susan (Tucker) 

Knox. 
Ann (Haynes) Kimball b 1775 d Oct 1, 1859, dau Ebenezer Haynes. 
Mary Kimball b Newburyport Aug- 1843. d Mar 15, 1881, married. 
Susan Kimball b 1769, d Sept 26, 1853, married. 
Dolly Kimball b d Oct 22. 1820. 



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serves the greatest praise as a notable record. 

8t. Louis Republic: — The map alone is a valuable contribution to his- 
tory that should recommend the book. 

Montana Daily Record:— The story of the adventures of Jim Bridger, 

Wild Bill. Ben Holladav and others rivals the best works of fiction. 

Qreeley Tribune: — Old timers and Young America both delight in its 
stirring adventures. 

Brooklyn X. Y. Eagle : — The book has a charm about it. 

Topelca Hal: — Historical in nature and ofjwonderful interest. 

N. Y. Evening Post : — A vase collection of material for the historian 
and the lover of adventure. 

imeuto Bee: — Of great historic value — interesting as a novel — a 
mine of wealth for statistics — will increase in value as time passes. 

St. Louis Globe-Demo* rat : — No boo^s of reminiscence by pioneer 
plainsmea will prove more acceptable. 

Dearer News:— Contains a vast amount of information — has great 
historic value. 



Every Library should have this book. For $3.00 the News for 
1902, and this book. 



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Ulimball-* family uLews 

Vol. V, No. 7. G. F. KIMBALL, Publisher. Terms, $1.00 a year 

Topeka, Kansas, July, 1903. 



DEATH OF JUDGE R. S. TAFT. 
The January issue of the Family News contained the sren- 



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ealog-ical record of Judg-e R. S. Taft. the son of Orinda Kim- 
ball. It was prepared by himselt. On March 22, the telegraph 
announced his death. The Burlington Vt. Evening- News of 
that date contained this announcement at the head of its ed- 
itorial column: 

' 4 The city and state, as well as the judiciary — the community 
in which his life was spent and manifold interests of scholarly 
research — suffer a loss that will be long- and deeply felt in the 
death of Russell Smith Taft, Chief Judg-e of our Supreme 
court. 

His was a useful and honorable life. His career was a 
typical American career, for he started at the very foot of the 
ladder and attained the highest distinction attainable in his 
profession, in the state of his birth and life long- residence. 
And his was the strenuous life in the truest sense, for it was de- 
voted to the conscientious and thoroug-h performance of all the 
duties of his high office and to the acquisition of knowledg-e in 
the fields of history and languages and literature. 

In another column we attempt an appreciation of Judg-e 
Taft's accomplishments and character. In this place we need 
only voice the general sorrow over his loss and the public sym- 
pathy for the bereaved family." 

The appreciation of Judg-e Taft referred to in the last para- 
graph of the above was the following: 

"The Honorable Russell Smith Taft, Chief Judgeof the Su- 
preme Court of Vermont, died at his residence in this city 
shortly after 6 o'clock this morrjing-. 

Judge Taft, whose health generally was of the most rugg-ed 
type, suffered a somewhat severe illness last fall; and throug-h 
the winter, althoug-h he attended to his duties as usual, his pal- 
lor indicated that he was by no means a well man. On March 
5 he was forced to take to his bed and his disease wasdiagmosed 



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as fatty degeneration of the heart. He made a brave fight 
against the Destroyer, but even his strong physique and indom- 
itable will could not win the victory. 

He passed awayquietly and painlessly while h«' slept, early 
this morning". His last words were spoken yesterday afternoon 
in the presence of his family and his sister, Miss Anth.-i < ). 
Taft. He then relapsed into a semi-unconscious condition 
which continued until this morning. A.bout 5.30 o'clock he 
roused and took nourishment. Not long afterward his heart 
tailed and he grew graduall} weaker, the end coming as 
ited. 

The body will lie in state in the county court room in tin's 
city on Tuesday next from 1<> a. m. until 1 p. in. and during 
that time all who desire to look once more upon the face of the 
departed Chief Judge will be given an opportunity to do so. 
The public funeral service will be held at 130 p. m. in the 
court room on the same day. The burial will be at Williston. 



Of Judge Taft as lawyer and judge, we leave others, better 
qualified, to speak. We may only say that he was an able law- 
yer, a safe counsellor, a learned, incorruptible and just Judge. 

Of Judge Taft the man, a verv striking- item of his mental 
equipment was his memory, which, especiallv in regard to 
dates was amazing, not to say alarming-. He made no effort to 
commit dates to memory, but having once seen a date he simply 
couldn't forg-et it. He would often say, "Today is the 59th 
birthday of A" — naming some prominent Vermonter — "and A 
is three months and thirteen days vounger than B, who is two 
years, a month and six days older than C" — and so on until he 
had named and dated half the Court Calendar of Vermont. 
This uncommon retentiveness of memory did him excellent ser- 
vice, not only in his profession, but in local history, in which 
he was an authority, and in the g-enealog-y of the Taft family, 
which was the apple of his eye. 

The quantitv of g-enealog-ical matter he accumulated was 
something- wonderful. The most remarkable, to the uninitiate, 
was the family tree. The tremendous trunk bore the names of 
the primeval Tafts, who, coming- from Eng-land, were the pro- 
genitors of the American tribe; great branches were lettered 
with the names of the direct descendants, and twig-s and 
branchlets represented the collateral ramifications of the fami- 
ly. In holding- terms of court through the State the Judg-e 
looked up and visited all the Tafts for miles around each 
countv seat, and he came to know all the Vermont Tafts as 
well as the ordinary paterfamilias knows his own household. 
And not only this, but he knew, thoug-h of course in a less de- 



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tailed way, the leading- members of the family throughout the 
country. 

— To go back to Judge Taft's powers of memory: These 
helped him wonderfully, too, in his never-ceasing- acquisition of 
knowledge. His early opportunities were of the humblest, but 
he was a student all his life. Besides storing- up an immense 
fund of general information, aside from his profession, he ac- 
quired several modern languages and Latin, and in the last year 
of his life he had made considerable progress in Greek. 

He was fond of paradox, and the more untenable the para- 
dox, and especially the more it ran counter to the common view, 
the warmer the affection he had for it, and the greater the 
learning and ingenuity and force which he defended and advo- 
cated it. An opinion kicked around and trampled upon by 
everybody an intellectual foundling, abandoned by the whole 
human race these he would pick up and dust off, set them up 
nobly with logic and decorate them with flowers of rhetoric. 
And some of these paradoxes, by dint of earnestly advocating-, 
he came almost to believe himself — but not quite. Those 
people didn't know him well who thought that in doing battle 
for them he was advocating his own real beliefs. He 
wasn't. 

Judge Taft was a wit, and not only witty himself, but the 
the cause of wit in others, like Falstaff, to whom, ag-ain, we 
may trace a physical likeness, Sir John as described by himself, 
being a "g >odly, portly man, i'faith, and a corpulent, with a 
cheerful look, a pleasing eye. and a most noble carriage." 
His wit was exhibited and illustrated in his too-scanty literary 
productions, his after-dinner speeches, many of his judicial opin- 
ions, and above all in his familiar conversation, which sparkled 
with bright savings and well told stori -. 

When we say that a man is greater intellectually than those 
of his fellows we suppose that we mean that he has a broader 
view, a clearer insight, and a more comprehensive grasp of 
things. All this could be said of Judge Taft with unexagger- 
ated truth, and it clearly established his title to intellectual 
greatness. And with it went a strong personality — a great, 
massive, invinciole force of character. There was something 
about him which (to quote Sterne, with modifications i seemed 
eternally to beckon the chicken-hearted to come hither and 
learn courage. 

And finally, no kinder, more generous, more sympathetic 
heart ever beat in a human bosom. To be poor, friendless and 
unfortunate was to possess a never-failing passport to Judge 
Taft's highest favor. He lent money (and unlike the proverbial 
bread upon the water not all of it came back, by any means), 
he endorsed notes, he gave professional and personal advice, in 



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ery possible way he helped the unfortunate, the luckless, the 
unthrifty; and those who received his bounty represented nearly 
every walk of life and all ages and occupations. And besides 
almost never-ceasing acts of beneficence like those quoted, all 
the judge's days were filled up with those "little, nameless, un- 
remembered acts of kindness and of I< " which the poel tells 

are the best part of a g >od man's life ; which redeem 

human nature, gives fragrance to the life thai now is, and we 
may be sure are not without potency in the life which is to 

me, upon which the Chief Judge has now entered. 

Upon which he ha- now tin. red! Oh, widely and deeply 

11 he be mourned, and long and affectionately will be remem- 
bered. And some there are, who knew him well and lov- 
ed him, who will be lonesome without him tor the years to 

■•" : to whom the world will never seem quite the same. 

Judge Taft will be greatly missed all over the Stair, but 

this community, in which practically his whole lit".' wa« spent, 

will miss him in an especial degree, and will feel that his place 

can not easily ho taken. And all will extend their heartfelt 

mpatbies to the family, and especially to the one most deeply 
ber awd. and wish for her and them the apostolic benediction 
of Peace. 



Russell Smith Taft was born in Williston Jan. 28, 1835. 
He removed to Burling-ton in 1853, where he resided until May, 
1881. He then returned to Williston, remaining until 1891, 
when he again took up his residence in Burlington. He was ed- 
ucated in the common schools and attended four terms at the 
Williston and Newbury academies He commenced the study 
of law with G. F. Bailey, later of Chicago, 111; then with ex- 
Senator Edmunds, and later with Judge Wales, being- admitted 
to the bar November 12, 1856. He formed a partnership with 
Judge Wales January 1, 1857, which was continued for twenty- 
one vears, until August, 1878. He was selectman of the town 
of Burlington from 1861 to 1864 and an alderman of the city of 
Burlington from 1865 to 1869. He was state's attorney for 
Chittenden county from 1862 to 1865; a state senator from the 
same county in 1865 and 1866: city attorney for the city of Bur- 
lington in 1871 and 1872; register of the probate court in the 
district of Chittenden from 1863 to 1880; and lieutenant gover- 
nor of the state in 1872-4. In 1880 he represented the city of 
Burlington in the legislature and was elected assistant judge of 
the supreme court. He was biennially unanimously re-elected 
and- on January 21, 1899, became Chief Judge, on the appoint- 
ment of Judge Ross as United States Senator. 

His record as judge was remarkable. In his twenty-two 
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its session by reason of his absence, and he never missed a case 
in his supreme court work; and he became a well known figure 
in every county court house in the state. He tried 501 cases by 
jury, of which 56 judgments were reversed. Of state cases he 
tried 166 by jury, in which eight judgments were reversed — 
the smallness of the proportion being due to the fact that al- 
ways solved doubts in favor of the respondent. 

Judge Taft was especially conversant with Vermont decis- 
ions, and in disposing of cases was much more inclined to applv 
to them the law as it is in Vermont than the law as it mav be in 
other jurisdictions. He was of literary tastes, a collector of ear- 
ly specimens of the art of printing, interested in historial mat- 
ters, a vice-president of the Antiquarian societv of Vermont, in 
the organization of which he took an active part; and a resident 
member of the New England Historical, Genealogical societv. 

In 1880 he delivered the address at the semi-centennial cel- 
ebration of the Boxer I )t\ ; ne company, wrote a sketch of the 
Vermont supreme court published in the Green Bag in 1893-4, 
and at the last meeting of the Vermont Bar Association 
read a paper termed "A Legal Medley," which ex-Senator Ed- 
munds said was ''extremely interesting, valuable and witty." 

Judge Taft was twice married, his first wife (deceased in 
1873) bein r Miss Maria L. Carlisle of Burlington. In June, 
187<), he married Miss Jennie Marlett of Syracuse, X. Y., who 
survives him, with one son, Russell Wales Taft. 



Henrv Pink, President of the Norfolk and Western railway 
since 1896, and identified with it for a much longer time, has 
resigned from the Presidency to bee rm^ chairman of the Execu- 
tive committer of the Board of Directors, F. J. Kimball, who 
was President and receiver of the road from 1833 to 1896, and 
has been chairman of the Executive committee since then, has 
been elected to the Presidency. This is controlled by the Penn- 
sylvania Central. This enterprising cousin was one of the first 
to assist the Family News. 



Rev. H. B. Kimball, pastor of the First Methodist Church 
of Syc imore. 111., has accepted a call to the First Methodist 
Church of Spokane, Wash. He is one of the leading divines of 
the Rock River conference, of which he has been a member for 
manv years. He came here from the New England conference 
to become pastor of the Oakland M. E. Church on the South 
Side. Later he filled the pulpit in the First Church of Oak 
Park, and remained there four years. He had been at Syca- 
more for five years. — Chicago Record. 



102 Kimball Family News, 



T( > THE DESCENDANTS 

OF 

A!,i >NZO AND SARAH WEST* >\ KIMBALL. 

S >me months ago Prof. Hobbs of the Wisconsin State Uni- 
versity issued a circular with the above heading as a "Christ- 
mas Greetinj It was accompanied by a family chart, which 
was afterwards said to be incorrect. Therefore no mention wa 
made of it at the time in the Xr.ws. We now give place to tin- 
circular. The reader will remember that Alonzo Kimball is not 
mentioned in the Family History as the head <>f a family and 
that this omission was made good in the issue of the News 
for April and May pages 256 to 258. This branch of the fami- 
ly is a very interesting one. as may be seen in the News and in 
this 

CHRISTMAS GREETING. 

The advent of Christmas reminds us that the New Year is 
at hand with its irksome duty of self examination and resolution. 
It has been sasd: 

u If you would know who you are 
Learn whence you came." 

The worthy sons and daughters of such excellent parents 
a- Alonzo Kimball and Sarah Weston may safely follow the ad- 
vice contained in the above couplet and pursue the inquiry re- 
specting - the blood which Hows in their veins. 

The undersigned who shines only in the reflected light of 
the Kimball name would give expression to the honor which his 
union with the family has conferred upon him by undertaking- 
the somewhat arduous task of compiling-, for the use of the 
present and future generations, the family history. The ac- 
companying- chart presents in synoptical form the lines of de- 
scent, so far as it has been possible to follow them, from the 
American emigrant ancestors. The tracing of the ancestry of 
Rebecca Howard and Sarah Pomerov has offered special difficul- 
ties, which have not been surmounted. 

The chart is only a part of the plan undertaken, which 
contemplates the issuing of a small book or pamphlet to con- 
tain the important events and dates which establish the line- 
ages g-iven in the chart, and also events of special interest in 
the lives of the ancestors. In an appendix will be printed the 
usual vital records relating- to the descendants of Alonzo Kim- 
b all. This appendix has been compiled by Mrs. M. H. Walker, 
who may add to her other distinctions that of custodian of the 
family records. By including- at the end of the book blank 



July 1902. 103 

pages for the entry of births, marriages, and deaths, it is hoped 
that greater attention may in future be given to preserving the 
family records. 

While the undersigned has assumed the compilation and ed- 
iting of the family History, the expense incident to it has been 
assumed by the "generous brother," Mr. A. W. Kimball, who 
is therefore a partner in the enterprise. 

Inspection of the chart will show that the emigrant ances- 
tors of the family are of English stock with the single excep- 
of the Huguenot, Philip De la Noye, whose daughter is sup- 
posed to have married Edmund Weston, of Duxburv. While 
the majority of the forebears were of +hat sturdy middle class 
which has always been the strength of the English people, 
there were several among them who belonged to families of 
distinction at home. Abigail Downing was descended through 
the royal line from William the Conqueror. Her husband Rich- 
ard Montague claimed descent from one who came to England 
with the Normans in 1066. The pedigree of John Richmond is 
also traced to one of the leaders under William the Conqueror 
at the battle of Hastings. His grand-daughter, Sarah Rich- 
mond, was the first of seven Sarahs in the direct line to Sara 
I Kimball) Hobbs, and the name is continued in the succeeding 
gener ation in the person of Sara Weston Kimball. Philip de la 
Noye, the Huguenot of the Plymouth Colony, was descended 
from one of the most distinguished families of France, the re- 
corded pedigree of which extends to Charlemagne and includes 
many of the royal blood. 

The cradle of the Weston family was the Plymouth colony 
of Massachusetts, to which came four of its ancestors in the 
"Mayflower," namely: George Soule, Thomas Rogers, John 
Rogers his son, and Francis Cook, the latter being ancestor to 
two distinct lines of the family. All of those mentioned, 
except John Rogers were signers of the "Mayflower compact.'' 
The Weston ancestry includes also several others of the "Pil- 
grim Fathers," to wit: Experience Mitchell, Robert Hicks, and 
Joshua Pratt. 

The Kimballs first settled at Watertown, Mass., and the 
first Kimball born in America was Sarah Kimball, who first 
saw the light in 1635. Richard Mather settled in Dorchester, 
and his son Timothy married Catherine, the daughter of Maj. 
Gen. Humphrey Atherton. The latter commanded the Suffolk 
regiment with the rank of major general, and was in his time 
the military officer of highest rank in New England. Rev. 
Richard Mather was the father of Dr. Increase Mather and the 



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errand father of Dr. Cotton Math- The sp here available 
does nol allow of further mention of the I imily ancestor 

The chart is sent with the on's compliment? and those 

W i I.I.I \m Hi RBERT 1 1' >BBS 

also Family News for Jan. 1901 and Feb. No. p. 223. 



JUDGE TAFT'S LAST LETTER TO THE MOWS. 

In connection with the sketch of Judge Taft published in 
this issue, the following last letter from him may be of interest. 
Nothing is mentioned of his branch in the History, and he had 
to a great deal of pains to gather up the records. With 
this letter he sent the proof sheets to which he refers, and from 
which were complied the data that appear on several pages of 
the January issue, but which only com  down to his own gener- 
ation. It is hardly probable that he c >mpleted the work on his 
<»wn generation of which he makes m sntion. The News will 
be glad to have anything further that the last tw > month > of 
his useful life may have prepared. As will be scon his letter 
was written on New Years day: 

Br hi. ix' /pox, Vt., 1 January, 1902. 
My Dear Cousin:— I have your letter of a late date. 
I enclose you one dollar for the Family News for 1902. I am 
glad it is to be continued. I expected the data as to Eugene 
Kimball in time for the January number, but I have to send to 
Denver, Colorado for it and they may be obliged to write to New 
Hampshire. I have some of the proof sheets of my Kimball 
family and I send you them, so that yon can make whatever 
use of any part of it that you like, and I wish if you do use any 
part of it or if you use none of it, that you will destroy the 
sheets. I am preparing- the subsequent sheets and I do not w T ish 
any of them to g-et in circulation until the pamphlet is complete. 
You will notice that I have so far obtained only the first three 
generations and am working- well on the subsequent one. With- 
out any reference to Charles Kimball himself all of his descen- 
dants belong- in the Kimball Family being- a descendant of 
"Martha Kemball" who married Daniel Chase (1661). Martha 
was the twelfth child of Henry and Mary (Wyatt) Kemball 
born 18 Aug-ust 1664. Truly 

R. S. Taft. 



July 1902. 105 



INFORMATION WANTED. 

Wanted. — Further information of Isaac Kimball of Cabot, 
Vt. His children were 

1. — Rufus, Montpelier, Vt., married Nancy Thompson, of 
Wherlock, Vt. Their children were, Laura, Mary E., 
Isaac, Rufus and Ebenezer. 

2. -Laura, Montpelier, Vt., married Heron, their child 

Laura, m. Orcutt. 

3. — Myron, married their child, Myron married Mary 

Lane, had children, Louisa, Maud, Maggie, Willie. 

Laura, daughter of Rufus, married Thomas Duncan, died and 

is buried in Duncan City, 111. 
Mary K., daughter of Rufus, married Jacob W. Heckard, their 
children were 

i. --Laura, married C. E. Overton, had children Frank L. 

and Cora B. 
ii. Clara, married William M. Stonemetz, child Nellie, 
iii. -Philitus P., married Sophia J. Hart. 
iv.- Cynthia, married George Frizzelle, child Carrie, 
v —Ida, married John W. Waugfhtel. 
vi. — Cora, married Charles T. Howard. 

vii.— Martin O., single. Dr. Heckard is a practicing phy- 
sician in Chicago, who sends these data. 
Isaac, son of Rufus, married Sarah Burgess, children, Albert 

and Nancy. 
William, son of Rufus, married, 1st, Mary Benson, child, Mar- 
tha, married - - Raburn, married 2d Mary White, child 
Willie, deceased. 
Rufus. son of Rufus, married 1st. Sarah Markee; Children Effie, 

Emma, Clinton; married 2nd several children; m. 3d — 

Ebenezer son of Rufus, married, 1st Angeline Stewart; child 
Samantha ; married, 2nd Amanda Coons; Children, Alta, 
deceased, Willie, Cora, Sadie, Laura. 

Now here is a very considerable lot of Kimballs very im- 
perfectly recorded. There is not even a date of birth, death or 
marriage. There are numerous Isaacs mentioned in the His- 
tory not given as head of families, but who really were such. 
Several of these lived in Vermont. The News hopes that Dr. 
Heckard will be able to point out the way to secure the com- 
plete record of this Isaac Kimball and all his descendants. 

Gov. Charles Dean Kimball took a part in the late labor 
trouble in Rhode Island, with a manifest desire to do justice to 
all parties interested. He asked the Supreme Court for an 
(■pinion as to the Constitutionality of the law regulating the 
hours of lator for street railway men. The Merchants and 
business men of Pawtucket asked him to do this in order to ex- 
pedite a settlement.- 



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MASTER WILLIAM RAY JEWELL. 

Son of William Ray and Edna ( Kimball) Jewell, 

born January 19, 1901. Kimball Family 

History page 903. No. 2002 ii. — 

This is Master Workman William Ray Jewell, the fourth of 
the line. He is in his work day clothes. His father is a law- 
yer bearing- the same name, and his paternal grandfather, also 
of the same name, is editor of the Danville, 111. News, a paper 
started and christened by the editor of the Kimball Family 
News. This same grandfather is also post master of Danville 
and feels it is his duty to help keep the Hon. Joseph G. Cannon, 
the present watch dog of the U. S. Treasury, in Congress dur- 
ing the rest of his natural life. The other grandfather 
of this Master Jewell, is Henry M. Kimball, a retired merchant 
of Danville, a veritable Greatheart, whose deeds of kindness and 
generous helpfulness have been felt by many who have received 
less than he of fortune's favors. It need not be surprising that 
this little Ray, son of an only remaining daughter, is truly a 



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ray of comfort in these declining- years as the memory of a littlo 
Harry whose early taking- away left a darkened home, to be 
shrouded ag-ain in further g-loom by the loss of an elder daugh- 
ter in her early wedded life. There can be little compensation 
for such sorrows beyond hope, and trust and belief, but what 
these may be can be found in the dear vouno- lives that come 
later into such bereaved households, even in the second genera- 
tion. A few years ag-o the Kimballs of Danville were numer- 
ous, but now this loving- grandfather is the only male represen- 
tative left. But up in that city of the dead there are stones to 
tell of three g-enerations who have g-one before. 



DEATHS 

HENRY PLUMMER. 

The ( )xford County, Me. Advertiser gives the following 

among- its Norway items of June 12: — 

Word has been received here of the death of Henry Plum- 
mer of Idaho Spring's, Colo., brother of the late Mrs. J. N. Ba- 
ker of this place and Mrs. Brown of Waterford. Himself a na- 
tive of Waterford as a young man he went West and has passed 
his life there. He was about 66 years of ag-e. Death was very 
sudden. Fam. Hist. p. 274, No. 481, ii. 



ELECTED CHAPLAIN. 

At a meeting- of the Encampment of the Department of 
New York. G. A. R. June 25-27, the Rev. Dr. William E. Kim- 
ball, grandson of Timothy Kimball pag-e 99, History of Kim- 
ball Family, I was elected to the office of Department Chap- 
lain by every vote cast in the encampment. His election was 
larg-elv due to the efforts of the commander and deleg-ate of E. 
A. "Kimball Post No. 100. Chaplain Wm. E. Kimball is a 
cousin of CM. Edgar Addison Kimball, page 642, History of the 
Kimball Family. Family News Dec. L901, pp. 330 to 383. 

Aug-ustine S. Worthing- of Belvue, Kansas is a descendant 
of Peter Kimball whose Bennington Diary was printed in the 
May News. He writes that he was delighted to see it as he 
had heard of it for sixty years, often having heard his grand- 
mother, Sarah Kimball Martin speak of it. He had, however been 
led to believe it was a large book with lengthy comments. He 
thinks the Diary as printed must be greatly abridged. It was 
given as found in the History of Boscawen to which reference 
is Tiade on page 150 of the History. 



IOS Kimball Rami] v N«u », 



HIS MENU >RIAL DAY REMARKS. 

Major T. D. Kimball, St. Louis General Agent Washington 
Life Insuran I o. whose home is in Kirkwood, Mo., made a 
sh<»rt address at the Memorial Day services al the Jefferson 
Barracks National Cemetery. It is mentioned by the Clayton 
Advocate, his local paper as follows: 

Major T. D. Kimball, ol Kirk wood, read Lincoln's famous 
address at Gettysburg", which he introduced by the following 
quent and patriotic prefatory remarks; 

"On the 1 st day of July, 1863, the|flower of the Confeder- 

Annv. 75,000 strong, had invaded the State of Penn., and 
ten miles from the Maryland border they were met by some- 
thing over 80,000 veterans of the Union Army. 

For three days, like a destructive wave, the battle ebbed 
and flowed over the plains and hillsides of Gettysburg. The 
percentag< oi I ss< - to the number engaged shows this to have 
been, to the Confederates, the most disastrous engagement of 
the war. 

To the Union arm v. of battles in which it was victorous, it 
was the most disastrous save one. Seven thousand, counting- 
friends and foes, lay dead upon the held, and more than 33,000 
were wounded, many of them mortally. Less than two-thirds 
of the invading army followed the retreat, and from that day 
the Confederate cause tottered to its final fall at Appomattox. 

A part of this historic field was set apart for a national 
cemetery, and in November following, a vast company gathered 
for its dedication. The Hon. Edward Everett, of Mass., gra- 
cious in manner and eloquent of tongue, gave the principal ad- 
dress, and it is said that it was worthy of his reputation as one 
of the most accomplished orators of his age. 

Abraham Lincoln, the railsplitter of the West, the child of 
poverty, whose schooling, all told, was less than one year, was 
invited to take part, and we are told that w T hile on the railway 
train he wrote upon a piece of paste-board, resting on his knee, 
those immortal words which now rank with the best of classic 
literature. 

As he finished. Mr. Everett grasped his hand and said: — 

"My speech will soon be forgotten; yours will never be. 
Gladlv would I exchange mv hundred pages for your twentv 
lines. 

Time, and the verdict of the best critics have justified the 
prophecy. For exactness of statement, terseness of expression, 
and fitness for the occasion, it has never been excelkd, and it is 
the rich heritage of American citizens to recall with pride that 
this was the utterance of our Martyred President, one of the 
noblest and most benevolent characters in recorded historv. 



July 1902. 109 

VALUABLE HISTORIC FRAGMENTS. 

Probably there are very few people who appreciate the val- 
ue of the historic work that has been done by the patriotic soc- 
ieties of our country. This work, in connection with that al- 
lied to it such as the family histories that have been multiplied 
of late years, is making- known the heroic features of the past 
as no other age has witnessed. Tradition is seldom if ever 
absolutely trustworthy. Tradition is being supplanted by writ- 
ten records, and this in detail as never before. Thousands of 
individual incidents, efforts and experiences are noted that have 
heretofore been unrecorded. Many of these have great historic 
worth, not always in themselyes, but as illustrations throwing 
lig-ht upon the peculiar characteristics of an ag-e or a people. 
The want of such incidental details has often been the cause of 
the diametically opposite conclusions reached in the treatment 
of the same matter by different historians. There will be less 
need of these conflicting 1 views in the future, and this will be 
largely owing- the better underspending of the individual pur- 
poses of mankind, because of these improved methods of record- 
ing- facts. The small publications issued by the colonial Dames, 
the Sons of the American Revolution, or sketches of family 
history are channels through which much of this work is done. 
The News is just now in receipt of a neat little pamphlet of 
this kino by Miss Ai^nes Blake Poor, a member and the histor- 
ian of the Warren-Prescott Society of the Daug-hters of the 
American Revolution of Boston. Miss Poor is known as a writer 
of merit and is not only interested but is versed in historic and 
genealogical studies. We have found her sketches of the mem- 
bers of her Society and their ancestors of deep interest. 

Miss Poor does not appear in the Family History, and has 
been a subscriber to the News from its first issue. She is of 
Kimball blood however of a few generations back. Her sum- 
mers she spends at Andover, Me., at the Merrill House, and her 
winters at Brookline, Mass. Andover is the ancestral home. 
She is descended from Nathaniel Merrill, the immigrant, and is 
also of the Benjamin Franklin, the Historical Prescott, as well 
as the Tappan, Pierce and Varnum lines. Miss Poor's literary 
work has gained for her a place in "Who's Who in America."' 
See pp. 5S and 295, Fam. Hist. 



110 Kimball Family News, 

RANDOM RECORDS OH KIMBALL FOOT PRINTS. 

rhese imperfect records are printed to assist in the Indentification of 
an recorded members of the family. An\ one knowing any thing of them 
should write 1" Prof. Sharpies, 2 ! < on cord Avenue ( ambridge Mass. ami 
oof to the N i we 

- isanna Kimball d Jnne 16, 1821, widow. 
Mary Kimball l» 'I Sept .' ; - I. widow 

R, becca Kimball b '1 Vug 26. 18 J5, widow. 

•ah Kimball b d June LO, L8 

David at the Poor Farm d Nov o. L833. 

b d Dec 2, 1834. 

Elizabeth b d Mar 27, 1838. 

Nathan b d .Tunc 26, 1838. 

- rah b d Sept 9, 1820. 
Bertha b d Feb 25, 1815 
Josiah b 1710, d Feb 16, 1767. 

R0S FOBD, M \>s 

jamin Kimball b d L822, m June 12, Betsey Richards. 

Administration was granted to James Kimball of Bradford. 

CHILDREN 

Elizabeth b Nov 9. 1819. 

l!<-n jamin b July 6, 1821. 

Charles F Kimball b Newburyport, m Hannah 

CHTLDRETN 

Charles Newton horn Sept 17. 1843. 
Walter Byron b Dec 19. 1846. 
Ellen Matilda b July 7. 1849. 
Georsre E. b Julv 28. 1859. 
Son b Deo 8. 1861. 

Carrie L b Sept 20, 1856 m Oct 14, 1877 Walter E. Newhall of Saugns. 
George E. Kimball b July 28. 1859. m Jnne 14. 1882 Lizzie A. Stuart ofSau- 
gus. Child Helen L. Kimball b Sang us Feb 20. 1800. 

Elizabeth Kimball b fl m June 30, 1842 John L. ^nmminq-p. 

Abigail Kimball m Nov 28, 1804 Asa Pin<rrep. 

Sarah Kimball b d m Oct 9. 1744 Edward TIerrick b 1724. d 1756*. 

Mehitable Kimball m 1 74^ Gideon Tvler. 

Ruth Kimball m Dec 8. 1781 Asa Perlev. 

Elizabeth Kimball m Dec 17. 1701 Dr. Samuel Putnam. 

Eunice Kimball m Julv 12. 1703 Abner Hale. 

Mehetable Kimball m Mar 2, 1783 Stephen Migill. 

Mary (Mazoon) Kimball b Julv 4. 1707 d April 28. 1847. 
Hannah Kimball b Plaistow. N H 1770. d Feb 21. 1850, widow 

Thomas Kimball of BnxfoH. Mass. carpenter bought of Thomas Mower of 

Jaffery N H May 8. 1795. 
Anna Kimball daughter of David Kimball of Boxford was Xon Comp. 

1701. 
David Kimball of Boxford A dm May 7. 1811. 

Asa Kimball of Boxford Adm to Mehitable Kimball Mar 5. 1811. 
Sarah Kimball of Boxford Estate Appraised Sept 1*19, Single. 



July 1 ( )<)2. Ill 



Amos Kimball of Boxford. Charles H. Kimball Adm Feb 1824. 

Mary Kimball of Boxford, adm to Charles Foster 1830, single. 

Mary Kimball of Boxford widow, gives Mary wife of Jonathan Foster all 

her property. 
Ephraim Kimball m Nov 13. 1745 Elizabeth Potter of Ipswich. 
Elizabeth Kimball m Sept 14, 1745 Humphrey Holt. 

CAMBRIDGE, MASS 

John E Kimball m Lucy B, ( ) 

I IIILDREX. 

Child b April 5. l- 15 

Charles \V b .Ian 1<>. '>48. 

Lucy B b 1852 in .Inly 19, 1*70 Alfred G. Anderson. 

Sarah Kimball b New Brunswick 1861, d a u of James and Harriet m Dee. 
16, 1880 James A Prince b New Brunswick 1856. 

Charles W. Kimball b Boston m Sarah F. ( ) b Temple N, H. 

i iiii.drkx 

Charles A. b Dec 31. 1*47. d July '.'. 1848. 
Henrietta E b Aug •.'7. 1846, d Nov 22, 18 
Sarah E. b July p, 1850. 

Charles Kimball m Elizabeth ( ) b Newport R. I. Child bAug 1800. 

Washington Kimball b Rucksport Me 1833. m Jan 2, 1861 Emma N. Keyes. 

Charles Kimball m Fun-line | ) Child Clarence b Oct 11, 1861. 

Emma W Kimball (Widow) b 1838. m July 4. 1*<>4 Gustavus Weinscheuck. 

Charles G. Kimball b Wentworth X H 1*47. d May 22, 1877, m Dec 12. 1806 
Anna S. Spring 

Anna S. (Wadsworth) Kimball b 1815. m July 17. 1846 John Simpson b!814. 

Edward Kimball b Nova Scotia, m Annie McNeil b Ludwig C B. 1851, d 
April 24 1<76. Child William Henry Kimball b Feb 27. 1875. 

Martha \. Kimball b 1849 daughter of Robert and Mary Kimball m May 
31. 18 "8 Patrick Mclntire. 

James Franklin Kimball b Salem N. H. 1838. Son of Horace and Sarah C. 
Kimball m Dee 17. 1867 Caroline A. Wio-gin b Tuftonboro Oct 30, 1831 
b -Inly I.". 1880. Daughter of Joseph and Sarah A. Wig-gin of Tufton- 
boro. He m 2nd Emma G. ( ) 

CHILDREN 

Henry F. hjnly 17. 1870. 
Daughter h Nov. 27, 1888. 

Jesse Kimball b Georgeton. Mass m Emilv ( ) Had a son born Dec. 

20. I-" >. 
Leman Kimball b Surrey. Me. 1850 son of James M. and Matilda Kimball 

m April If?. 1*74 Annie E. Benjamin b Lexington, Mass. 1852. 

CHILDREN. 

Lillie b Aug 7. 1883 Somerville. Mas^. 

Fred Lincoln b Mav 4. 18*9 Medford. Mass. 

Gertrude L. b Cambridge 1875 m Dec. 31. 1894 Roland E. Swan. 

Florence Blanchard Kimball b July 7. 1872. d of Luther E. and Emma. 
Mary H. (Buchanan) Kimball b 1851, m Dec 31, 1876, John H. Crouch. 



nr Kimball Family News, 



Annis Kimball b 1840 son of Benjamin and Lydia Kimball <>f Wells, m,-. 
id Mar 26, 1870 Christina McKeow bl840 

CH1LDBI N 

\ mira b Di 1870. 

EM ward b Aug '.». 1872 d Mar. 9, 1873. 
 E )• Mar. 8, 18*3 I. d Sepl 18, l- 
Christina b Nov. i 1. 

Emma I b Jan. 30, 18' l. d. 8ept. 10, L8'i 

Ralph M. Kimball b. Oct. 7, 1892, s<m of John E. and Josephine Montgom- 
ery Kimball. 
• Kimball b St. John N. l*>. m. Julia Kerder. 

CHILDREN 

rtrude E. b Aug. 24, 1888. 
Francis b Mar. 9, 1891. 
Robert J. b June 27, 1893, 

Sarriet Kimball b Oct 18, 1889, dan of James and Harriet Kimball of X. II 
Howard Kimball b July 30, 1890, son of J. Francis Kimball b. X. II. and 
Emma G. ( I Kimball b Boston. 



David Kimball b 1766, d April 10. 1848. single. 

Mary H. Kimball b Feb 1803 N. II.. d Aug 17. 1888, dau of William Adams. 

Prances Kimball b Aug 14, 1847 Maine, d Aug- 15, 1883. 

George H. Kimball b 1856, d Mar 2. 1862. 

Harriet (Bussell) Kimball b 1845, d April 3, 1*92. wife of Moses J. Kim- 
ball and daughter of William and Margaret Bussell. 

Sarah (Carson) Kimball b Nov. 3, 1804 N. II., d June 12, 1888, dau of Eben- 
ezer and Sarah A. Carson. 

Susan b 1873 daughter of Moses Kimball and Harriet Bussell m 1892 John 
Charles Stafford. 

CARLISLE, MASS 
William Kimball m April 10, 1796 Mary Puttie. 

CHILDREN. 

Mary b Aug 27. 1790. 

Ichabod O. b. April 14. 1790. d Mar. 14, 1880. m Dec 5, 1821 at Chelmsford. 
Joanna Pitts Gould b 1798. d Aug- 17, 1876, child Anna Maria b July 6, 1823, 

d Oct 26, 1846. 
Clarissa b May 9, 1801. 
Maria b May 23, 1805. m Stephen Webster of Salisbury, Mass. 

CHELMSFORD, MASS. 

Abigail S. Kimball b April IS. 1722 Berwick Me., d Jan. 3, 1892. 
Mary Jane Kimball b Acton, Mass. June 5, 1773, d June 10, 1885. 
Hiram Kimball m July 30, 1805, Sabrina Steele. 
Mary Ann Kimball m Oct 6. 1823, John Farmer. 






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Topeka, Kansas, August, 1905*. 



SOLON KIMBALL'S OLD HESSIAN GUN. 

J. Hoyt Kimball of Sharptown, N. J., a great grandson of 
Peter Kimball whose Bennington Diary was printed in a late 
number of the News, writes: — 

k, I read with much interest your reprint of mv great grand- 
father's Diary. I read it many times when a boy, and can place 
my hands on it at any time. I would like to know where you 
procured the extracts that you printed, because I know the orig- 
inal diary is safe at home. The old Hessian musket that my 
great grandfather, Peter Kimball brought home from the battle 
of Benning-ton, is also at home. It was the first gun I ever 
fired, and my father taught me to shoot with it and many a fine 
string of partridges and squirrels have I brought to bay with it. 
Every Fourth of July, when I was a boy, father would load the 
old Hessian with about four inches of powder, then a wad of 
t:>w, then wet powdered brick and green grass to the muzzle. 
Then lashing her to a log with the breech against the under- 
pinning of the house, plenty of powder in the pan, and the flint 
well picked, a string attached to the trigger, we would go 
around the corner and pull. Then the Old Hessian would rear 
up like a bucking broncho and send fourth such a roar that all 
the people in town would say "Solon Kimball is celebrating 
with his giandfather's old musket." It seems that we tried 
many times to burst it but never could do it. Well I have no 
kk childie" to leave these and many other relics to, but my broth- 
er Willis has a son that I hope will treasure them all, as well as 
the heritage of his ancestors names." 



1 1 4 Kimball F.mnl \ News, 



THE NEW "FIRST CHURCH." 

Following* is the ord ersises at the laying of the 

rner-stone of the First Church at Ipswich, Mass., July 14, 
• ».. per Rev. D. T Kimball's memoranda. Sang Psalm 118, 
3rd Part, I M 

"Behold, the sure| foundation stone." 

\Y. Heard, Esq., gave an address in which he 
sketched the history of the site on which the house is to stand 
and gave the history of the several houses. He read, also, the 
contents of the box. which box was deposited by Mr. Kimball 
in the place in the rock prepared for it under the corner-stone. 
Mr. Kimball then offered remarks followed by prayer after 
which the Doxology, "Praise God from whom all blessings 
Bow," was sung, and the services closed with the benediction 
by the pastor. 

Mr. Kimball'^ remarks were as follows: 

"The rock on which we stand was placed here by the su- 
preme architect of the universe, when, amid the songs of an- 
ile laid the foundations of the earth; and it will, we doubt 
not. cmiinue here till the voice of the archangel shall proclaim 
the end of time. This rock is emblematic of the rock of ages, 
<m which, as its sure and immoveable foundation, stands the 
church of (rod. Hark! What voice do we hear? The sweet 
voice of the evangelical prophet, saying, "Thus saith the 
Lord I rod, Behold, I lay in Zion for a. foundation a stone, a tired 
stone, a precious corner-stone, a sure foundation." Hark! The 
sweeter voice of the son of God, saying, 'On this rock will I 
build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against 
it.' Hark once more! The voice of a holy apostle of the Lamb, 
saying, 'Ye are built upon the foundations of the prophets and 
the apostles. Jesus Christ being- the chief corner-stone; in whom 
all the building-, fitly framed together, groweth into a holy 
temple in the Lord, in whom ye also are builded tog-ether for a 
habitation of God through the Spirit/ 

"For the space of two hundred and twelve years worship- 
pers of God in this place have by faith built their eternal hope 
on the Lord Jesus Christ; and for more than two hundred years 
houses for the accomodation of such worshippers have stood 
firmly on this rock. Here a house of worship was erected in 
1646; another in 1699; another in 1749. More than four months 
have elapsed snee we took our leave of the venerable house, last 
referred to, our attachment to which will continue till memory 
shall cease to perform its office. The occasion was to the 
speaker and to a large proportion of the numerous assembly 
then present one of the most interesting- they ever witnessed or 



Aug-ust 1902. 115 



expect to witness this side of the judgment. The sentiments 
of that day are among- the contents of the box, deposited in the 
corner stone now laid. We bequeath them to the generation 
who shall worship on this holy hill a hundred years hence, 
when the house about to be erected shall be razed to its founda- 
tion; bequeath them, as a token of our respect for the memory of 
the ancient house and of those who worshipped in it. As on 
the occasion referred to we recounted the dealing's of God's 
mercy toward us duriug the past century, we now look forward 
and anticipate still greater mercies in time to come. Though 
some of us will worship but a short time in the house to be 
erected, we indulge the hope, that our .children and children's 
children will find it to them the place of God's gracious abode. 
"The present is indeed a joyful occasion. And it becomes 
us to feel our dependence on God for success in the work before 
us. In the excercise of the dependence, we should say. except 
the Lord build the house, they labor in vain who build. It be- 
comes us to look up to (rod for his blessing on the work of erec- 
ting- a new house to the honor of his name and to the purpose of 
his worship, while repeating for the encouragement of the 
people, engaged in this enterprise these words of sacred writ, 
'The God of heaven, he will prosper us, therefore we, his ser- 
vants, will arise and build. We are servants of the God of 
heaven and earth, and build the house which was builded these 
many years ago. And the glory of tnis latter house shall be 
greater than of the former, saith the Lord of hosts; and in this 
place will I give peace, saith the Lord of hosts.' Hist. p. 333. 



For what Kimball was k 'Kimball Creek" in Ipswich, Mass. 
named. 

Park B. Kimball of the Family News, is now engaged with 
a Santa Fe civil engineering force with headquarters at Ft. 
Madison, Iowa. He has been taking a course of instruction 
with a Scranton Correspondence School. 

Mrs. F. M. Kimball of Topeka, having spent several weeks 
with her brother on his fruit farm near Canon City, Col., is now 
spending the rest of the summer with her son Carl in his new 
cottage which he has recently built at Rye Beach on the Long 
Island sea shore. Her daughter Maude, is with her after hav- 
ing visited friends in Oklahoma. She will return in time to 
take up her kindergarten classes in connection with the college 
of the Sisters of Bethany the Episcopal School for young ladies 
for Kansas and Oklahoma. 



116 



Kimball Pamilv News, 



MARRIAGES. 

KIMB \U. SW.WN 1 . 

Miss Lydia Conard Swayne, only daughter of Judge and 
Mrs. Charles Swayne, of Pensacola, Fla., and Gardner Warren 
Kimball, of Wilmington, Del., were married last evening at the 
residence of the bride's cousins, Mr. and Mrs. EM ward S. Jack- 
son, No. 105 West LJpsal street, Germantown, by Rev. Dr. R. 
W. Forsyth, rector of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church. Miss 
Mary Lee Douglass, of Tampa, Kla.. was maid of honor, and 
Charles Percy Swayne, brother <>f the bride, was best man. 
The ushers were Ernest 15. Freeman, of Orange, N. J., and 
Arthur C. Jackson, of this city. A reception followed the cere- 
mony and later Mr. and Mrs. Kimball left on a wedding trip. 
Tlie bride's father is United States Judge for the Northern 
district of Florida, and the groom is a son of the late Horace 
E. Kimball, a well-known newspaper man of Orange. Phil. 
Record, July //. iQ02. 

Is Gardner W. Kimball a son of Horace Eastabrook Kim- 
ball. No. 1373 i, Hist. p. 664? 



DEATHS 
SARAH HAN AH KIMBLE. 

Wife of Geo. W. Kimble, of Parh, 111., died April 14, 1900. 

Deceased was born at Mosesville, Delaware Co., New York, 
Oct. 31, 1832 where she lived until she was one year old. Pier 
mother dying- at that time she was tiken by her grandmother 
Nancy Hanah to Schenectady, New York, w r here she resided 
until 17 years "of age. 

In the year 1850 she with her grandmother and her uncle, 
A. A. Hanah, Sr.. came to Paris, 111., where she resided until 
her marriage with Geo. W. Kimble, April 13, 1854. 

After her marriag-e she removed to the Kimble Homestead, 
three miles North East of Paris, where she lived until her 
death. 

She is survived by husband and five children: 

Viz. Clarence C. Kimble, with Wayne & Low, South Water 
St., Chicago; Willis B. Kimble, with Erie Rail Road, Galion, 
Ohio; Amelia G. McCulloch, Hume, 111.; Wm. L. and John D. 
Kimble, Paris, 111. 

TO O r JR MOTHER. 



We miss thee from our home dear 
mother, 

W? miss thee from thy place: 
A shadow o'er our life is cast, 

We miss the sunshine of thv face. 



We miss thy kind and willing 
hand. 

Thy fond and earnest care — 
Our home is dark without thee, 

W 7 e miss thee everywhere. 



August 1902. 117 



INFORMATION WANTED. 

The Boston Transcript in genealogical column wants infor- 
mation: — 

1. Of Mary Lewis Doane, born Aug-. 14, 1782, married 
1801, Samuel Kimball ('Samuel 6, Thomas 5, 4, 3, Richard 2, 1). 
See Hist. p. 414. 

2. Of Abigail Holmes, wife of Samuel (6~) Kimball. She 
married, second, Thomas Eldridge. Hist. p. 224. 

Samuel Kimball 7 was their only child. Samuel 6 was lost at 
sea soon after his marriage. His widow Abigail afterwards 
married Thomas Eldridg-e Samuel' 5 married Mary Lewis 
Doane as above. Their fifth child, Thomas Eldridge 8 was evi- 
dently named for the second husband of his father's mother. 
See No. 1564. 

3. Of Richard Hitchens and wife, Mary Crowell, parents 
of Mary Jane Hitchens, who married, L840, Captain Thomas 
Eldridg-e Kimball s of Eastport, Me., and Boston. Hist. p. 
737. 

The name of the wife of Thomas E. Kimball is given in 
the History (p. 737) as Margery Hitching-s instead of Mary 
Jane Hitchens. 

4. Of Mary Ingalls, who married Jan. 10. 1743. Thomas 
Kimball, of Safem and Marblehead. Hist. p. 118. It will be 
noticed that they were the parents of the above Samuel Kimball' 1 

5. Of Hannah Porter, born Nov. 2(>, 1687, married Thomas 
Kimball of YYenham. Hist. p. 70. They were the parents of 
the above Thomas Kimball. 

It will be seen that all these Kimballs are descendants' of 
Thomas and Marv, and that the information wanted is that of 
the female line >. 



The Philadelphia Press of July 1, 1902, has item. 

"When Mrs. Lizzie Kimball moved from her home on Mon- 
day, she took all her household goods and forgot her little 
daughter. Late Monday night Policeman Matthews, while 
passing the former home of the Kimballs, heaidthe infant 
crying. On breaking open the door he saw the child, wrapped 
in a shawl, seated on the floor of the front room. He took her 
to the Station House and yesterday morning she was given in 
charge of the Society for the Protection of Children from Cruel- 
ty. There she was found by her father, Charles Kimball, late 
yesterday afternoon. Yesterd-av morning the Kimballs missed 
the baby. 

The cousin sending this item, adds: — 

I did not suppose that a Kimball would marry a woman 
with such a poor memorv, and his own was none of the best. 



11 s Kimball Family News, 



SUPPLEMENTARY N< >TES T( I FAMILY HIST< >KY. 

Page 514, No. L027, Solon Kimball 7 Joseph* (tiol Jesse) died 
Dec. 18, 1887 (not 1---) married Fanny Hoyt. 



< MM l»R] N 

i Joseph Hoyt 8 born — 

3 .i ii Willis Herbert 8 born 

iii Sarab Frances 8 born Lowell, Mass, March B, 1847, m. 

- '7a, Willis Herbert Kimball- Solon 7 Joseph 8 etc., born 
, married Milford, N. H., Sept. 11, 1890, A.ddie E. 
Dodge, born- daughter of of Bellows Falls, Vt. 

1 Ee lives in Milford. 

< 1 1 1 1 . 1 1 1 : i \ 

i Mil. Ire] Dodge' b Milford, July 19, 1*92. 
ii Frederick S on 9 b Milford, Feb. 7. 1894. 
Little Mildred is developing much musical ability, which she possibly in- 
herits. Her great grandfather Joseph was a noted singer of Bos- 
cowen, N. II.. Hist, p. 283. It will be seen that Capt. Peter Kimball 
was the ancestor of the above. 

Page 309. Benjamin Kimball 6 (No. 555) m. Abigail Eastman. 
The Kimball History gives year of his birth 1 759 — the 
Eastman History makes it 175b. Their seventh child, 
Charlotte m. Cyrus Kimball, See News 1898, p. 105. 

Page 310. John Kimball". No. 559-iv. Charlotte Kimball by 
her second husband Jonathan Eastman had, I East. 
Hist. p. 290- 

CHILDEEN 

i. Walter Scott", b. iv Qopkinton, N. II.. Jan. 8, 1838; d. in Hopkiu- 
ton. April 6, 1867: m. June 25, 1863, Maria Chase, of Hopkinton. 
Child: (a) Henry Chase 8 , b. May 1. 1864; m. Jan. 26, 1889, Nellie 
Mudgett, of Hopkinton. X. II.:* he died May 11. 1889. 

ii. Almira". b. July 8, 1839; m, March lit. 1862, Charles Putney, of 
Hopkinton. N. II. Children: (a) George Martin Putney 8 , b Jan. 
!8, 1864: (b) Crace Emma Putney 8 , b. Oct. 13. 1869. Mr. Charles 
Putnev d. May 2, 1892, and his widow lives in Contoocook. N. 
H. 



Gov. Charles Dean Kimball sends the News an elegant 
copy of the Rhode Island manual for 1902. The book is one 
that must be useful to the citizens of the state and has general 
historic value. It contains a copy of the original charter 
granted by Charles II, to Rhode Island and the Providence 
plantations. Gov. Kimball's portrait is from a tine steel plate 
and an improvement upon that printed in the News a year ago, 
which was the same as appeared in the manual for 1900-1901. 
He has fnanks for his remembrance. 



Aug-ust 1902, 119 



WILLIS P. KIMBLE. 
Mr. Kimball : — 

The Willis P. Kimble that I wish a number of the News 
sent to, married a daug-hter of Dr. Gates of La Plata, Mo. by 
his second wife, now deceased. She visited me last fall and in 
discussing- the Kimball History, she said her father's first wife 
was a Kimball. Although she had visited me every year for 
eig-ht or ten years she had never mentioned it to me before. 

And when I related to her what I knew of your family. 
She said that she believed yours was the Family that her fath- 
er married into. Since her return to Galion she has written to 
me that her father is related to the Kimballs of Topeka, Kans. 
by his first wife. Do you know anything of them or Dr. Gates 
of La Plata, Mo? 

The Willis P. Kimble that I speak of was Eng-ineer on A. 
T. & S. F. R. R.; helped lay it out from Las Vegas to El Paso, 
Texas; run the first line out of the United States into Old 
Mexico under Kx-(iov. Anthony; help lay out the Mexican Cen- 
tral from El Paso to Zacatecas, Mexico; help build the A. T. & 
S. F. R. R. from Missouri River to Ft. Madison, Iowa, and in 
meantime married Miss Gates of La Plata. 

He is now in charge of the Cleveland, Dayton & Cincinnati 
Division of the Erie R. R. Home in Galion, O.; second son of 
your humble servant. Please send the Dec. No. 1901 to C. C. 
Kimble, 2411 Magnolia Ave., Edgewater, Chicago. 

Yours Truly, 

Paris, 111. GEO. W. KIMBLE. 

Notk: A curious feature in connection with the above is 
the fact that Dr. Gates therein mentioned married, some forty 
years ago, Miss Eleanor Taylor, of Belleville, 111. a sister of 
the News editor's wife. During all these years a more or less 
infrequent correspondence has been kept up between her and 
Dr. Gates, which accounts for the idea that he married into the 
Kimballs. And no.v it turns ont that his daughter has married 
a Kimble, a fact that has long been known, without knowing- 
just what Kimble or Kimball. 

George W. Kimball is a wealthy farmer living- near Paris, 
111. a few miles south of Danville, 111. the once home of so many 
Kimballs. His wife a slig-ht sketch of whom is printed else- 
where, was we believe, a relative of Dr. D. C. Jones, formerly 
mayor of Topeka, and now chief surgeon at the National Sol- 
diers' Home at Danville. G. W. Kimble, while he says he is 
not a "bair has shown himself to be a staunch friend of the 
Kimball News. 



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TIM MAS B. GARLAND. Hist. p. 629. 

Thomas B. Garland, born Portsmouth, N. II. \u^. 2", 1817 
is only mentioned in the History as having married, Dec. 11, 
\2, Harriet Kimball, daughter of Daniel Kimball 7 . 

When young he narrowly escaped from drowning. The 
B >ston Herald of May 9, 1901, makes the following interesting 
notice of his useful life, it beinga dispatch from Dover, X. II. 

Thomas B. Garland, one <>i Dover's oldesl citizens, well 
known throughout the state, died this morning at his home on 
S cond street, after .'in illness covering a period of several 
months. IK' was nearly 84 wars old. 

Mr. Garland was born at Portsmouth Aug. 2<». 1817, the 
youngest child of William Garland, ship merchant, and Eliza- 
beth H<»w Garland. His father was a friend of Daniel Webster. 
Tin: father died when the son was hut 3 years old, and the 
family removed to Haverhill, the home of his grandfather, 
I >avid How. 

The father had been a Harvard man and the son was fitted 
for college at the Haverhill Academy, beginning, as was the 
custom in those days, the study of Greek and Latin at the atje 
of 9. 

Whittier, thoug-h older, was a student at the Academy at 
the same time. Family reverses caused him to give up the plan 
of college and the family removed to New York where he en- 
tered the bookstore of D. Appleton & Co. 

In 1837 he returned to Portsmouth and shipped in the 
largest vessel ever built there, the Nicholas Biddle, for Liver- 
pool. He returned from Liverpool to New Orleans in the ship 
Hobart, and expected to continue in this ship to Boston, but at 
the last moment he took passag-e in another vessel. On that 
trip the Hobart was lost with all on board. Mr. Garland's next 
trip was to China, and on the return, he had intended to come 
from New York to Boston by a new large steamer, but was 
persuaded by his brother to take the old boat. That night the 
new vessel was burned and more than 100 passeng-ers lost their 
lives. 

Mr. Garland come to Dover in 1845, where his sister, the 
wife of the late Rev. Oliver Ayer, resided. At the ag-e of 25 he 
married Harriet H. Kimball of Littleton, Mass., daughter of 
Daniel Kimball. He had been several times a member of the 
city g-overment and had served as president and clerk of the 
common council. He was a member of the school board for 40 
years and until he declined re-election three years agx). 

Mr. Garland w T as 33 years a clerk at the Cocheco print 
works. He was made treasurer of the Dover Gasligmt Company 



August 1902. 121 



in 1869 and held the office until the consolidation of the United 
Gas & Power Company a few years ago. He was treasurer and 
director of the Eliot Bridge Company, and had been a trustee of 
the Dover Public Library since its beginning-. 

.Mr. and Mrs. Garland celebrated their golden wedding- 
anniversary three years ago, and the following- year the latter 
died. The deceased is survived by two daughters, Mrs. David 
Hal] Rice of Brookline, Mass., Miss Caroline B. Garland, public 
librarian since 1884, and Alfred R. Garland of this city. 



ADAGE BECAME A DOGMA. 

At one of the reunions of the Kimball family, tribe of Jere- 
miah and Lois i Choate ) Kimball, held in the old South Church 
in Ipswich, Mass. a large number were present and interesting 
remarks were made. < >ne of the elder kinsman, who remembers 
Grandmother Lois, spoke of her as a woman of strong intellect 
and great industry, and ended his speech with a little anecdote. 
She had a little doer that was very fond of her. watched all her 
movements, and was never happy when she was out of sight. 
The old people lived on High Street, the thoroughfare from 
Newburypurt to Salem, where the house i> still standing. The 
Jog was a favorite in the family, but he had one bad habit; he 
wYuld chase every team that came along, and bark at it for a 
mil i. One afternoon in August, after the old lady had washed 
the dinner dishes, etc., it was so warm that she went up 
stair* to the 4 'fore room," opened the windows, and sat down 
with he knitting work. The dog followed her, laid down by 
her side, and was soon fast asleep. After a while one of those 
old-time "baofiraire wagons" came lumbering down the street, 
and the dog started up. Forgetting where he was, he jumped 
out of the chamber window, and all in a heap fifteen feet be- 
low. Fortunately he was not permanently injured, but he 
never barked at a team afterward. The adage '-look before 
you leap," became a dogma with him thereafter. 



H. A. Kimball, 300 Nicollet Avenue, Mineapolis, Minn, is 
General Agent, Great Northern Railway and of Eastern Rail- 
way Company of Minnesota. 

F. H. Kimball of St. Louis, 922 Pine street belongs to that 
German branch of the Kimball family of wdiich mention was 
made in the early numbers of the News, and to which Christian 
Frederick Kimball of San Francisco also belongs. They are 
also of Huguenot descent and our St. Louis cousin sends us the 
records of several members going back to his grandfather 
whose letter was published in February News 1898. 



122 Kimball Family News, 



IRRECTK >NS ST] LL O MING. 

In an early number of tli ' ws p. 143, Aug. 1898 Prof. 
Sharpies \* "Probably most of the corrections have been 

made in the genealogical pari of the work. I have, however, 
ough matter on hand for one or more numbers after the en- 
closed. It is however, all new matter and no correction of 
old." That was four years ago. In every number since then, 
fifty ol them, rections and additions have been made, and 
any amount of new matter turned up, and still the end is no 
where in sight. The fact is we are in a bed of Kimball quick- 
sand, and the more we struggle to get out the deeper down we 
sink. «>r the more we seem to be overwhelmed. And vet there 
arc comparatively few who take any interest in their family his- 
tory, or who care a rap for their ancestry, no matter how they 
ma\ regard their posterity. What the result might be if every 
one helped to make a complete family record it is difficult to 
imagine. 

The Kimball family History is very compact. It is con- 
densed. There is little padding in it. It is a Kimball book. 
It is seldom that it goes back more than one generation on the 
female line. Not that the female line is less important, but 
that with so large a family it is utterly impractical. The work 
would be too voluminous. Some other family histories are dif- 
ferent. They go back three, four, five or more generations on 
the mothers side, which if carried out fully would make any 
family history too bulky and too costly to be of practical value. 
Then this is not, or at least ought not to be necessary. Family 
Histories are multiplying. As they increase they will render it 
still more unnecessary to do more than follow the male line, 
since more and more the mothers lines will appear in these other 
histories. Will the Kimball itself ever be complete and up-to- 
date. 

A late number of the Ipswich. Mass. Chronicle publishes a 
report made sixty vears ago by a committee of which Charles 
Kimball was Chairman. It is quite long and relates to the 
the protection and preservation of the Clam Flats. The clam 
industry at that time was something worth fighting to preserve. 

The same number also gives a column from a sermon by 
our eloquent, the Rev. John C. Kimball of Sharon, touching on 
Cuba and the Philippines. He wants the goverment to do with 
the latter as it has done with the former. Our able cousin is 
very earnest about this. The conditions are not exactly similar 
and more time and patience may be necessary. But our preach- 
er cousin is good on an argument, and the News doesn't want 
to be his antagonist. 



Aug-ust 1902. 123 



QUERIES. 

Pag-e 64, No. 35 — ii. Sarah, daughter of John Kimball 4 , is said 
to have married Aug-. 27, 1724, Israel Sheppard, a son of 
Sarah Eastman history, p. 13. Israel Sheppard appears 
in theKimball Histon , but Jeremiah Sheppard does not. 
But the Eastman history also says that Jeremiah. 
Israel's brother married Sarah Kimball the same day, 
Aug-. 27. 1764. Who was this Sarah Kimball. 

Pag-e 318. Fam. Hist. Who was the Susan Eastman who mar- 
ried John Kimball 6 , No. 576. 

The Eastman History has the following, of which we find no 
mention in the Kimball History. Who was this Abigail 
Kimball the mother of twelve children? Jacob Eastman, 
born Concord X. H., July 9, 1763, died June 1, 1850, 
married June 27, 1784 Abigail Kimball. He was a Rev- 
olutionary soldier and resided in Concord, N. H. 

• iiii.i>i:k.\ 

i. Chandler 6 , b. Dec. 31, 1784; d. July. 1851; m. March 10, L808, Abi- 
gail Bradley. 

ii. Esther 6 , b. Oct 27, 178Q; in April 16, 1807, Stephen Chase, 

iii. Abiel 6 b. Jan. 12, 1788; .1 Nov. 13, 1822; m. sally ('bandit r. 

iv. Hammond 6 , b. Dec. 20, 1790; in. Sally Hosmer. 

v. Polly 6 , b. Nov. Pi. 1793; m. Dec. 25, 1811, Zephaniah Batehelder. 

vi. Bazen 6 . b. Nov. 4. 1794. 

vii. Sophia 6 , b. D c 7, 1796; d Oct. 2, 1 ' 

viii. Sophia 6 , b. .July 7. IT'.i'.i: m July 9, 1816, Josiab Furnald. 

ix. Jacob 6 , b. Oct. 23, 1801; d. May":,. 1829. 

x. Phebe 6 , b. Dec 11. 1803; m. Jonathan Sargent of Canterbury, 

xi. Nathaniel^, b. June 20, 1806; d. Nov. 18, 1830. 

xii. Lnther 6 , b. April 11. 1809; d. Dee. 30, H:2h. 



Mrs. Frank Kimball of the Fort Gratiot lig-ht house, at 
Port Huron, Michig-an has been spending- a season with her 
brother at White Fish Point on Georgian Bay. The Kimballs 
of Michig-an are more or less known but not so definitely as is 
desired. Many of the Port Huron members are descendants of 
Amos Kimball No. 286, of the History. Burt D. Cady, said to 
be the "young-est judg-e" is of these, and is g-iven a pag-e in the 
News for 1899. See also other references there g-iyen. There 
is David S. Kimball of Detroit who takes up pag-e 313 of the 
News, of whose family more information is wanted. 

After much delay we are able to furnish the News for 1900 
and 1901 bound in one volume. The number is quite limited. 
The price postpaid to regular subscribers is as heretofore, SI. 60. 
To all others 3 J. 00. The same price for numbers for 1898-99, 
which is an increase of 40 cents to outsiders. 



Kimball Family News, 



F km >\l < >U> [PSWICH. 

I trm^ from 1 he ( -hr< >riicl i 
Th ason at the N< i h and Islands promises to be a lively 
on< N< w bouses have been built al the former and additions 
to old li -a made. The house of Fred A. Kimball the 

"Bella Vista," has been enlarged and leased for th< ason to 
Mr Charles K. i Ihue. The Grand Army house has been 
raised up and improved since it-- purchase by George W. Stark- 
During the present week "The Key Note*' has been open- 
ed by its owner, C. K. Boyd of Cambridge, who arrived on 
rhursday. S vera] parties from Waltham, with their 
tnilies, have been spending the present week at the neck, 
ley at iployes of the Waltham Watch factory which is 
closed for the annual vacation. At the Bluff, every room at 
the hotel and cottages has been full of eruests. 



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The marriage of Miss Susan L. Kimball and Mr. Robert 
Brown is announced to take place on Tuesday August 12. Miss 
Kimball will remain in Ipswich during the coming year. 

On Monday evening, June 30, Miss Lucy A. Kimball at- 
tended the wedding of Miss Almira Brown of Somerville and 
Rev. David Lovett of New Boston, X. H. The wedding took 
place at the First Baptist church in Somerville. Miss Brown 
and Miss Kimball were classmates last year at the Salem Nor- 
mal school. 

LITTLE MILDRED KIMBALL— see supplementary notes. 

The Milford, X. H. Cabinet reporting- a musical recital 
says: 

"The large class of Miss Fuller acquitted themselves, one 
and all, with much credit both to themselves and to their teach- 
er. Especially appreciated was the selection of little Mildred 
Kimball, a miss of but nine summers." 

The numbers in the program b} T her were, "Hungarian," 
Miss Kimball;) "Polka," the Misses Kimball and Wetherbee. 

The last number of Duran Kimball's Shorthand Advocate 
contains two valuable articles, one on "Shorthand Ignorance 
and Apathy in the Higher Schools, — The Remedy," and the 
other, An Autobiographical sketch of the experience of Edward 
I.Hubbard. The latter should be an inspiration to many a 
young man. Duran lives at Downer's Grove, 111. and his school 
is at 113 Adams Street, Chicago. History page 720. His 
name is not given in the index of the History. 



Aug-ust 1902. 125 



AN INVITATION. 

The editor of the News has received the following-: — 

Mrs. Helen Chase Jones requests the honor of ^our presence 
at the marriag-e of her daughter Florence to Mr. Charles 
Theodore Kimball jr. on Wednesday evening, August the sixth, 
nineteen hundred and two, at eight o'clock. First Congrega- 
tional Church, De Pere, Wisconsin. 

Reception Thursday, September the eleventh from four 
until six and from eight until eleven o'clock, 420 Jefferson 
Street Green Bay, Wisconsin. 

The News regretfully sends regrets. Refers to last num- 
ber of the News pag-e, 102, to page 193, Jan. and to page 223, 
Feb. and to Apr. and May number pp. 256-258, 1901. 

The bridegroom is a grandson of Alonzo Kimball, son of 
Ruel, Hist. p. 222. 

FOR $20,000. 

The Binghamton, N. Y., Herald of June 26, has this item: 

"This morning Judge Parsons denied the application for an 
open commission to examine witnesses in and about Philadel- 
phia in connection with the case of Sadie Kimball, as executrix 
of the estate of Edward S. Kimball, deceased, against George 
P. Kimball of Philadelphia. 

The appointment of such a commission would have permit- 
ted the examination of such witnesses as the applicants mig-ht 
have desired, without limitation or restriction, and might have 
involved heavy expenditures for the estate. Justice Sewell has 
already granted a commission to examine Mr. Kimball. 

The application was made last Thursday afternoon, and 
was opposed by Attorney S. C. Millard, appearing for Mr. Kim- 
ball. The case was argued by Mr. Wales and Mr. Millard and 
written briefs were submitted. 

The action in question is brought by Mrs. Kimball to re- 
cover $20,000, which sum she claims belonged to and w r as due 
her deceased husband, Edward* S. Kimball, as a legatee under 
the will of his father, Stephen Kimball, who died about 1870. 
By the terms of the will Edward S. and George P. Kimball, 
brothers, were made the executors. The plaintiff alleg-es that 
Georg-e P. Kimball had principal charge of and managed the es- 
tate. It is claimed he failed to account for and pay over to 
Edward S. Kimball that man's share of the estate, which was 
S20,000. 

George Peabody and Edward Stephen Kimball were broth- 
ers, sons of Stephen Kimball, No. 1477, p. 705 of the History. 
Tog-ether with their sister Anna, they all married but were not 
mentioned as having- families. 



126 Kimball Family News. 



RANDOM RECORDS OH KIMBALL FOOT PRIMS. 

[ • e imperfect records are printed to assist in the Indentiflcation ot 
unrecorded members of the family. An;, one knowing any thing of them 
Bhonld write to Prof. Sharpli Concord A venne Cambridge Mass. and 

n i »t to the Ni \' 

I I <\i 0RD, M \ R8 

Samuel Kimball l> 1804, <1 June 20, 1851. 
Daniel F. Kimball b 1836, -I March 22, 1881. 

CLINTON, MASS 

Charles L. Kimball l> X. II. 1861, son of Charles and Barmina Kimball, m 
1 '• ' II, L883, Agnes II. Reddell, b 1864. 

CHILDREN. 

( harles L. b Dec. 24, L887. 
Clarence E. b July l 1. L890. 

CUMMINGTON, MASS 

Dr. A. II. Kimball b Corinth. Vt. m Marion C. B. ( i b West Dennis. 

CHILDREN 

Arthur S. 1) April 25, 1878. 
Frank Hamilton b June 13. 1880. 

CHELSEA, MA 88. 

Calvin C. Kimball b Lyme. X. II. Typefounder, m 1st Elizabeth L. Smith b 
Dracut, m 2nd Susin E. ( ) b Lyme, X. H. 1814. d July 5, 1866, son 

Charles C. Kimball b April 39, I860. ' 

William Augustus Kimball b Portland. Me., m Sarah ( ) b Bath. Me. 

Daughter Helen W. b Mar 17, 1860. 

Carlos (r. Kimball b Wentworth, X'. II. Jig- Sawyer, m Anna S. ( ) Dau. 

Fannie M. b May «.>. 1867. 
Hattie A. Kimball b Lubec. Me. 1853, m Feb 25, 1875. Joseph M. Putnam. 

She was the daughter of Laban and Arabella Kimball. 
Jane E. Kimball b Philadelphia 1837 daughter of George and Mary Kim- 
ball m July 8. 18(55 Charles I) Widger b 1830. 
Emma A. Kimball b 1843. dau of Henry J. and Mary E. ( ) Kimball m 

June 1. 1867 John F. Sullivan. 
Edward R. Kimball b 184(5, son of John S Kimball and Francis M. ( ) 

m Oct 29. 1871 Francis A. Burgoyne b 1S47. 
Ella D. Kimball b Hillsborough. X. H.. dau of Elisha and Abbie M. Kim 

ball, m March 18, 1871 Earl Putnam b Biddeford. Me. 
Catherine Kimball b Salem. Mass. 1848. dau of John and Mary Kimball, m 

Oct. 30, 1870 Benjamin H. Billing-s, b Wilton, X. IP 184(5. 
Mary F. (Reed) Kimball b Charlestown 1848. m Oct. 27, 1887, John B. W. 

Walden. b 1847. 



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J. Edwin Kimball b N. H.. m Flora M. ( ) b N. H. 

Son Samuel MasDn b Jan 8, 1891. 

Mary Kimball m Mar. 5, 1856 Charles A. Hutchinson, b Concord, X. II. 

Emily Kimball b \Vaterford. Vt. Feb 5. 1832, d Nov. 29, 1880. 
Thomas Kimball b Boston 1822, d Jan 3, 1848. 

Lydia R. Kimball b Boston July 1851, d Sept 29, 1851, John and Sarah. 
Joseph M. Kimball b April 17. 1828, d April 15, 1894. 

Mildred F. Kimball b Nov 1. 1893, dau of George L. and Agnes Rig"by 
Kimball. 

DANVERS, MASS 

Walter Barnes Kimball b May 10, 1879. Son of William II. and Sarah Kim- 
ball 

William Kimball b 1817 son of Nathaniel and Julia Kimball, m Dec. 25, 
1843. Lydia T. Masury, b Boston. Oct. 1818, d Dec. 31, 1894. Daughter 
of 'I homas and Lucy (Andrews) Masury. Child Rachel P. Kimball b 
\)vr. 8, 1847. 

William L. Kimball m May 13. 1860, Martha C. White. 

James 11. Kimball 1> Waterboro, Me., m Flavilla ( ) 

CH1LDR] \ 

Bell Marsh b Danvers Aug 24, 1861 

Bertha M. 1) Peabody Mar 12, 1870, d Danvers Aug L3, 1870. 

Albert H. b Peabody Jan 28, 1873, H Jan 17. 1875. 

Frank E. b July .".».* 1 ^Tr. 

Bessie Mav b Mar. 8, 1868, d Feb 5. 1872. 

Child ' b Rehoboth Dec 19. 1888. 

Eben S Kimball b Peabody m Sarah A. I ) b Sutton. Vt. 

CHILDREN. 

Alice Frances b .Sept. 8, 1882. 

Harry D. bJuly 13. 1865, d vii? 11, ISO."). 

Ira Kimball m Sept 5. I^s4. Mary Tyler. 

Frank Kimball b Jan 1887, d Nov 21, 1887, son of Isaac and Mary A. Kim- 
ball. 

Charles S. Kimball of Peabody b Georgia. Vt.. 1859. Son of Oilman A. 
and Louisa M. Kimball m Sept. 8, 1850. Carrie DeMerrit b 1858. 

Jotham Kimball b Brookfield. Me., m Elvira Memfield. Sjxa Isaac M 

Kimball b 1851. m April 22, 1875. Mary A. Durgin. 
Sarah Kimball b Middleton Jan 11. 177^. d South Danvers June 21. 1864. 
GeoJg-e W. Kimball b Haverhill 1850. d Nov. 14. 1892. 



128 Kimball Family News, 

DAI rON, MASfl 

Charles Kimball b Oc1 LO, 1847, ^<>n of Alonzo and Sara li Kimball. 

lie True Kimball, dau i e B Kimball b Brandon, Vt. and Nettie 

• 3 K mball b Thompson, < onn. ting. 8, 1832, -I Nov 9, 1 8< 

Dl mi \ M. IfASfl 

Caroline E. Kimball dau of Gh and Harriet Kimball, m Nov. 12, 1846 

S Quel N. Utton. 
Abigail Kimball b Sherborn, m June 12, 1879, William Warren. 
David Kimball m Jan 3, 18 Sarah M. Hobbs, l» Water ford, Me. 
Nancy II. Kimball m Nov 2, 1834 Henry Marsh. 
Caroline E. Kimball > Lisbon, Me. Daughter <>f Richard and Hannah 

Kimball, m April L, 1858 Francis M. Boyden. 
- ihronia (Jjetcham Kimball b Gardner Me . L839, m William II. Smith. 
Merwin D. Kimball b N. H.. m Francis Thorton b Dedham. 

CHILDREN 

Maxwell I). Kimball b Oct 11. 1891. 
Oliver Tupper Kimball b June 15, 1893. 

DOUGL \-. MA8G 

Timothy Kimball m May 30, 1807, Elizabeth Sparhawk. b May 2, 1759. 

EVERETT, MASS. 

Mary E. Kimball b July '.'4. 1880, dau of Charles I). Kimball b Salem, Mass 

and [da Smith Kimball b Charles town. Mass. 
George E. Kimball b Springfield. Vt. Nov 1848, d Jan is. 1892, m Alice M. 
) b Bangor. Me. Child Alice Apple ton b Nov 23, 1878. 

ENFIELD, MASS. 

Emma Elisa Kimball b Oct 6, 1853. Dau. of George and Eliza Kimball m 

June 25, L883 Walter B. Allen of YValtole, Mass. 
Miriam Kimball b 1868, dau of David C. and Hester (Bates) Kimball m 

June 1, 1893, Oren Abijah Durban k of Royalston. Vt. 

FALL KIYEB, MASS. 

John Kimball b Columbia Go. N. Y.. m Eliza McShane. 

CHILDREN 

Jennie L. b Nov 3, 1892. 
Henry E b Jan 5, 1891. 

Emer D. Kimball b N. EL, m Mary A. Cochran, b Glover. Vt. 

Child Delia F. b Jan 2, 1892. 
Frank H. Kimball son of Albert and Mary Smith Kimball b June 28, 1893. 



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THE REV. CLARION H. KIMBALL. 

(No. 1972-Fam. Hist. p. 892. I 

A dispatch from Contoocook, N. H. of Nov. 12, 1901, to the 
Manchester, N. H. Union, says: — 

"The notice in the Union of Monday, of the death, in New 
York, of the Rev. Clarion H. Kimbill had interest to the resi- 
dents of this place, near which he was born, Oct. 11. 1843, and 
here, until the age of seventeen years resided with his father 
and assisted in the general work of the farm. 

Friends and schoolmates remember him as a resolute, wide- 
awake, genial fellow, ready for any emergency that offered it- 
self — and promised a good time; yet in all the vivacity peculiar 
to his young life there was an absence of those habits that 
stealthily creep on and finally destroy. 

In the month of August, 1862, he enlisted, and his army 
life and subsequent acts are matters of history. From a tann- 
er's boy of humble birth he commanded the attention of the 
various communities where he resided, and swayed at times 
public opinion to a considerable degree. In the various criti- 
cisms, both public and private, since his death, the general 
public and those who knew him best speak of him as intelligent, 
but erratic and impulsive — a man of peculiar make-up- yet no 
words of bitterness nor censure are heard. 

The body arrived after a sad journey from New York on 
the 5:30 train, accompanied by his wife and a daughter with 
whom the family had resided of late. At the depot were his 
brothers and friends, who escorted the remains to the village 
cemetery, and therein the stillness and darkness of night the 
Rev. N. C. Lothrop offered praver. Tender hands lowered into 
the grave the body of husband, father, brother and friend. A 
widow and three daughters survive." 

The Manchester Union said: — 

Mr. Kimball will long be remembered by many citizens of 
Manchester as a powerful pulpit orator, an entertaining lecturer 
and a well informed man of affairs who had pronounced opinions 
on many sub-jects beside that of religion. He came to Man- 



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Chester in 381, succeeding* William Hayne Leave 11 as pastor of 
the first Baptist church, and resigned in 1886. 

Mr. Kimball was a strong public speaker. Pie was a larg 
man physically and had a resonant, ]> netrating voice, which 
backed by the vigor oi a perfect physique, had no difficulty in 

aching the most remote hearers in the largest audteno 
Then li - in many resp U arless man. and once being 

an idea, he proclaimed it, regardless oi conse- 
qu s, with all the for< e and eloquence at his command. His 
strong, free spirit attra< ted many kindred minds and his church 
was always well attended. On the other hand, he was fre- 
quently much too positive for the conservative element. And 
it is but fair to say that his radical tendencies did at times 
carry him to extremes, causing him impulsively to take and 
vigorously defend positions from which he afterward had to 
withdraw. After eloquently exploiting an idea and then 
studying it in its relations and seeing that he had been carried 
by his enthusiasm to an untenable position, he was always 
,dv to confess his mistake and as eloquently present the case 
in the new aspect in which it appealed itself to him. It will be 
readily believed that certain conservative minds came to judge 
him as unstable and grew restive under his ministry. 

An example of his impulsiveness was given in 1886, the 
year of his resignation. That was the year of the coming of 
the Rev. A. B. Simpson and tin- Christian alliance. The mert- 
inirs were held in the city hall and then in the First Baptist 
church which was pastorless. A revival wave swept over the city 
during thns«- summer days and Mr. Kimball, who was still liv- 
ing here, was caught in it. He became convinced and publicly 
declared that up to that time he had been blind as to the relig- 
ion of Jesus and had never preached it as he should have done, 
according to the New Testament. In short, he adopted fully 
the tenets of the Simpson teachers and was for a while a prom- 
inent figure in that religious movement. Then he turned back 
to a middle ground, a position which he occupied through the 
latter years of his life. 

But whatever Mr Kimball may or may n:t have believed, 
he was an attractive preachei , a man who always gave his 
hearers something to think about, a speaker whose discourses 
were prolific of mental stimulus. 

As a lecturer. Mr. Kimball was at his best. He was a vet- 
eran of the Civil war, a brevet captain in Berdan's sharpshoot- 
ers when the strife was over, with a long record of active ser- 
vice and personal bravery. He possessed a wealth of informa- 
tion on the war drawn from experience and reading and this 
was crytalized in a number of lectures, the best of which was 
one on the battle of Gettysburg. That lecture was delivered in 
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his audience will never forget the vivid and humorous account 
of how Berdan's sharpshooters developed a picket line, a skirm- 
ish line and then a line of battle and then "skedaddled" through 
the woods at the command, "Every man for himse*tf7^ "I don't 
lay any claim to distinction as a runner," said the lecturer, "but 
I ran that day in a way that would have made a record on a 
track." This was early in the lecture, which was built up log- 
ically and symetrically, reaching a climax in the account of 
Pickett's charge, which was one of the most impressive things 
heard within a quarter of a century on a Manchester lecture 
platform. 

Mr. Kimball was as well versed in politics and finance as he 
was in theology. He was an ardent Republican, but was an 
earnest supporter of Grover Cleveland in 1^84. In those days 
he frequently gathered the young men of his church about him 
and led a chat on the live topics of + he times, never seeking to 
secure an avowed intention to support a candidate, but always 
endeavoring to impress the idea that a change in the goverment 
might not be a bad thing for the country. Wherever he was, 
his presence was felt. In hotel, at caucuses, on trains and 
steamboats, wherever men gathered to discuss politics and 
finance, there he was, and it frequently happened that banker-, 
and business men listened willingly and appreciatively to what 
he had to sav. 

Socially, Mr. Kimball was delightful, that is, in a large, 
hearty way. His home was always wide open, as was his purse, 
too much so in fact for his own good. He had been a country 
boy and loved simplicity. When a lad he applied for a situa- 
tion in a St. Louis hotel and was told that there was no work to 
be had except "such as a nigger or an Irishman could do." 
"Can I do it as well as a nigger or an Irishman?" asked young 
Kimball, and his manner won him a situation as porter from 
which he worked his wa} up. Being a hard worker he knew 



the life of a workingman and never got out of touch with him. 
He hated shams and was fiercely elemental in his satirical con- 
versational attacks upon them. Simple, homelike, a laboring 
man at heart, entertaining in his instructive talks, his genial 
small talk and his scathing criticisms, he was a rare entertain- 
er. It goes without saying that he himself was self-conscious 
and at times almost arrogant, but this was balanced by so much 
that was wholesome and helpful that, while his enemies were 
most pronounced in their dislike for him, his friends were as 
intensely loyal to him. A caller was likely to find him in his 
garden, with bared arms, and the pastor would lean on his hoe or 
sit down in the shade of an apple tree and chat with gentleman 
or lady without any thought but that he was entertaining them 
as well there as he would in the drawing room. 



Kimba 1 1 P*a mil v N< w>, 



T \  '•' Kimb p .1 1 etn rgy vt 1 w< > ex- 

riences which came to him while he was pastor in Manch 
• r. On iras in a runaway accident which occurred while he in 

mpanji with his family was driving over one of the steep hills 
in a northern town. The animal took fright by the breaking 1 of 
;i hold back and the resulting dropping oi the heavily laden car- 
riage upon it. and started down the declivity at a terrific rate. 

Mr. Kimball weighed considerably over 200, bul be leaped 
lightly over the forward wheel, reached the horse's head and 
brought the animal to a stop bel any dama je was done. The 
second episode irred on A.mh< rst str ^hen he and his wife 
were held up while driving. That was b »r< tl treets w< 

jilted at all lmui's <>\ every night and there was no warning <>t 
tin- approach <>t th* would-be highwayman until tin bridle was 

, and a rough voice demanded the valuables of tb<  
cupantsof the carriage. This was, strange to say, between Pine 
and Chestnut streets, and in the middle of the night. Mr. Kim- 
ball sprang 1 >ver tin- wheel to the gn >und, told the would-be hi gh- 
wayman that if he wanted anything of him he could take it then 
and there i f he thought best, 'flu- stranger didn't think it best. 

Mr. Kimball was for several years a pastorin Holyoke, Mass., 
after he left Manchester, and also had a church in Nov.- York. 
He was successful wherever he went, in the same wayin which 
he was in Manchester, well liked by many, disliked by others, 
hut always a man <>f the people, a vigorous, impulsive whole- 
souled man and a faithful friend. 

Note. — Contoocookville, is a village in Hopkinton, X. IT. Alice 

Mary, ('larion Kimball's eldest daughter married Charles Powell, 

grandson of Plummer Ordway brother of Sarah, the mother of 

the Kimball News Editor. The wid >w and her three daughters, 

arc now living at the Mast Yard, in Concord a few miles from 

Contoocook, just over the Hopkinton line in the old home of 

Mosher not Mos :s and Hannah Mahala 'Kimball Ordway. 

Hist. p. 679, Xo. 1411. ii. News p. 108.— June 1898. 

A San Diego dispatch of Aug. 12, says: Suit was brought 
here today against the Santa Fe railroad by Kimball Eros, of 
National City to set aside deeds to 20,000 acres of the National 

ranch on the ground of fraud. The property includes three 
miles of frontage on the bay and was given the railroad as a 
subsidy for building here. It is claimed that the railroad has 
not carried out its portion of the agreement. 

E. M. Kimball of Smith Center, Kansas, has been granted 
an increase of pension. See page 133, News for 1900, where 
he does not mention having been in the army. 



September, 1002. 133 



PASSING OF THE KIMBALL BOSTON MUSEUM. 

The Boston Globe of August 16, contains a long- article on the 

old Boston Museum which is to be torn down to make way for a 

larger and more Modern structure. We clip the following - : 

"Another old landmark is about to give way to one of more 
modern progress. The property in question is the old Boston 
Museum situated on Tremont st., which as every one knows, is 
one of the most historic playhouses in the city of Boston. 

This property has just been leased for 99 years by C. W. 
Whittier & Bro., acting- as ag-ents for David P. and L. Cushing 
Kimball, trustees of the estate of Moses Kimball, to take effect 
on June 1, 1903. 

The property has a total assessed value of S928,000, of which 
SS29,700 is on the land, while the building has an assessed 
value of S98,300. 

In the construction of a building- of this kind one of the 
most important features is plenty of light and air, and the new 
building, which will be known as the "Kimball Building, " will 
be so arranged that every office will have a desirable exposure. 
Everything possible in the wav of convenience and appoint- 
ments will be placed in the Kimball building. The plumbing- 
will be of the very latest in design, while in the basement will 
be the electrical arrangements, boilers, etc. 

Everything possible will be placed in the new Kimball 
building to make it as near fireproof as it is possible to have a 
structure. 

The Boston Museum! 

What a host of memories it recalls, now that it is to be torn 
down and give way to another immense office building. 

That old museum with its granite front, its arched windows, its 
balconies, its rows of lights and its histrionic fame has been dear 
to the hearts of several ge neraions of Bostonians. It has been 
dear to them as children when their imaginations were inflamed 
by the wonderful natural curiosities in the "museum" section 
and by the "chamber of horrors" in which had been depicted at 
various times in "lifelike wax" scenes that were more or less 
realistically blood-curdling. With hushed and bated breath how 
many "old-timer" of today entered as youths those "chambers" 



and with what feelings of awe they came away. And later 
when these curiosities, the pictures, the statuary and the 
"horrors" ceased to interest, what sentiments of joy and laugh- 
ter and what tender pathos was aroused in the responsive breasts 
of young and old by the famous actors and actresses who trod 
the old stage in the days when the head and the hearts of the 
people were fresh and vigorous and before the era of strenuous 
vaudeville and specialties. 

What the present American stage owes to this famous old 



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museum would till .1 book. Kor 60 pears it has been an an- 
ch tin theatrical affairs. To be sure, when the 

mpanv b the p Iby .1 few years ago, the 

«1 in a measure to be a Boston institution, 
is the old building stood the old memories remained. 
It I by those who had been its patrons. 

Jim 1841, Moses Kimball, the original proprietor oi 

the museum and the man who gave the statue of Lincoln on 
^<l to tin' v it\ . started the first "Boston museum and gallery 
 

The n museum buildinghas been remodeled four times 

in 372, L876, 1880, when the interior was practical 1) r 

ad in 1813. The seating capacity of the hoa^e in 1880 
s increased about 350, making it 1501." 

Moses Kimball has slight mention in the Family History 
]»• 662. In an early number of the News, pages 56 and 251 fur- 
ther reference was made and in the October number 1899 over 
four pages were devoted to him. Half a century ago Boston had 
v more celebrated citizens than he. In Henry Wilson's great, 
three volume History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power 
in America, he is mentioned as one of I) >ston*s leading citizens 
who did not approve of Daniel Webster's alleged surrender to 
the Slaw- Power as it was tlun called. Mr. Kimball was later 
nominated for mayor of B >st a. by the republican party. 

A.S a member of of the hoard of Alderman he had refused to 
rote on a motion to grant the use of Faneuil Hall to Daniel 
Webester. Democrats charged that he voted against it, which 
was not true. He explained that as Wendell Phillips had been 
denied the Hall to make anti-Slavery speech he would not vote 
in favor of Webster. This courageous frankness caused his de- 
feat. 

SOME OF GEN. KIMBALL'S GOOD WORK. 

The remarkable case of resuscitation from drowning re- 
ported by Superintendent Kimball of the United States life-sav- 
ing service should be given the widest attention. It may be 
the means hereafter of restoring lives that migmt otherwise be 
given up as lost. The victim in this case was a New Jersey boy, 
5 years old, who was under water twenty-five minutes at least, 
and then was taken out by the local life-saving - crew, who ap- 
plied to him the usual methods of reviving persons unconscious 
from submersion in water. It was only after nearly an hour of 



September, 1002. 135 



effort that any sigm of life appeared, and four hours before con- 
sciousness was broug-ht back. Whether the men knew just how 
long- the boy had been under water, or whether they would have 
applied restorative methods had they known, is not clear; but 
Superintendent Kimball has taken pains to verify the reported 
facts in the case, and makes no question that the boy was under 
water at least twenty-five minutes, and possibly thirty. He 
says it is the most wonderful authenticated case of restoring- 
life that he has ever met with or read of. He had never before 
heard of a person recovering- who had been under water over ten 
<»r fifteen minutes. It is thus shown to be advisable not lightly 
to give up working over a body taken from the water within 
half an hour or so of g-oing- down. -Springfield Republican. 

THF OLD KIMBALL HOMES OF GROTON, N. H. 

Miss Ellen M. Kimball of East Hebron, N. H. the death 

of whose sister, Mrs. Morton is elsewhere mentioned, send us 
the Bristol Enterpise which contains the following- item: 

Mrs. Mary P. [d gal Is of Concord bas sold to the X. H. land company 
the Crosby farm in Groton. This farm comprised what was originally a 
dozen or fifteen t arras and contains about* 2,500 acres of land. Mrs. In- 

galls has reserved the use of the "White house" as a summer home. 

The interest hidden in this item lies in the fact that most 
of these farms lying- on and near Kimball Hill, were the old 
homes of the Joseph Kimball family and connections who moved 
to Groton from Hopkinton at an early day, and from thence 
moved to Elgin, 111. in 1834. I Fam. Hist. p. 324. The News 
has often had occasion to refer to those Nvho may, in imagination, 
look back upon these ancestral Homes. The family is a num- 
erous one and they have become widely disseminated over the 
country and many of them are well and widely known among- 
them being- Col. 13. B. Dyer of Aug-usta, Ga. Dr. Alfred Kim- 
ball Hills of New York City and others. 

John Kimball, treasurer of the New Hampshire Orphans' 
Home at Franklin, has filed in the reg-istry of probate a receipt 
from Timothy Joy, executor of the will of Mrs. Susan E. W. 
Creig-hton of Newmarket, for securities amounting to S37.855, 
the residue of Mrs, Creig-hton's estate and by her will bequeathed 
to the Orphans' Home. This is much the larg-est bequest ever 
received by the home. — Bristol, N. H. Enterprise. 

Prof. Dickens of the Kansas Agricultural Colleg*e has been 
promoted to head of the horticultural department. Mrs. Dick- 
ens (Bertha Kimball) still does some artist work for the institu- 
tion. 



Kim 

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DEATHS 

II. Uni< »n i hroniclcs thi tli of Mrs 

al her home in Plymouth, N II. <>n 
I '"•:. \i<\ continued illti . .it 

months and In- having been born, 

as .t native "I Plymouth, and wa I daug 
ah Kimball. he married Prank Morton, May 
nd tin- fr'ui his union w lildren, Perley 

and Mamie M<»rton. • in the Spanish-Amer- 

n w. Mrs. Morton compelled to g"o t i a >n hos- 

andan operation was performed whi< (longed 

, but to get well permanently was not her lot, and 
she lias been a pati< n1 r up to the time oi her death. 

Mrs. Morton was a kind wife, a loving mother, and a most 
neighbor, and in her death the t >wn has lost a most es- 
tim iman. She was a member of Enterprise lo Daugh- 

'ebekah, ai ational church, and I 

ittoh r great a tivity for good. Rev. 

Frank ij. Clarke of the C ational church will ofliciat : ai 

interment will will 1 » burying- lot in Hebron. 

B< - n family she leav( asters, Mary Ellen Kim- 

11, an invalid. , imball, both of whom live in 

Hebron, and one brother, Benjamin Kimball of Franklin Falls." 

Mrs. Morton was a sister of Wm. D. Kimball whose tragic 
death by an explosion of dynamite with portrait was given in 
th< .pril 1900. 

This family is one that has en lure 1 great afflictions. Mrs. 
Morton's mother died. May 21,1901. Her sister Miss Ellen 
M. Kimball, living at East Re >ron, X. II. is an invalid. S 
Hist. p. 603, News p. 264 for 

MRS. ALMA BRUCE KIMBALL. 

At the home of her sister, Mrs. Frank P. Allen, in Sharp- 
town. X. J. Sept. 14, 1 I 2. Mrs. Alma Bruce Kimball, wife of 
J. Hoyt Kimball, of c >msumpti >n. aged 46 years 11 months an 1 
14 day-. A strong fififht was made lor the life of the deceased. 
The News readers will recall their artist cousin as a correspon- 
dent from California where both Mr. and Mrs. Kimball attended 
the last Pacific Coast Kimball Rt union. Soon after this they 
removed to Savannah, Ga., and finally to New Jersey to the 
home of her sister where the end came. The 1901 midsummer 
IHmball News contained a sketch of the Bruce Family, entitled, 
Hunting- Bruces" and the last, or August number gave some 



September. 1002. 137 



matter additional to that found on page 514 of the Family His- 
tory. 

ELLEN AUGUSTA KIMBALL. 

In Cohasset, Mass. Aug. 20, Ellen Augusta, age 52, wife of 
George W. Kimball, and daughter of the late Lewis Lincoln of 
Cohasset. 

ANNA L. KIMBALL. 

Anna L. Kimball, aged 44 years, died at 15 Spruce street, 
Methuen Mass., Tuesday afternoon Sept. 0. She issurvivedby 
two sons. 

MRS. HARRIET S. KIMBALL. 

In Napa, California August 7th Mrs. Harriet S. Kimball. 
Family History No. 1155. She was born Nov. 7th 1812. 

At a recent explosion at the New South Wales Mount Kim- 
ball Colliery mines, 130 lives were lost. 



DEATH OF HARRIET S. KIMBALL. 

Among our death notices this month is that of Mrs. Plar- 
riet S. Kimball, in Napa California, the mother of Roy T. Kim- 
ball of San Francisco who is deeply interested in the well being 
of the Family and who takes such unusual part in all the Pacific 
Coast reunions. In sending the simple annoucement of her 
death, he says that is all they care to have published, and then 
adds: "If am one sends a more elaborate notice cut it down to 
a modest length if published at all." No such mention of her de- 
parture at the ripe eld age of ninety years has reached the 
NEWS. 

The Rev. John C. Kimball of Sharon Mass. in one of his 
fine letters to the Ni-'.ws once expressed the thought that too 
much credit can not be given to the Kimball mothers. This is 
true. The impress of the mother is left upon her descendants, 
(piite as much, and often times more than that of the father. 
The Nkws is not able to give a personal sketch of this Kimball 
mother, but the Family History mentions the fact that she was 
Harriet Rogers, a descendant of the celebrated martyr John 
Rogers. This maternal name has come down to the present 
generation. From this it may be inferred that this Kimball 
mother was a woman of sterling character whose firmness of 
porpose, tempered with a love of puritv and justice impressed 
itself, not only upon her children but upon all those with whom 
she came in daily contact. 

Our cousin Roy and his brother and sisters will have the full 
Kimball sympathy. The father died in 1865. (Hist. p. 577 — 8 — ) 



Kimball Family News, 



MARRIAG1 

Nothing quite so unique elaborate and withal charming o! 
detail, has probably ever been witnessed in this city, as the wed- 
ding of Hurt Duward Cady to Miss Mary Kathryn Beamer, at 
the M« thodist Episcopal church Tut sday evening June 3. 

At tin- hour of eight the carriages arrived al the church 

th the bridal party. The vestry door opened and the Rev. R. 
W lhams advanced to the rostrum, i xquisitely canopied with 

rn and white ros( From the same direction came the groom, 
arm in arm with his best man, Herbert Cameron ol Pt. Huron. 
At ili. st< ps, the groom awaited his bride. Lohengrin's wedding 
march stole out upon the air, and from the main entrance ap- 
hed, the usherstwo and two. Following, were brides maids 
Miss< - Alice B. Cary and Maude McNamara, Alice E. Carey and 
Lula E. Bryce, Gertrude Flahive, and Jennie Beamer, who took 
position between and slightly forward of the gentlemen, mak- 
ing an inner half circle. White and green were the decoration-. 
Tin- company was a large one. the guests numbering some three 
hundred. To the music of Mendelssohn's wedding march, bride 
and groom led the way "tit of the church, via the side entrant 
where carriages conveyed the party to the home of the bride's 
parents on Washington Ave. 

Mr. and Mrs. Beamer welcomed the guests at the door. Here 
a reception was held. 

The charming young lady thus wedded, becomes the wife of 
a gentleman prominent both professionally and politically in 
his own city and throughout the state. Judge Cady is widely 
known as the President of the State League of Republican Clubs. 
He is a forceful and influential factor in the affairs of St. Clair 
county, and was the organizer of the Municipal League of Clubs 
at Pt. Huron. He has held with distinction, various offices, 
including Police Court Justice and Prosecuting- Attorney of his 
home county, which latter office he is at the present time most 
creditably filling-. 

The bridegroom was given page 390 in the News December 
1899, quoting- from the N. Y. Success, as the youngest Judge 
in the United States having been elected soon after his twenty- 
first-birthday. 

He is descended from Amos Kimball No. 286, See also News 
of 1899 pp, 378—379. 

KIMB ALL-WHITING. 

Mr. Charles F. Whiting, son of Harvey A. Whiting, and 
Miss. Isabel Kimball of Davenport, la., daughter of Abel Kim- 



September, 1902. 139 



ball, ex-vice president of the "Rock Island railroad, were married 
at Wilton, N. H. Sept. 4. 1902. The ceremony took place at 
Hillside cottag-e, Mr. Whiting's home, and was performed by 
Rev. Dr. Abbott of Cambridge, Mass. the Episcopal services be- 
ing- used. The g-uests numbered about 75, and many of them 
came great distances to attend. The young- couple drove away 
in a storm of coufetti, rice and old shoes. They will live in 
North Cambridg-e, Mass. 

Capt. F. M. Kimball of Topeka will attend the Grand 
Army Reunion at Washington early in October. This will take 
him to well remembered localities where he served during and 
after the Civil War, and will afford a little recreation to one 
who has for years devoted himself to business with an industry 
that is little less than remarkable. 

Mrs. F. M. Kimball with her daughter Maude, returned 
early in September from their summer vacation at Rye Beach. 
Long- Island, the home of son and brother Carl. During- their 
absence cousin Maude was elected as superintendent of the 
Kinderg-arten Department in the College of the Sisters of Beth- 
any, the young ladies Episcopal School of the state of Kansas 
in Topeka. 

Miss Florence Kimball, proofreader on the Topeka Evening- 
State Journal will go Washington to be present at the Grand 
Army Reunion and to visit relatives and friends. She will be 
absent a month and will be at home, with her uncle and family 
at 125, 13th Street, North East, Capt. F. M. Taylor who has 
served for twenty years in the pension office. The Kimball 
Family News commissions heT to call upon Kimball cousins, in 
that city, and any attention shown her will be appreciated by 
the editor. 

4 'The Rhode Island State Society of the Cincinnati 



Annual Meeting and Celebration on the Fourth of July 1902." 
(Senate Chamber, State House, Newport, R. I. I "The an- 
nual banquet of the society took place at the Casino in the eve- 
ning - . According- to the custom of the society since its first din- 
ner in 1784, Thirteen toasts were proposed. The first of these 
was the following; 

'The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, 1 
Response by His Excellency Governor Kimball." 

,4 The American Navy -May Its Victories in War Com- 

mand Peace, and Its Increase in Peace Prevent War." 
'•Response by Oliver Hazard Perry. 



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PACIFIC COAST PERS< >N.\ LS. 
Miss Ruth Kimball daughter of the late Dr. EM win Kimball 
Haywards, Cal., has returned home from an extended visit to 
relatives in the east. Sh >rts much interest there in the 

I lifornia Kimball reunions. (No.l559a 

Mrs. Richard Owen and children have returned to Yreka 
from a visit to her mother, Mrs. Mary A. Kimball <>f Palo Alto, 
I. No.2434) 

Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Hobarl arenow living at 392BushSt., 
S n Francisco. No. 2435 

Mrs. Maria FVeeman Gray granddaughter of No. 772 i has 
returned to San Prancisco, where her address is 39*8 T wen ty- 
:ond St. 

Mrs. Marie Antoinette Kimball formerly of Rochester, N. 
Y.. is with her nephew and niece E&lisha Barnum Kimball, 3025 
Sacramento St.. San Francisc ►. One of the dearest of our Kim- 
ball cousins. 

Born.— At Welling, Big Horn Co., Wyoming, 19th, 1902, 

to the wife of Simeon Clough Kimball, a son who has since been 
named for his grandfather, Charles Bradbury Kimball. See No. 
1765, History. His first child and nephew of Sarah Louise 
Kimball. 

The Palo Alto Daily Press of September 3, 'has this personal: 

•sherman Kimball, Stanford. '02, has been elected instructor 
in chemistry, mathematics and physics in the Napa high school. 
Mr. Kimball's major a f the University was chemistry, and he 
was assistant instructor in that department last year. He is a 
painstaking student and will make a careful teacher." 

Sherman Kimball is a son of William Augustus and Cora 
Belle I Hatch ; Kimball of whom little is said on page 939 of the 
History. 

The family is from Salem, Mass. This cousin Sherman is 
one of the progressive Kimballs. 



J. H. Kimball of Kenosha, Wis. at the age of 84, is an en- 
thusiastic yachtman. Three years ago he gave up the sport, but 
grew so restless that this year he resumed the old time cruises 
on LaLe Michigan. 



September, 1902. 141 



ALDERMAN KIMBALL DEAD. 

Alderman John McKinstry Kimball of Newton Mass. died late 
Sunday night, August 24, at his home, 973 Centre street, New- 
ton Centre, after a short illness. He was first taken ill while 
out driving- on the afternoon of Aug. 17, when he suffered a 
stroke of apoplexy. He was removed to his home, and in spite 
of medical aid failed to recover from the effects of the stroke. 

Alderman Kimball represented ward 6 of Newton as a ward 
alderman, having been chosen at the last city election for two- 
year term. As a member of the board he was a member of the 
committee on public franchises and licenses. 

He was born at Bath, Me., Nov. 14, 1863, the son of John H. 
and. Annie (Humphreys) Kimball. He received his education 
in the public schools of Bath and in the Massachusetts Institute 
of Technology, 1881 -82. 

His first employment was in the cotton manufacturing busi- 
ness at the Bates mill, Lewiston, Me. Later he became super- 
intendent in the Trent and Suffolk mills, Lowell; Falls and 
Pawtucket mills at Pawtucket, R. I., and treasurer of Slater's 
mill and Jewett City mills at Slatersville, R. I. 

In 1897 he took the general agency of the Equitable Life As- 
surance Society, with headquarters in Boston. Mr. Kimball 
was a member of the Boston Athletic Association and several 
local organizations. He leaves a widow and two daughters. 

J. Chellis Kimball of Lowell, Mass., died June 4, in the in- 
sane hospital in that city. He was born in Dracut, and was 
superintendent of schools in that town. He was then elected 
principal of Mt. Pleasant grammer school, Nashua. He came 
t<> Lowell in 1858 and studied law. Mr. Kimball took an active 
interest in Sunday school work. He was the author of textbooks 
on arithmetic. About lSvears atro his wife and daughter died, 
and later Mr. Kimball manifested signs of mental derangement. 
He was committed to a state institution, and later transferred 
to the city farm hospital for the insane. 



THEY GO TO EUROPE. 

The Boston Globe of Julv 23, savs: Among those who sail- 
ed away on the Ivernia yesterday were Mr. and Mrs. George A. 
Kimball of Somerville. Mr Kimball will study the subject of 
transportation in Europe, and especially the problems of tunnel 
and subway construction. Although the trip combines business 
and pleasure, it is very likely to have a far-reaching effect on 
the rapid transit future of Boston for Mr. Kimball is the chief 
civil engineer of the Boston elevated company. 



Kimball Rami it News, 



RANDOM RECORDS OR KIMBALL F001 PRINTS. 

rhese imperfect records are printed t<> assisl in the inden tin* cation of 
an recorded members of the family An. one knowing any thing of them 
sli.. bo Prof. Sharpies, 22 Concord Ivenue Cambridge Mass. and 

the Si 

111- II II Rfl MASS 

I I Kimball b Peterboro, X II , m Vda I 

< Ml I i'i;i n. 

;iv i: I. Jan. 6. 1888 
Annie Mabel b June l. 1890, Boston. 

Am - Kimball m 0c*. i. 181 .'. B mben Harwood b 18 

- •• W Kimball b Milton, N II. \h_>'.. 1857, d Sept 23, 1884, m Jan 11. 

i 880. < !arrie Linn b l 86 ». 
James Kimball b Littleton, N. II.. m Rachel Dix. 

Charles Kimball b Boston Sept. 22, 1878, d Oct. 13, 1878 
J( sse Kimball b 1854, d Sept. 3, I8£ 

Henry Kimball and Mary A. (Howard) Kimball had child born Mar. 25, 
l 380; it died the sa me day. 

FRAMINGHAM MAS8. 
S< th Kimball m Nov. 26, 1840, Martha Chickering, d April 1851. 

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Julia Frances b Oct. 25. 1843. 

(harl.-- E in July 3, 1868, Ellen Stiles of Ashland. 

\ exander Kimball m Julia Grisken, Mar. 2, 1840 at Cambridge Mas-. 
George W. Kimball m Sept. 30, 1838, Suanna Willis. 
Samuel W. Ffimbal] in Dec. 5, 1838, Jam- E. Brigham. 
Cyrus \Y. Kimball m Sept. 3, 1888, Aunie B. Mansfield. 
Charles Henry Kimball b Oct. 13, 1890. son of Fred L and Mary (Ilnrly) 

Kimball; she was born Prince Edwards Island. 
George E. Kimball b Watertown. N. Y.. m Frances A. Howk, b Oct. 31, 

1846. d Feb. 22, 1894, daughter, Mary Louisa, b Feb. 7. 1880. 

GRAFTON, MASS 

Andrew Jackson Kimball m Any. 16, 1846 at Thompson Ct. Alvira M. Peck. 

CHILDREN. 

Child b April 28. 1848. 

Matilda Ann b July 5, 1849, d Aug. 16, 1849. 

Elizabeth A. Kimball b 1828, dan. of Moses and Elizabeth A. Kimball m 
June 15. 1848. Robert T>. Chase, b 1823. 

GREENFIELD, MASS. 

Fannie A. Kimball b 1ST.", dan. of (reorpre W. and Ida Kimball of Barton, 
Vt.. m June 28, 181)4. Frank M. Logan, b 1 ST.' . son of John M. and 
Jei nie M. (Forbes) Logan 



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Charles Kimball m Mary Tarr, dau Mary b Aug. 10, 1864. 

George Kimball of Bradford m Lucy A. Martin of Gloucester, son John b 

Aug. 24, 1864. 
Joseph W. Kimball m Mary Blaisdell. 

CHILDREN 

Bertie M b Aug. 14. 1872. 
Nellie b Sept. 30. 1881. 

Mary Kimball m July 20. 1844. Leonard Wallen. 

• I->>eph A. Kemble b N. Y., m Annie E. Cross, son Roscoe E. b Nov. 28, 
1880. 

Upton Kimball married Lucie | ). dau Lizzie b Jan. 9, 1891 

Charles Kimball b Topsham. Me. 1836, son of C. C. and Annie (Miller) 
Kimball, m June 7. 1st',.;. Sarah (Finely) Gorham. b Liverpool. Nova 
Scotia 

Albert L. Kimball b Haverhill. Mass.. m Abbie E. Dicker b Boothbav Me. 
Child Ardelle b Mar. 22, 1881. 

Henry Kimball b 1861, Candia. X. H. Son of John H. and Mary E. (John- 
son) Kimball, m April 8, 1885. Carrie E. Sargent b 1864. Child 
Florence M. b Oct. 28, 1885. Widow Carrie E. Sargent Kimball m. 
Oct 17. 1891. William W. Clarke. 

Theodore Kimball b Maine July 29, 1799. d Jan. 14. 1878, m 1st Isabella m 
2nd Dorothy i i 

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Isabella b 1S27. m Nov. 21, ls.">2. Chase Knowlton Jr. 
Alice F. b 1835, in Nov. 5, 1854, John S. Everden. 

Samuel Kimball b 1795, d Feb. 1. 1858, son of Jonathan and Elizabeth 
George b Feb. 1834. d July 31, 186-—. son of Ruthar of \Vaterford Me. 
Dorothy b July 13. 1797. d July 17. 1875. 

HANCOCK MASS. 

Charles Kimball b Montpelier. Vt.. m Abigail Pearce b Canada. 

CHILDREN 

Child b July 20, 1881. 

Elizabeth b June 16, 1886, d Oct. 11. 1<*9. 

HAW LEY. MASS. 

John Kimball b Illinois, m Polina ( .) child Caroline Lovica. b Mar. 

22. 1864. 

HINGHAM, MASS. 

Caleb Kimball (Campbell)'? b 1727. d 1818. 

Widow of Caleb b 1730. d 1821. 

Lucy Annie Kimball m Aug. 17. 1845. Rufus Churchill. 

HUDSON. MASS. 

Charles Kimball m Naomi ( ) chFd Cora A. b 1876. m Oct. 13. 1894, 

George W. Henderson. 



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him. MASS 
ime Hays b \ 1854, bod of Hiram J and Sarah E. Kimball. 

HOI Hi \. MAM 

Sod o Hannah. 

HOLYOKE, MASS 

 M:u\ M Kimball m June 5. 1878, Louis E Robinson, 1» Chicopee 
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David E Kimball b 1850, New York, m May 18, 1878 Emma E. Ladd b 
S 8, si "i I larry b June 17, 18* 
ink -i Kimball b 1870. m S< I - >1, Annie Baker b 1871. 

Child Ethel Maj b June 13, 1894 

• l I. Kimball b Laconia, N. II . m Josie Dailey b Hinsdale, N. II. 

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Harold Raymond l> Nov. 17, 1 892. 
i Hive E izabeth b Sept. 19, l 894. 

Joseph VV. Kimball b B iston 1827, d Amr. 27, 1877, son of Stephen. 

HAMILTON, MASS 

William Kimball m Susan Gould. 

< 'hild b April 19. 1870. 

child b Sept. 17, 1871. 

HYDE PARK, MASS 

James I". Kimball l> Kennebunk Maine, m Lizzie M. ( ) b Libertyville. 

Child Edith Bertha b Sept. 25. 1882 

Wyman P. Kimball 1> Yarmouth, Mi-. 1857. son of Georgre N. and Susan P. 

Kimball, m Oct. 1". 1887, Annie M. Anderson b 1832. 
S rah Rollins) Kimball b April 6, 1805, d Feb. 23, 1893, dau of Stephen. 

HAVERHILL, MA88. 

William L. Kimball b Augusta, Me., ra Mary S. French b Bath, Me. 

CHILDREN 

Walter F. b .Inly 15, 1891. 

Effie May b June 2, 1893, d July 1st 1893. 

Ada Mabel b Sept 26, 1894. 

Martin Henry b Sept. 26, 1894. 

 John Kimball b i ) d April 10, 1807, m Mary Sargent. 

CHILDREN. 

Daniel b Oct. 14. 1782. 

Hannah b Dec. 27, 1 78fi. 

Hesekiah b Jan. 7. 1790, d Oct 24, 1855. 

William Kimball b Plaistow, m Dee. 31, 1761. Hannah Shepard. 

Nathaniel Kimball m June 11. 1780. Dolly Cook, child James b April 8, 

1782. 
Sterling Kimball m Nov. 20, 1802, Hannah Perry, she died Any. 4. 1835. 

He married 2nd Mar. 10, 1836, Mary Hall. 

.John William Kimball b 1871. son of William and Eliza, m April 25, L892. 
Edith C. Sargent b March 2, 1872. Child Carl \\ . 

Daniel Kimball m Aug". 28. 1803, Hannah. 
Sarah Kimball m Aoril 11, 1811. David Marsh. 
Polly Kimball m Oct. 6, 1804, William Smiley. Her brother Jchn Kimball 

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THE PACIFIC COAST KIMBALL FAMILY 

REUNION FOR 1902. 

Contributed by Sarah Louise Kimball. 

Enclosed I hand you one of the badges contributed to our 
recent Reunion by Mr. Roy Thurston Kimball. We held the 
Reunion, as usual, in Golden Gate Hall, this city, but owing- to 
various reasons there was a very poor attendance. Capt. Charles 
Lloyd Kimball, of Healdsburg, is laid up with the grippe, and 
sent regrets. Mrs. Dunn is in Greely, Colorado, where she will 
remain during the coming winter for her health. Mr. Christian 
F. Kimball in this city is in Redding on business. In his letter 
regretting his inability to attend the Reunion he reports the ar- 
rival of a new member of the family, Myrtle Venus Kimball, 
born at Redding on June 30th, 1902, and adds: ''To me she is 
the fairest, sweetest bud of the Kimball Family Tree." Mr. 
Sylvester Edson Kimball, of Mountain View, who was with us 
last year, also sent regrets. Owing to the death of Mrs. Moses 
Coombs Kimball of this city on the day of the Reunion, neither 
her husband, daughter, Mrs. Fitzsimmons, nor brother-in-law, 
Thomas Danforth Kimball, nor his daughter, Miss Grace Isa- 
belle Kimball, attended the Reunion. Mrs. Grace M. Kimball 
and daughter of Oakland were also absent, the former going 
on the day of the Reunion to attend the annual convention of 
the Women's Christian Temperance Union at Santa Cruz the 
following Monday. Mr. William Parker and family were not 
represented, and I do not know their present whereabouts. 
President Benjamin Ide Wheeler, of the University of California, 
Berkeley, who had promised to attend if he could possibly do so, 
failed to put in an appearance. Mr. G. W. Kimball of Roseburg, 
Oregon, sent regrets and kind wishes. 

But we had several new cousins with us this year, among- 
them Mr. Oliver Bugbee Kimball, of Cupertino, Santa Clara 
county, son of No. 1481 Samuel and Esther (Bugbee) Kimball. 
of Enfield, Mass. He left home when very young and came 
West, and has lived in California for the past twenty-five years. 
He has two children, his daughter, Mabel Edna Kimball, being 
also at the Reunion. He says there were eight children in his 



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father's family, <>f whom only five are mentioned in the History; 
he does not think he could give details as t<> other members of 
hi^ family, having left home when so young", but he was very 
pleased to find the record in the book. Another new cousin v. 
Mr. Charles Henry Kimball, e< page 36*, Hist, now of tin's 
city, brother of Mrs. Lucy Coffin Redmglon and uncle of Major 

rham Gates Kimball ol Red Bluff. We were yery pleased to 
have him with us. Mrs, Marie Freeman Gray was also in at- 

idance, for the first time, and told us something about her re- 
cent trip East, where she met our good cousin, Rev. John C. 
Kimball of Sharon, Mass. All the cousins should join in 'fold- 
ing up his hands" for the promotion of that great national re- 
union we are going to have some day at the old home <>f the 
family, Ipswich, Mass., he being one of tin- energetic spirits in 
the Ipswich Historical Society. Mrs. Gray has also been in at- 
tendance upon the W. C. T. CJ. convention at Santa Cruz during- 
this week, and delivered an address on "Peace and Arbitra- 
tion. " I enclose newspaper clipping - . Mrs. Sturtevant-Peet, 
President of the W. C. T. U., is the mother of Mrs. E. Boyce 
Kimball, he being- the youn^vM s<,n of the late Dr. Edwin Kim- 
ball of Hay wards. Both Dr. Kimball and Mrs. Gray are de- 
scended from No. 136 Boyce and Rebecca (Haward | Kimball, 
the latter through their son No. 351 Boyce Kimball Jr., the 
Revolutionary soldier, whose son No. 772 John Kimball mar- 
ried, secondly. Electa Grang-er, lived at Hadley, Mass., and had 
daughter Achsah Bridg-eman Kimball, who married Nathaniel 
Freeman, they being- Mrs. Gray's parents. This has been 
written up in the "News". Althoug-h neither Elisha Barnum 
Kimball nor his wife were present, his aunt, Miss Marie Antoin- 
ette Kimball < pag-e 473, Hist.), and little daug-hter, Elma 
Lovisa Kimball, were there, and we very much appreciated 
having the former with us ag-ain. Rev. Theodore F. Burnham 
of Vallejo could not come to the Reunion, but sent his "obedi- 
ent Kimball wife". I give you below a list of those present 
taken partly from the book in which we put our autographs 
each year and partly from memory: 

President Frank Willard Kimball, 221 A, 12th St., San Francisco. 

Vice-President John Albion Kimball. " " 

Mrs. John Albion Kimball. 

Miss Carrie A. Kimball. 

Miss Marie Antoinette Kimball. 3025 Sacramento St., " 

Miss Elma Lovisa Kimball, " " 

Miss Dorothy Jennings, " " 

Oliver Bugbee Kimball. Cupertino. Cal. 

Miss Mabel Edna Kimball. 

Mrs. Elilabeth A. (Kimball) Tupper (dau. No. 1499), 220 Oak st. San Fran- 

ciso. 

Miss Helen Tupper, 220 Oak St., San Francisco. 
Mrs, Martha (Atwood) Kimball. 
Mrs. Stella B. (George) Rotner. 1900 Leavenworth St. " 



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Mrs. Huldah (Kimball) Osborne. 1303 7th Ave .. East Oakland. 

Miss Louisa J. Kimball, Haywards. Cal. 

Roy Thurston Kimball. Treasurer. 1230 Geary Street, San Francisco-, 

•George Abbott Rogers Kimball, Xapa, Cal. 

Mrs. Sarah H. (Kimball) Wright. 615 Guerrero St., San Francisco. 

Miss Harriet Luce Wright, <s 

Mrs. Elizabeth (Oilman (Kimball) Woodbury. Vallejo, Cal. 

Mrs. Maria (Freeman) Gray. 3648 22nd St., San Francisco. 

Charles Henry Kimball. 1 Kimball Place 

Mrs. Lucia (Adams) Burnham, Vallejo. Cal, 

Mrs. John Vernon Kimball. 1305 Jones St.. San Francisco. 

Miss Hope Kimball. " 

Mrs. Leonidas Frank Kimball. 1002 Jackson St.> " 

Miss Leonid Kimball. " " 

Miss Rebecca M. Kimball, 2'912 Howard St. " 

Mrs. .loan (Kimball) Clark, Melrose. Cal. 

Miss Anna A. Kimball. " " 

Mrs. Maranda Kimball. 'Seminary Park-. Cal. 

Ernest E. Kimball, San Francisco, " 

Mrs. Ernest E. Kimball. 

Miss Florence B. Kimball, ** " 

Mrs. Mary A. iClough) Kimball, Palo Alto, " 

Miss Mary Alice Kimball, " " " 

Miss Sarah Louise Kimball. " " " 

Daniel S. Thompson. Redding. " 

Mrs. Edgar Hobart. 1004 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco. 

Miss Gladys Hobart. 

As the last of us were leaving- the hall Mr. Herbert Folg-er 
came in, not being- able to g-et away from his office earlier in 
the day. He is President of the California Historic-Genealog-- 
ical Society and is descended from Abigail (Kimball ) Severance, 
the eldest daug-hter of the emigrants Richard and Ursula 
(Scott) Kimball. 

After luncheon the Reunion was called to order by the 
President, who delivered a brief address of welcome, and asked 
for remarks by several of the cousins, among those responding 
being Mrs. Maria Freeman) Gray. Mr. Roy Thurston Kimball, 
Mrs. Sarah H. I Kimball ) Wright, Mrs. Lucia I Adams Kim* 
ball, Mrs. Joan Kimball • Clark, Miss Marie Antoinette Kim- 
ball, Mrs. Maranda Kimball, Mrs> Mary A. Cloug-h ) Kimball 
and Mr. Oliver Bug-bee Kimball. A committe consisting- of six 
ladies was appointed to take charge of arrangements for the Re j 
union to be held in 1903. 

While our Sixth Annual Reunion was not as well attended 
or perhaps as interesting- as some of those which have preceded 
it, still it seemed to me that as the various members of the fam- 
ily get better acquainted with each other, and understand the 
relationships, there is manifest a more '-cousinly^' spirit than 
at our first meeting". 

I was pleased to see that many of those present took g-reat 
interest in the large chart showing- lines of descent of California 
cousins from our common ancestors, Richard and Ursula (Scott) 
Kimball, of Rattlesden, Suffolk, England and Watertown and 



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I pswich, Massachusetts. 

The descent of Presidenl Benjamin [de Wheeler, ol Berke- 
ley, from Richard and Ursula Scotl Kimball is as follows: 

shard Kemball m I rsula Scott . 
Benjamin Kimball m Mercj Hazeltin< 
Richard Kimball m Mehitable Day, 

hard Kimball m Jemima i 
Hannah Kimball m Benjamin Wheeler 4 Ben jamin*, Jonathan 4 , Jonathan . 
hi.vi,!-. John 1 ) 
kmofl Wheeler m ! Phebe I '. ige, 

Benjamin Wheeler, Baptisl minister, m , 

jamin I « 1 * * Wheeler. 

A.3 noticed in the September "News," Mrs. Harriet S. ( Rog- 
ers Kimball di^d in August last. She was the mother of Roy 
Thurston Kimball. Mrs. Elizabeth (i. (Kimball) Woodbury, of 
Vallejo, Mrs. Sarah EL Kimball Wright of this city, Mrs. R. 
Viola Kimball Tays and George Abbot Rogers Kimball, of 
Napa. Sin- was a daughter of Benjamin and Lucy » Ilm^ Kim- 
ball, of North field, X. EL, he son of Samuel and Deborah (Drew; 
Rogers, he son of Joseph and Abigail (Bartlett) Rogers, he sun 
of Isaac and Rebecka 'Rawlins Rogers, of Newbury, Mass., he 
son of Thomas and Ruth I Brown) Rogers, he son of Robert and 
Susanna Rogers, the emigrants, and was a lso descended from 
Thomas and Mary Brown, John Bayley and John Emery, early 
ttlers of Newbury. Mass. Mrs. Kimball atteneded our Re- 
union of two years ago. 

Another cousin who has passed on is Edwin Kimball, of 
Walnut Creek, Contra Costa Co., Cal., who was a son of Luther 
W. and Martha (Larrabee) Kimball (see p. 1109. Hist.). He 
leaves a widow and son residing in this city. He drove fifteen 
miles early in the morning to attend our last two Reunions. 
Although descended from that Caleb Kimball of York County, 
Maine, who has not been identified as a descendant of Richard 
and Ursula I Scott i Kemball, Edwin Kimball bore a striking 
resemblance to some of our California cousins whose lines of de- 
cent from the emigrant have been established. 



The Palo Alto Press, of Oct. 17, Says; 

Sherman Kimball, who is a graduate of the University, and 
is now filling the position as instructor in the Napa High 
School, was presented with a handsome gold cross to be used as 
a watch fob by the Sunday school children of All Saints Epis- 
copal Church. Mr. Kimball was for a number of years superin- 
tendant of the Sunday School, and by his gentle disposition and 
genial manner grew to be a great favorite among the children, 
and was able to do much for the school. The cross was made 
at P. L. Seaman's jewelry store and it was certainly a very fine 
Diece of workmanship. — Hist. p. 939. No. 2112- -i 



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HARRIET ROGERS KIMBALL. 

[Family History 1155] 

Born in Northfield, N. H., Nov. 7, 1812. 

Died Napa, Cal, Aug. 7, 1902. 




••But Oh, beyond the shadow land, 

Where all is bright and fair 
I know full well those dear old hands 

Will palms of victory bear. 
Where crystal streams through endless years. 

'Flow through the pleasant land 
And where the old grow young again 

I'll clasp my mother's hand.'' 

Rov Thurston Kimball, Mrs. Lizzie Woodbury, Mrs. Viola 
Tays, Mrs. Sarah Wright, and George A. R. Kimball, all self 
sacrificing workers in behalf of the California Kimball Associa- 



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tion, are bereft of a mothers presence in the "passing on tin 
great beyond" of this worthy descendant of John Rogers, the 
martyr. 

The everlasting love that no unfaith nor ingratitude could 
chill or destroy has vanished like tin- sun fromouj the sky, leav- 
g only a few faint -tars, and the wan and chill j moon to fill 
its place. 

And when tin- fluttering breath had expended itself in th( 

last kiss, when tin- soft old hands had loosened their clasp,. 
when tin- patient yearning eye9 had withdrawn their gaze t«> 

k their last upon the world, cousin Roy and his broth 
and sisters sustained a loss for which life yields no recompense, 
for there is nothing among all Cod's tender gifts to humanity 

that can outrank a mother's love. 

How beautiful and true are the words of that poet who s- L vs; 

"Over my heart in the days that are rlown 

No love like mother's love ever was shown 
Xo other affection abides and endur 
Faithful unselfish and patient like yours." 
November 7 next the deceased would have been 90 years of 
re. She was remarkably active in mind and body to the last, 
1 since 1875 had resided in the Golden State, where it is be- 
lieved the constant sunshine fruit and flowers, contributed much 
to lengthen her span of life. 

The half tone picture herewith enclosed was made from a 
photograph taken by cousin Roy, and shows his mother in the 
vard of her Napa home standing under a rose tree in bloom, 
and in the shadow of a massive lemon verbena. 

May we never forget her, and the lesson which her-life so 
nobly lived teache-. And as the grave is the door through 
which we pass from a world of sorrow and woe into a realm of 
.ternal day and lasting happiness "We shall meet her again." 

FRANK WILLARD KIMBALL. 

The Boston Globe notes an accident to a pleasure party on 
a Maine lake, resulting from a sudden squall capsizing a sail- 
boat containing six persons. The accident, says the Globe, |was 
seen from the shore, and a larger sailboat was sent out manned 
by Charles Durrell and Archie Kimball. When the rescuers 
reached the shipwrecked people the latter were nearly 
xhausted, in fact Mrs. Caldwell had let go twice, but had been 
held up by her husband. The women were taken into the boat 
of the rescuers, but this having become well loaded it was not 
deemed safe to attempt to take in the men. These were lashed 
to the stern and towed ashore. Mrs. Caldwell is confined to her 
bed, but nothing serious is anticipated. 



October, 1902, 151 



THE STORY OF PRETTY ANNA KIMBALL. 

A New York correspondent of the Boston Globe furnishes 
the following- story: "With a smile of tenderness on his rugged 
features President Roosevelt a few days ago dictated and signed 
a pardon for a deserter from the U. S army. 

On his desk in his library at Oyster Bay were spread a doz- 
en or more blue sheets of paper and envelopes. The paper was 
small, the envelopes square. 'They exhaled a delicate odor of 
mignonette. And the handwriting was a woman's 

With the smile still on his face President Roosevelt reached 
forth his hand and tapped a ltttle bell. His stenographer came. 
The president spoke rapidly. The stenographer went out, re- 
turned in a few minutes with a typewritten paper, and beneath 
it there soon appeared in bold, black letters "Theodore Roose- 
velt. " 

The paper was a pardon for Rhinehoid Lammert, deserter 
from the U. S. army, sentenced to three-years' imprisonment in 
castle William, Governors island. 

It meant very great happiness for the writer of the letters. 
on the blue mignonette-scented paper. 

When Lammert enlisted and was sent down to Porto Rico, 
all because of an outburst of fiery patriotism, he found down 
there in the tropics that he used to lay awake nights staring- at 
the big- silver moon, utterly miserable because he couldn't for- 
get a very prettv girl of the name of Anna Kimball, of Green- 
ville, N. J. 

So one day he stole the discharge papers of another soldier. 
And back to Greenville came Lammert, and there was a wed- 
ding-. Greenville's local newspaper printed a very pretty notice 
about the returned soldier and his bride. 

Somewhere near Greenville the paper fell into the hands of 
a bronze-faced Porto Rican campaigner who wore epaulettes, 
and who remembered Lammert as a deserter. Not many morn- 
ings afterward, as the pretty bride was pouring- Lammert his 
breakfast coffee, a corporal came into the house and put a heavy 
hand on the deserter. 

The bride, left alone, wept and was miserable. Lammert 
was sentenced. She went to Washington and tried to see Pres- 
ident Roosevelt and the secretary of war. Then she wrote to 
the President. She g-ot polite replies from secretaries, but she 
kept on writing to the President. 

Finally the secretary told the President about it, and Mr. 
Roosevelt read the letters. He forgot the affairs of state, read- 
ing the heart story of a prettv baker's daughter. Then it was 
that his face softened and he gently smiled. He smiled all the 
while he dictated the pardon to his secretary. He was smiling 
when he signed it. 

Lammert, the deserter, is free and with his faithful little wife. 



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FAMILY HISTORY OF MOSES KIMBALL AND His 

LINEAL DE< ENDANTS. 

Mos< - Kimball, was born .-it Haverhill Mass. Nov. 8th, 1747, 
married at Hopkinton N. II. ( >. 1. 16th, 1771, t<' Jemima Clement, 
moved to Ohio Nov. 9th, 1828. Moses Kimball was Orderly 
S nt in tin- Revolutionary war. ;iti<l in the battle <>i Bunl 

Iliil. was wounded by having one <>t his thumbs shot off; he was 
also in many other engagements, and especially at the surrender 
of Burgoyne. Ili^ family consisted of ten children; viz: Abner, 
Moses, Charles, Betsy, and Sally, (twins) Mina, Abiah, Ellen, 
Miriam, and Jemima. 

Abner Kimball, my father, was b<>rn in Hillsboro County 

N. II. 1 believe, in 17*2, was married May 24th. 1810, t<> Nancy 

. whose family consisted of seven children viz: Joseph J., 

Mos - S., Pollv and Jemima, (twins)Rachel J.. Myra J., Aimer B. 

Joseph J. Kimball, was b<>rn May 23d, 1812, and married to 
K. aline Caton Sept. l^t, ls.;<,, t<> them were born five children, 
viz: Abner Curtis Agnes Jane, Myra Julia, Maridieth C, Sarah 
E. IIi> wife Evaline died May 15. 1S54 and in the winter of 
l v .— was again married to Susanna Stall. To this union were 
born two children, viz: Mary E. and Emanuel A. [both dead] 
Mary E. at 11 and Emanuel A. at 1 year. Joseph J. Kimball 
died May 20, 1892, Susanna Kimbalf his wife is still living- 
near Chili CoMiMCton County Ohio. 

Moses S. Kimball, was born Feb. 17, 1815, was married to 
Louisa W, Powel March f>, 1838. From this union therewere 
nine children born viz: Abner D. Henry H. Thomas C. Henrietta, 
Nancy, Millard H. Charles H. Frank" B. and Emma J. Polly 
Kimball, and Jemima [twins-were born April the 3d, 1818. 
Polly was married to Jackson Smith July 11, 1837 and by this 
union were born nine children, viz; Venemom, Moses, who 
died in Nashville Tenn. during the late rebellion, Margare, 
Jane, Abner, Nancy, Georga, Henry, Sydna, and Mary. 

Jemima married Christopher C. Geese Mar. 27, 1845, and to 
them were born four children, Columbus C, George W., Mag- 
nolia H., and Washington L. 

Rachel Jane was born June 21, 1820, and married James K. 
Davi-. To this union there were born eleven children, viz: 
Emily. Myra, Curtis K., John, Charles, Elmore, Abner, Hor- 
ace, Earnest Hereford and Laura. 

Myra J. was born Feb. — 1827, and married Abraham 
Keims 1855. to whom were born five children, viz: Mundota, 
Magnolia. Kimball. Maud and Margaret. 

Abner B. Kimball was born May 23, 1828; by this union 
there were born three children viz; Moses F., Finley A., and 
Frank J. 



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Nancy Jeffries Kimball [my mother] died about the year of 
1852 and father was again married August the 12th, 1855 to 
Zipporah Ryder [deceased] leaving- two children in this union 
viz; Clara and Hesket, the former living- in Converse Ind., and 
the latter deceased. 

My Grandfather Joseph Jeffries, was born and reared in 
England, married to a scotch lady the given name Polly, never 
knew the family name. Soon after their marriage they took 
ship and sailed for America settling in Penn. near Little York, 
about fifty miles from Baltimore: there he reared a family of 
seven children, Thomas, Joseph, Blair, Samuel, Jesse, Jane, and 
Nancy. From this place he moved to Jefferson County Ohio, 
where he spent the remaining part of his days. His birth and 
age I cannot give. 

Grandfather Kimball died at the age of 81 and Grandmother 
at the age of 92 years. 

There are two immediate lineal descendants of Joseph J. 
Kimball living, Abner C. Kimball of New London Huron County 
Ohio, baker and confectioner, and Maridieth C. Kimball of 
Converse Ind. a graduate of the Cincinnatti College of Medical 
and Surgery and Post Graduate of Rush Medical college Chicago 
and also holds Local Deacons license in M. K. Church. 

Moses S. Kimball has eight immediate descendants living 
Abner D. Surgeon General of the National Soldiers Home Mar- 
ion Ind. Thomas C, also of Marion Ind. who has a large med- 
ical and surgical practice and becoming noted as a laparotomist, 
the other six are scattered over Kansas posessing large realties. 

Rachel Jane Kimball Davis descendants are all living- but 
two. She with Myra occupied the old homestead, Laura P O is 
Bakersville O. and John, Elmore, and Hereford, within a few 
miles range, the rest are living in the west. All I believe are 
well provided for in this worlds goods. 

Jemima Kimball Geese has two descendants C. C. and W. L. 
who are living near Avondale Ohio, thev were left a large tract 
of land at the death of their father. 

Polly Kimball Smith with husband and family moved in 
the early fifties to Iowa, and I believe that the greater part of 
the familj- of children are living, I however only know of the 
address of one, Margaret Brown of Harvey Ills. 

Myra J. Kimball Keims, lives now in Michigan. 

Abner B. Kimball who lives in Converse Ind. has but two 
descendants Finley who lives in Brooklyn N. Y. a master car- 
penter and Frank, who is completing a course of study in 
Bloomington University Ind. 

A." B. KIMBALL, CONVERSE IND. 
By Maridieth Canton Kimball. 

Note: — The above contains some additional matter relat 



154 Kimball Family News, 



ing* to the descendants of Moses Kimball. It is by no means 
completi and we have attempted no further arrangement. 

The Nbws has given a of spaee to this family, and 

much is yet unknown. The following references are given for 
the benefit of those particularly interested. Page s '' News for 
398 Prof. Sharpies makes addition to mention made in Hist. p. 
103. On p 60 he gives family of Charles, son of Moses. On 
page 107 he continues with Charles Marcus K. 9on of Chart 
On p. 252 News for 1901, and on p. 314 still more. On pp. 43, 
57 an<l 69 for 1902 may be found more yet. 

Mr-. Curtis Kimball Davis of Knoxville, Iowa, writes that 
her mother-in-law, Mrs. Davis says that Moses Kimball was 
buried in Warrenton, Ohio and not in Warren is has been 
claimed. 



MOSES KIMBALL ABBOTT. 

Moses K. Abbott, who has been ill from heart disease, died Sunday 
forenoon. He has been able to be about and ride to the village nearly 
 ry day. but suffered intensely at times. I le had a severe attack Sun- 
day morning, from which he rallied somewhat, but lived ouly a few hours. 
Re leaves a widow, but no children. He was a member of Franklin 
Li dge, No. 23, I. < >. O. F.. of Boston. His funeral took place at his late 
home. Tuesday afternoon, in charge of Kezar Valley Lodge. I. O. O. F. 
Interment at No. 4 cemetery Lovell Me.— Oxford Co. (Me.) Advertiser. 

George S, Abbott, Thomas, Edward, Edward, Timothy. 
>rg : Sticknej, Moses Kimball Abbott. 

>>ses Kimball Abbott was the roundest son in a family of 
nine [9] children born to Georg-e S. and Betsey [Kimball] Ab- 
bott. He was born March the Sth 1846 in Lovell Ale. where he 
also died on Aug. 10, 1902. He married in Medford Mass. Apr. 
the 23d, 1881 Elizbeth [Gibson] Haggett, b. Aprils, 1855, in 
Edinboroug-fi Scotland. She was the sixth child in a family of 
7 children born to John and Mary Jane [Laug-htland] Gibson. 

Her parents with their family came to New York to reside 
in 1885 when Mrs. Abbott was only two months of ag-e. 

Mr. Abbott's education was obtained in common schools of 
his native town and when a young- man went to Boston Mass. 
where he worked as a clerk for his oldest brother James Erastus 
Abbott who did a large retail grocery business. 

In after years he became a veterinarian and this combined 
with other work he followed through life. 

In the spring of 1898 he moved to his native town of Lovell 
Me. there taking- charg-e of a small country place securing- for 
himself and wife all the necessaries of a comfortable and happy 
home. His g-enial salutations will ever be remembered by his 
many friends and acquaintances. Hist. P. 507 — iv. — S. K. 2448. 



October, 1902. 155 



KIMBALLS— HEATHS 

Mr. Guy S. Rix of Concord, N. H., sends the following-, 
and has our thanks: — 

Marv Kimball married Joseph Heath, born in Newburj, 
Vt. Aug-. 19, 1773, son of Sylvanus and Azubah [Sawyer] 
Heath. 

Sylvanus Heath was one of the first settlers in Newbury. 
coming- from Sandwich, Mass. Joseph Heath settled in Bath, 
X. H., where there both died not many years later. 

CHILDREN 

i AmosK., b in Newbury, Vt., Sept. 30, 1799. 

ii Everett, b . 

Amos K. Heath m 1827, Lutheria Childs of Bath, N. H. 
Lived in Bath, Newbury, Vt. and Canada until he married, 
when in 1830 he moved to Newbury, where he died Jan. 20, 
J891. She died Mar. 5, 1889. 

CHILDREN. 

i Dudley C. Heath, b. 1830: lives with his brother, 

Henry K. in Newbury, unmarried. 

ii Mary Heath, b. 1832: d. Sept. 1888: unm. 

iii Abner T. Heath b. 1835: m Apr. 5, 1870, Susan 
Page, resides in Fairlee. 

iv Sophia T. Heath, b. 1837: m 1860, Henry Sarg-ent 
of West Wilton, X. H. 

v Everett Heath b. 1840: m 1st. 1872, Luella Guild: 
2nd 1884, Lena George, 
He was a soldier in the 3d Vt. during- the rebellion. 

Children [a] Frank Heath, b. -.d. young-, [b] 

Lulu Heath, b June 9, 1888. 

vi William W. Heath, b 1842: served in the war, in 
4th Vt. killed in the Wilderness, May 5. 1864. 

vi; Henry K, Heath, b 1845: m Mar. 5, 1868, Sarah C. 
Scales, daughter of Wm. Scales. He is a far- 
mer on the '"Ox-bow" in Newbury, Vt. 
Children [a] Nellie Heath, b Jan. 22, 1870, [b] 
Lizzie Heath, b Sept. 4. 1871: m Feb. 10, 1.897; 
Charles H. Dodge, have one daugmter. 

viii Willard C. Heath, b 1846: m 1873, Imog-ene Guild: 
resides in Barnett, Vt. 

ix Edward H. Heath, b 1849: resides in Barnett, un- 
married, a section man on railroad. 

Yours very truly, 

GUY S. RIX. 



Kimball Family News, 



PRESIDENT BENJAMIN IDE WHEELER COMES 

T< ) KANSAS 

In her report of the Pacific Coasl Kimball Reunion <>if 
mot her page Sarafa Louise Kimball gives the line of Presi- 
dent Wheeler of the University of California, a descendant oi 
Richard Kimball. The editor of the News had the pleasure of 
listening his address at the banquet given by faculty of th< 
Kansas State University and the Citizens of Lawrence at the 
• :ent inauguration of Frank Strong as Chancellor <>f this great 
Kansas institution where over 11<»o plates were laid, and re- 
sponses made by nearly a score of college presidents, ranging 
from President Hadleyof Yale to President wheeler of Califor- 
nia* The address by the latter was not excelled by any one of 
the more than thirty addresses made on that occasion. Its de- 
livery was free and easy and was notable for its wisdom, com- 
mon sense and with just enough Of wit, to add piquancy to the 

Whole. 

This occasion was one of great educational interest. The 
excercises covered three days, and no pains were spared by the 
faculty or the citizens of historic Lawrence to make the event 
one of pleasure and profit. The writer was most agreeably en- 
tertained by two members of the Sons of the American Revolu- 
tion, one night by Prof, F. E. Stimpson, formerly of the Uni- 
versity, and one by Mr. and Mrs. J. X. Macomb. Mr. Macomb 
is a descendant from Philip Livingston, a signer of the Declar- 
ation of Independence. Mrs. Macomb is of the Gallup family, 
and has the Gallup Family History. She is therefore cous- 
inly connected with Marion Gallup of Pontiac, 111., a well 
known stock breeder, who married Ellen L. Kimball, [see Kim- 
ball History p. 812, Xo. 17(> ( )— iij. Another member of the 
Gallup family, Mary daughter of Andrew E. Gallup married J. 
B. Kimball of whom we have no record. And Anna Kimball 
married William Gallup March 14, 1777 [Hist, page 119], 

The writer also acknowledges the most courteous attention 
and favors shown by Prof. L. E. Sayre of the Chemical depart- 
ment of the Uniyersity. 

Governor Charles Dean Kimball has been nominated for a 
second term by the republicans of Rhode Island. Plis present 
administration was warmly approved. 

The Rev. JohnC. Kimball of Sharon, Mass. whose sermons, 
lectures and writings are always of a high order, has for some 
vtars owned property in and near Topeka. The county records 
show that he has recently disposed of some of his holdings here 
for several thousand dollars, borne years ago he visited Topeka 
where a brother in-law Col. Joel Huntoon, still resides. 



October, 1902. 157 



DEATHS 

EDWIN O. KIMBALL. 

In Dorchester, Mass. Sept. 25. Edwin O. Kimball aged 48 
years. He leaves two children. Hist. No. 2103. 

MRS. MARY KIMBALL. 

At the age of 93, Mrs. Mar}- (Herring) Kimball, widow of 
John Kimball, died in Natick, Mass. on the morning of August 
1 at the house of her son-in-law, County Commissioner Francis 
Bigelow. She was one of the oldest residents. She was pos- 
sessed of considerable property. 

She left a daughter, Mrs. Francis Bigelow, a granddaugh- 
ter Mrs. William R. Bigelow, and a great grandson. She was 
of charitable and just disposition and will be greatly missed in 
many places. Hist. p. 407, No. 7<>7. 

MAINE NEWS. 

The Biddeford Record says: Nat Kimball, the horseman, 
has received notice from a firm of New York attorneys that he 
is heir to one third of an estate in Australia valued at from 
$250,000 to 8500,000. It does not look like one of the fake fort- 
unes which have been floated by sharks and by which some have 
been imposed upon. Nat was a little suspicious at first but he 
has found that the attorneys who notified him are of the high- 
est standing and he has also gathered details which lead him to 
believe that good fortune has really come his way. His many 
friends will hope so. Forty or fifty years ago a brother of Nat's 
mother left here and drifted to Australia, upon the death of his 
wife and child. Nothing has been heard of him for years. He 
settled in Australia and accumulated this property which is esti- 
mated at from quarter to half a million. He has recently died 
and the estate goes to his nearest heirs, which are one sister, 
three children of another sister and Mr. Kimball. Further 
particulars will be learned later. 

What has become of the Lewis family monthly, the Lewis- 
iana, that was somewhat similar to the News? It has not come 
to hand for some months. Neither has the "Owl" representing 
the Wing family. Have they passed over the river? 



The Kimball-Francis-Angus Co. Stationers and Printers 
and dealers in school supplies, Tucson Arizona. Such is the 
face of a card received bv the News. 



Knn Nail (Tamil? News, 

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RANDOM RHLORDS OR KIMBALL FOOT PRIMS. 

rhes<- imperfecl records arc printed to assist in tin- indentiflcation 
Unrecorded members of the family. Any one knowing any thing <>f th< 
•honld write to Prof. Sharpies, ocord Avenue Cambridge Mass. and 

do1 to the News 

Mary Kimball m July •'<<! 1744 George Little. 
John Kimball m March 12, I s E izabeth Ha; i 
Hannah Kimball in 1st a Ball 2nd a Tenney. 

. Kimball b Feb. 22, it^i d <><•: B, 1821 m Amos Johnson, 
John Kimball m Elizabeth E. 

William H. b 1820 m 1st— — — m 2nd Harriet (Sullivan) Dudley. 
Charles Kimball m Lydia 1'. ( Dau. a Idle H. b 1864 m June i". 

98 Alfred K el ley .ir. 
Nehemia W. Kimball m Martha B. 

CBILDB1 N 

I »s,.; ir F 1, .! U ]y «... L847. 

George P. l> Aug. 6, l^.-.o. 

John N. Kimball b Beniker Sept. 1822 <1 Feb. 3. 1891. Son of Ebenezer & 
9arah Rowellm Betsey Philbrickb Sutton Jan. 4, 1821 d Mar. :j::. 1893 

cnir.DKi v 

Mary E. b 1846 m July 1, 1865, Richard M. Rlack. 

John H. b April 9, 1858, m Dec. 31, 1883, Anna B. Middleton of Salem. 

Jason A. b July '.'. 1 ^ r> 1 . 

Luther P. b May 13, 1853. 

Emeline F. b May 13, 1853. 

Andrew Kimball b Gilmanton m Emma A. ( ) Child Emma I. b 

Mar. 16, 1852 
James Kimball b Portland m Elizabeth J. Child b Nov. 10. 1854. 
James Y. Kimball m Dora A. Morse. Child Alice b Nov. 11. 1885. d Nov. lti, 

1886. 
Ephraim Kimball b Plaistow m Mary | )Child Eva b Feb. 13, 1885 d 

July 26, 1885, 
Ephraim Kimball b 1*41 m May 15, 1865 Julia M. Cressy b 1837. 

Matilda (Fiegan) Kimball b Groveland l s ">7 m Mar. 1886. Frederick Rruns- 
tremann b Germany 1858. 

Miranda Kimball b Derry, X. II. Dau. <.f Samuel and Margaret m June 

26. Is40. Charles 11. Thompson. 
Carol ; ne Kimball b Boscawen Dau. of Benjamin and Sally Kimball, m 

Feb. Is. is4.-,. Isaac Webster 2nd. 
Wid. Alice M. Kiml all m Oct. 6, 1886, Edward C. Richardson of Sharon. 
Fred U. Kimball son of Ransom and Marie Kimball of N. V. b 1862, m 

May 80, 1888. Lizzie McEvoy. 
Louwi Kimball m Aug. - -'T. 1834. Daniel Wyman. 
Mary E. Kimball m Dec. 5. 1833. Samuel Russell. 
Hannah Kimball m June 19, 1744, Nathaniel Haseltine. 
Sally Kimball m July 5, 1798. Benjamin Coffin. 
Hannah Kimball m 1765 Ephraim Robinson. 
Mehitable Kimball m Sept 14. 1769, Peter Bradley. 
Anna Kimball m Richard Wood Nov. 26, 1789, 

Judith Kimball m June 5, 1796, Reuben Carleton b Sept. 38, 1771. 
Elizabeth Kimball in Mar. 6, L796 Nicholas Colby. 
Hannah Kimball m Jan. 17. 1804, Mica jab Kelly. 



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John Kimball m Mar. 12. 1820. Eliza Xoyes; 

Sarah L. Kimball m Dec. 15, 1829. Leonard Rowell. 

John Kimball m Aug. 7. 1832. Julia A. Allen. 

Wid. Mary Jane Kimball b 1860. m April 30. 1891, Alvah Merrill b 1823. 

Mary •>. Kimball b 1777 d June 13. 1850. Wife of Jonathan Kimball. 

Calista G. Kimball b April 1853. d Aug. 9, 1858, Dau. of William and Mal- 

vina. 
Betsey Kimball b Mar. 23, 1813, d Jan. 12. 1869. Benjamin and Hannah. 
Sarah D. Kimball b Aug. 12. 1800. d Mar. 15. 1885. 
Sarah A. Kimball b Feb. 1816, d Jan. 21. 1884, 
Moses Kimball b 1770. d April 5. 184L 
Hannah Kimball b 1770. H Mav 11. 1846. 
Betsey Kimball b Mar. 17. 18— d Feb. 10. 18—. 
Richard Kimball b Oct. 13. 18—. d Feb. 10. 18 — 
Alvin Kimball, b Derry. X. B. 1825, d July 23. 1890. 

BOPKDTTOH MA88 

Wid. Matilda A. Kimball b 1840. m May 2, 1880, George L. Rockwood. 

Sarah Kimball in Oct. 17. 1830, Synes X. French. 

Lucy Kimball b X'ova Scotia 1837. Dau. of Robert and Lucy, m Jnne 1, 

1859, William Darton b 1837. 
Wid. Ruth T. Kimball b Newport R. I. 1809, d Jan 10. 1892. 
Anna Kimball m Nov. 3, 1761, Nathaniel Moulton b. Dec. 6, 1742. d 1795. 

Son Rev. Josiah Moulton. Grandson Jonathan B. Moulton lived in St. 

Louis. 

HOPKDAl.K MASS. 

Charles M. Kimball m Susan R. Gallagher b 1856, d Feb. 10. 1894, 

«HII.I>KFN. 

Dau. b and d Feb. 10, 1894. 
Clarence E. b Sept. 1, 1792. 

DRACT'T MASS. 

Samuel E. Kimball m Hannah 

CHILDREN. 

Louisa b Feb. 6, 1829. Feb. 13, 1845. 

Samuel b Jan. 1. 1831. 

Warren b Jan. 29, 1833, m O^t. 1, 1861. Martha Malcolm. 

Lvdia A. b 1^35, m Oct. 26. 1853. Reubens H. Ditson. 

Charles Henry b Xov. 4. 1838. 

George F. b July 31, 1841. d Sept. 8. 1845 

Jacob B. Kimball son of Joseph E. and Elizabeth Kimball m Abigail Fry. 
Child Charles F. b April 16. 1846. d Sept, 13,1886. m in Lynn Mass. 
Nov. 1. 1869. Eleanor A. Millay. 

Harriet B. Kimball b 1810. m Xov. 10. IS45. William Buzzil b 1805. 

Mary Kimball m Dec. 5. 1822. Josiah Richardson. 

Sarah Kimball m Mar. 7. 1771, Reuben Parker of Westford. 

Dennison Kimball son of Aaron and Deborah Kimball of Grftn X. H. m 

Sept. 14. 1824 Sophia Coburn. 
Wid. Deborah D. Kimball b 1822. d May 18. 1862. 
Francs M. (Hildrethi Kimball b Feb. 10, 1833 d June 3, 1864, she was wife 

of Joseph Kimball. 
Wid. Martha (Webster) Kimball b 1S02 d June 18, 1880. Daughter of 
Xathaniel and Sarah (Emerson) Webster. She was Widow of Xathan. 
Darwin E. Kimball b Ausr. 12 1849 d Julv 13. 1885. 
Martha P. Kimball b Oct. 16, 1799. d April 20. 1889. 



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Philip E. Kimball m Kate Merrill. 

childri n. 

Lucy \ b I " • 24, 1875. 

Angie b An 

Edward Kimball m Jane — Son. Harvey b 1821 d Dec 23, L84 

.1 aiah Kimball in Elizabeth Dan. Hannah II. B. m May s . 1845. 

'.. iter son of Levi and Lucy Baxter. 

James Kimball a Hannah Son Ebenezer b L795, dJnly 11, 1861. 

liam Kimball b 1825 d Aug 1 . 20, 1886. Son of Thomas and Lydl 

Ma 1853, Hannah Larkin b l 825. 

CHILDREN. 

Wallace L. b Jan. 5, 1854, d July 28, L884. 
Mary Helen b Jan. 17. 1863 d April 2, L863. 
William b Mar. 9, L856. 
Ada Florence b Mar. 31, 1858. 
Elizabeth Larkin b April 28, I860. 

a E b Julv 3, 1867. 
Clement L. 

Wallace L. Kimball b Jan. 5,1854 m May 10, 1875. Carrie C. Plummerb. 
1852 d Oct. 30 : 1886. 

rini.IiRKN. 

Wallace Larkin b July 2, 1876, d Aug-. 1, 1879. 
ment Lakeman b April 19, 1878. 

INTKXTI<»NS OF MARRIAGE. 

Anna Kimball Oct 24, 1761, Nathaniel Moulton. 

Sarah Kimball .Ian. 8, 1774. John Goodhue. 

Mary Kimball of Wenham Oct. 12, 177 5, Elisha Perkins. 

Hannah Kimball Aug. 2. 1823, Thomas Phillips. 

Sarah Kimball of Waltham Mar. 13, 1830. Jonas Kimball. 

Hannah Kimball Feb. 9, 1833, John Broclebank. 

Mary S. Kimball Mar. 10, 1849. John I). Coburn of Brunswick, Me. 

Sara i A. Kimball Dec. 14. 1850, Benjamin F. Wheeler of Rockport. 

Sarah Kimball b Feb. S. 1824. Joseph Jewett. 

MARRIAGE8. 

Mary E. Kimball m Nov. 10. 1859, Levi L. Howe of Hamilton. 

Elizabeth Kimball m Jan. 3. 1833, Josiah Lord. 

Lucy Kimball m May 8. 1830. Jonathan Brown. 

Mary Kimball m Jan 21, 1820, John Davis of Oharlestown. 

John Kimball Jr. m July 6. 1770. Salome Robbins. 

Mary Kimball m April 10, 1720. Amos Carleton. 

Mary Kimball m May 1701. Prudence Jewett. 

Mary Kimball m Oct. 13. 1702. Nathaniel Harrison. 

John Kimball m Oct. 8. 1707. Mary Fulling-ton 

Elizabeth Kimball m Nov. 1. 1708. Nathaniel Warner. 

Marv Kimball m June 19, 1770, Thomas Beale of Westford 

Mary Kimball b 1751, d 1831. m Seth Peabody. 

Mehitable Kimball m 1695, Daniel Thurston. 

Sarah Kimball m Int. Aug-. 2n, 17"0. Joseph Foster of Billirica? 

Louisa Kimball b Salem. Mass., m Sept. 17, 1824, John H. Webber. 

Daniel Kimball m April 7. 1829. Hepsibah B. Trask. 

Joseph Kimball m Int. Nov. 1, 1806.*Mrs. Martha Caldwell. 



 









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CALIFORNIA KIMBALLS AND THE SANTA FE 

RAILROAD. 

A San Diego dispatch of Aug - . 11, to the San Francisco 
Call, contained the following": 

For many years there has been talk of the Santa Fe Rail- 
road, through some of its subordinate companies and promoter^, 
had accepted the immense land subsidy offered and deeded to it 
by the people of San Diego and by Warren and Frank Kimball 
of National City and had then failed to carry out the portions 
of the agreement made at the time the subsidies were accepted. 
The dispute is now to be brought to a head through the filing 
of a complaint in the Superior Court by the Kimball brothers 
asking- that the deeds be sot aside and that the railroad company 
be declared to have forfeited its right to the subsidy land by 
reason of its failure to carry out the agreement, which, it is 
claimed, was that shops and terminals of the road should be 
maintained on the bay of San Diego of sufficient proportions to 
give employment to 1200 or 1500 men. 

The property given to the railroad company consisted of 
>0 acres of land in National City and on the National ranch, 
tog-ether with more than three miles of water front on the bay 
of San Dieg-o and the tide lands and riparian rights which 
belong- with water front property. The company built its line 
to the bay and to National City and laid out plans for the fin* t 
terminals and shops on the continent, but it went no further 
than that, and now there is hardly the ghost of a shop or of a 
terminal at National City 

In the issue of Aug. 17. the Chronicle had the following 

editorial: 

The folly and dang-er of subsidizing- railroads as a means of 
securing special results favorable to the grantors are again ex- 
emplified in the case of the experiences of the Kimballs of 
National City, San Diego county. The latter have brought 
suit to recover from the Santa Fe Railroad Company the lands 
and water front privileges which they gave years ago to secure 
the terminal of the line and the establishment of company's car 
and machine shops at National City. By this means the Kim- 



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1 t«» build up National i ity at the expen of its 
ir-by neighl n Di Their tations ha \ »• not 

matured. 

The con whi< li the Kimball Brothers made to the 

1 unpany i ed 2,1 of land, tin 

and a fine wharf. It is represented by 
plaintiffs in the suit brought for the cancellation of th< 

t li.it the conditions under which they were made 
not been complied with fully by the grantees, the railroad 
maintaining the machine shops which w< stab- 

Hshed by it in National City. It is not strange, if this allega- 
tion is true; for railroad corporation obtaining subsidies e] - 
n<l from other sources have rarely kept faith with the 
The Southern Pacific Railroad, for example, obtained 
nty-acre depot site and street franchises from the citj of 
Los Angeles and Wilmington Railroad in consideration of the 
istruction of the line to the former place, and the expectancy 
extraordinary benefits therefrom although it was apparent to 
any student of the situation at the time that Los Angeles could 

idetracked in the building of the line. And alter tin 
subsidies were granted to the corporation the discovery was 
made by both city and county that ac = to the sea was closed 
and the benefits of ocean competition taken away from them 
lutely as the result of the gift of the local railroad stock. 
Until a rival railroad entered the valley, Los Angeles had ample 
time to repent its folly, just as the Kimballs of National City 
ve longrepented the foolish gift of their broad acres and val- 
uable San Diego bay frontage to the Santa Fe in vain expect- 
ancy of reaping benefits which have not materialized. It is 
rarely that the railroads are forced to disgorge the subsidies they 
have received, although it may be patent enough that the con- 
ditions on which they were based have not been fulfilled. It 
will be interesting to note the outcome. of the suit of the Kim- 
balls for the recovery of the property with which they parted 
during a period of misplaced confidence in railroad promises. 

Commander W. W. Kimball who was in command of the 
torpedo flotilla during- the Spanish War writes us from San 
Francisco. He was detached from service at fhe Washing-ton 
Navy Yard last Christmas and sent on a long- cruise. Since 
then he has sailed over 25,000 miles of salt water. See News 
March, p. 61, June, p. 99, August, p. 132 — 1898 Commander 
Kimball is the author of many scientific papers pertaining to his 
calling-, some of which have called forth the highest praise by 
those quite competent to judge. 



November, 1902. 163 



SUPPLEMENTAL NOTES. 
Prof. Sharpies writes in regard to one puzzle the News has 
been trying to solve, as follows. Not so many additions have 
been m-ide in the case of Jedediah, as in that of Moses which re- 
ceived another addition in the last issue of the News. lie savs:- 

"So many additions have been made to the history of the de- 
scendants of Jedediah Kimball 712 that I have with the as- 
sistance of Mrs. Duffy his grand daughter prepared the follow- 
ing account. Many dates are still wanting and some names, but 
the list is nearly complete." 

Page 383, 712b, Jedediah Kimball 7 (Jesse" Amos 5 Richard-* Johns 
Richard" Richard 1 ) born May 25. 1766, Andover, Mass.; d 
1814 Hooksett, N. H.; m Aug. 21, 1788 at Pembroke, N. 
H., Anna Eaton. He lived in Cheshire Woods; this was 
afterwards a part of Hooksett, N. H. 

CHILDREN. 

ll.'.la. Jane 8 Kimball, b d ra Hill. 

Susan 8 m Kenney she died more than tiif'ty years ago, the fam- 
ily went to ( !alifornia. 

Sarah 8 b d July 2, [875, m Hiram Johnson, grandson of Col. 

Thomas Johnson who served in the Revolution. 
Nancy 8 

1452, John 8 b March 17'.";. <1 Oct :.. 1880. 

1453, Biram 8 b Aug\ 10, 1813. 

, Aneil . lie was killed in a great fire in St. Louis in 1849. 
Ezra". 

1454, .Jesse 8 . 

H.")4a. Elizabeth 8 m .John Cammett. 

Bannah 8 m Moulton, children Xan^y Moulton m Barbour, 

Jack Moulton. 

1451a, Jane Kimball 8 (Jedediah- Jesse 6 Amos 5 Richard 4 John 3 
Richard- Richardi. ) m Hill. 

emi.DKEx. 
Hiram Hill 9 m Kate Lord, no children. 

Sylvester Hill 8 m , children. Edward. Warren, George, Charles. 

Ksther Hill 9 m Dr. Hawkes, resides Lynn, Mass., no children. 
Harriet Hill 9 m Hugh McLeod. 

1452, John KimbalF (Jedediah 7 Jesse 6 Amoss Richard 4 John 
Richards Richard 1 .) b 1796; d Oct. 3, 1880; m Judith Cammett; 
m 2nd Aug. 25, 1844, Mary Edmunds. Lived in Hooksett, X. H. 

CHILDREN 

2251a. Jedediah b 1820, 

2252, John Hillard 9 b 1822. 

2253, Peter C. 9 b 1824. 

Mary Ann 9 b 1S2G; m Capt. James Hall of Cohassett, no children. 



164 Kimball Family News. 



1453, Hiram Kimball 1 (Jedediah 1 Jesa Am- Richard 4 John* 

Richard 1 Richard 1 born in Hooksett, N. !!.. Aug*. 10, 1813; 
d Hooksett 1877; m Aug. 13, 1835, Sarah K. Towne b 
Mar. 9, L813; <1 Dec. 2". 1890. He was a wrv religious 

man and held many positions «»i trust in 1 1 i -> native town. 

• nil DRl N 

la, Frances E, i> Aug. 36, 1837; «l Sept. 30, i - 

Aroline How b Dec. 2, 1838; d Aug. 20, 1891; m William Dudley of 
Red < >ak, l<>\\ ;i ; no children. 

She was gaduated .it the Framingham, Mass. State Normal School. 
Through many years, wherever her l»>t was cast, she was a 
friend to the poor and distressed; always finding the worthy 
ones; giving her own money and fashioning their garments with 
her own hands. Through winter's cold and summer's heat did 
she minister to the sick and needy: taking them dainties and 
useful things s< > necessary to tin- afflicted. 

Sarah Ann .1. Kimball 9 b Aug-. 16, 1841. 
Katie Cammett Kimball 9 b March 1, 1843. 
2253d, Clara A.'-' 1. April 16, 1852. 

Ida Allen b .Ian. .''.. h.l.l. 

.lam.- Wallace b Jan. 24, 1853; m Mary Dickey. 

1454, Jesse Kimball 8 (Jedediah 7 Jesse 6 Amos 5 Richard 4 John 3 

Richard'- Richard 1 ) b Hooksett, N. H.; m Sophia Davis. 
Lived and died in Hooksett, N. H. 

CHILDREN 

Susan 9 m Fi field. 

Nancy'-' in Ray- 
John 9 never married. 

Charles 9 Dec. m. . children, Annie, Nellie, Arthur, Frank, Sadie. 

H.-nry 9 Dec. m , 2hild Ellen. 

2254, Wilson b July 3. 1827. 

1454a, Elizabeth Kimball 8 (Jedediah 7 Jesse 15 Amos 6 Richard* 
John 8 Richard 2 Richard 1 . ) m John Cammett. 

CHILDREN 

Elizabeth Cammett 9 m Clay, had a daughter Eliza Clay. 

Meriba Cammett m Flanders. 

Madison Cammett 9 . 
Moses Cammett 9 . 
Jedediah Cammett 9 . 

2251a, Jedediah Kimball 9 (John 8 Jedediah 7 Jesse 6 Amos' Rich- 
ard 4 John 8 Richard 2 Richard 1 .) m Abigail S. Eaton b Oct. 
20, 1816; d Boston, Mass., Mar. 30, 1879; dau. of Rufus 
and Sarah Eaton. 

CHILDREN 
2564a, William Eaton Kimball. 

Mary M. Kimball. Mary M. Kimball petitions that she may be 



November 1902. 16: 



appointed guardian of the children of William Eaton Kimball and of 
his late wife Dina Kimball, both deceased July 22, 1SS5. Probate 
Records Dedham. Mass. 

2253a, Frances E. Kimball ( e Hiram "Jedediah 7 Jesse 6 Amos 5 Rich- 
ard 4 John 3 Richard 2 Richard 1 . ) b Aug-. 26, 1837; d Sept. 
30, 1883. Killed by lightning-; m Henry Wheeler of Am- 
herst, Mass. 

< BTLDKEN 

Mary E. Wheeler 10 b Feb. 1. 1862. Living with her father in Mil- 
rd, X. H. 

2253b, Sarah Ann J. Kimball'' Hiram" Jedediah 7 Jesse 6 Amos 5 
Richard 4 John 8 Richard* Richard 1 ) b Aug-. 16, 1841; m 
Jan. 6, is<> ( ). Henry P. Duffy. Graduate from the Hig-h 
and Normal School in St. Louis, and taught several 
years. 

< I11I.I-KI \ 

Birdie J. Duffy 10 b Aug. 6, 1869; m July 17. 1898, George G. Chapiine. 

child Kathryne < hapline 11 b Dec. L4, 1899. 

Aroline Maud 10 Daffy b July 13, 1876. Graduated at the Convent of 
the Immaculate ( i inception. 

Edward Duffy 10 b Sept. 10, 1872. 

2253c, Katie Cammett Kimball 1 ' Hiram 8 Jedediah' Jesse 6 Amos* 
Richard 4 John Richard" Richard 1 ; b March 4, 1843; m 
Nov. 16, 1868, John Brown. 

I MIL UK! N 

Frankie Brown 10 b Oct. 7. 1869; d May 17. 1893; m Albert Cole. Child 
Grace Cole 11 b May 12, 1898 

2253d, Clara A. Kimball 1 ' I Hiram" Jedediah 7 Jesse 6 Amos 6 Rich- 
ard 4 John RichaTd 8 Richard' | b April 16, 1852; m April 
16, 1876, Harrison Rowe. 

CHILDREN 

Hiram H. Rowe 10 b May 20, 1877. 
Earnest Rowe 10 b Jan. 20, 1879. 
Alden F. Rowe 10 b Feb. 27. 1884. 

2564a, William Eaton Kimball 1 (Jedediah^ John 8 Jedediah 7 
Jesse 6 Amos 5 Richard 4 John 3 Richard 2 Richaad 1 ) m Dina 

-. He spent many years in Batavia in the Island 

of Java. After his death his children were sent to this 
country, and were taken in charge by their aunt Mary M. 

M 

Kimball. 

CHILDREN 

Leonard William Eaton 11 b Sept. 25, 1867. 
William Arnold Charles 11 b Nov. 28, 1868. 
Frank Seaborn b May 28, 1870 while his parents were on a voyage to 

this country; died young. 
Anna May Matilda b July 10. 1S73. 
Gertrude Maud 11 b Aug. 11. 1S75. 



Kimball Famil \ News, 



I ( MING WEST. 

Prof. Shar] writes that h< oon to visit the w< * 

ain the middle west and perhaps to Kan- 

He comes in the interest ol tho one ed with zinc min- 
ing As the Massachusetts i nd metals and ;i^ a 
rial ch ' his >ought as an expert. Prof. 
* is a cousin Mrs. B. W. Woodward ol Lawren< 
widow of the la 4 rinton Woodward well known for his fine 
nd artistic t. The Woodward home is one of the 
picturesque in historic Lawrence, situated more 
than half way up Mi. * h ad, cl • r the shadow of the 
I Kansas and the nearest residence to the University 
At his home Mr. Woodward had made a collect! 
fine p; intings by the best artists of both continents, and tl 
allerj attractii : Lawrenc On some oc- 
ns it is thrown op< n to the public especially when Dniver- 
ather crowds o angers when ticki I admi - 
•i arc is; This was done .'it the late ceremonies at the 
inauguration of Chancellor Strong", at which IV tit Ben - 
min Ide Wheeler of the University of California wa 

in the October Ne\* This gall is well w< ing. 

There are of course larger public collections, but it may 
doubted if ther many prival ollections of higher merit, 

and this is the opinion of belter judges than this writer. 

-*^ -*fc - ^— * ** -  
• -^  -^ . -^» . ^fc> 

As a part of this issu it a pled r subscriptions to 

a fund for sending P - or soiu  one else to investi- 

further the English r< arding the Kimball family 

in Great Britian. has been done be- 

•e but not v tematically. .Many promises have been 

made to the N and not to those ; tiled. This led to 

■.fusion and it 1 : thought best to begin anew and to 

k that separate conditional pie signed and forwarded 

where thi until the req 1 amount 

00 is insured. If that sum is not readied n 11 will be 

m; If it is reached, then another single pledge of $100 ad- 

ditional is promised. Several subscriptions of $25 each were 
formerly made and many others of less amounts. Another 
pledge of $50 has recently been made. Additional pledges will 
be sent by letter if needed in order to preserve uniformity. Let 
the cousins speak, all at once if they will. 

CORRECTIONS. 

Page 550, Kara. Hist., No. Vm— iii. Daniel Whipple 
Brown should be Dana Kimball Brown. He is the grandson of 
Sylvester Dana Kimball and lives in Manchester, N. H. The 
family never lived in Bradford. 



November 1902. 167 



NOT A RANDOM RECORD. 

On page 159 of the last issue of the News. Dennison J. 
Kimball's name may be found near the bottom. Dennison 
Johnson Kimball lives in Lowell, Mass. He is the son of 
Aaron and Deborah (Quinby) Kimball. The Family History, 
p. 594, says he was born at Grafton, X. H., Oct. 10, 1827, m. 
Sept. 24, 1854, Sophia Queen probably Quinby I Coburn. Den- 
nison Kimball is of the third generation descent from Abraham, 
(Hist. p. 169 I and the editor of the News is of the fourth, 
I Fam. News p. 272, 1899, etc. 

The News has often tried to get more information concern- 
ing the descendants of Abraham but gets few and indefinite re- 
plii They are still numerous in New Hampshire, In Hopkin- 

t >n, Grafton, Enfield, Canaan, etc. There are many in 
Central Illinois southeast of Springfield, descendants of Smith 
i of Abraham, but the News has been unable to interest them 
in their family history. 



Cousin Sumner Kimball of Lovell, Maine writes that the 
apple crop is very line and that the Maine Baldwins will find 
buyers in the European Markets. It may be added that the 
Baldwin apple in the west is not what it is in the east. He 
also asks, k "How's coal, with you? We burn wood and plenty 
of it." Answer: Coal is up, and a few loads of good Maine 
maple wood and beech would be welcome. 



In a letter dated about the middle of November our Califor- 
nia cousin Roy T. Kimball of San Francisco seems disposed to 
boast of the Pacific Coast climate, saying-, "Our hills and fields 
are as £.reen as new grass can make them." The same is true 
of Kansas, and more than that, about the very time of Roy's ex- 
ultation, or a little later, the News editor's family were reveling 
in strawberry shortcake, from fresh berries grown in Kansas in 
open gardens, the second crop, such as were on sale generally at 
the fruit stores. 



James A. Kimball, a member of the Kansas Republican 
central committee and a friend c f Governor-elect Bailey, has re- 
signed his position with the H. D. Lee company at Salina, and 
the politicians at once slated him for a job under the incoming 
administration. Mr. Kimball's friends denied that he had any 
such aspirations, however, and he has now gone into another 
line of business by becoming president of a big wholesale con- 
fectionery company at Salina. 



Kimball Famih News, 



MARRIED. 

\ I i . wn 

On June 10, 1902, by Rev. B. N. Stone, Mr. Hors Sumner 
II, Me. and Mi Adeline Kimball Wiley 11 of 
jreburg, M Th remony was p med al the brid 

home in 1" urg Village, Me. 

This was a quiet hom< dding the parents and family 

mprising t he major part of 
in attendant 

on of John B. Kimball  . K. 

II., p. 1 No. 2447. The bride [also akin of the Kimballs] 

is .'i grandaugh Adeline Kimball 8 [from whom she v. 

nam< See K. F. II. p. 507, No. 1012- vi. Residence Lovell, 

Me. 

Further record her family i 

Joseph Wile} . (Adeline Kimba William*, William 6 , 
Richard 5 , Joseph 4 , Richard 8 , Thomas-', Richard 1 ) b. Oct. 2, 1 
in Fryeburg Me., m Oct. 11. 1863 in Chatham, N. II. Sarah 
M. Farington b Dec. 1, 1844 in Stow, Me., daughter of James 
and Deborah [Gordon] Farrington, residents of Stow, M ., 
[Grand parents were George Wiley b Jan. 31, 1790 and Eleanor 

Mr. Wiley and wife reside at Fryeburg Village, Me. Mr. 
Wiley i istant stage driver from the M. C. R. R. Station in 

Fryeburg to Lovell Me. 

[II/DREN 

i James Farrington Wile.? 10 b Nov. 8, L864 in Fryeburg, Me., m 
I)< . 34, I891in Fryeburg, Me. Anna Francena Weeks b 
July .'. 1867 in Fryebu ■.. dau of Eben F. and Serena 

Wiley Weeks, residents of Fryeburg, Me. They reside at 
Fryeburg Village. 

ii Joseph. Curtis Wiley 10 b Mar. 22, 1870 in Fryeburg, Me., m 
Feb. 4. 1893 in Fryeburg, Nettie May Dresser b Jnly 7, 
1877 in Stow, Me., daughter of Thomas F. and Aurette 
(Gordon) Dresser, residents of Stow. Me. Mr. Wiley re- 
des in Stow, M 

iii Ellen Charles Wiley 10 b .Ian. 21, 1872 in Fryeburg, Me., d May 
14. 1900. Married Feb. L 1893, in Fryeburg. Me., Albert 

L. Wiley b 1871 in Chatham. N. 11., son of Charles 

Wiley. 

iv Adeline Kimball Wiley 10 b Feb. 6, 1879 in Fryeburg, Me., m 
June 10. 1902 in Fryeburg Me., Horace Sumner Kimball 10 b 
Nov. 1, 1878 in Lovell. Me., son of John B. and Etta A. 
(Dresser) Kimball 9 — See K. F. EL, p. 1039, No. 2447. 

SUMNER KIMBALL, :?448. Lovell, Me. 
LEEDS-KIMBALL. 

At Lakewood, N. J., Nov. 19, 1902 in the Presbyterian 
church Miss Elizabeth White Wright Leeds, daughter of Mrs. 
William Bateman Leeds, was married to Mr. George Cook Kim- 



November, 1902. 169 



ball of Boston. The bride was given away bv her mother. 
Rev. Dr. C. H. MacClellan performed the ceremony, assisted by 
Rev. C. P. Butler. 

The bride wore white ivory satin trimmed with duchesse 
lace. Her veil was of point applique, an heirloom of the family, 
fastened by a crown of diamonds and pearls, a g'ift from her 
aunt, Mrs. J. P. Ducan. The bride was attended by Mrs. Allen 
Ledyard Lindley as matron of honor. The maid of honor was 
Miss Susan Murray, and the bridesmaids Misses Cornelia 
Schwartz, Lillian Baldwin, Amy L. and Jeanne B. Duncan. 

The best man was Mr. K. Nelson Kimball and the ushers 
Messrs Freeman A. Smith and Richard Rice Barrett of Boston, 
Wallace J. Childs, Roger O. Burton, Herbert Wallace Moses 
and D. Louis Schwartz. 

A large reception and wedding breakfast followed the cere- 
mony at the home of the bride's mother. The bride received 
gifts amounting in value to $50,000. 

The Boston guests included Mr. and Mrs. Harry Decker, 
Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Barrett and Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Kimball. 
The couple will be at home at 5317 5th ave., Pittsburg, after 
January 1. 

DEATHS. 

J. WRSLEV KIMBALL. 

Hon. J. Wesley Kimball of Newton ville, Mass., mayor in 
that city from 1884 to 1889, died suddenly about 9:30 o'clock on 
the evening of November 16, at his home, 73 Washington park, 
from heart failure. 

Mr. Kimball was a native of Athol and was a son of James 
M. Kimball. He was educated in the public schools and later 
at Leicester Academv. He went to Boston when a young man 
and secured a position in the Exchange Bank, from which he 
worked up to receiving teller. After leaving the bank he en- 
gaged in mercantile business becoming a senior member of the 
firm of Kimball, Lindsay & Peck. During the last eight or ten 
vears he had been connected with the leather clothing firm of 
Holmes & Kimball, at 146 Lincoln street, Boston. 

Mr. Kimball was about sixty-live years old, and had made 
Newtonville his home for about twenty-five years. He took an 
active interest in its public affairs and about 1880 was elected a 
member of the Common Council. After serving several years 
in this body he was elected to the office of alderman, represent- 
ing AVard 2, which embraces Newton ville. In 1883 he ran as a 
candidate for mayor on the citizens' ticket, and was elected, his 
term of office beginning in 1884 and he was successively- reelect- 
ed to the office from 1884 to 188^. He was the cnlv mavor who 
had been in office in Newton for over three years. He was a 



170 Kimball Family N 



meml N !| . th< ional Church 

aii' ral other local bodi< II> idow and one 

da 

'IT death o ; Lall i .1 1 gloom over 

1, where h( r his genial --"rial qualiti 

his ] and bu ii j and abilit v. 

lithe public buildings and squares throughout 

ton tr half-ma I in honor of Mayor Kimball. The 

4< 6, says he was a lawyer which he v. 

MRS. LI \ H. K f. 

A »v. 19, Mrs. Luella II. Kennett, aged 

John R. Kennett, died at her hoc ■run- of Front 

and Union rn in Bradford, M j 1, 1857, 

the daughter of William F. and Dorcas M. (Osgood Kimball. 

as by her first marriage, Herbert S. and G 
II. Durant. 



GETTING ON IX THE WORLD. 

A Moline, 111. paper a year ag nnounced: — 

"Plans arc being drawn for a new store and office building 

two stor Ligh at the southwest corner of Fifteenth street and 

urth avenue, Moline, to be erected by J. R. Kimball, owner 

of the ground. There is a ground space 75: for the building, 

which will be divided into three stores, one 25 feet wide for a 

thing store, the other two each 25 feet wide. The second 

ill lie made into offices, and that the site may not lose its 

reputation as a "photograph gallery," corner, quarters will be 

provided for a gallery that will be up-to-date and complete in 

every particular. The walls will be of pressed brick. There 

will be a cement floor in the basement, and a steam-heat plant 

will be introduced. Mr. Kimball may occupy a portion of the 

building himself. Architect Olof Z. Cervin is making- the plans, 

and the contract for the construction of the building- will be let 

in January." 

The cost of the building which was completed some time 
ago was 625,000 and the lots are valued at 320,000 more. 

At the late meeting- of the California Women's State Tem- 
perance Convention, Mrs. B. Sturtevant Peet of Stockton, Mrs. 
Maria Freeman Gray of San Francisco and Mrs. Grace M. Kim- 
ball of Oakland took active part. The Kimball women, it is 
agreeable to note, are usually solid on temperance and all other 
moral questions. 



November 1902. 171 



FROM ROGER WILLIAMS DOWN. 

Governor Charles Dean Kimball of Rhode Island, is a lineal 
descendant of Roger Williams who was banished from the 
Massachusetts colony in the early Puritan days, and made his 
way through the snow to a new asylum. The Providence 
Journal furnishes the following': — 

When, at the last anuual reunion of the descendants of 
Rog-er Williams, at Roger Williams Park, His Excellency 
Charles Dean Kimball was elected a member of the numerous 
and distinguished body of the Rogers Williams Association, the 
fact tha + the present Governor of these plantations was a lineal 
descendant of the founder thereof was for the first time made 
generally known. Indeed, Gov. Kimball himself had only re- 
cently become aware of it. or at least confident of it sufficiently 
to satisfy the eagle-eyed genealogical sharps, although a tradi- 
tion has been held in his generation that such was the fact. 
Still, traditions as to one's ancestors are often of very thin ice 
unless careful research has been made to verify them. Gov. 
Kimball himself says that he used to have an idea that he ,v as 
a descendant of General Nathaniel Grene, but found, rather to 
his disappointment, that he bears only a collateral relationship 
to Rhode Island's great military genius. The matter was easily 
traced, since it takes only two or three generations to get back 
to Gen. Greene. 

Gov. Kimball's descent from Roger Williams, however, is as 
plain as the proverbial pike staff. It is positive and easily 
checked back, and what is more, it is what might be called a 
double descent, since he is a great-great-great etc., son of a 
daughter of Roger, as well as ;l son of Roger. Probably few of 
the many descendants of the founders of the colony can boast of 
anything like that. But, in the sixth generation from Roger, 
it appears that a great-great-great-grandson and a great-great- 
great-granddaughter of Roger were made man and wife. The 
descendants of a son and of a daughter of Roger were thus 
united, and Gov. Kimball, in the ninth generation from Roger, 
is their great-grandson. Following are the two lines as they 
came down through the generations to be united in the sixth 
and to produce a Governor of the State, more than 260 year< 
after, in the ninth generation: 

Roger Williams 1 
Daniel Williams 2 

Peleg- Williams 

Silas "\Yilliams 4 

Thankful Williams" married Dean Kimball. 

Jarvis Kimball 6 son of Dean and Thankful i Williams) Kimball. 

Dean Kimball" 



172 Kimball Family N 



A gain :-^ 



9 K iiiil>:i]l s 
< harlefl I >• ;in K » r 1 1 ) »;» 1 1**. 

R< 'L r <-r "\"\" i 1 1 ; - i ms 1 

Merc j Williams 1 m Resolve Waterman. 

Their son Resolve Waterman* m Child Hannah 4 . 

Hannah Waterman 4 , dan of Resolve Waterman, m Samnel troi 

( hilil. Res< »i ve w ;i terma a 

Resolve Waterman Iron-, m child Phoel 

Phoebe [rons* m l>«;m Kimb»ll*. Child Emery 9 Kimball*. 
Emery Sheldon Kimball 8 , born Scituate, R. I.. March 21, L830, m 

N<>v. 22, 1854, Mary < harlotte Brings, >> Nov 22, 1832. Child 

Charles Dean Kimball 9 , b Sept. 13, 18W, m Nov. 24, 188s, 

1 ■, rt rnde ' Irenalfrh. 

While the records of the Roger Williams Association dis- 
close that some others of the Governors of the Colony under 
tin- charter were descendants <>! the founder of these Planta- 
tions, of which, indeed, he himself was one of the early Presi- 
dents it is believed that Gov. Kimball is the descendant, 
through all the generations, to be distinguished by becoming 
Chief Magistrate of the State, and the first Governor to have 
the distinction of being- a descendant of Rojrer. 

QUERIES. 



Who was the Abigail Kimball who married Nathaniel 
Frost born Jan. 23, 1774, son of John Frost born Aug. 15, 1736, 
married 1760, Margaret Nowell, died July 8, 1817, aged 71. 
John Frost was for many years a representative in the Massa- 
chusetts legislature, then a Senator, member of Executiye Coun- 
cil, Clerk of Courts and Register of Probate. He died at Eliot, 
Ve., July Kh 1800. 

John Frost's youngest child Mercy, sister of Nathaniel, 
married Edmund Kimball. 

Who was Joshua C. Kimball who married Lois Mary Lj ford 
Sept. 27, 1879, She was daughter of Calvin Lvford born Jan. 
4, 1823 at Woodbury, Vt., died Oct. 25, 1897, married 1st, Feb, 
23, 1856, Phylura A. Ball b Jan. 4, 1827, died Dec. 4, 1873, mar- 
ried 2nd Abbie Meader. Lived at Hardwick, Vt. 



Page 366, No. 675 — ii. Sarah or Sally Kimball s , Ebenezer 7 , 
Samuel 6 , Jonathan 5 , John 4 , John 8 , Henry 2 , Richard 1 ,] born Jan. 
31, 1810; died Nov. 10, 1884; married Newton, N. H., May 1854, 
[second wife] Washington Lyford born March 10, 1805 Epping, 
N. H., died May 11, 1878 Fremont, N. H., no children. By his 
first w4fe, Hannah Robinson, he had two children, George 
Washington and Riley Blake born in 1846 and 1848, respectively. 



November, 1902. 173 



DR. GLEN D. KIMBALL ELECTED. 

Dr. Glen D. Kimball of Marion, Ind. was elected represen- 
tative from Grant County at the late election. He is one of the 
descendants of Moses Kimball of whom the News has often 
given some information, the latest on page 152 of last number. 
Of him a late issue of the Marion Chronicle sajs: — 

"In all Grant county there is no more earnest or zealous 
worker in the interests of the county than G. D. Kimball. He 
is a republican of activity and earnestness. He has developed 
powers as a speaker which -command for him respect and appre- 
ciative hearing- everywhere. 

Dr. Kimball is not an old man. He went to school in Mar- 
ion in the early days of his residence here. His family is an 
old one in the community, and one honored here and elsewhere. 
The gentleman here sketched has won a place in an exalted pro- 
fession. He is the personal friend of the laboring- man and en- 
ters the home of toil on missions of good by nig-ht and day. He 
has endeared himself to many in this way and throug-h his 
hearty manner and cheery demeanor; through his g-ood fellow- 
ship and sterling integrity he has secured general recognition. 
He is esteemed wherever he is known. 

As in business and professional life, and as in political 
work, Dr. Kimball will carry his abounding force and energy 
into the legislative halK. He will be eager to serve the people." 

Dr .Kimball is credited with this statement by the Indianap- 
olis News: 4i I will most likely indorse a bill to make the pure- 
food law effective. It appears to me that there should be some 
improvement made in regard to the care of the insane, but I do 
not know that I will introduce a bill in regard to it. I under- 
stand that a bill will be introduced in regard to prison labor. 
This will affect our count}', as we have a facton there that 
makes chains and has to compete with prison labor. 

' k I think legislative action this year should be toward 
making the laws we now have effective, instead of introducing 
others. I have no 'hobbies' to ride." 

Of another Dr. Kimball of the same family and the same 

city of Marion another number of the Chronicle says: — 

Dr. T. C. Kimball returned last evening from Neodasha, 
Kas., where he visited his mother, now well advanced in years, 
and other relatives. Dr. Kimball took a three weeks' vacation 
and returns much refreshed from his visit. He was in different 
parts of Kansas, Missouri and Indian Territory, and reports 
finding a prosperous people, who are satisfied with the present 
administration, and who will vote for the continuance of pros- 
perity. 



Kimball Family News, 



RANDOM RECORDS OH KIMBALL FOOT PRINTS. 

rhese imp rf< el ords are printed t.> assisl in the indentification of 
nnrt meml amily. Any one knowing any thing 1 of them 
Bhould write to Prof. Sharpies, ru Avenue Cambridge Mass. and 

in \ l US 

Martha J. Potter Kimball b Rowley L831 d Dec. 5, 183(5 Daughter of 

['erkins aud Mary P< >t ter. 
^Y ,11 b 1703 -I Nov, 29, 1 777. 

Child of Jonathan Kimball b d Au*. 27, 1 i 

I • Jacob Kimball b d Feb. 9, 1797. 

Moses Kimball d June I, L801. 

v. a- Kimball of tpswich Farms d Mar. 1748. 

Susanna Kimball daughter of Aaron d !>••'•. 1766. 

lawrenci m * 

B. Kimball b Holderness May 2, 1817. dJuly 1!. L890. m Abigail S. 
l",>ve !. Berwick Me. April 10, 1822. d Jan. 3, 1892 Chelmsford Ma 

( EILDR1 \ 

-l.i. 1846 d Sept. 13, 1886. m Elnora Millar. 
D E b Sept. 12, L849. 

 b Sept . 4. I860. Stowe Mass. 
I . -< . b L842 m Nov. 24. L880, Berman L. K now! ton of Lowell. 
1'. b Mar. 21, 1863 St<»we Mass. 
Kimball b Bollis Mass. m Ruby i ) b Minot Me. 

( IIIl.IiKK.V 

- d b Jan. 7. 1851. 

Annett M. b Oct. 18, 1853 d Jan. 14. 1855. 

A. Kimballbl848 m May 22, 1869 Hattie C. Alger 1851 
Benry P. b Sept. 12, 1869, d Feb. 28, 187J 

_.• 11. b Feb, 13, 1872, d June 27, 1872. 
Charles Kimball m Anna l I Child diaries b Dec. 31. 1894. 

Charles Kimball m Nettie ( | Frederick B. b Aug. 29, 1894. 

Frank Kimball b Canaan Nov. 29, 1876 ra Lovina ( ) b Wilmot N. H 

- m. Clarence W. b May G, 1671. m .June 25, 1891 Nettie Lillian Hovey" 

CHILDREN. 

Bertha, b Feb. 8, 1892 

Clarence b April 6, 1893. 

Clarence, b Aug. 29, 1894. 

Daniel Kimball b N. II. m Sarah ( ) b N. H. Son Myron W. b June 

.. 1891. 
Upton Kimball m Lizzie ( ) 

CHILDREN. 

Frederick b Feb. 12, 1893. 

Lizzie b Jan. 9, 1S91 Gloucester Mass. 

Frederick S. Kimball b N. Y. m Lizzie ( ) B. Lawrence. 

CHILDREN. 

Mary b Jan. 9. 1892. 
Albert J. b Dec. 1. 1894. 

Walter J. Kimball m Mary R. ( ) Child b April 27, 1881. 

George L. Kimball m Harriet ( ) Child Esther A. b May 1847 d Sept. 

10. 1847. 



November, 1902. 175 



- Quel Kimball m (Sarah ( ) Child Ella P. b Loudon X. H. June 9, 

1848, d July 7. 1851. 
Horace Kimball b Wells Me. m Mary ( ) b Plaistow Child M. Anne b 

June 15, 1841, d May 6, 1-74. 
Josiah Kimball m Elizabeth Beede Resided Holderness X. H. 

( irii.mtF.x. 

Jacob P. b May 2, 1-17. m Abigail S. 

Erasmus II b Sandwich X. II. m Nov. 11, 1849 Abigail S. Alg-er. 
Charles W. b Holderness m Feb 13, 1848, Elvira X. Alsrer. 
Andrew J. b Sandwich 1 vUJ d Lowell Sept. 14, 1854 

Marshall E. Kimball b Me m April 24, 1886, Annie M. Puckland. b Ohio. 



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CHILDBl 

Elmer b Oct. 24 1—7. 
Arthur b Aug. 1888. 

Frank Kimball m Emma ( ) Frank b Feb. 25, 1887. 

MAREIAi 

Emily J. (Flanders) Kimball b 1827 m April 25, 1856 William P>. Conner. 
Almira C. Kimball b 1831 Dau. of James and Mehitable ) b Holiis 

Me. m Dec. .'. 1852, Samuel M. Richardson. 
John Kimball m Nov, t, 18 Eliza A. Daw 
Nettie I). Kimball l> Wells Me. Dau. of Benjamin and Eunice ( )m 

Dec. lo. 1844 Arthur P. Cole. 
Caroline E Kimball m Dec. 5 : tepben J. Chase of Andover. 

Hermine Kimball (Wid I b Shapleigh Me. m Sept. 21, 1862 John H. Merrill 

of Harmony Me. 
Mary (Bickford) Kimball m June •.'■.'. 1865 Jasper Richardson of Woodstock 

Vermont. 
Charles Kimball b 1846, Biddeford Me. d Sent. 27, 1878. Son of John and 

Elizabeth | I Kimball m Aug. 25, 1868 Maria II. Hurd. 

en J. Kimball, m Sept. '.'•'» ,1871, John II. Morse 
Luella Kimball b 1853, m Dec. 23, 1871 Jacob Vater b 1849. 
Mary A. Kimball b Waterboro Me. Dau. of David m April 18, 1-74 Samuel 

II. Dill. 
Carrie Kimball b 1-."..") m April 25, 1875, Fred II. Daviv 
lb-ward P. Kimball b 1855 son of David and Delia of Maine m Oct. 23, 

1880 Lizzie F. Hill b 1853, anaan Me.) 

Willis X. Kimball b Boston, Mass. 1870, son of John E. and Mary m June 

7. 1890, Xellie A. Lyon. 

Elizabeth Kimball b Pucksport. Me.. 1822, d July 10, 1860, dau Abner and 

Mary Kimball. 
Eliza A. Kimball b Berwick. Me. 1843, d Aug-. 22, 1^7i. dau Ebenezer and 

Mary. 
Elizabeth Kimball b Sept. 19. 177*. d Oct. 8, 1871, uumarried, dau of Joseph 

and Susan 
Laura O. Kimball b July 1844. d Mar. 25, 1876, wife of ( I 

Hannah B. Kimball b July 1, 1805, d Feb. 19, 1883, dau. of Daniel and 

Elizabeth Kimball. 

LOWELL. MASS. 

John P. Kimball b 1828. m May 3. 1851, Irene C. Wil.iamson. b 1829. 
Susie D. Kimball b 1833. Waterford. Me., m Oct. 8. 1S53. Alvah George. 
Ann F. Kimball b 1831, dau. of Samuel and Mehitable Kimball of Pittsfield 

Maine, m Aug. 16, 1856, Samuel R. Kemp, b 1*31. 
Elizabeth A. Kimball b 1825, dau of Shubird and Hannah Kimball m May 

21, 1846, Ebenezer X. Partlett. b 1821. 



Kimball Family N< 

Am i; Kimball b of Thomas aod Rebecca b 1817, m Oct. 22, It 

II 17. 

! I Van Vpril 11. 1847, Daniel White l 1818. 

K imball m Ma r.. . -t . >n. 

il c K imball m Oct h Bich ford. 

Abigail S. K imball m N< William I . 

1 ii . l . l • - < .ilvin r. < hamberlain. 

i. Kimball b 1829, dau of Daniel and Mary, m So . Geoi 

P. I reach, b 182f 
Lucy A Kimball b 1837, dau of Elisha and Martha of Methuen, m Feb. '■'•■ 

I . John Barnard. 
Mar; 0. Kimball m April 22, 1861, Charles II. Syki 
John L. Kimball ra Sep1 22, 1847, Bet* ■■;• Brovi d 
Laura F. Hard) Kimball b 1838, dau of Tn J. and Zilpha Hurd, m 

81, l8i ael Putnam b 1812. 

Charles Kimball b 18 m of Charles and Jane, m Ocl 27, 1874. .Mary E. 

- 1) 18.' 
I pa Kimball b 1850, dauof Proctor and Ely Kimball, m July 3, It 

Richard Gove b 1842. 
James F. Kimball m Aug. 31, 1872, Lottie E. Edwards. 
Lucy A. Kimba 1 b 1837, dau of Daniel and Lucy, m Dec. 10, 1872, Jan 
'll Hulme b 1839. 

R Kimball dau of Rawson and Hannah, b 1857, m May 1. 1- 
Charles 0. Barr b 18! 
Rel Kimball b 1858, dan of David and Rachel of N. B . in Feb. 12, 1879 

Isaac B. Vose b 1853. 
Sfnstus Kimball son of David and Lydia Kimball, m Sept. 27, 1880, Mary 
A. Hani. 
Sarah A. Kimball b 1855, dau of William and Ellen Kimball of Vermont, m 

Dec. 19, L882, Howard D. Tarsey. 
Amelia L. Kimball b 1864, dan of David and Rachel Kimball, m Nov. 24, 

1886, David II. Newton. 
Emily C. (Fay) Kimball b 1824, Grantham, N. II.. dau of John and Sally 

Fay, m Sept. 9, l 391 < Jharles I Jooper. 
Addie M. Kimball b 1872 Witbrop, N. II.. dau of Sylvester and Jennie, m 
( ct. 9, I 390, I barles W. Delano. 
a Kimball b 1870, dau of .John S. and Luella, m Mar. 3, 1800, Antonio 

T. Barrows. 

Xulia M. Kimball b Albany . dan of Thorn;' G. and Maig-aret E., m 

Nov.  1, Adelpert P. Bryant. 

■:|1jX. II.. m N 3^7, Hannah Ridley b July 17, 1 

Wayne, Me., d Nov. 14. il. Ma 

Charles Kimball b Hillsboro, Nil. m .Minnie ( ) 

CHILDBEN 

Twins; Charles B. and Martha -T. b June 8, 181 

Herbert J. Kimball b N. B. 1 >n of David and Rachel, tn Anna E. Law 

b L859 Woo k, child Clayton Ray b Feb. 21, 1885. 

Lewis Kimball b 1845, N. S., son of Newell and Nancy, m May '■'>. 1879 
Martha E. Livingstone, b Tekesbury 1849. Children: Ceorg-e II. born 
b. 24, 1882, d Aug-. 17. 1882, Herbert b Nov. 23, 1883. 

Smith Kimball m Eliza M. ( ) b Dec. ?>\, 1819, d Aug. 16, 1844, son Ed- 
ward T. b July 24, 1844, d Aug. 16, 1844. 

LeDroit E. Kimball b Grafton, Me. 1844, m May 19, 1877, JtJmma Folder b 
51, d Feb 24, 1885, m 2v»d Myrta M. ( ) b Hartfoid, N. Y. Children 
Ernest b Dec. 12, 1878, d — . Boy b Dec. 24, 1888. 

Oliver J. Kimball b Mass. m Marv A. ( ) b Canada. Children; Minnie b 
Feb. 5, 1881, d Feb. 15, 1881, Bertie G. b Feb. 12, 1884. 






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DECEMBER, 1902. 



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Published by 

G. F. KIMBALL, 

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Utimball^ family uieios 

Vol. V, No. 12. G. F. KIMBALL, Publisher. Terms, $1.00 a year 

Topeka, Kansas, December, 1902. 

DR. EDWARD S. KIMBALL IS FAMOUS AS A 

VOCAL TEACHER. 

The Washing-ton (D. C.) Evening Star says his pupils 
make a success, and that he is known abroad for his excellent 
methods. In its Fiftieth Anniversary edition, December 16, 
the Star gives the following strong notice: — 

To the technical ability of Dr. Kimball as a physician is 
due to his skill in placing voices and restoring those injured by 
bad instruction or use. Several of the leading throat specialists 
in Washington. New York and Baltimore have studied with Dr. 
Kimball in order more thouroughly to understand the diseases 
of the throat and larynx peculiar to singers. He was invited to 
address the New York Homepathic Medical Society upon the 
special physiology and pathology of singing. Many public 
speakers, ministers and lawyers have studied voice production 
with him, and numerous priests have studied singing and the 
production of the voice in speaking, at his studio. When San- 
dow contemplated starring in an opera to be written for him as 
Samson he studied with Dr. Kimball and offered him flattering 
inducements to go to England that he might continue his 
studies. 

His work as a teacher has been to a great extent with 
professionals. Scarcely a week passes that does not find the 
principals of the opera companies playing in the city at his 
studio for lessons in voice production and st3^1e. Already a 
number of them have engaged lessons for the ensuing summer. 
This of course, neccessitates his spending his vacation in New 
York, and proves his popularity with this class of musicians. 

As musical director he traveled with the Zelda Seguin 
Opera Company, and was conductor of the Professional Orches- 
tra, the Apollo Club, the Philharmonic Society and the Madri- 
gal Club, all of this city, and of other orginizations here and in 
Baltimore, and was the originator of the Choral Society (men's 
voices) of this city. 

Dr. Kimball has been organist or choir director, or both, of 
more than a dozen of the churches of Washington. While in 
charge of the choirs of St. John's and St. Alovsius' churches he 



•7- December 1902. 



wrote a greal deal of their musi< An Agnus I K i. written some 
\. ars ago, is in constant use In m;m\ churches in England, and 
he has nearly completed .1 mass, which leading musicians here 
and abroad, who have heard the parts already written, urj 
him t<> finish. 

l)r. Kimball i 1 - well known to teachers abroad, both person- 
ally and through his pupils. He has the unqualified indorse- 
ment <>\ Mathide Marchesi, who has sent him pupils, and <>f 
Rosine Laborde, Calve's teacher, whowroteto him as follows: 

•'Dear Master: One of your pupils, Miss , has come to 

me for lessons. What I have particularly observed in her are 
her attack of tone, her precision and her respiration, the thn 
things most difficult to acquire, and which only a great master 
can teach. I am very happy to agree with you on these points, 
and I send you. with my compliments, all my felicitations. I 
have bad for a master the illustrious Piermarini and have tried 
to remember well his instructions in order to transmit them to 
my pupils, and I am happy to say I have succeeded with some 
of them, who are now l \n carriere;" Calve, Delma and Mercy, 
now engaged at the Theater Comique to create the part of Cin- 
derella. 

' k ROSINE LABORDE, 

"Teacher of Sing-ing-, Paris." 

Anions the opera singers who have studied w T ith him are 
the following - : 

Georg-e Annand, Charles Arling-, Melville Baker, Marie 
Barna, Blanche Stone-Barton, Josephine Bartlett, Frank Baxter, 
Edith Bradford, Frank Belcher, Frank Bernard, Louis Cassa- 
vant, Kate Condon, Bessie Ccnwell, Taylor Cronin, G. B. Cun- 
ning-ham, Tom Daniel, Georg-e Denham, Campbell Donald, 
Arthur Earnest, Amelia Fields, Nellie Follis, Viola Pratt 
Gillette, Bettina Girard, Joseph Goudreault, Caroline Hamil- 
ton. Daisy Hamlin, George Head, Mrs. Jack Henderson, Edwin 
HorT. Harry Hug-hes, Clara Bell Jerome, Minnie La Rue, Maude 
L^ekley, Homer Lind, William McDonald, Lizzie Macnichol, 
Antoinette Martin, E. S. Metcalf, Frances Miller, Chauncy Al- 
cott, Salina Otis, Albert Parr, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pearson, 
Mabel Pierson, R. S. Pig-g-ott, Jack Raffael, E. Leon Rains, 
Adele Rafter, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rushworth, Zelda Seg-uin, 
Lillian Seville, William G. Stewart, Harriet Strakosch, Cora 
Suters, Charles J. Swickard, Bessie Tannehill, Will Weeden, 
Estelle Wentworth, Celeste Wynne and Samuel Young. 

More than three hundred of his pupils are or have been be- 
fore the public in the capacity of opera, oratorio and concert 
sing-ers, opera and stag-e manag-ers, directors of musical institu- 
tions, organists and teachers, and many of the leading- church 
sing-ers in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and other cities, 



Kimball Family News, 17 9 

and a majority of the leading- singers of Washington of the 
past twenty-five years have studied with him. 

The Washington Capital of October 25. has this mention of 

Dr. Kimball's daughter Mary who had then recently returned 

from her usually annuil visit to Europe for study and recreation. 

The Capital also contains a fine half tone oval portrait that the 

News would be glad to reproduce. It shows that Miss Mary 

has wonderful speaking - eyes. The paper says: — 

Miss Mary Kimball and Miss Alice Burbage have both re- 
turned from their summer wanderings and study. They went 
aboad tog-ether early in the season and stayed for some time in 
the north of Italy on one of the Italian lakes, studying with 
Madame Teresa Carreno. They did not return tog-ether, Miss 
Kimball having come back several weeks ago and Mi>>s Burbage 
returded on the kk Grosse Kurfuerst" last week. Miss Burbaere 
traveled a little after leaving Italy, visiting in Paris, London 
and Oxford. Miss Kimball spent her time in study. Madame 
Carreno was most encouraging in her praise of her tk God-given 
touch, ,, as ^she expressed it, and her line musical sentiment. 
Miss Kimball is at the Portner for the winter, where her parents 
have taken apartments. She will g-ive several recitals this sea- 
son, and one, at least, with Mrs. Hornier. 

Dr. Edward S. Kimball, Hist. p. 740 i is a son of the ven- 
erable John H. Kimball, p. 427, now nearly 92 years old and 
who is an uncle of Gen. Sumner I. Kimball, superintendent of 
the United States Life Saving Service. 

Dr. Edward and Gen. Sumner I. are nephews of the late 
Abigail Kimball Garvin who died March 2, 1900, aged over 104 
years, notice of whose death, with portrait, may be found 
in the News for that month. Our venerable cousin has been 
quite ill. 

It would seem that we ought to have more information re- 
garding this reallv celebrated family of Nathaniel and Mary 
Home Kimball (No. 373.) Of their eight sons six are well lo- 
cated, while of Samuel it is only said that he went to Kentucky. 
That is quite as much as was said of the daughter Abigail, who 
married James Garvin, and who left many descendants. News 
Apr. 1898, Dec. 1898. Mar. 1900. Then there are others of the 
family who have but a line in the History, as instance, Grace 
Xeilburh Kimball daughter of Richard merely mentioned as 
Missionary to Turkey. Hist. p. 423, News p 370, 1899. After 
she was forbidden by the Sultan to return to Turkey, she was 
for some years assistant physician at Vassar College. 



Deo mber 1902. 



SUSAN SAWYER KIMBALL KIMBALL. 
History, Pag 

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DIED l\ SM.i.lv. .. DEC. 19, L902. 

In S m, Mass., al the home of her son, the abo revered 
in. • and cousin has passed through the portals to reo 
th< ard of ;i noble i Ihristian lit 

She belonged to the Haverhill branch of the family, the 
tead where her ancestors lived for many generations 
ing in North Haverhill afterwards known as Plaistow. Her 
indfather Nathaniel Kimball No. 59S 3erved as an officer in 
the Revolution. Her father the Hon. John S. Kimball (No, 
1231) moved to Belfast, Maine where for many years he was 
a prominent merchant and a member of the Massachusetts leg- 
Lture in 1819 and of the Maine Stat.' senate when that state 
was separated from Massachusetts. He served on the gover- 
nor's council and held many positions of trust. 

Mrs. Kimball was educated in Belfast, Portland and 

rlestown seminary. In 1839 on December 24 she married 
her cousin Major Edward Dearborn Kimball No. 2033 one of 
the old merchant's of Salem engaged in the African trade with 
his brother-in-law, Mr. Miller and others and in the East India 
trade with his cousins Franklin and Gordon Reed. He died in 
Paris 1867. 

Three sons and an adopted daughter constituted the family 
whom one married son Franklin i No. 2 5 1 * » survives. 

Mrs. Kimball for some years has lived a quiet retired life 
but <>ne of beautiful christian consistency. Her character was 
one of perfect faith and love and her years were spent in acts of 
charity and sympathy. 

She had the love and respect of all who came in close con- 
tact with her and a host of friends will deeply mourn her loss. 



Herbert Wood Kimball, Registrar of the Massachusetts 
Society of the Sons of the American Revolution was one of a 
•nmittee that led that Society on an excursion to celebrate the 
124th anniversary of the battle of Rhode Island. 



Mr. and Mrs. Alber E. Stevenson spend their summers at 
their summer home at Thornton, Mich., and their winters in 
Chicago. Mrs. Stevenson was formerely Susan Sanborn Kim- 
ball, daughter of the late John S. Kimball one of the pioneers 
of St. Clair county Michigan. The Stevenson farm is a part of 
the original Kimball farm. 



Kimball Family News, 181 



THE KIMBALL RESEARCH FUND. 

The pledges for the Research Fund sent out last month, 
have been returned very promptly. They amounted to over 
$200, the first week, and to some of them were added, "will in- 
crease this amount if necessary." 

All old pledges made by letter some months ago, will of 
course be considered cancelled by new pledges. No one dollar 
pledges, and none for less than $5.00 have been received. 

On the part of some +here seems to be a delicacy about sub- 
scribing for $1.00 or even S3. (>0. This really ought not to be. 
It will be the small sums that help. Not every one can be ex- 
pected to give S5.00 or even $1.00. There is one pledge of $100, 
another of $50, and another of $25, and these are doubtless less 
burdensome to the subscribers than are many $5.00 and $1.00 
pledges. No one can be expected to give more than he feels 
able, and many are able who have no interest in it and give 
nothing. This pledge system seems to be the most popular as 
it is certainly the simplest and most easily handled. It is hoped 
that all who feel so disposed will respond promptly so that with- 
in one or two months the whole • pledged sum <will be raised. 
Of course no call will be made for subscriptions until the full 
amount of $500 is pledged, and when this sum is reached we 
have promise of $100 more from another cousin. A liberal re- 
sponse from all willing to contribute in small amounts will 
easily bring a total of at least $800. 

Fears are expressed that the steamship Pentagoet which 
left New York late in November for Bangor, Me., has been lost. 
She had no passengers but a crew of 17 men. The vessel was 
built for George H. Kimball and has been in the coasting trade. 

The New-England Historical and Genealogical Register, 
Boston, Mass., for Jan. 1903 says: The Kimball Family News, 
being supplemental to Kimball Family History. Vol. 5, Nos. 
6-10. Topeka, Kansas. These numbers continue the custom- 
ary and excellent work of the Kimball periodical. 

This "customary and excellent work' 5 may be greatly ad- 
vanced if members of the family would take more interest in 
the work by extending its circulation and affording information. 
Why will not more of them awake to this simple fact. Even- 
week brings requests for sample copies from those who have 
heard of, or have seen the News, and too often this is the last 
heard from them. Others tell of errors in the History but fail 
to give necessary corrections. 



Deo mber 1902. 



A CORRE< TI< »N. 

Mr-. . Lei and Angevin I di . Kansas asks for a 

tion and incidentally gives some information not found in 
the ! [i story. le writ. 

Within the lasl b I have seen a copy of the genealogy 
Kimball Family. 

i Mi it gives Eleazer Leland born 1819; son of Cy- 

and an<l Betsy Kimball as miner, farmer, trader; n 

i < Ottawa, Ills. 

In justice to of the best men ilia* ever lived, I, his 
much beloved ni< i ad adopted daughter, regret the informa- 
tion was inaccurate and would like to have it corrected if any 
an ditions are published. 

He went to California in \<V> around Cape Horn and again 
in 1852, overland accompanied by his youngest brother, Par- 
d >n Kimball Leland; after returning was a business man in Mil- 
waukee moving in 1864 to Ottawa, Ills., where he resided until 
his death in In the book- one would understand he was a 

miner in Ottawa; there are only coal miners near Ottawa and as 
the miners are all foreigners and uneducated you will see why 
I would wish it corrected tor he was anything but an uneduca- 
ted man. He was of an exceedingly retiring disposition and 
ter moving to Ottawa never resumed business occupying him- 
: with hi- garden and living economically on his income; and 
a- to his being a trader he never traded anything in his life, 1 
don't believe even the proverbial jack knife. 

He made but very few friends as but few knew him outside 
of his many relatives, but was held in the utmost respect by the 
mmunity in which he lived. 

He died in 1886 sincerelv mourned by every one who knew 
him. Very truly yours, 

JULIA LELAND AXGEYIXE. 

MRS. CHARLES H. AXGEXINE. 

QUERY — Who was John Orcrway who was a sergeant in 
Lewis and Clark's famous expedition to the Pacific Coast in 
1804 — 6. He was from Hebron, X. H., and during - the expedi- 
tion wrote to Stephen Ordway, Dumbarton, X. H., mentioning 
his si>ter Betsey. After the return he went to Washing-ton 
with Lewis and Clark, and returning- to St. Louis, was allotted 
acres of land. Going- back to X. H., he married and settled on 
his lands at or near New Madrid, Mo. Who can g"ive informa- 
tion regarding his or his father's family? The editor of the 
Xews belongs to the Xew Hampshire Ordway family on his 
mother's side. 



Kimball Family News, IS 






WEAR A SMILE. 
When everything- goes all askew. 

And the world seems upside down. 
And the evil dcrs are gabbling- 
'Xough to drive you out of town. 
Wear a smile. 

Smile your brightest, smile your best. 

Speak kindliest, brightest words of cheer. 
Keep back the angry sharp retcrt, 

Keep back the dark rebellious saeer, 
Wear a smile. 

Despised, despise not in return. 

Return good to thy evil foe. 
Heap "coals of fire"* upon his head 

By returning good for ill. you know* 
All the while 

It aught you've said and meaning well 
Is misconstrued and lost from sight, 

Arid if your kindly motives fail 
To do the good they promised, quite. 
Wear a smile 

Smile your brightest, and your best. 

Speak kindliest, brightest words of cheer'. 
Keep back the angry thoughts that rise, 

Keep back the dark desparing tear. 
All the while. 

Ali. view the rainbow through the mist. 

See the sweet sunbeams reaching down. 
See all of good through seeming ill. 

And change to smiles the darkest frown. 
Then wear a smile 

Jennie E. Snow Kimball. 



Rollin H. Kimball, grandson of that friendly friend and 
generous cousin Roll in Hibbard Kimball whose death was 
noticed in issue for May. 1901, and whose interesting- history 
was given in previous numbers, is now principal of the hig-h 
school at Fitzpatrick, Ga. He expects to make the law his pro- 
fession. 

Duran Kimball's Shorthand Advocate seems to be growing- 
more and more popular. Those contemplating- the study of 
stenography will find it most helpful. While his school is in 
Chicag-o, he publishes his mag-azine from his country home at 
Downers Grove, Illinois. His system of Shorthand is so simp 1 e 
and so easily learned that it has been introduced in man)" public 
schools. 



Prof. S. P. Sharpies has moved .his office from 13 Broad 
Street, Boston to 26 Broad Street. 



December 1902. 



MARY'S LAMB AT SCHOOL. 
It was Miss Pollj Kimball who turned Mary'9 "Little 
Lamb" out of school. A recent dispatch from Sterling", Mass. 

s;t \ s; — 

Tin- school made famous because «»t "Mary*8 Little Lamb' 1 

has ;i t last ixv<»ni< .1 Me< ca for curious pilgrims, parties coming 
here almost every week, visiting both the sv1k.<»] and Mary's 
home. 

The institution of learning is now called tin- Redstone 
- hool house, and at tin- present time lias seventeen pupils. It 

was there that Mary Sawyer attended s ( h«»<»l and tin- incident 
happened suggested to the author the poem. 

The original building has been t<>rn down, hut across the 
road from the redstone school, which now stand- on the site, ;i 
little building has been erected which is a perfect reproduction 
of the original schoolhous 

The Mary in the poem was Mary K. Sawyer until she mar- 
ried Columbus Tyler. 

The author of the verses was John Roulstone, who was 
seventeen years old at the time he penned them. 

The teacher who "turned him out*' hecause "it was against 
the rule" was Miss Polly Kimball. 

Who can place this Polly Kimball, out of the forty named 
in the History. 

Many years ago it was said that these verses, so popular 
with the children, were written by Mrs. Sarah J. Hale for 
many years editor of Godey's Lady's Book. 

AX OLD SCHOOLBOY. 

The oid schoolboys of Boston have an association. It is 23 
} ears old and the other day they had a banquet. It was held 
at Young's Hotel because they all felt so young. The oldest 
boy present was 91 but there is one chap three years older who 
was not present. Ten of the liveliest were from 85 to 90 and 
they were about as hilarious and mischievous as school boys us- 
ually are. Herbert W. Kimball is secretary and treasurer of 
the association. He belongs to the infant class being not quite 
63 years old I see No. 1672; and because he has learned to write 
a plain hand, while some of them still make pot hooks. Many of 
these boys are said to be older than they look, and many of them 
remember the old Roman Language. One of their speakers de- 
clared that one of the greatest needs of the country in these 
days are full-sized men. Much is to be hoped from the Boston 
Old Schoolboy's Associations. Full sized men will grow out of 
it. When we feel sure of a real need, it is half rilled. We are 
truly glad there is a Kimball in it. 



Kimball Family News, 185 

HONORING A VETERAN TEACHER. 
On October 17, 1902, a reception was given in K. of P. Hall 

at East Hiram, Me. to the Rev. Madison K. Mabry of North 
Turner Bridge, by persons in Hiram, and neighboring- towns, 
who have been pupils in his 100 terms of school, including his 
several terms as preceptor of Limerick Academy. 

He served one term as county supervisor of schools in York 
county, and for vears as superintending school committee or 
supervisor in Hiram, giving the best efforts of his best years to 
the cause of the common schools. 

The date selected was his 78th birthday. It was impossible 
to obtain the names of all his pupils and impracticable to slight 
any, hence a general public invitation was extended. 

Mr. Mabry's birthplace is on the hillside northeast of East 
Hiram village. He was the son of the late Thomas and Han- 
nah Kimball Mabry, and a grandson of Capt. Josiah Mabry, an 
early settler of Hiram. Mr. Mabry is a pensioner, having 
served as lieutenant in Co. K, 17th Maine Regiment. 

Hannah Kimball was the second daughter of Jesse, No. 812 
and is not mentioned as having any children, while her sister 
Louisa who married Arthur True is said to have a son Cyrus 
living in California who has a large family. Do any of our 
California cousins know of them? 

THE KIMBALL BLUES. 
Some of our cousins write about having the "Kimball 
Blues." Now that is a weakness, if not a disease, that has been 
known to be chronic in some branches of the family. It is a 
fearful ailing but not often fatal. It may not be pleasant to 
know it is constitutional in the family from away back, but 
it may be interesting as a matter of heredity. The expression, 
Kimball Blues has a familiar sound. One can almost hear it 
even when it is only written. Is it quite general at this day? 

The Bullentin, ( official organ of the Callamore Family) 
desires to exchange with similar leaflets and publications. It 
is published at 1006 F. Street, Washington D. C. by N. L. 
Collamer. Miss Young of 119 Walnut Street, Neponset, Mass. 
is the Registrar of the Union. Elijah Kimball No. 1673, mar- 
ried Delia N. Collamore, and his son Everett by first wife, mar- 
ried Lucy M. Collamore, Sept. 12, 1883. The Collamers and 
Collamores are doubtless of the same family. 

Charles L. Kimball is a member of the California Board of 
Managers Sons of V e American Revolution. 



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I), cember, 1902. 



MARRIED, 

At the home of her parents December 1 v . a1 four o'clock, Id 
Marion, Indiana, Miss Mabel Flinn and Mr. Walter Wallace 
Ford, the Rev. Madison Swadener officiating*. Mrs. Nesmitb 
played the wedding marcfa from Lohengrin, and the bride-groom, 
and the officiating clergyman descended the stairwa They 
re followed by the bride with her father, who gave her away. 
The home was beautifully decorated for th< casion. The 
idea of Christmas prevailed in all the decorations, holly and 
evergreen being u^d in abundance. The long stair-case in the 
fr<»nt hall was festooned with evergreen, smilax and holly, and 
a large bunch of stnilax and holly, thick with red berries, was 
tied t<» thenewel post with a large bow of white ribbon. 

The south side of the hark parlor was hanked with palms 
and greenery, and the bridal party stood before this while the 
ceremony was performed. The chandelier was twined with 
smilax and evergreen, and festoons of berried holly adorned the 
lar^v fireplace. The bride wore a beautiful gown of crepe de 
chine. The bodice and skirt was elaborately trimmed with 
Point Duch esse lace. She wore a handsome cresent of pearls, a 
gift from the bride-groqm, and her boquet was a shower of 
Bride's rosesi Congratulations followed, after which an ele- 
gant dinner was served. 

This marriage unites two of Marion's most worthy young 
people. Mrs. Ford is a charming young- woman and her grand- 
father. C. J. Boots, is one of Grant county's pioneers. It was he 
who planned the city of Marion and for whom that residence 
street. "Boots street,'' was named. Previous to Mrs. Ford's 
residence here her home was at Converse, Ind. Walter W. 
Ford is the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace W. Ford of 
Wabash county, and are among its most prominent and best 
people. At present Mr. Ford is engaged in newspaper work 
and is recognized as a leader in the profession. Mr. and Mrs. 
Ford left last evening for St. Louis, Mo., and after Jan. 15 will 
be at home at 1314 South Boots street in their own home. 

Besides the Marion Kimballs and Flinns present there were 
Mr. and Mrs. Finley Kimball of Brooklyn, N Y. Altogether 
there were over one hundred relatives and friends who attended 
the wedding. 

Y i?s Hattie Kimball of Hebron, X. H. is spending the win- 
ter in Florida. 

Burt D. Cady, Port Huron, was elected prosecuting attorney 
for St. Clair county on the Republican ticket. It was not the 
first time. 



Kimball Family News, 187 

MORE OF PETER KIMBALL'S DIARY. 

Capt. Peter Kimball had a habit of keeping a diary. Years 
before he fought at Be nni tig-ton, and while a soldier in the 
provincial service at Bradford, Mass., he kept a Journal to 
which he gave the Title: "Peter Kimball, His Book, March ye 
4 A. D., 1760, A Journal of the time, X. W. O. 

This Journal has recently been unearthed, or discovered in 
the attic of the home of his grandchildren in Milford, X. H. 
It consists of some fifty pages of manuscript. This Journal has 
been furnished the News by his grandxm J. Hoyt Kimball, and 
will appear in future numbers of the News, commencing- with 
January 1903. 

At this time Peter Kimball was 20 years old. He enlisted 
under Lieut. Jonathan Foster. This journal covers eight 
months service and will be g-iven as written words and spelling-. 



R. R. KIMBALL, GOLF CHAMPIOX. 

An Omaha Dispatch of Oct. 4. to the Chicag-o Record says 

it was only after a fast and exciting- twenty-hole match with 
AYarreii Dickinson of Des Moines that R. R. Kimball of Omaha 
won the Transmi-sissippi golf tournament. The regulation 
eighteen holes left the players for the chief honors of the tour- 
ney "even up." and it was a poor drive by Dickinson that lost 
him the match. Kimball and Dickinson, as winner and runner- 
up of the tourney, will be the leaders next year of the eighteen 
men whom the Transmississipi Golf Association will choose to 
represent it against an equal number of players from the Wes- 
tern Golf Association. R. R. Kimball has been playing golf 
for three years at the Country Club, Omaha. Hist. p. 490, Xo. 
987— iv. 

W. L. Darbee of Saugerties, X. Y. writes that he thinks he 
belongs to the Kimball crowd. He asks for the Kimball News 
but does not mention his ancestors. The News for July and 
August, 1900, gave an extended list of the descendants of Levi 
Kimball, Xo. 186. This record covers 18 pages of the News 
and covers a great number of families, the Darbees included. 
But the record comes only down to 1860, and the families have 
largely increased since then. Our cousin W. L., belongs to a 
younger generation. There seems to be a woeful lack of inter- 
est in keeping up the record of the younger Kimballs. If only 
— if only this could be kept complete in the News, which was 
intended for that purpose, what an immense amount of time and 
labor would be saved the editor of next edition of the Kimball 
Family History when the time comes for its publication. 



December, 1' 



DEATH I >F PR< >F. M< >RRIS< >N. 

The Boston Herald ol Dec. 16. 1902. contains the following 

which is all the Information concerning the end of a useful life 

thai has a >me to hand. 

■•'I'll. Hon. Leonard A. Morrison, a well known local his- 
torian, died at his home in Derry, N. II. on Sunday ag"ed nearly 
He was a native of Windham, N. II.. where he resided un- 
til three years ago. His published works, about 2<> in all, are 
largely historical and genealogical. Mr. Morrison had been 
ich in public life, and beside filling all town offices had repre- 
ated Windham in the Legislature, and also served one term 
in the State Senate." 

We have very little later than the Kimball Family History 
concerning the life and work of this good man. The News 
readers of course know of him principally throug*h his author- 
ship, in connection with Prof. Sharpies, of the Kimball Family 
History. But he was the author of many books a list of which 
may be found on page 363 of the NEWS for 1 ( »<>1. Mr. Morrison 
was a careful and pains-taking writer. He took a deep intercut 
in historical and genealogical studies, was fond of the higher 
class of general literature. In poetry, especially Scottish poet- 
ry, he took delight. His travels took him to various lands, and 
his visits to Scotland, Ireland and England resulted in books of 

Rambles Abroad. Prof. Morrison has been an invalid for sev- 
eral years. We shall deeply mourn the loss of this genial 
helpful cousin. 

DEATHS. 

EASTMAN. 

Jonathan Eastman, son of Jonathan Kimball Eastman, a 
veteran traveling salesman of Portland, died at his home at 201 
High st., Thursday Dec, 4, 1902, aged 72 years and 7 months. 
Mr. Eastman had been employed for nearly a quarter of a cen- 
tury for the Nathan Wood Company. He leaves a widow, a 
daughter, Miss Ruth Eastman, and a son Harry G. Eastman. 
Family History page 926, No. 2071. 

JOSEPH SMITH. 

In Lovell, Me., July 1, 1902, Joseph Smith, aged 64 years. 
He was a life long resident of Lovell, and one of the most re- 
spected citizens. His illness was long and painful. He married 
Casanda Keniston, a granddaughter of Nancy Kimball. In the 
Family History her name is given as Cassadana, page 822. 
She is generally called Cassie. Thomas Smith married Delia, 
an older sister. 



Kimball Family News, 189 

PERSONAL. 

Miss Gertrude Kimball went from Yarmouth. Me. early in 
October to Salem, Mass. to attend the wedding- of her aunt Miss 
Bessie Kimball to Mr. Forrest Prescott and that is all that the 
News has learned about the wedding. 

Paul Kimball, the 16-year-old son of ex-Senator C. H. Kim- 
ball of Parsons, Kansas, had his leg- broken in a game of foot 
ball recently. He is a member of the high school team, and 
was playing a practice game with a picked eleven. Neither 
side had been able to score and in an heroic effort at a touch- 
down, a mixup occurred in which bis leg was broken. 

''Marion Douglas" has written another volume of verse, en- 
titled, Days We Remember", published by Richard G. Badger, of 
Boston. Marion Douglas is the pen-name of Mrs. Annie Doug- 
las Robinson, daughter of William and Harriet (Kimball) 
Green. History No. 1091 vi, page 551. 

What a nest of Kimball doctors there are in and 
around Marion, Ind., descendants of Moses Kimball of whom 
the News has had much to say. The latest is Dr. Orla M. 
Flinn, dentist, whose mother is ? sister of Dr. A. D. and Dr. T. 
C. Kimball. Their neice Miss Mabell Louise Flinn married W. 
W. Ford as announced elsewhere in this number of the News. 

J. C. Kimball of Princeton, Ind. writes that he has a his- 
tory of the Kimball family going back to 1432. He does not 
state further what it is and offers to send the News a copy. If 
he has something in the way of manuscript different from what 
is generally known, the News would be glad to see it. There are 
in existence traditional sketches of family history but many of 
them are traditional only. 

Uncle %i Jarvis" B. Bard well of Shellburne Falls Mass., was 
LOO years old January 1, 1901. His line runs through Edward 
and Sarah [Kimball] Allen back to Richard the immigrant 
Kimball. 



The News wishes to hear from all those who want the same 
for 1903, as early as possible whether they 5end their subscrip- 
tion money or not, so that we have an idea of the demand for it. 
Of course the January number will be sent to all present sub- 
scribers, but it is a help to know about how many extras to print, 
to meet the probable demand, and to reserve for binding. 



190 December, 1902. 



RANDOM RECORDS OR KIMBALL FOOT PRIMS. 

rhese iui|" Is are printed to assisl in the indentification of 

unrecorded members of th< family. Any one kn< any thing of them 

should write to Prof. Sharph i on cord ^venne Cambridge Mass. and 

nut t<> the Ni ■• a 

William C. Kimball b May 18, 1856, Bon of Joseph l». and Elizabeth | m 
April 20, i - - averley b 1855, daughter of Roberl C. Caverly; 

he u;iv in the clothing business id Fitchbnrg, Mass 

( 1 1 1 1 i • i ; i N 
Anna Beryl b Oct. 29, 188 
Ray Putnam b Jan 15, 1885. 

1 b April 1. 1887, d May 21, L888 
Hazel b Nov. 26, 1889. 

Joseph l» Kimball b June 11, 1827, son of John and Sarah of Haverhill, N' 
u . in Elizabeth J. Brown b July 22, L828. 

( II II OKF.N 

Charles '■". Kimball b Sept. 15, 1853, m Ella Spofford, child Alice M. Kim- 
ball b May 3, 1876. 
William Clarence i» May 18, l v 56; see above, 
ra Eva b Mar. 21, 1858. 

John M. Kimball b 1811; in 1845, Rosanna Hall b 1815; son John James 

Monroe Kimball b May 10, 1847. 

-.in ]•:. Kimball m Abbie J. Keller; dan Vandalia E. b July 13, 1863, d 
1885. 
Benjamin Kimball m Abby ( ): son Benjamin I-', b May 7. 1848. 

John S. Kimball m Hannah | I; their son Charles \V. b 1838, m Oct. 29, 

1885 Elizabeth Johnson b 1849. 
William H. Kimball m Oct 9, 1847 at Norwich. Conn.. Abbie P. Barnes; 

their son George William Kimball b April 13, 1849, m Mar. 20, 1869 

Jennie P. Kimball; dan of David and Marv J. Kimball of Maidstone, 

Vt. 
Nathaniel E. Kimball b Mass, m Betsey G. ( ) b W. Newbury: dau 

Cynthia E. b Feb. 6, 1851. 
D. W. Kimball and S. A. ( |; dau Marv J. b Franklin. N. H.. May 20, 

1850. d May 21. 1857. 
Charles W Kimball b Sept. 1816, Medford. Mass. d Feb. 28, 1883: son of 

Abieland Nancy ( Kimball m Sarah F. Howe b 1816. d Sept. 10, 

1887. m 2nd Nov 21, 1878, Emily Fay Crane b 1S24: she m 3rd Sept. 9, 

1801. Charles Cooper. 

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Harriet A. b Sept. 8. 1852, d Aug-. 20. 1853. 

Sarah E. b 1850, m Jan. 14. 1871, Albro M. Wilson, m 2nd Sept. 30, 1875, 
George Chase. 

Charles G. Kimball b Holderness, m Fannie M. ( ) b Portland. Me.; 

son Charles b Nov. .". 1857. 
John Kimball b Bradford. N. II. m Louisa b Andover, Mass.: son Amos b 

Aug-. 25, 1 860, 
David Kimball b Mass.. m Emma ( | b New York: son David b Get. 18, 

1880. 
Elijah Kimball m Ann ( |; child b Dec. 18, 1871 

Frederiek Kimball b England, m Agnes L. ( ) b England; dau 

Louisa K. b May 23. 1872. 
Seldon W. Kimball >> Cornville. Me.: son of Levi and Elizabeth (Dolloff) 

Kimball, m Jan. 2G. 1870. Sarah J. Peters b Blue Hill Me. 



Kimball Family News, 19 1 



CHILDREN. 

Eliza May b April 3, 1878, d Nov. 22. 1883. Billerica, Mass. 

Ada Maria b June 14, 1882, Billerica. 

Son b April 26, 1883. Billerica. 

Frances b Nov. 14. 1886, Chelmsford, Mass. 

Alson Walton b May 17. 1887, d May 31. 1888. 

Effie Estelle b April 11, 1888. 

Alson Walton b Nov. 6, 1890. 

Eva b Oct. 14, 1893. 

Levi Kimball b Canaan, Me., m Elizabeth Dolloff. 

CHILDREN 

Addie m Forrest Goodwin. 

Angie. 

Ida b Feb. 27, 1856, m May 8, 1876, Charles Purrington of Calais. Me. 

Daniel D. b 1852. m Nov. 17, 1875, Lucy A. Pray b 1855; children, Leon 

Francis b Sept. 18, 1882, d Dec. 31, 1883, Lillie E. b Aug-. 7, 1881. 
Seldon W. (see above ) 

Betsey (Richardson) Kimball b July 1815, d March 9. 1888. m Ira Kimbal 1 

of Manchester, N H: she was the daughter of Nathaniel and Sally 

Richardson. 
Henrietta Kimball b Jan. 16, 1890, d July 24, 1890; daughter of Duption 

and Lizzie (McAvoy) Kimball 
Elizabeth Kimball b Mar. 28, 1800, Lisbon, Ct., d May 12, 1893; dau of As- 

her and Elizabeth. 
Caroline T. Kimball b Goffstown, N U Mar 1808, d April 5, 1846. 
Charles H. Kimball b Shrewsbury. June 6, 1847, d Mar 24, 1849. 
Mary F. (Hays) Kimball b April 26, 1815, Saco, Me., d April 29, 1852; dau 

of David and Dorothy Hays. 
Sarah Kimball b Salem Sept 2, 1824, d Juty 12, 1852; dau of Thomas and 

Mehitable Toplady. 
Franklin L. Kimball b Feb 1852, d Aug. 21, 1852; son of Andrew and Mary 

P. 
Anna Kimball b Haverhill. N H, October 28, 1796, d Jan 17, 1854; dau of 

Joseph Kelley. 
Mira M. KiinbaH"b Aug 1849, Manchester, N H, d teb 2, 1856; dau of Bax- 
ter R. and Mary A. Kimball. 
Mary Kimball b July 1788, Tewksbury, Mass. d May 3, 1861; daughter of 

Charles and Margaret 
Laura A. Kimball b Nov 20, 1817, Litchfield, d Mar 14, 1862; dau of Porter 

and Betsey. 
Clarissa Kimball b May 9. 1801, d Mar 22, 1870. 
Mary Kimball b 1799. d Mar 28, 1870. 
Sarah ( ) Kimball b Feb 11, 1794, d Aug 29, 1870. 

Mary (Ray) Kimball b Mar 26, 1846, d Feb 26, 1879. 
George E. Kimball b Dec 8, 1856, d Sept 24, 1882; son of William and 

Lizzie. 
Frances b Dover. i\ r H, April 1792, d Feb 11, 1885; wife of William. 
David R. Kimball b 1817. d Jan. 9, 1851. 
Caroline Kimball b Mar 30, 1830. Portland, Me., d July 7, 1887; dau of 

Joseph and Jemima Kimball. 

LEE, MASS. 

Alonzo Kimball m Sarah ( ); son b May 7, 1843. 

LEOMINSTER, MASS. 

Henry H. Kimball b Ipswi&i;.Mja«s m Viola ( ); dau b Aug 17, 1856. 

B. A. Kimball m Josophine. rxi'Mina Laura b June 23, 1893. 



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be Lance j ' Kimball b Montague 1807, <1 Sept 24, 1883; bod of Samuel 

K iml all. 

LBZIlfOTOlf, MAM 

Eliza J. Kimball b Jane 30, 1874, d April 10, 1863; wife oi i Kimball. 

I UNI Mil RG M ^ M, 

Polly Kfmball m •inn.- 30, 1791, Zimrl Sherwin. 

Betsey Kimball m Mar .' amuel Martin. 

Joshua Kimbal] ra about 1700, Ban nab Parker Cleaves and went to Can' 

a<la 

Polly (Goodredge) Kimball i> 1785, <1 Aug 26, 1862. 

Eliza \ Gould Kimball b Nov 28, 1806, d Nov 28, 1890; wife of Robert Kim- 
ball; dan of Sampson and Betsey Gould. 

I. II li» TON, M \ -- 

ihraim Kimball m Feb 18, 1770 Mrs. Mary Sar telle. 
Mary II Kimball m April 29, 1845, Augustus R. Porter. 
KSdward R. Kimball in Prances A. Bnrgoyne b Bath. Me. 

W. Kimball b 1789, d May 5, 1867. 

LYNN. MASS 

Josie II. (Gennon) Kimball b Brunswick, Me, m April 28, 1879, (ieorge I' 

I !ass 
Josiah D. Kimball b Boston, m Elizabeth ( i: dau Fannie b Dec 19, 

1855. 

William II. Kimball m Jan 22, 1856, Margaret A. Oliver. 
Abraham Kimball m Sept 27, 1802, Betsey Clertby. 

William Kimball m July 21, 1857, Jane Dexter. 

Martha Ellen Kimball m May -".». 1858, John H. Hussey. 

Joanna E. Kimball b 1844, m Sept 4. l 862, Lewis Brown b 1843. 

Flattie Augusta Kimball m Oct 11. 1863, Charles Coobroth. 

Harriet E. Kimball m Ang 4. 1864, William B. Eolwell. 

-arab L. Kimball b 1862, m April 10. 1880, Orrison Ballou b 1831. 

Ella E. Kimball b Belfast, Me 1861; daa of Andrew and Abby E. Kimball. 

m Oct 3, 188 James I" Wentworth. 
Mary (Hebor) Kimball b 1838 m October 25, 1880 Charles EL Mosher b 1848. 
M. Lizzie Kimball b 1867, daughter William and Mary A., m April 28, 188 

Ered L. Noyes b 1862. 
George W. Kimball b Lewiston. Me.. 1861, son of George W. and Susan P. 

Kimball, m August :.'."». 1886 Eleanor I'. Bartlett b 1862. 
Hannah L. Kimball b Boston, December 14. 1862, George Seelev. 
Emma F. (Roberts Kimball b 1858, Dover. X. II.. m Sept 29, 1887, William 

Foss b Haverhill. Mass.. 1-94. 
W. P. Kimball b Me . m Ellen ( ) b Sweden, daughter b Jan 30, 1888. 

Lertha Kimball b 1870, m Jan. 12, 1--- Henry S. Wilson b 1807. 
George A. Kimball b N. H. Son of Hazen and Hannah Kimball, m May 

31. 1890, Henrietta E. Dow. 
Mary C. Kimball b 18*7 Daughter Ab-aham and Susan ('.. m January 

23, 1893, Sewel H. Hasty b 1840. 
Rachel (Lowe) Kimball b April 1801. d December 15, 1879. 
Rebecca Kimball b I'elham. X. H. 1801 d June 9. 1867. 
Lydia A. (Winn) Kimball b Saugus 1-17 d Decemb3r 19, 1891. Daughter 

Joshua and Temperance (Alley) Winn 
Delia Kimball b May 7. 1838, d April' 22, 1892. 

Jesse Kimbail b Berwick Me . November 10. 1799 d Brookfield. X. H. Jan- 
uary 29, 1-49. m LVJ4 Betsey Ross b October 26, 1793 d November 

9, 1-79. Will proved January 5, 1880. 



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LEONARD A. MORRISON. 

The death of Prof. Morrison was announced last month. 
Since then we have received a cop}' of his home paper. The 
Derry News, giving - some particulars which we give herewith. 

Probably the best history of Mr. Morrison is to be found in 
the sketch of his life given in the Kimball Family History in 
connection w T ith his own introduction to the History, of which 
he was a co-editor. This Family History is now in more than 
a thousand Kimball families, but a small proportion of the 
present readers of the News, as singular as this may appear, 
are owners of the Family History, and to these a further sketch 
of Prof. Mcrrison will be welcome. The News says: 

Hon. Leonard Allison Morrison, the historian and writer, died 
at his home in Derry Village last Sunday morning. He had 
suffered for some eight years from the effects of a stroke of 
paralysis and was able to get about with difficulty. For a few 
weeks past he had been unusually feeble and the last few davs 
of bis life sank rapidly. 

Leonard Allison Morrison was a son of the late Jeremiah 
Morrison and a descendant of the early settlers of the town of 
Windham. He was born in Windham, Feb. 21, 1843. He re- 
ceived his early education in his native town, in the Lnion 
school, Gowanda, Cattaraugus county, Nev York and at the New 
Hampshire Conference seminary at Tilton. The education re- 
ceived thus was well supplemented by personal study and a con- 
tinuous application to books and works by the best authors. 

Mr. ?Jorrison never married, but lived with his parents till 
they passed away. His brothers and sisters, with the exception 
of one sister, died when he was quite young and thus the burden 
of caring for the parents fell upon him. He never allowed them 
to want for anything, but with the kindness and affection of a 
faithful son tenderly cared for them till the last. One sister, 
Mrs. Park of Maine, survives him. 

Mr. Morrison early evinced a great fondness for reading and 
for many years took books from the public library in Lawrence 
Mass. He became interested in historical and g-enealog-ical 



1«»4 January. 1903. 



works and soon turned his attention to thai department of lit- 
erary employment. He published over twenty books, most <>f 
them histories. Among* the number may be mentioned u T-he 
History of Windham," "The History oi the Morrisons," "The 
History of the Sinclair Family "Rambles in Europ 
"History and Proceedings of the Celebration of the One Hun- 
dretb and Fiftieth anniversary of the Settlement of Windham," 
"History of the Dinsmore Family," "Among the Scotch-Irish," 
"History of the Kimball Family," Poems ol Robert Dinsmore, 
- If Styled the Rustic Bard," el  

He was given many plac< - oi honor and trust by his towns- 
peopl He was selectman for a number of years; was represen- 
tative to the Legislature; waschairman of the town Republican 
committee; a justice of the peace; enumerator of the census, 
was a moderator a number of years, and for a number of years 
was a correspondent and writer for a number <>f newspapers. 
Mr. Morrison continued his literary work till he was stricken 
down by disease and often thereafter would attempt to write, and 
often gave interesting articles to the newspapers. 

Mr. Morrison lived till 1900 upon the paternal farm, which 
was laid out in 1728 by the Rev. James MacGregor, the first min- 
ister in Londonderry. This farm was owned and occupied by 
his great grandfather, Lieut. Samuel Morrison, and by his 
grandfather and his father. 

Two years ago last spring Mr. Morrison sold the old place, 
as he was altogether too feeble to care for it longer. He bought 
a place in Derry Village, adjoining the farm of W. W. Poor, and 
lived there the remainder of his days, being tenderly cared for 
by his niece, Miss Mabelle Park and her aunt, Miss Louise Park 
of Maine, who has been his faithful housekeeper for several 
years. 

Interment was in the family lot in the old burying ground 
at the head of Windham Range, "a bleak and wind loved spot" 
in winter, but in summer, "where green grasses tremble in the 
breezes and the warm sunshine calls forth the flowers," where 
rest the members of five generations of his race. 



C. G. Kimball has a store at Derry, N. H., the home of the 
late Prof. Morrison. 

C. H. Kimball, late state senator, of Parsons, Kansas, is 
around the lobby of the legislature trying to get a bill through 
dividing his county court so as to get alternate sittings at Par- 
sons and Oswego, the county seat. Parsons is a great railroad 
center and the.- most important town in the county and Senator 
Kimball one of its most stirring citizens. 



Kimball Family News, 195 



THEIR GOLDEN WEDDINGS. 

A Boston Globe dispatch from Franklin, N. H., dated Jan. 1, 
1903, says: 

New Year's day was an eyent of more thin ordinary interest 
at the home of Mr and Mrs Lendall N. Johnson, Webster street, 
where Mrs Johnson's father and mother, Mr and Mrs Joseph D. 
Kimball of Fitchburg. Mass. celebrated their golden wedding 
anniversary. 

Mrs Kimball, who is a daughter of Mrs Betsey Brown, one of 
the oldes f women in Franklin, was called here by her mother's 
illness. Mrs Brown at 95 has had an attack of pneumonia, but 
is getting well, so that her illness did not mar the celebration. 

Joseph Dearborn Kimball and Elizabeth Jane Brown were 
united in marriage at Manchester, NH, by Rev Thomas M. Lath- 
am, a Methodist divine. Mr and Mrs Kimball settled in Lowell, 
Mass. both attending the Methodist church until it disbanded 
and then joining the Free Will Baptist church in Paige street. 
Their names are still upon its membership roll. 

Mr Kimball wentto Lowell from Franklin in 1847 and went in- 
to the grocery business with Eaton & Wilkins in Salem Street. 
Later he was with R. K.Kunals at the corner of Merrimac and 
Race sts, where he remained for more than 25 years, he was al- 
so in the employ of O.B.Ranlett tor a time. On March 6, 1881, 
he entered the employ of C. I. Hood A: Co as traveling a^ent, 
going to New York city the following November and remaining 
in their employ until April, 1900. 

Since then Mr Kimball has not been in active business. He 
has spent a part of the time in Fitchburg with a son and a part 
at Franklin with his daughter. 

Mr and Mrs Kimball have three children, Charles Edger Kim- 
ball, Hying in Cambridge; William Clarence Kimball, who is in 
the clothing business in Fitchburg; and Clara Kimball, now Mrs 
L, N. Johnson of this city. 

There are four grandchildren. Alice M.Kimball, daughter of 
Charles Kimball, and Beryl A. Wray, P. and Hazel, children of 
William Kimball. 

Mr Kimball has been a member of Veritas lodge 49, I. O. O. 
F., of Lowell, Mass. for more than 40 years. 

The Chicago Tribune of Oct., 2, l r K>2, has this notice of 
another golden wedding. 

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Bradley Kimball reached the fiftieth an" 
niyersary of their marriage today, and haye been residents of 
Chicago for the last thirty-eight years, coming from Lawrence, 
Mass. Mr Kimball was born in Holderness, N. H.. Jan. 16, 
1824, and his wife in Blue Hill, Me., Aug. 15, 1830. The family 



January, 1903. 



circle 19 complete, and tbe three sons and a daughter, with their 
families, are with Mr. and Mrs. Kimball. Theyare Samuel II. 
Kimball of Oak Park, ArthurS. Kimball o1 Boston, Mass., Mrs. 
Harry Dudlej French of Chicago, and Ernest M. Kimball of 
Winnetka. A family dinner was given last evening at the resi- 
dence, Seventy-fourth street. 



A PROUD FATHER. 

Albert Burney Kimball of the Scandia, Kansas, Journal 
his as proud of the one son as of the two daughters. He is 

of the Manhattan 1. ranch of the family. See History page 940, 
NEWS January 1900. 

A sun arrived at the home of the editor Friday. January 16. 
in time for early breakfast. Inasmuch as his mother had had 
him named for several years he did not come into the world 
nameless, but answered at once to the cognomen John Melville. 
He is the fourth generation of the family in Kans;i~> and the 
name John occurs in each. He is the only male representative 
in the Kansas branch of the tenth generation of the family in 
Anurica. Needless to say he was cordially welcomed and at 
once made himself as much at home as a kitten under a warm 
stove. 



BEBRON, N. H.. CHURCH. 

The year 1901 this town celebrated the centennial of the erection of the 
'•ongregaiional ehurch. The little village of Hebron is situated on the 
west side of Newfound lake. About one-thiri is in Hebron with Sugar 
Loaf and Hear hill on the south shore and Bridgewater and Kidder hill 
on the north shore. There are many summer cottages built alon^ the 
lake now and in the spring after the ice goes out the fishermen have a 
busy time for a month or two. catching the fine salmon, pickerel, or trout 
that are found there in abundance. 

The meeting house was built in 1801 by citizens of the town without re- 
gard to denomination. Most of the people of Hebron and Groton were ei- 
ther Baptists or Congregationalists. For many years each sect occupied 
the pulpit one-half of the time, but later the Methodists supplied a min- 
ister part of the time. 

About all of the church-going people in the southern part helped build 
the church and many of them owned pews in it : and the people from 
Kimball hill to Groton corner attended there. .lost ph Kimball. Messrs. 
Elliot. Crosby. Ross, and from the other road, toward Groton town house 
Phelps. Coburn. Buelh Cheneys, and others all attended the Hebron 
church. 

On Tenney hill, north of the village, lived the Ordways. Win. and Na- 
thaniel Ball.' Deacon Crosby, and others. They had large flocks of sheep, 
cattle and horses and everything looked prosperous. Howis it now? Not 
a family living on the hill", though some of the building are standing and 
some have gone to decay. 



Kimball Family News, 197 



SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES TO FAMILY HISTORY. 

Page 589. No 1183. Freeman Kimball 7 should be Truman. He 
married Hannah (not Anna* L. Brown. 

CHILDREN. 

1993 i Samuel Swett. 
1994 ii Sylvester Edson 
1994a iii Betsey B., married Dennison mot DeDiiise) Bur- 
roughs, 
iv Drusilla B. 
v Eliza Ann. married John Stark Burroughs. 

Three other children died young as stated in the 
History. 

Page 899. 1993. Samuel Swett Kimball 8 i Truman' not Freeman 
Richard f; Reuben"', Jeremiah 4 . Davids, Benjamin 2 ,Richard l . ) 
Born Andover N. H. Jan. 27. 1821; died San Jose, Cal.. 
Dec 14, 1895. (not Grantville, Kans., May 5,1892); mar- 
ried Margaret Ann Crecy Mitchell. 

CHILDREN. 

2503 i Julia Frances 9 , married ^Yilliam Schults. 
2503 a ii Adelia Eiiza. married Theodore Williams. 

iii James Hall. b. Milton. Mass., Dec. 18. 1849: d. 

RoL—rs. 111. July ■!?,. 1873. 
iv Etta Hannah, b. Blackburn, 111. June 20, 1854; m. 
Sept. 14. 1872, James A. Lester. Grantville, 
v Carrie Josephine, b. Blackburn, 111.. June 1, 1857; 
m. July •.'.!. 1877, Chandler Walworth of West- 
port, s. D. 

Page 900. No. 1994. Sylvester Edson Kimball 8 Truman" Rich- 
ard 6 , Reuben 5 , Jeremiah 4 , David; Benjamin-'. Richard 1 .; 
He lives in Mountain View. Cal. See Historv. 

1994 a Betsy B. KimbalT. (Truman 7 , Richard 6 , Reubens Jere- 
miah 4 , David 3 , Benjamin 2 , Richard 1 .) born Sali^burv. N. 
H., 1819: d. Sept. 25. 1869; m. Sept 5. 185J, Dennison 
Burroughs, not Dennise). 

CHILDREN. 

i Sidney Kimball Burroughs 9 . b. Angr. 12, 1861; m- 
Oct. 23, 1901, Sarah Whaley. b. Nov. 18, 1872' 
Child: Marjorie, b. Grantville. Kan. Nov. 11. 1902- 
ii Edgar D. Burroughs'*', b. Apiil 19. 1863; m. March 
18, 1896, May Enochs. Child : Betsey Nell. b. 
Grantville. Kans.. Dec. 18, 1896. 
iii Sherman T. Burroughs 9 , b. Ford county. 111.. April 
9. 1864; m. Oklahoma. Jan. 13. 1894, Livina D. 
McCall. b. Nov. 17. 1873. Live in Grantville, 111. 
Children: I Mabel, b. Oct. 12. 1894. 2 Robert D.. 
b. May 26. 1896. 3 Truman, b. Oct. 31, 1898. 

Page 1056. Xo. 2503 Julia Francis Kimball I Samuel Swett 8 , 
Truman 7 , Richards, Reuben 5 , Jeremiah 4 , David 3 , Benja- 
min 2 , Richard 1 . > born Dartmouth Mass. Dec. 21, 1845; 
married Dec. 25, 1864. William Schults. born, Feb. 23, 



January, 1"' 



1835, died North Topeka, Aug. 12. I Lived in Grant- 

ville Kans. She now lives in North Topeka. 

i Fred ^ Schults, b. Franklin Grove, III. Sept. 15, 
L865; «l Nov. 5, l 894. 
04 a ii Charles Kimball Sennits, b. Blue Island, 111. Oc- 

tob< r 9, I8( 
<\ b iii < arrie Nellie Schults, b. Blue Island, 111.. Novem- 
ber 11, 18 
iv Willi.- Schults, i'. Blue Island, III. Feb. 29, 18 
d. Jan. 28, 1873. 
04 •■ v Frank Edson sdmlt^. l». Blue Island, III . (>.-i«.1mt 
5, 181 
2604 d viDKittie Mabel s.-hults. b. Blue Island, 111 Mar. \. 1876 
vii Minnie May Schults, b. St. John, K'ansis. Aug. •'.. 
i-7'.t. married Aug. 30, 1900, Thomas II. Terry. 
Child : Thomas, b. Aug. 28, L901, <1. July :'.. L9( 

Page 1056 No. 2503 a. Adelia Eliza Kimball 9 . (Samuel Swett 8 , 

Truman 7 etc.) b<»rn Lubec, Me., May 1. 1847; married 
March <>. 1872, Theodore Williams of Topeka, Kans. Mrs. 

William^ has been in the Topeka Insane asylum for sev- 
eral years. 

i iin.niii \ 

i Clarence B. Williams, b. February 7, L873; d. Feb- 
ruary '■>. 1^7.'». 
ii Lottie M. Williams, b. Oct. 19, 1-71: m. William E. 

Porter, 
iii Albert L. Will ams, b. Brentwood. 111.; d. February 

19, 1893. 
iv Arthur B. Williams, b. Topeka. Kansas. January 4, 

1881; d. August 8, 1881. 
v Katie Williams, b. Topeka. Kansas Nov 8, 1888 

Adopted by McBoberts and now lives in 

Pittsburg. Kansas 
vi Josephine Williams, b. Topeka. January 1. 1892; 

died young". 

Page 1080 No. 2604 a. Charles Kimball Schults 10 , (Julia Frances 

Kimball*, Samuel S s . Truman', etc) born Blue Island 111. 
Oct. 9, 1865; married Feb. 2. 1894. Delora Coffman, born 
Feb 22.1877. 

CHILDREN". 

i Lillie Pearl Schults, born Grantville. Kansas, Sep- 
tember 3. 1894. 
ii Kittie May Schults. b. Grantville, Feb. 12, 1885. 
iii Julia Edna Schults. b. Grantville, Oct. 17. 1899 
iv w illiam hiarl Schults b. Grantville. Jan. 24. 1900. 
v Myrtle C. Schults. b. North Tooeka, Kansas, May 
1, 1901. 

2604 b Carrie Nellie Schults 10 , (Julia Frances 4 , Samuel S 8 . Tru- 
man 7 etc.) born Blue Island 111. Nov 11, 1869 married Dec 



Kimball Family News, 199 

25, 1890, Harry Arthur Johnson, born July 22, 1869. 

CHILDREN. 

i Edith May Johnson, b Grantville. Kan. Nov 16, 1891 
ii Harry Edson Johnson, b Newman. Kan. Jan. 31. 

L894, d. Feb. 4. 1895. 
iii Bessie Ruth Johnson, b. Grantville. Sept. 21, 1896. 
iv Arthur Robert Johnson, b. North Topeka. Kansas. 

July 30, L899. 
v Earnest Floyd Johnson, b. North Topeka. Kansas. 
Sept. 27, 1902. 

2604 c Frank Edson Schults, 1 ' Julia Frances Kimball 9 Samuel 
S". Truman 7 ect. | born Blue Island, 111., Oct 5, 1873, 
married, March 31, 1899 Adella May Horning - . 

< iiii.d. 

Grace R. Schults, b. Grantville. Kan. Nov. 26, 1899. 

2604 d Kitty Mabel Schultsi". I Julia Frances Kimball y , Samuel 
S 8 , Truman" etc. > born. Blue Island. 111. March 4, 1876; 
married Nov. 29, 1897, Marion Glynn, born 

< HELDBEN. 

i Leslie bay Glynn, b Grantville, Kans .July 29, 1898. 
ii boy Edson GlyDn, b Jan. 21, 1901. 



JULIUS H. KIMBALL. 

A Kenosha, Wis. dispatch says that Julius Henry Kimball, 
a pioneer and one of Kenosha's wealthiest citizens, died at his 
residence Monday morning-, Jan. 29. 1903, aged ^4 years. 

Mr. Kimball was almost the oldest of the pioneers. His fath- 
er settled here in 1836, took up a section of land and built a log 
house. His son followed him next year, coming to Milwaukee 
by boat and then staging to Southport. From then until the day 
of his death, he resided here and became wealthy, always keep- 
ing the home which his father erected to follow the old log house. 

In this house he liyed over 60 years, and it is a notable fact 
that it was never closed for the duties of hospitality during all 
that time. 

The News has had frequent mention of the deceased, and his 

yachting experience at his advanced age. 



The Rev. Clarence O. Kimball, formerly of Madison Co. 111. is 
now pastor of the La Junta, Col. Methodist church. 

The Massachusetts and neighboring Kimballs may tret to- 
gether in an Atlantic Family Association. With a little organ- 
ization there will be no trouble about that Historical Fund. 



2 K) January, 190 

THE ( >U>. ( >U> TRADITH >\\ 

Mr. J. C. Kimball of Priceton, [nd., sends .1 copy of the 
Lowell, Mass., Morning Mail, of date April 22. 1882. It con- 
tains an article entitled "The Kimball Family," which we 
frfve as follows: 

The following appeared in the Mail of Jan. 3rd, and 
ted so much attention among those interested that the edition 
ntaining it was soon exhausted. To satisfy frequent demands 
for the papers containing the article we republish it: 

-tain members of the Kimball family. <1<>wh the ri\ 
have become interested in tracing the lineage of their race, and 
although the family records are somewhat imperfect they arc 
quite successfully supplyingthe missing links that connect them 
with the distant past. Their ancestry lias been traced to 1474. 
when members ol this family lived in the County of Cumberland, 
England, where the etymon of the cognomen appears in the 
parish of Kimball. Some of the early worthies of this name 
distinguished themselves in the wars against the Moors, and 
were honored therefor by their king. The first Kim balls to 
settle in America were four brothers, who came t<» Massachu- 
setts, and for a time lived in the neighborhood of Bradford. 

In the course of the investigations that -are being- made 
there has been obtained from the herald's office in London the 
following- description of the family arms: 

'The arms are argent (silver), a lion rampant, omle.s (red). Upon a 
(sable) chief three crescents of or (gold). The crest is a lion rampant, 
holding in his dexter paw a dagger — au proper. Motto. Fort is nun Ferox. 

This may be translated: On a shield or escutcheon of 
silver is emblazoned a red lion standing on his hind leg's and 
pawing the air. On a broad black band across the upper part 
of the shield are three golden crescents. Both the "ramping- 
and roaring lion," and the dagger which he holds, forming- the 
crest, are of the natural color. The motto, "Strong not Fierce," 
explains in part the device. 

The Kimballs are to be congratulated on the success that 
has attended their commendable efforts, especially as they do 
not appear to be animated by the auri sacra fames that has 
tempted so many to very foolish proceedings in hopes of obtain- 
ing- some portion of vast imaginary unclaimed English estates. 

It will be seen that here we have the story of the light with 
the Moors, and the family located in the County of Cumberland, 
England. It would be interesting- to know the grounds for 
these traditions. It will be borne in mind that this publication 
was three years before the appearance of the Hon. John Kim- 



■-UBI 



Kimball Family News, '<- — 201 



J 



ball's History of his branch of the family, which we believe 
contained the first so called coat of arms printed in colors. 

This was obtained by the late Hon. William S. Kimball of 
Rochester, X. Y. also a descendant of Joseph Kimball 5 (John 4 , 
Caleb', Richard-, Richard'). How and where this coat of arms 
was obtained we do not know. But it will be observed that the 
description given above is the same as in both the John Kimball 
History and the more complete one by Messrs. Morrison and 
Sharpies. The statement that this coat of arms is to be found 
in the London College of Heraldry has been vigorously denied. 
The Kimball Family History, which is now, undoubtedly, 
the best authority we have, does not trace the family back to 
1474, nor to Cumberland County. The mention of this county 
seems to go hand in hand with the coat of arms. 

The John Kimball history seems to give some credence to 
the supposition that the name is of Scottish origin. It appears 
to the NEWS that there is a strong probability that the family 
may have been, if not Scotch, then of Welsh derivation. The 
Kimball History, it will be remembered, gives "Kvmboulde" as 
one form of the name a few centuries ago. It is quite natural 
to conclude that this is of Kymric derivation, and this coincides 
with the North of England, or Cumberland country tradition, 
for which Prof. Sharpies appears to have no use. 

Now it is partly to settle all these questions, and to ascer- 
tain what is family history and what is tradition, that the 
Kimball Historical Society is trying to raise a fund to send 
Prof. Sharpies to England. 

This ought to interest ever}' member of the family and is 
the purpose for which pledges have been sent out. The returns 
are so far encouraging. Small pledges are now coming in but 
more of the larger ones are desired. Whv should not every one 
be anxious to clear this atmosphere of uncertainty and so in- 
sure a clear record. Prof. Sharpies can do this if any one can. 
L3t us all help him. 



Kimballton is a town in Giles county, Virginia. There 
are many of the name in this state, descendants of pioneers who 
went there before the Revolutionary War. We have a very im- 
perfect record of them. There are others in West Virginia of 
later date of whom little is known. 



202 January 1903. 



WELLSBOR* >, PENNSYLVANIA. 

It is interesting 1 to pick up a local newspaper in a locality 
where there are members of the family, and the country is lull 
such localiti< We have a copy of the Wellsboro. Pa. Ag* 

itator, and Prom it clip the following items : 

Mrs. O. S. Kimball has been elected lecturer of the Westfield 
nge. 

Miss [da EL Kimball, after a long absence in Sault Ste. Ma- 
rie, Michigan, lias returned to Westfield to spend the remainder 
I he winter. 

Mr. A. C. Kimball, after several months, absence in Oregon, 
has returned to his home in Westfield township, but will soon, 

it is understood, go again to Oregon, where he his valuable 
land claims. 

Young" Con Brewer was landed in jail last Wednesday on a 

commitment from Justice O. S. Kimball, of Westfield. He is 
charged with having appropriated, on about Decembei 17th, 
$28, the property of Perry II. Sands. 

"Mr. William Kimball, who retires from the management of 
the county poorhouse and farm, has also served the people well. 

During the six years he has been at the head of the institution he 
has saved the taxpayers of the- county about $26,000 in the run- 
ning expenses compared with the record of any of his predeces- 
sors and the number of inmates has been steadily increasing. 
He has been kind, considerate and faithful to the wards of the 
county, and he will retire with the affectionate regard of all the 
inmates — and that is a good enough record when coupled with 
economy. Mr. Kimball will return to farming and lumbering on 
his 3,000 acre tract, lying in Richmond, Tioga and Middlebury 
townships. 

And still no mention is made in this number of Chester F. 
Kimball of AVellsboro, Pa. ' Hist p. 794) nor of his son Charles 
X. recently of Harvard College, now with the Glenn Coal Com- 
pany at Oceana West Virginia (Hist p. 796.) 



QUERY. 

OnChristmas day, Ethel Frances, daughter of Mr and Mrs F. 
P. Kimball of Macwahoc Me., was united in marriage to David 
Edwin Hayes, station agent at Bryant's Pond, Grand Trunk R. 
R., by the Rev. C. W. Stevens of " Kingman. Of what familv 
branch.? Thev will live at Brvant's Pond. 



Kimball Family News, 203 



ASA BURXHAM GARLAND. 

From the Portland, Me., Press.) 

Mr Asa Burnham Garland, the father of Secretary Garland 
of the Y. M. C. A. died Thursday. He was born in West Xewfield 
Me., Feb. 11, 1823. He was a son of Deacon John Garland who 
moved to Newfield one hundred years ago and died there in 1875. 
Asa Garland left home when he was eig-hteen years old and went 
to Lowell where an older brother was in business. In 1848 he 
went to Pennsylvania and became interested in railroads. In 
March 1851 he moved to Portland when the Atlantic and St. Law- 
rence railroad was being constructed and became connected with 
the bridge building department. When the road reached Island 
Pond Mr Garland took charge of the station there and occasion- 
ally ran trains as a conductor. He soon became a regular con- 
ductor and continued ?s such until 1893. He was in several 
railroad accidents and was lame for forty years in consequence 
of one. 

Mr Garland was married in August 1853, to Elsie M. Kimball, 
of Stratford, N. H. Four children were born to them, AnnaM., 
who died in 1892< George W., a shoe manufacturer of Brockton, 
Mass., John H., general manager of the Hastings Lumber Com- 
pany in Hastings, Me., and Edward T., the secretary of the Y. 
M. C. A. in Portland. 

Mrs Garland died Feb. VK 1897. Mr Garland moved to Port- 
land in December 1ST'), and was a member of Williston church 
but not connected with any fraternal organizations. After Mrs 
Garland's death he moved to Brockton and passed a few months 
there, returning to North Deering where he resided in the family 
of John A. Smith when he died. His brother was David Garland 
who was for thirty eight years the pastor of the Second Congre- 
gational church in Bethel and who dropped dead in his pulpit 
there fifteen years ago. 

Mr Garland was at one time representative to the Vermont 
legislature from Brighton and Island Pond and also was a mem- 
ber of the school board of Island Pond for a long time. 

Horace Sumner Kimball p. 168. Nov. News 1902.) sends two 
tine photos of Winter scenes in the Maine Woods, one showing 
a camp, and the other long piles of birch bolts cut for making 
spools and dowels. 

The editor of the News recalls that in his young days similar 
bolts of the black birch were cut and peeled, and then with a 
sharp knife thin shavings were cut from one end, and stripped 
off the whole length of the bolt. These fine thin ribbons or 
•'stoppings'* were then dried and used for making mattress fill- 
ings, as hair, excelsior, are now used. It was a considerable in- 
dustry in some localities for a number of years. 



January 190 



PETER KIMBALL HIS B< »< >K. 
March yi I v D I 
hi Bradford I Inlisted Under Leiut Jonathan !•'• Into the 

l 'r< wencia I Service 

A Joi RH M OF mm Tl MR 

\ w 

Bradford March yk i i . 

Tuesdaj I inlisted under Lieut Jonathan Foster a1 Chandlers to 
Luesbourg a cc — 

VVensday ye 5th [ Stayed al hom & l)ld Litel or no Work &a 

thirsday ye 6th 1 <li'l :i Litel work. 

frida th made :i Bread peal and went t.. Haverhill and fell <»f the 

horz a most Broak my Bak &cc [erased inorignal.J 

Satt ye 8 1 did no Work "t any not< 

- inday ye 9th I went to meting and heard Mr Parsons Preach I 

MoIIS. 

Monday ye LOth I went up to and over the riverand Past muster Be« 
 corl. - "1 & went Down to chandlers and So on. 

Tnsday the llth I went to Haverhill with Elyshet Hardy ami Bought 
2 yeards of wie 

Wensdayye l-th I cut wood in tin- forenoon & in the After noon I 
swongle '■', Pound of flacks for Nathaniel Woodman. 

Thirsday ye 1". I work in the forenoon ami in the After n ion I went 
Down to See the officers take their comra us. 

fryday ye 14th this was a very Plesant Day and at Evning .Joseph 
Mullicken Came to >ee me and 1 went Down to Cap Hardy s. 

Saterday ye 15th I helpt Lanch tin- Boat and Load hur this was a very 
Ld hay. 

S inday ye 16th this Being a vary Pleacent Day I went to meting- and 
heard Mr. Parsons Preach 2 Good Sermons Azccccc. 

Monday ye 17 Last night I went to Newbury With Elyshet Hardy 
and Daniel Kimball with a Boat Load of Wood this was a Very Cole Day 

Tusday ye 18th I did a Good Days Work and tusday night I went 
Down to Newbury Again with a nother Boat Load of wood 

Wensday ye 10 We came up to Dear Island and Dropt Anchor their 
Wensday Night we came hom : a very Stiff Wind Against us this trip 
Daniel Kimball & Edmond Hardy was with me. 

Thrsday ye 20 we Loaded the: Boat & 

fryday ye 21 We Went to Newbury. 

Saterday ye 22 this was a Very Cold Day Nothing Remar^abel this 
Day. 

Sunday ye 23: the Sno was A bout 4 or 5 Inches Deep and I went to 
meeting and heard Mr. Parsons Preach and Stehhen Peabody came home 
at noon with me. 

Monday 24th this was a Pleasant Day and I finisht Clabording the 
hous and went up to Ephraim Ptobinsons to Git Som Britches and he 
'-'roinisd to have them Don By fryday Night P. r. Tusday ye 2.". this was 



Kimball Family News, 205 



a Pleysent day & at Evining Joseph MulliKen came Long" and we went 
Down to John Carltons and hs was not a; home 

Wensday ye 26 this Was a Stormy Day and I Workt in the House 
and in the after noon Styphen Peabody & Joseph Mullicken & John Par- 
sons Came to see me 

Thursday ye 27 I went Down to Newbury with a Boat Load of Wood 
with Eliphelet Hardee and Benjn. Cole and Had a Very good time and 
came up as far as Arhngburg fery and Loged their this night. 

Fryday ye 28th We sett of from their at Day and got home A bout 11 
or 12 oclock. 

Saterday ye 29: Last night I Saw d With my Brother Richard at the 
mill and som of this Day then Went up to Ephraim Robinsons and got my 
Britches and Gave him a Doler for them. 

Sonday ye 30th I went to meting and heard Mr. HolyoaK Preach 2 
Good Sermons. 

Monday ye 31 I went to Haverhill and took the oath and was Sworn 
to be true to King George and to obey all my Good officers. 

April 3 T e 1 Tusda\- in the forenoon I finished a Chist ali But the Lid 
and in the after noon J Drove Plow for Daniel and Richard Peabody came 
to See us 

Wensday ye 2 this was a Plesant Day and I workt upon a Chest for 
Eliphelet Kimball. No. B 1760 

thirsday ye 3 this vas fast Day and Mr. Parsons Read a Breaf for a 
Conteribution to make up the Loss that Boston met with By the fier on 
the 20 of March 

Fryday the 4 Last Night I sawd with Daniel Runnel at the mill this 
was Pleasent Day. 

Saterdav ve 5 Last Niirht A bout an hour Before dav Richard came 
up from the mill and called me up and I went Down With and sawd tell 
Sun Rise this was a Plesant Day and Very Warm, 'and We have a Very 
Dry time. 

Sonday ye 6 This was a Very cold Roy Day and I went to meting 
and heard Mr. Parsons Preach two Sarmous and in the after noon there 
was a conteribution for Boston upon the account of the fire that Lately 
Broak out their and Destroyd so many houses 

Monday ve 7: this was Something Stormv Dav and I went to See 
John Carlton. Tuesday ye 8 Last Nig t I Sawd at the mill with Richard 
Kimball and in the morning I was Takin Not Wei J and Vomited Som. and 
went to Beed and Laid Whilt most night Very Sick. 

Wensday ye i» this was a stormy Day and 1 Drawd of Syder at the 
old house. 

Thursdav ve 10: I went up to mv Brother R'chard. and Laid all 
Night there. 

Fryday ye 11 I went up to Bod wills falls and Saild Down in a Canoe 
with Saml. LanKafter and Daniel Runnels. 

Saterday ye 12 I came home and James Crumme was thare and 
Eliphelet Kim&ball. 



206 January 1903. 



RANDOM RECORDS OR KIMBALL FOOTPRINTS. 

da are printed to assisl in the identification of 
unrecorded members of the family, Any one knowing any thing <>f them 
should write to Pr< f. Shai ucord Avenue, ' ambridge, M and 

e Nkw8, < >>iit inued. 

CHILDREN Ol JESS! LND BET8E1 R KIMBALL. 

Orrin Kimball b November 21, i s '.'."». Residence Lynn, m November 21, 185 

Phebe A P ummer b i 831 . 
Thomas Jefferson b Newfleld. Nfe„ September I. 1827, residence Lynn, m 

.1 uly 6. i - Susa a S ' Hark 
Hugh Ross Kimball b March 9, 1829 d Timbuctoo, < a',.. March 89, IS"! I. m 

V ivember 21, 18"! ' Ariadne K imba i I. 
M;,!-;. i; Kimball b Augusl 29, 1831 rh July 12, 185*; Josiafa B. Blood of 

Lynn, Mass 
Saiah A Kimball b October L0, 1834, m Albion Robins t San Francisc >. 

Cali f< trnia. 
Minnie T Kimball b November 30, 1836, resides Oakland, Cal 

orrin Kimball m Phebe Adaline Plummer b L831. 

CniLDRl s 

Willie Everett, b May L8, 1859. 
Carrie Effie, b July 17. 1863 d October 10, L865. 
Effie Maria B. b Sepl 28, L866, d March 11. L881. 
Caroline Francis b Jan 14. 1870. 

Thomas ,T. Kimball b Sept I. 1827, m July 6, L856 Susau Sweat Clark b Jan 
6, L828, Sanbornton. 

CHILDREN. 

irge Franklin b April 5, 1857, Sanbornton, X II d May 28, 1857, Lynn. 
Massachusetts. 
Clara Susan b July 11, 1858 d Feb 14, 1859. 
Cm win Nathaniel b March 4, 1860. 
Ruth Olive b Kensington, X II Sept 21, L844. 
Martha Gertrude b Kensington. X H July 2, 1866 d April 10. 187.".. 

Bugh Ross Kimball b March 9. 1829 Newfield Mem Nov 21, 1872 Ariadne 
Kimball b 17. IS45. Kimballs Island Me dau of William Amazeen Kim- 
ball and Fidelia Rankin (630 vi) Resided at Petaluma. Cal. 

CHILDREN 

Minnie Ida b Long Ear. Cal. 
Mary Emma b Foibeston, Cal. 
Oscar Hugh b Forbeston, Cal. 

Edwin Nathaniel Kimball b March 4. 1800 m June 1. 1800 Mary A F Clegg 
b 1869. Child Maria Eliza b Marce 27, 1894. 

John E. Kimball b X'ova Scotia m Emma E. ( ) b Lynn. Child Leonard 
Warren b April 30. 1892. 

Charles L. Kimball m S. Maria ( ) Child Lilian M. b Weare, N H July 

9, 1855, d Oct 10. 1870. 
Charles E. Kimball b Hallowell. Me m Mary Emeline ( ) 

CHILDREN. 

Charles E b Aug 9. 1859, m Dec 1885 Carrie E Mudge. 

Fannie B b Sept 27, 1861. m June 1. 1887 Frank H Pease, son of Edward. 

Emma L b Hallowell 1852 m Frederick H Lord of Chelsea. 

Nellie L b Hallowell 1853 m Oct 1, 1879 George C King. 



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Alfred Kimball m Mary M ( ) Child Alfred Ross b Aug- 15, 1893, d June 
lit. 1894. 

Asa Kimball m Susan M. 

James W b Dec 21. 1861 d Nov 9. 1863. 

Frederick William b Dec 13. 1858 d Oct 23, 1863. 

John G Kimball m Nov 20. 1827 Phebe Rogers b 1807 d Oct 10, 1862, Natick. 

CHILDREN 

Daniel D b March 11. 1836 d April 3. 1875. 

William E b 'reorgetown, Mass 1832. 

Alraira M b Newbury, Ma^ 1829 m Nov 8. 1^46 Daniel W Bartlett. 

Martha b 1832 m July 19, 1855 Albert Heminway. 

Daniel D Kimball b March 11, 1836 d April 3, 1875 m May 13. 1858 Mary 
Ib-bron. 

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Frank C b Feb 2, I860 m April 14. 1883 Gertrude E Frye b 1860. 
Daniel I) b Oct 11 1862 m July 12. 1885 Nellie Cracknell. 
Child b and d Nov 15. 1858. 

William E Kimball b 1832 m Aug 1859 Maria Eunice Hatfield. 

CHILDREN. 

Hattie M b March 2, 1862, m Nov 28, 1883, Thomas M G Caldwell b 1861. 
William b July 25, L872. 
Grace Rebecca b Feb 24, 1870. 

Hiram Kimball m Anna S ( ) b 1818. She m 2nd April 3, 1856 Benjamin 
P Rowell b lso;,. Son Wilbur F Kimball b 1840 m Dec 11, 1861 Maria 
A Caldwell. Child Wilbur Willis b Jan 27. 1863 m Dec 2. 1885 Lizzie N 
Gurney b 1866. Children. Norton b and d Feb 19, 1887. Wilbur b and 
d Feb 19, 1887. 

John S Kimball m Lucy Ann ( ) 

CHILDREN 

Amanda Malvina b Aug 1836. 

Onetta Ellen b Aug 29, 1837 m Aug 6 1858 Henry A Bean Stoneham. Mas-. 

Fernando Decala b April 6. 1831'. 

Thomas Kimball b Hallowell Me 1805 d April 4, 1872 m Eliza S Clark b 
June 1806, d Nov 14. 1873. 

CHILDREN. 

William E N b 1848 d March 21. 1870. 
John F b July 1^44 d March 10. 1872. 

John F Kimball b July 1844 d March 10. 1872, m Adeline W Kelley b 1S47. 
Son Frank Stewart b April 16, 1868 

William H N Kimball b 1848 d March 21. 1870 m Ruth Ellen ( ) b 1841. 
She m 2nd Sept 6, 1874 Benjamin E Whittier. 

CHILDREN 

Helen Lucretia b Jan 13, 1S65. 
Child b and d Aug 23. 1866. 

William Kimball dau Ann Augusta b March 12, 1831. 

Warren W Kimball b Bradford m Ali2e L ( ) b Lynn, Son Walter Sar- 
gent b Jan 23. 1872. 

Richard D Kimball b N H m Leonora b N H Son John Varnev b July 

17. 1875. 



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phen E Kimball b Me m Eleanor I Son Arthur Edwin i» June 

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Mathias Kimball b N S m Charlotl Dau Florence b Feb 11, 1880. 

Albert Kimball b Gardner Me m Mary I b Dorchester, Man. 

< mi DR1 v 

Ella M b March 16, 18 

arlea II b Dec L5, 1865 d May 29, 188 

Rufus Kimball J» N II m Alia > b N II Son, My ion b March 27, 18 

Henry B Kimball m Mary B b Marblehead. 

< III l DRl N 

Louis Henry b Sept 25, 1879. 
Mary 1" b Aug 3, 188 

William F Kimball b Kennebunkport 1854 son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth 
mi Nov 6, 18*0 Ann M Davis 1. 1863. Son Ora b .Inly 30, 1881. 

H Horace Kimball m Anni? M { ) Annie May b Aug 14,1882. 

Timothy L Kimball m Betsey | i 

ciiii,iii.i\ 

ender M b L840 m March 14, 1865 Lydia C Shepard. 
timeline b Aug l. 1844. 

MIDDLETOWN, MA8S 

oilman A Kimball bFerrisburg \'t 1838 son of Alonzo and Mary A (Height) 
Kimball m 1st Lousia M Evarts b June 16, L838 d Dec ». 1881, m 2nd 
March B, 1883 widow Martini W. Fuller b Dec 21, 1845 d Oct 8, 1890. 
Child Alonzo G b March 31, 1862, d April 21, 1879. 

Martha B (Sheldon) Kimball m April 10. 1879 S :ott Wilkins b 1844. 

Hira Hill Kimball b Nov 1809 d Aug- 17. 1859. 

MAM BE81 ER, MASS 

Isaac Kimball in Mary E ) Son Charles E b Winchester 1853 m June 

18, 1883, Sarah Ann Ireland b 1863. 

William H Kimball m Thursa M | ) 

CHILDBEN 

Martha E b June 22, 1866, m Nov 29, 1882, Elmer E Searle of Salem. 
William F Kimball b June 25. 1869 m lune 18, 1888. Nellie M E.lis of Sa- 
lem. Son William H b July 15, 1891. 

William II Kimball m Hannah | ) Son Walter b Sept 1876 d Nov 2, 1882. 

MAI.PK.V MASS 

Asa P Kimball b Fryburg, Me m Sarah W Rand b Duek I'ond Me. 

CHILDREN 

Albert Nathaniel b Feb 21. 1875. 
George Edward b April 10. 1877. 
Frank Archeal b Boston Nov 3, 1883. 
Louisa Winn b Boston Sept 23, 1890. 

MANSFIELD. MASS. 

Daniel W Kimball b Conn June 3. 1819. d Feb 24, 1881. 

Mary Kimball b 1817, d Aug 17, 1850. 

Nellie F Kimball b Thompson. Ct April 1870 d Oct 12, l^To. Medford. Mass. 

Daughter of Daniel W and Marv F Kimball. 






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phen E Kimball b Me m Eleanor I v "ii Arthur Edwin \< Jane 

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Mathi m ball b N S m Chi Dan Florence i> Feb 1 1 . I8fi 

Albert Kimball l> Gardner Me m Msry I. b Dorchester, Mm-.*-. 

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William H Kimball m Hannah | ) Son Walter b Sept 1876 .1 Nov -.'. l^-.\ 

MAI.DKN. MASS 

Asa P Kimball b Fryburg, Me m Sarah W Rand b Duck Pond Me. 

CHILDREN 

Albert Nathaniel b Feb 21. is?;,. 
George Edward b April 10, 1877. 
Frank Archeal b Boston Nov 3, 1883. 
Louisa Winn b Boston Sept 23, 1890. 

MANSFIELD, MASS. 

Daniel W Kimball b Conn June 3, 1819, d Feb 24, 1881. 

Mary Kimball b 1817, d Aug 17, 1850. 

Nellie F Kimball b Thompson. Ct April 1870 d Oct 12, 1870, Medford. Mass. 

Daughter of Daniel \V and Mary F Kimball. 



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VoL VI, No. 2. G. F. KIMBALL, Publisher. Terms, $1.00 a year 

Topeka, Kansas, February, 1903. 



BLOWN OUT TO SEA. 

Professor Dickens has nearly completed his new residence, north of 
the city park. The building is really an addition to his old home, but it 
overlaps the old parts to such an extent and is so neat and modern in looks 
and arranginent that it makes practically a new house throughout. In 
the spring* the professor intends to plant a good part of his two-acre lot in 
ornamental trees and shrubs and make it one of the finest suburban homes 
of the city. The building- is heated by a hot-air furnace. — Manhattan 
Industrialist. 

The NEWS congratulates Mrs Sarah Bertha (Kimball) Dick- 
ens and the Professor on their new home and their g-ood fortune. 

Both Mr and Mrs Dickens are graduates of the Kansas Agri- 
cultural College. He was assistant professor of Horticulture, 
and has now been promoted to a full chair in the Colleg-e. He 
is a gentleman of varied acquirements especially along- his line 
of work which embraces more than mere horticulture. 

Mrs Dickens, as Bertha Kimball, was noted, and is yet noted 
lor her artistic skill, particularly as an illustrator of plant and 
insect life, and the publications of the Colleg-e for years past give 
evidence of her skill. 

Mrs Dickens is the daug-hter of Richard H. Kimball, one of 
the first settlers in Kansas who went to the wilds of Manhattan 
nearly fifty years ag-o from New Hampshire, accompanied or soon 
followed by several brothers aud sisters, some of whom still re- 
main there, while others went on to California. The early num- 
bers of the News tell of the sad taking- away of some of these 
sisters. 

Mrs Dickens is a sister of Fred Greer Kimball of whom the 
News has before made mention. 

He has for some years been in charge of the United State 
Mails service in Alaska with headquarters at Nome and St. Mich- 
aels. This service has at times been most precarious, and he has 
then ventured on expeditions not included in his reg-ular du- 



210 February 1903. 

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ties', when his carriers have not dared to venture. This extra la- 
bor has taken him over mountains of snow and ice before which 
others quail< 

In order to make the service creditable to the g"overnmen1 he 
did the work of others at these times at the risk of his life. 

FYed Greer Kimball after several rears of this strenous 1 
has beengTanted leave of Lbsence and is now in Washington to 
<.»rt at headquarters. !!<• is too modest to publish his own ex- 
ploits, and the News has not been able tc i, r et a word from him 
nor from the "old folks at home", which we consider almost a 
sham* 

Hut we learn incidentally and imperfectly, through another 
>usin, <»ne of his later experiences. He was trying to get the 
mail from one point near Nome to another place between which 
and himself lay an arm of the sea. In mild weather it would re- 
quire a long trip around, but the sea frozen, more than half the 
distance could be saved. At best it was a perilous trip to make 
and his men did not dare undertake it. As usual he determined 
to do it himself and so started across the field of ice several miles 
wide. While on the trip a severe storm sprang- up and the winds 
detached a large field of ice and blew it out to sea carrying- him 
with it. How far he went into the northern ocean he does not 
know but there he spent the night. The next morning the wind 
changed and during the day the ice drifted to the shore where 
he landed twenty miles beyond his point of destination. 

A few months ago his sister Stella, who had been a teacher 
in the Manhattan schools was married and she now lines at some 
place in old Mexico. If the editor of the News had an abundance 
of time and means he might skirmish around and get the details 
of these family occurences, but as he is compelled to depend on 
the various members of the family themselves he is too often 
forced to put up with just what he can gather from the wings of 
uncertain reports. 

See Family Hist, page 940. 



The editor of the News has been elected for the third time 
president of the Kansas Society of the Sons of American Revolu- 
tion. The Society held a patriotic Social in memory of the 
I7lst anniversary of Washington's birth at which several papers 
were read which will be published in pamphlet form. 



Kimball Family News, 211 

7 DEATH OF A KIMBALL ARTIST. 

Charles Fred Kimball, the landscape painter died very suddenly Wed- 
nesday morning 1 at his home at Morrill's corner. 

Mr. Kimball took breakfast as usual and apparently was feeling - per- 
fectly well. A few moments later he complained of a chest trouble and of 
a difficulty in breathing". Mrs. Kimball caJled their daughter. Mrs. George 
Roberts, but before she reached the house Mr. Kimball expired without 
concious suffering. 

Mr. Kimball was about 71 years of age. He married a daughter of 
John E. Cloudman. for many years one of the best known artists of Maine 
and was for some time one of his students. 

Mr. Kimball early took high rank among the artists of Maine, but 
did not entirely depend upon his brush for a living. He was a cabinet 
maker, and at the time of his death was the foreman of the cabinet de- 
partment of Doten & Co. 

He leaves a wife and two daughters. — Portland Press. 

Burial services were held at the New Jerusalem Church by 
the Rev. Dr. Samuel Worcester. 

The Portland Society of Art has adopted the following- re- 
solutions on the death of Charles Frederick Kimball: 

"The Portland Society of Art desires to place on its records 
the following- memorial of one of its members, Charles Fred 
Kimball, who died January 26, 1903: 

"Mr. Kimball was one of the charter members of the society 
and always one of its most earnest and enthusiastic supporters. 

"In the days when the society g-ave annual exhibitions, now 
abandoned since the unfortunate loss of its home, he was always 
an important contributor. As one of a band of earnest art work- 
ers in this community, he has for years devoted himself to land- 
scape painting in the leisure found outside his reg-ular business. 

"Art to him was not only a recreation, but a passion and a 
cult. Of a modest and retiring disposition, he worked in his 
own quiet methodical wav, not asking- to attract attention by 
extravagant or bizarre effects, but satisfied to paint thing-s as 
he saw them and to produce pictures which combined artistic 
feeling- with rare delicacy of color and treatment. Although 
lacking- in the culture of the schools and the aid which constant 
association with leaders in art bring-s, he yet progressed steadily 
toward the ideal which, his own artistic temperament had set 
firmly before him. He was the product of no school, except na- 
ture's own school, and his occasional pictures which were quick- 
ly purchased by a growing- number of admirers, will remain as 
a permanent memorial of his rare talent and charm. 

"As a man he was without affectation, sincere and strong- in 
his attachments and friendships which were characterized by an 
almost feminine delicacy of feeling- and sentiment. 

"With him friendship was not a matter of days; it grew 
with the growing- years, and the comrades of his earlier years 
feel most the burden of his loss. 

"Resolved — That the sympathies of the members of the so- 



212 February l" 



*.v l»< 1 to the surviving memo *s of the family in 

their affliction, and thai a copj ol the foregoing sent t«> tli- 
l»\ tiii - • tary, and that the same be spread upon our records.' 1 
Se< Family History page 492, No. ''77. 



RETURNED TO DAK( >T.\. 

Daniel H Kimball <>f Minot, N I'., who has been visiting his moth. 

Nfarcia Kimball of Smith Waterford, visited his brother, Win field EL 
aball, Monday and Tuesday Be was accompanied by his sisters, Mrs. 
\. •• • Kimball and Mrs. Emily Clark, both <>f Bridgton. Mrs. A B. Ran* 
dull, also b sister, ;ni<l her hnsband <>f Lewi a ton came Monday evenii 

: a happy family reunion was held at the home of Win field li. Kimball 
he 

Afte y of ah- mt ;i month in this vicinity he went on th< ening*, 

train. Tuesday, to Minot. where he has held the position of chief <»f Po- 
for aboul 15 years He anticipates another pleasanl occasion in a via« 
it to a brother, Prof. George L, Kimball of St. Lawrence University, ron- 
ton. N. Y.. en route. — Oxford, Co. Me. Advertiser. 

Daniel Homer Kimball, above mentioned, is the oldest son <>f 
the late George C. Kimball of Waterford Me., whoso death was 
announced in the NEWS Jan. number 1901, page 2<>4. 

Chief of Police Kimball is also Deputy Sheriff for Ward coun- 
ty Dakota, was formerly High Sheriff of same County. He has 
a wife, Jennie Coldthart Kimball, three sons and one daughter, 

Mr. Kimball had been absent from his native town nearly 
twenty five years. 

These Kimball cousins belong- to the Maine members who are 
not yet fully located. 

They are closely related to the Hon. Alfred S. Kimball branch 
of Norway, Me. (News June, 1898. p. 112.) also to Elbridge P. 
Kimball, whose wife is Mrs. Jennie E. Snow Kimball whose 
poems are often printed in the Maine papers and some of which 
the News has produced. Our cousin, Sumner Kimball of Lovell, 
Maine. (No. 2448.) is trying- to untang-le this Kimball web, and 
it is hoped he will have the help of all these unplaced members 
of the family. 

The January number of the Spirit of '76 gives a half col- 
umn or so to g-enealogical mention of the Kimball Family. It 
is of little or no value for the reason that while it gives a few 
unimportant references, it entirely omits any mention of the 
Family History of over 1200 pag-es, which gaves a very com- 
prehensive and connected g-enealogical history from 1634 to the 
present time. It, and the Kimball Family News, contains 
about all that is known of the family. 



Kimball Family News* 213 



A PROBABLE SWINDLE. 

A type written letter, to all appearances such, has been for- 
warded to the News which we copy as follows: 
Dear Sir:- 

I have for several years been interested in compiling- a His- 
tory of the European ancestry of your family-name, from its 
first appearance as a surname, mainly for the purpose of ascer- 
taining- the parental ancestry abroad of the early American sett- 
lers of the name. For this purpose, almost every public record 
in Europe, in which the name appeared, has been carefully ex- 
amined and abstracts taken; Parish Registers, Probate Registers, 
State Papers, County-, City, and Parish Histories, Feets of Fines 
Exchequer-, Coram Reg-e-, De Banco-, Lay Subsidy-, Charter-, 
and Patent Rolls, Grants and Patents of Land and Titles. Inqui- 
sitiones Post Mortem, Churchwarden's Account Books, Monas- 
tical Records, Wills, Administrations, Licenses to marry, and to 
emigrate, etc., have been searched, translated and copied care- 
fully. 

The History, which I have compiled, and which is now 
offered to some of the decendants in this country and in Europe, 
is based on fully authentic documents, and I have endeavored to 
make it as interesting- and complete as the material, in hand, 
has warranted. The American lines are not included,, but the 
parerttag-e and ancestry of the settlers are clearly shown and am- 
ply proved. 

To which American line do ycu belong - ? I suppose you 
have the Connections from 3-ourself up to the settlers, but if that- 
should not be the Case, I have no doubt that it could easily be as- 
certained. 

Should you be interested in having- the History of the 
family, from the settlers up to the period, when the name was 
first assumed, several centuries back in time, I should charg-e but 
a reasonable price for a copy of my data, considering- my expen- 
ditures of time and money, and the authenticity as well as com- 
pleteness of my records. 

It is not my purpose to print the Mss., but I am willing- to 
dispose of Mss. copies to parties who desire to have them. 

As I shall have to go over to Europe, on professional re- 
searches, shortly, it would be pleasant to hear from you, at once, 
if convenient* 

We believe the above to be a fraud like many others of the 
kind. It is doubtless a printed imitation of a g-eneral type writ- 
ten letter that may be sent to any member of any family. It 
will be seen that with all the writer's pretension to genealogical 
knowledg-e, he does not seem to have any knowledge of the Kim- 



214 ri1.ru.-irv. ]'■ 



ball Family History which In- must have had if poss d of at)} 
skill or knowledge in uealogical history. Or possibly this 

norance may be all preter ad if he finds any one gullible 
enough t«> advance him money, be may simply furnish such in- 
formation as he g< ks from family histori The Kimball Fam- 
ily does need and it desires further research into the English r 

ls, but it does not need the assistance of any geanealogical 
mountebanks. W now soliciting subscriptions to a fund 

to send Prof. Sharpies on this errand, ,iu<] if he finds need of as- 

itance he is the proper person to secure it from those who are 

sponsible experts in the work. 

SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES TO FAMILY HISTORY. 

Page 625 No. 1269 iv Caroline Clement Eastman 8 , (Jonathan 
Kimball Eastman 7 , Molly Kimball 8 , Phineas', Ebenezer*, 
Robert 8 , Benjamin 1 , Richard 1 .) b. June 14 1833. died 
ChathamN. H. June 23, 1892, m. Oct. 2'. 1862, Ithiel 

Clay of Chatham X. H, No children. 

I take the following from the Eastman history Vol. 2, 
p. 595, No, 1008 iv. 

•'Caroline Clement Eastman" b. June 14 1833, m. Oct. 
26 1862, Ithiel CI ay of Chatham N. H. He died in Chat- 
ham X. H. April 6, 1901 at the age of 81 years and 7 

months. He was one of the most prominent business men 
in town. He received his education in the common schools 
of Chatham and at Bridgton Academy, Bridgton Me. 
He became a t- sful hool teach. iving in -n 

in Chatham, and for several years in the towns of Eddinar- 
ton and Bradley, Me. In his earliest manhood he com- 
menced to invest in timber lands and by his shrewd busi- 
ness foresight and sagacity became one of the largest land 
owners in that section of the country. At one time he 
could travel from his home in Chatham to the foot of the 
White Mountains without stepping on land that did not 
belong wholly or in part to him, a distance of more than 
twenty miles'". S. K. Xo. 2448. 

The new democratic Governor of Rhode Island has asked 
his republican predecessor, Charles Dean Kimball, to take a 
place on the Board of Managers of the Agricultural school 
which he accepted. He was also offered several other appoint- 
ments but declined all except one on a committee to examine 
into the different high schools and college systems of the state. 
The Xews is indebted to Gov. Kimball for many favors. 



Kimball Family News, 215 



MORE OF THE GERMAN KIMBALLS. 

It may be remembered that in the second issue of the News, 
five years ago, an article was published from Miss Sarah Louise 
Kimball of San Francisco, relative to a German branch of the 
Kimball family. Since that time more has been learned in re- 
gard to it, and some members are now living- in that city. The 
editors of the Kimball History did not feel justified, from what 
they then knew of the facts, in giving- much credence to the 
claim that they were a part or in any way connected with the 
English branch. Nor do we now know that the claim is estab- 
lished. It is one of those points that it would be interesting to 
have further investigated. 

It is a fact that there are several Kimballs living in St. 
Louis who are connected with this California German line. 

The News has been furnished some data from these St. 
Louis members, but not enough in detail to be of much value. 

Now Mr. James Rawson Kimball of Rock Island. 111., writes 
us that there is a family of Kimballs in the grocery business in 
Lowden, Iowa, who are "imported Holland Dutchmen" who do 
not know where they received the Kimball name. 

Thiv is a little interesting. The California members are 
not supposed to be Dutch, nor are those in St. Loui-. If the 
Kimball name were not in itself, a name so distinctive and pe- 
culiar, there would be very little mvstery about it. But unlike 
many other names it does not change forms in different languages. 
It is not a place name, nor a trade name. We cannot ask 
what would be the name in German. If the name were Taylor, 
we might say that in German it might be Schneider; if Baker, 
in French, Boulanger, in German, Baecker, and so on. But the 
Kimball name is only varied as in Kemball, and sometimes Kim- 
ble, unless we go back to its old probable Kymric form of Kym- 
bold and its slight variation. How did these old Germans, and 
these Hollanders get the same form of name? 

The January number of the New York Delineator contains 
an illustrated article on Augusta, Georgia, including mention 
of the site of old Fort Augusta built by Gen. Oglethorpe and 
the old Chateau Le Vert and the Meadow Garden home of Gov. 
George Walton, one of the signers of the Declaration of Inde- 
pendence. Madame Le Vert, his daughter Octavia. was one of 
the most brilliant women of her day and here was her home. 
This old historic property is now, as the Delineator says, the 
magnificent home of Col. 'Daniel B. Dyer, president of the Au- 
gusta Electric Railway, and son of Elizabeth Howe ^Kimball 
Dyer. Col. Dyer's portrait has appeared in the News also on 
opposite page 909, in the History, and portraits of his parents 
opposite bOi. The .news for February 1902 also gives further 
mention of Chateau Le Vert. 



216 February, 1903. 



WILLIAM BATTEY KIMBALL. 
In tin V vrs for N tntx r 1900 a portrait and sketch of tbe 
lit. this venerable member ol the Kimball family wa9 given. 
More recently a copy of the Bristol R. I. Phoenia of < M. 1 1, 1901 
has reached us with a notice oi the anniversary of his 91st birth- 
day. It is reproduced below although it contains s<>m.- <>f the 
Bame matter formerly printed. 

William Batty Kimball, one of Bristol's well known citizens, reached 
the advanced age of ninety-one years today; and, while the occasion i s 
being formally observed by Mr. Kimball, his friends will no doubt call 

d congratulations and best wishes; while greetings will no doubt be 

seived from friends and relatives from :i r ;ir. 

It is indeed ;i rar< sion t<i finds man bo well preserved .'ii the 

of four score and eleven year's, as Mr Kimball is; and a pleasurable \ 
made to him yesterday ;it b i > home on Hope street ;it the corner of Smith 
street, by a Phoenix reporter, found him a^ active in mind and body 
was a quarter of a century a] Time has dealt tenderly with him and 
he has gained much knowledge of tin' world and its doing's during his 1< 
lift*, and tli' ellent preservation of his faculties at such a good old i 

has allowed him t<> enjoy t e knowledge thus gained arid *.<> impart - i 

it to others who call upon him, which seems to give him pleasure as 
well as both profit and pleasure to his visitor. 

Mr. Kimball, although a resident of this town for along time, is not a 
native of Bristol, but was born in Warwick, this State, Oct. 11. 1810. His 
birthplac - Natick hill, about a mile from the village of Natick. tie 

was tin- son of the late Amos Kimball and Hannah (Edmunds) Kimball. 
A-l th< of four years he removed with his parents into the village of 

Natick and lie remembers during the big September gale of 1815 * .f 

of a mill that was building for C, and W. Rhodes being blown off and also 
other happening- of that vicinity in that famous gale. The mill refer 
to is near the Pike road on the way from Providence to New London. 

His father died in 1822 and his mother two years later and sothebring- 

the time and village afforded, for a short while, hut was obliged 

to go into the mill to work. At the age of sevente< n. in the spring of 1- 
he showed such proficiency in his work that he was appointed foreman of 
the carding and spinning rooms in the mill of Brown, Knowles and Tanner 
at Arnold's Mills. Pontiac. 

In 1829 during the panic, business became very poor and there were 
many failure- Owing to there being no husiness the mill was shut down 
and the subject of this article, then about nineteen years old, went to 
school again. He afterwards left school to accept a position as ovtrseerof 
the spinning and weaving- department^ of the Sprague's mill at Natiek. 
In 1832, in company with a man named Arnold he went to West (Jreenwich. 
where he engaged in business, which he continued to run for nearly two 
years when he went to South Scituate. where he became Superintendent 
of the Rockland mill and continued in that capacity for eight years. He 
also took the mill and store to run and furnished supplier In ls44 the 
mill was sold and he moved to Scituate where he engaged in business and 
entered into politics. In l s 47 he was elected Senator from Scituate to the Gen- 
eral Assembly and served one year. He was also a member jf the Town Coun- 
cil cf ScituELte for twoyears. In the fall of 1849 he went to South Glastonbury 
Cc nn. to take the agency of two cotton mills of the Hartford manufactur- 
ing Co.. which manufactured ginghams. He remained i/ncie nearlv three 
years, or until Dec. 1851. when he went to Pequonic Paper mill at Windsor 



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Conn., when he assumed the agency of those mills, purchasing stock and 
learning the trade of paper making- with William H. Imiy. In the spring 
of 18">3 he came back to North Scituate and engaged in business for him- 
self where he remained until 1855 when he came to Bristol as the superin- 
terdent of the Pokanoket steam mill. In Feb. 1856 the mill was burned and 
in the fall of that year he bought out a stock of groceries and provisions and 
went into business at the corner of Hope and Church streets, where he re- 
mained for fourteen years, retiring in 1>7<). Since that time he has lived 
quietly at his home with his wife, spending his time in reading and in the 
cultivation of a beautiful garden of flowers. 

Mr. Kimball was united in marriage in 1842 at North Scituate to Miss Sarah 
Maria Rounds, daughter of the late Parley Rounds. Mrs Kimball met with 
an accident a number of years ago which greatly retarded her usual activ- 
ity, but last week she was able to go to Providence on the cars for the first 
time iu thirteen year-. She wis M years old Aug. 31 last. Mr. and Mrs. 
Kim bill propose to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of their marriage, 
July 11. 1902 if they are living at that time 

Mr. and Mrs. Kimball, have but one child living, a son Charles Edmunds 
Kimball, who resides at Summit, \. J. Be is president of the Chicago, Pe- 
oria and St. Louis Railroad Company of Illinois and has an office at 2*3 Pine 
street. New York City. Besides being president of the railroad referred to 
he is interested in coal mines. He is a graduate of Br^wn University of 
the class of 1876. 

William B. Kimball comes cf good old Colonial stock and is of the seventh 
generation from Richard Kimball who came from Cumberland County. 
England 'This should be Suffolk County. England,) and landed in Boston 
in 1634, afterwards settling Ipswich. Mass. 

The descendant s of this settler are so numerous that a monthly magazine 
called the Kimball News is published and devoted to matters appertain- 
ing to the family. Lieut.-Gov Charles Dean Kimball of this state is one 
of the descendants of Richard Kimball who landed in Boston in 1634. 

Mr. Kimball's parents had seven children, of whom four lived to grow 
up. Efce has now one sister living. Mrs. Roswell Butler, who resides at 
Bowen Hill. Coventry and who is in her 89th year. 

Mr Kimball served the town of Bristol as a member of the school com- 
mit tee from 187G to 1879 and was re-elected for three years, but resigned. 
He is aj tly in perfect hcn.lt! ;s- 

ses all his faculties as he did in his youth. When quite young he received 
an injury to his knee and this weakens that limb somewhat . but he is a- 
bout the town every day and the prospects now are'that he will greatly ex- 
ceed the century mark. His many friends extend to him through the Phoe- 
nix their congratulations on this his ninety-first birthday anniversary and 
also their best wishes that he may continue the enjoyment; of many years 
to come after such a busy life. 



ELECTED DEPARTMENT COMMANDER. 

The Washing-ton Star of Feb. 5, says that the members of 
the Department of Potomac, G. A. R., held their annual meeting 
and election of officers at the hall on Pennsylvania avenue last 
night, when Judge Ivory G. Kimball was elected Department 
Commander. 

Judge Kimball belongs to the Maine branch of the family. 
He has been Judge of the Police court of the citv for several years. 
The star gives his portrait which shows a person of fine pres- 
ence. 



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THE T\v< > GRACES. 

Will A Page writing in tbe Chicago Record-Herald baa the 

blowing 

t'lt'a the opinion ol Miss Grao Kimball of the George Faw- 
tl stock company ol Baltimore that there should be a law to 
prevent young women o1 the chorus from using the names of 
players who have become well known. Everyone rememb< 
ji«>w annoyed FVancrs Wilson was when a chorus girl commeno d 
to call herself Frances Wilson. Then there was a girl named 
Maggie O'Brien who changed her name to Zaza Belasco. Also 
a chorus girl has recently been discovered in Ww York who rails 
herself Marie Cahill, after the will-known prima donna of that 
nam< Now, Miss Kimball, who won her reputation as leading 
lady with K. EL Sothern and Eienry Miller, is much annoyed 
because of the antics of a Chicago girl of the chorus who appar- 
ently l>e;irs the same name, possibly with every justification, 
but nevertheless under annoying circumstances. This Gra 
Kimball of the chorus is the young - lady from whose- silken slip- 
per the Grand Duke Boris was said to have drunk champagne 
la^t August. Now an enterprising Chicago concern has issued 
a large advertising card showing Grace Kimball posing in a 
flashy costume and exhibiting a pair of pink satin slippers. Un- 
derneath appears the words k Miss Grace Kimball." ,r 

Now who are these two Grace Kimballs? The News does 

not know. 

Our cousin Joan Kimball Clark of Melrose, Cal. sends what 
she calls a small pledg-e for the Research Fund, but not so small 
a^ some* and expresses a wish that it was m >re, and then truth- 
fully adds, "but if all the Kimballs would do as well we would 
have a fund large enough for research "away back". And so 
We would, -a fund of thousands of dollars. Hers is the only re- 
sponse received from California on the new system of pledges 
sent out a few 7 months agr>. But the Pacific cousins are read)' to 
do their part and will surely come to the rescue in the new form. 

Mr. Arthur Lincoln Dacy, son of Mrs. Sarah A. (Kimball) 
Dacy. No. 2278, graduated from the Massachusetts Agricultural 
college last June with the degree of Bachelor of Science, and the 
first of July took a position as Assistant Superintendent of a 
larg-e dairy farm near Toronto, Canada, butprefering to be near- 
er home he was offered and accepted a position of foreman of a 
division of men engaged in the destruction of insect pests around 
Boston, especially the brown tail moths so destructive to trees. 
The insect pest around Boston seem to cause a perpetual war- 
fare. 



Kimball Family News, 219 



PETER KIMBALL— HIS BOOK. 

March ye 4 A. D. 1760. 
(To be continued.) 



Sonday ye 13 This was a cold Day But the Sun Shined Plesant I went 
to meeting and heard Mr. John Cushen Preach 2 Sarmons. 

Monday ye 14: 1760 I workt at the mill Sorn and went a Guning and 
Kild 2 Black Birds Eliphet Hardee and and I Did and at night I went over 
to Phellipses and got a Pair of as Good Dubel Sold Dubel Chanel Pumps 
as ever I saw I think. 

Tuesday ye 15 this was a Very Stormy Day and I Went Down to Lew 
& fosters 

Wednesday ye 16 I made Som Shelves in the Selor and Painted the 
fore Dore in the after noon I w r orkt at the mill and Sawed Plank. 

Thursdaj- ye 17 I Went up to Epheraim Robinsons and Dug* Rocks 
With Mathew Hardy 

Friday ye 18 in the fore Noon I Plowd for Joseph & in the afternoon 
1 went to andover to Richards and uncole Peabodys and came Down to 
Chandlers and Benj Day Gave us a Pint of Eggd Rum Elyshet Kimball 
and I came home and anointed for the Itch. 

Saturday 10 This Day I went to Haverhill and Boaught me a hat and 
a Handcerchief and a money Pus the Hat Was 3^ Shilings ye Hanks 0:11:8: 
the Puso:4:. 

Sunday ye 20 This Was a Very Plesant Day and I went to meeting 
and Heard )ir Parsons Preach 2 Sarmons from Duteronomy. 

Monday ye 21 This Was a Plesant Day and Richard Foster Came to 

make my coat and I Went up to Nathel Peabody to git Daniels mare Shod 
to Ride to Woster and so — 

Tuesday ye 22 I stav d at Home in the fore noon and in the afternoon 
I went to Cap. n Mullukens and Jo.n was gone to Boxford to the Horse 
Rasing- on the Plain at Boxford and I came home and Picht up my close 
In order for a march 

Wednesday ye 23d I went up to Cap.n Mullukens Jos.h was not yet 
come home from Boxford and I came home from their and Roat a Power of 
atorny for Elj-shelet Kimball and so — 

Thursday ye 24: I went up with Elyshelet Kimball to and over and 
Loaged at Richards this Night. 

fryday the 25 — I was at Richards and John Webb Came Down from 
| Leiut Grangers and went Down to uncle Peabody with me and at Night he 
got Several Hives sot this nig-ht I Loagee hear 

Saterday ye 26 I Went Home and went too Cap.n Mullukans and got 
life Hardee Hors Shoed 

Sunday ye 27 this was a Plesant Worm Day and I went to meeting & 
heard Mr Sargent Preach two Sarmons 

Monday ye 28: Plesant Day and i helpt Binj cole Set Rail fence for 
my father 

tuesday ye 30 I helpt Seet up fence and at Night I went to Sam 11 



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tktxxU i Molrt and He Went Down to Leiut Fo# 

nd Drink t :i DQ^ of egg tfipt and cniiir >i|» t.. ;is;i Tylers and and 

ian and ' r laid a garni of Cards with him their ' .1 n !<• Home 
(He evidently t ried hard to erase i In- played car< 

May re : Wed[n]esday ye i I workt for Life Hardee in the aftern ion 
Thursday ye 3 I vrorkl foT Richard and hi • me 10 Shillifij 

ryday i Las1 nighl I went over to Daniels and )»«■! j»t Drinfa ;i 
quart of I Rum aud and In 1 1 * • - moi Down ;» r i « l aakt me if 

I Would make him u < nipt and I Said yea and I went np to To:< arlton and 
got th< Board and Began H About hall after Seres & I flnishl it i;. b 
quarter after 3 

Saturday ye i I Put Som man on Record for father 

Sunday ye 5th I went to meting and Heard Mr Parson a Preach 2 
Sarmona 

M<>n«lay y 6 I wenl up to Daniel Thuretura to iri t Som garlicb 
Tuesday ye 7 in tl. • noon I Drove Plow A in the after uoon I 

nt affishen at Johnsona pond and had no good Luck Wednesday 
Wednesday ye 7 in the foomoon I helpt Plant after noon I went Mr 
Vith 1 Kimballa Etaisen 

Thursday the 8 thia Being a I'lesant Day I ("ought me a horse & B tad 
Down t<» New Row lv Lester 

i 

Fryday y< i workt all Day vrry Study for me 

tterday ye 10 I workt for the Boys helpt them plant this was A I 
time 

S inlay ve 11 this morning It Rained and we had a good Shower & I 

t to meting & heard Mr Parsons Preach 

Monday ye 12 this was a Plecant Day & I workt Josh and Daniel 
helpt them Plant and at Night helpt them Drink a mug of flip 

Tuesday ye 13 I Laid a part of a <raret floor & cut in Som (blotted) 

Wednesday 14. I Laid Som Garit floor and went up to Mr Parsons A 
spoak for some Pomatom I spoak for 

Thursday ye 15 I went to the Hailing of Mr Nathan Barkers Barn 

Fryday ye 16 I went a (funning 

Saterday ye 17 I went to the South End of the town 

Sonday ye 18 I set out for Woster *Nc Road up to Bilareca & went to 
Diner at Mr Rog-erses then went out to the Road to Osgood, the Tavern- 
then Sung my pack and marcht to Concord 

Monday ye 19 We marcht from Concord to Molbary and Loagd thair 
at A Private house 

tuesday ye 20 this was a Cloud day and Raind Som we marcht from 
molbary to Woster & thair Loaged at Capt Curtis es on the flore this was 
a hard Bed But I Slep well 

Wednesday ye 21 this was Rainy & misty and I Went to town & 
Boaught me a Pound of Rasons I went tu and from ye town and Gave 5 
Shillings for my Diner 

thursday ye 22 this was Plasout& we went up to town and Past mustr 
com back and Laid in the Barn 

fr3'day ye 23 I went Went to town & Bought me a Pound of Rasons 



Kimball Family News, 221 

and Spoak for Sum magesons (moccasins I think M. K.) 

Saterday ye 24 1 Stayed at Mr Ginesons and Lived well nothing 1 Re- 
markabel'this day 

Sunday ye 25 I went to meeting &, heard Mr Mackcarta Preach too 
Sarmons at Wooster Som of our men took thair A billion money But I 
did not 

M mday ye 26: We went up to Woster and Recevid our Blanket & 
Sna^s Sacks 

tueslavye2 7 we marcht from Worster (to) Receivid our meat & 
Bread and Loged in Lecistor 

Wednesday 27 we rnircht to Kingstown and Loeged thair 

thursday ye 28 we marcht to Springflele and Loged thair 

fryday 29 we marcht to westfield and Loged thair 

Saterday ye 31 we marcht from Westfield to Glasco & Loaged thair 
and hired my pack Oared over tin* mountain & gave half a Doler 

June ye 1 Sunday we marcht through the Green wodds & Loged 
Number one 

man day ye 2 We marcht to Sheffield A Lodged thair 

tuesdav ve '.', we marcht to nobletoun and Lodged thair 

Wednesday ye \ We marcht about B or 4 mild *\c the Rain Came on 
and v, pt at a Duch house till most night then 7 of us Went about 1 or 

f) mild and Lodged at Mr hugerburne in a Stone house 

Thursday ye 5 We mareht to Center hook & lodged thair and Drawed 
Alowanc thair 

fryday ye 6 we Liad Still & it Rained all Day x at f'enterhook and 

went to See the inlanders the Small Pox is in town in Several Plases they 
Say 

Saterday 7 We mareht from Center hook & was going a long in 
Woods and Saw a man that Was fudled & \ uncapeable of Riding Study 
S i Jumpt up Behind him A: Road about 2 mild then marcht to Grean 
Bush & Lodged in a Barn -fecce 

Sunday ye 8 Cloudy in the morning & we went oyer Hutsons River to 
Albany & Recyved our Allouance of Beaf Peas flower Buter & Rise then 
Drad our tents and mareht up the Back Side of Albanv and Pitch our tents 

Monday 9 I washt my does & went through Albany & Bought me 
Som Sop e a Sundery Artickels 

teusday ye 10 I went on forteag in Albany Sity 

Wednesday the 11 I Was Drad out to Go to Batoing But I hird a man 
to Go in my Room 

Thursday ye 12 in the morning a bout Sun Rise we Struck our tents 
and marcht Down to the River and took Som Battues and 20 Barelswait in 

I Each in order for fort Edward & marcht up to the flats A: Stopt thair all 
Night & I Stood Centry that Night 
Fryday ye 13 We marcht to the half moon and Lodged thair. 
Saterday ye 14 then on Looded Som of our Load and Poot forward 
the foot of Still water fally & Lodged thair and on Loaded our Battoes 

S,,nday ye IS We went over the falls With our Battoes & Loaded in 
16 Barlls of PoarK and Set out for Saritoge and Lodged in the woods chis 
Night 



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RANDOM RECORDS OR KIMBALL FOOTPRINTS. 

These imperii printed to assist in the identification of 

unn members of the family. An} one knowing* any thing of them 

should write to Prof . Shar] Cambridge, M ad 

not to the News i i »n1 iriued. 

m \ 1:1 BOBOl '.ii. MASS 

. Kimball m April 14, 1844 Mary J Plympton, 
mi- .1 Kimball b Ashland, Mass, dan of Seth m Jan I, 1867 Herbert E 

I'm nam. 

] ■•.in I' Kimball m Mary F Ellard dan Grace b Nov •». 

Aluiira Kimball (widow) b N Andover 1794 (1 May 16, 188§. 

MBDFOBQ, m i Bfi 

Anna Kimball m <»ct 12, L843 Samuel TeeL 

Sarah Kimball m Dec 7 L843 Gilbert Lincoln. 

G « Kimball m Martha ( ) dan Ellen J b Nov 8, L853. 

George W Kimball b m Nov 24, L847 Mary P I ke b Rye, N II Feb 

L82fl .1 Aug •.'. 1870, dan I ora Mable b Feb 18, 1865, d June 8. 18 

Abby I. (Wright) Kimball b Brookfield. Vt Feb is. ls.V.t d Nov 20, 18! 
Daughter of Francis and Mary (Mann) Wright. 

USD! 1 1. 1. 1 » ftfl \ss. 

John E. Kimball m Lucy i > Daughter Mary Frances b Apr. 19, 1838. 

MEI.KOSK. MASS. 

Thomas .1. Kimball b Dec. 20, 1823 d Dec 6, 1879. Son of John Kimball 
and Mary (Clifford) Kimball of Rumney N. II. m 1st Sarah Crocker 
m 2nd .Mary J. ( ). 

cm i.D hi: x. 

Ida J. b 1852 m May 3, 1874 Charles EL Isbury of Boston b 1828. 

Minnie C. b May 3, 1861 m June 21, 1882, John Norton Cole b Andover 1857. 

Frederick T. b Sept. 23, 1865. m April 3, L886. Lillian S. Reed b Brockton. 
Children. Thomas Jefferson b April 15 1892, Ida Isbury b April 2 1894. 

MKNDO.N MASS. 

Charles Merrill Kimball b Pascoag- R. I. 1852. m July 7, 1873 Mary Eliza- 
beth Miller b 1857. 

MILLBURY MASS. 

Mary Ann (Archer) Kimball b Webster 1827. (See p 727 History) (p 234 Fam- 
ily News.) m Oct. 31, 1853 Franklin Dunnel. 

MONSON MASS. 

Mory Kimball m Lois ( ) Child Alden S. b Litchfield Conn. 1837 d May 
1, 1851. 

MILFORD MASS. 

Fred Kimball b Manneville R. I. m Ada Wales bWoonsocket R. I. 

CHILDREN. 

Daisy May b Aug. 18, 1885. 



Kimball Family News, 223 



Edward L. b May 28, 1879. d Jan. 31, 1885. 

Ida May b April 23, 1881. d April 14, 1885. 

Fred O. b Feb. 24, 1882 d April 5, 1885. 

€lifton L. b April 2, 1892. 

Chester H. b 1873. m May 23. 1894 Josephine Whittaker of Pawtucket. 

•Orrin T. Kimball m Maria E. Ayers Child Blanch M. b May 20, 1893. d April 
30, 1878. 

James F. Kimball m Ida ( ) Child Jennie L. Kimball b 1868 m. Au°\ 8, 
1886, Clarence H. Farrington. 

HET&UEN MA8S. 

Jacob Kimball had a son b Nov. 24. 1843. 

George Kimball m Betsey ( | sm George E. b Feb. 24, 18-*4. d Mar 14 

IMC,. 

William Kimball m Mary M. { i Son b Mar 22, 1856, 
Howard B. Kimball m Lizzie F. Hill. 

( J J II. DREW 

Cora Mary b Aug. 26, 1882. 
Lizzie H. b Jan. 14. 1884. 
Omar H. b Mar. 12, 1885. 

Nathaniel Kimball m July 17, 1796 Lucy Tyler. 

i 1III.I»IM.\ 
Elisha b Jan. 4. 1796. 
Abigail b June 28. IT - 
Leonard b 1801. d May 6. 1*83. 

Elisha Kimball b June 4. 1796 d May 8, 1*72. Dracut Mass. m April 29, 188$ 
Sally Parker Torsie. 

CHILDREN. 

Mary H. b April 12. 1823 m June 1, 1846 John L. Messer. 

Eliza b Sept. 4. 1825. 

Sarah Gilman b April 3. 1S28. 

Mathias Currier b Sept 25. 1830. m Sept. 11. 1860. Maria A. Moores. 

Lucy b Sept. 7. 1832. 

Stephen Huse b Nov. 5, 1834. 

Asa Kimball b Concord N. H. m Sept. 24, 1795 Hepzibah Webber. 

Phebe Kimball Int. Sept. 12, 1872 Thomas Pace. 

Mehitable Kimball b Bradford Int. Aug. 20, 1887 Alpheus Messer. 

Micah Kimball b Bradford Int. Aug. 3, 1795 Hannah Kimball b Methuen. 

Fanny Kimball m May 20, 1830 Ezekiel Carter. 

Eveline Kimball m Oct. 17, 1830 Isaiah Silver. 

Martha C. Kimball m Mar. 4, 1832 William C. Howe of Maiden. 

Sarah R. Kimball m May 6, 1832 Jonathan C. Baily. 

Elizabeth Kimball of Boston m June 17, 1827 Jonathan Tebbetts. 

Rachel Kimball m May 17, 1826 Samuel Aver. 

Katie Cleora Alger b Dec. 20. 1857 m George Kimball. 

Hannah Kimball b 1778 d Wenham June 13, 1846. 
Elizabeth Kimball (Wid.) b April 24, 1794 d Jan. 18, 1857. 



February L903. 



I Kimball b 1778. d Mai 
•Mii.nl] b June 31, d Jan I, I8< 

MARBLKHl m> MA.M 

taa Kimball m Oct 81, 1 :•  Abigail Smith. 

HI I »R I 

Aaal 

II. was shipwrt fl & uin ;in<l <li«-.i before 1788 m Eleanor Martin 

daughter of Thomas and Sarah Martin. 

« m I DBl N. 

Martin Bap. April ii. 1779 m Mary Cnshman 
Timothy Bap Mar. ll. 1781. died young. 
'1 mothy Bap. Aug. ll. 1785. m Diana Keech. 

I win 1) 1784 (1 Oct. •-'. L786. 

After the death of Timothy Kimball his family lived in Rockland Me. 

Samuel Kimball m Mary Cnshman. He died a1 

< 1 1 1 1 . i ' i : i S 
Timothy <ly. 
William C. 
Daniel I 
S phrona b 1815, m Martin Marsh. 

Timothy Kimball & Diana Keech Bad a son Robert Kimball. 

Abraham Kimball b May 3, 1803. d June 13, 1865. He was son of John Kim- 
ball in Oct. 16, 1829 Martha Holden b Sept. 1801. d Jan. 9, L853. 

CHILDREN. 

Mary Elizabeth Bap. Nov. 21, 1830 m June .'. 1850. Thomas J. lilackler, 
Martha E. b*1836 m M iv 3, L885 Mich sal G >3S. 
Abraham b Dec. 31, 1844 d Oct. 3, 184:.. 
-aham b May 28, 1848, d Sept. 6, 1849. 

Abraham Kimball m Mrs. Elizabeth Shearer Jan. 9, 1859. 
Sarah Kimball m Feb. 6, 1772 John Johnson. 
Sarah Kimball m Nov. 10. 1772 Thomas Carruth. 
John Kimball m Aug. 16, 1806 Sally Woolridge. 

Joseph Kimball b 1792 d •fcpt. 21, 1861. 

Mary B (Smith) Kimball b July 31, 1803 d Oct. 11, 1890. Wife of William. 

Abraham Kimball d Sept. 26, 1807. 

Daniel Kimball d Jan. 15, 1815 in the Hospital at New York. 

XATICK MASS. 

Alice (Simpson) Kimball b England Aug. 21, 18 35 o" June 20, 1853 She was 
the daughter of Robert Simpson and the wife of .... Kimball. 

NEEDIIAM MASS. 

vYilliam A. Kimball b 1828 Bethel Me. son of Jedediah & Dolly Kimball m 
Feb. 17, 1861 Matilda A. Allen b 1838. 



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