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536 of his crew by an explosion, caused by a shot which entered the steam drum, and was himself so badly scalded that the amputation of his left arm was necessary. He received his commission as captain on 16 July, 1862, was made a commodore on 25 July, 1866, and commanded the Norfolk navy-yard till 1870, when he was retired from ac- tive* service with the rank of rear-admiral.

KIMBALL, Edgar Allison, soldier, b. in Pembroke, N. H., in 1821 ; d. in Suffolk, Va., 12 April, 1863. He was trained as a printer, and became the proprietor and editor of the " Age," a liberal Democratic newspaper published at Woodstock, Vt. He was appointed a captain of infantry in the U. S. army on 9 April, 1847, and served till his regiment was disbanded on 26 Aug., 1848, earning the brevet of major at Contreras and Churubusco. He was the first man to scale the walls of Chapul- tepec, and received the surrender of the castle from Gen. Bravo. After his return he was for some time employed in the office of a New York journal. In the beginning of the civil war he joined a New York regiment of zouaves, and was commissioned major of volunteers on 13 May, 1861. At the battle of Roanoke Island, N. C, on 7 Feb., 1862, he carried the enemy's works, and on 14 Feb. he was promoted lieutenant-colonel, and soon after- ward succeeded to the command of the regiment. He participated in the reduction of Fort Macon, and in the battles of Antietam and Fredericks- burg. While the regiment was encamped at Suf- folk he was killed by Col. Michael Corcoran, who, according to one account, was kept back while passing through the lines on urgent business, and shot the officer who detained him. Another ver- sion is, that Corcoran either mistook, or pretended to mistake, the rival leader for an assassin.

KIMBALL, Gilman, surgeon, b. at Hill, N. H., 8 Dec, 1804. He was graduated in medicine at Dartmouth in 1827, and practised for a short time at Chicopee, Mass. He then visited Europe, at- tended clinics in Paris, and in 1830 settled in Lowell, Mass. He was elected professor of sur- gery in Vermont medi- cal college, Woodstock, in 1844, and in Berk- shire medical college, Pittsfield, Mass., the year following, but subsequently resigned both professorships in order to assume the di- rection of the Lowell hospital, which was es- tablished by the pro- prietors of factories in that town for the bene- fit of the operatives. He served for four months as brigade surgeon under Gen. Benjamin F. Butler in the be- f inning of the civil war, and at Annapolis and 'ortress Monroe superintended the organization of the first military hospitals that were established for National troops. In 1882 Dr. Kimball was E resident of the American gynecological society. >uring his surgical practice, extending over nearly sixty years, he performed many successful opera- tions. He has contributed to medical literature papers on gastrotomy, ovariotomy, uterine extirpa- tion, and the treatment of fibroid tumors by elec- tricity, and was the first practically to illustrate the value of the latter method.

KIMBALL, Harriet McEwen, poet, b. in Portsmouth, N. H., 2 Nov., 1834. Her works con- sist chiefly of religious lyrics. She has published several volumes, including " Hymns " (Boston, 1867); "Swallow Flights of Song" (New York, 1874); and "The Blessed Company of all Faith- ful People" (New York, 1879).

KIMBALL, Heber Chase, Mormon leader, b. in Sheldon, Franklin co., Vt., 14 June, 1801 ; d. in Salt Lake City, Utah, 22 June, 1868. He received a common-school education, worked in his father's blacksmith-shop in West Bloomfield, N. Y., after- ward learned the potter's trade with a brother, pur- chased the business, and carried it on for ten years in Mendon, Monroe co., N. Y. He married at the age of twenty-one. On 15 April, 1832, he was baptized into the church of the Latter Day Saints in Victor, N. Y., being ordained an elder by Joseph Smith in 1832, and was chosen one of the twelve Mormon apostles on 14 Feb., 1835. In the autumn of 1838 he was taken prisoner by the troops, but, not being so well known in Missouri as the other leaders, was released with Brigham Young, and with him led the Mormons into Illinois, where they established their church at Commerce, and afterward at Nauvoo. He went with Young on a mission to England, and remained nearly two years, returning in the summer of 1841. He left Nauvoo on 17 Feb., 1846, after the exodus had begun, and was one of the pioneer band that encamped in the valley of the Great Salt Lake on 24 July, 1847. In the autumn he returned to the winter-quarters on the Missouri river to assist in the next season's emigration. On 27 Dec, 1847, he was chosen to be a counsellor of Brigham Young in the presidency of the Mormon church.

KIMBALL, Increase, inventor, b. in Concord, N. H., 26 Oct., 1777 ; d. in Hanover, N. H., 16 Sept., 1856. He learned the tinman's trade, and fol- lowed it in Hanover. About 1804 he invented cut nails, and devised the first machinery for their manufacture. He refused a large sum for the patent, but never profited by it, because the man- ufacture was carried on with improved machinery, under patents that were obtained by others, fn later life religious excitement affected his mind.

KIMBALL, James Putnam, geologist, b. in Salem, Mass., 26 April, 1836. He was educated at the Lawrence scientific school of Harvard, the universities of Berlin and Gottingen, and the Freiberg school of mining. Subsequently he followed a practical course in engineering, mining, and metallurgy at Freiberg, Saxony. On his return to the United States he became connected with the state geological surveys of Wisconsin and Illinois. He was professor of chemistry and economic geology at the New York state agricultural college at Ovid in 1861-2, and then became assistant adjutant-general of volunteers, with the rank of captain. In this capacity he served during the civil war as chief of staff to Gen. Marsena R. Patrick, participating in the campaigns of the Army of the Potomac. He afterward served on the general staff under McClellan, Burnside, Hooker, and Meade, successively. Failing health led to his resignation from the army in 1863, and then making New York city his residence he resumed the practice of his profession. In 1874 he became honorary professor of geology at Lehigh university, and thenceforth 'until 1885 resided in Bethlehem, Pa. He was appointed in June, 1885, director of the U. S. mint, at the head of the bureau in Washington, under the control of which all the mints and assav-offices of the United States were placed in 1873. Dr. Kimball is a mem-