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 HERKINGSHAW S

LlllHAHY OP AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.

imK);

in tlu- city of Wusliingtoii in

niiil

in

Conconl savings bank:

and

411 is

now

presi-

ot the .Nleciianics' national bank. He also H director of the Concord railway; 4»f various other corporations.

the following yrnr was appointi-tl rliief justice of the I'nited States circuit court for the District of Columbia. lie died in Wasii-

di-nt

ington. I).C. Kimball, Alanson M., merchant, state vgishitor, conj^rcxHiiian. was born Marcli 12, He moved to the 1827, in Huxton, Main«>. state of WisconHin, and in lH(Ki-04 was a

Kimball, Claries Dean, merchant, goverwas born Sept. l:i, 18.'>!>, in Providence, For many years he was engaged in tlu' mercantile business in Providenw. R.I. In Island house of representatives. In HKK)(II he was lieutenant governor; and in li)02was governor of Rhode Island. He is president of the board of managers of the
 * 8!M !)!! was a memlM>r of the Rhode

member a

of

the

In

h';»islature.

repn-sentativc

from

lH7.'»-77

was

Wisconsin to the

forty-fourtli ct>n>jress.

Kimball, •July

14,

soKlier.

was born

Lawrtnce. N.Y.

he was eommissi(»ned

IStU

In

lieutenant in the volunlie served throughout the teer infantry, civM war and received the brevets of captain major, ;ieutenant-col02 he was retired with the rank v iiinety-eiijhth

lirst

rc;:iment

New York

hrijjadier-fi;eneral.

Kimball, Arthur

Lalanne,

educator, au-

thor, wns horn Oct. U». IS-'ili. in Succfsunna IMains, N.-I. H<' lias Ihm-u professor of physHe is ics at Amherst college since IKIU. the author of The Thysiial Properties of

H.I.

Kliode

Island

Kimball, Arthur Richmond, librarian, was In b4»rn -lull. 21». 1S»>2, in Concord. N.ll. 1882 he graduated from a classical course at the Concord high HcluMd: and afterward at

Woolson

Moses

private school of

New

Hampshire. He studied

law; an

was admitted to the Hampshire bar,

N«'w but that

I8

practiced profession. In

nev«'r

he became state

librarian

of

New

Hampshire; and in 18!)1 became fre«' pubHe was secretary lic library c<»mmissioner. of the New Hampshire library assm-iation organization in 18iK>. Since 18i)7 he has binn connected with the library of congress at Washington, D.C; and is now in charge of the binding division. its

Kimball, Benjamin Ames, mechanical enrinancier, legislator, gineer, manufacturer, was born .Aug. 22. 18:1:1, in Boston, Mass. He entered the employ of the Concord railroad as a draftsman; and in 18.'i8 succeeded his brother John as a master mechanic. This position he occupied until 180.") when he resigned to become a member of Ford and Kimball of Concord, manufactun-rs of car wliwls and brass and iron castings. In 1870 he was a member of the New Hampshire house of rej»resentativ«'s; and in 187l» was a member of the constitutional convenHe was president and trustee of the tion.

of

ccdleg.'

agricultural

and

mechanical arts. Kimball, was horn

Charles

E.,

railroad

president,

1S.'>7 He is in in Hristcd, R.l. prcsidi nt and <lirector of the Chicago, Peoria and St. L<niis railway company and other cor|iorat ions.

Kimball, Edgar Allan, sohlier, was born Jan. ;5. Ivil. in Pembroke. N.H. In 1847-48 he was a captam and brevet-major in the He served with galrnitt'il States army. lantry in the .Mexican war; and was the lirst man to .scale the walls of Chapultepec, In receiving the surrender of the castle. 1802 he was colonel of a New York regiment of zouaves. He died April 12, 186.3, in SulTolk,

tJjises.

at

nor,

il.'{

Amos Samuel,

1K4U, in

is

and a dinvtor

Va.

Edward Fenno, government was born Nov. 17, 18.V.». in North He was educated in the Keiwick, Maine. public and private schools and institutes of Washington, D.C; and is a graduate of the Kimball,

ollicial,

revenue cutter service. He has been lieutenant in the I nited States revenue cutter service: and for several years was chief clerk of the money order system in the Cnited States post«dIice department. Sinw PI04 he lias been I'nited States superintendmoney order system in the ent of the nited States postoflice d«'partm«'nt. I Mrs. Emma Adeline, educator, 22. 1847, in Rye, N.H. author of a volume of pm'ms enWaysitle Fhiwers; an<l a genealogical

Kimball,

was horn Dec.

poet,

She

is

titled

tlu-

work. The P<-aslees and Others. Kimball, Frank Willard, lawyer, lecturer, musician, author, was born Dec. 10, 18t»7, in In 1884 he entered the Augusta. Maine.

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academy of San Luis Obispo. Caland subseifornia,

HesiM'rian

ipiently continued his

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education in Boston and Somerville, Mass.

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18!10 he was adIn mitted to the bar, and attained

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is

an

profession. eloijuent

He and

speaker

on the lecture platform. He is a writer an<l musician; and author of the Saxoptione Quartette; the

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