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and several treatises on

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gist,

Kimball, Frederick J., railroad president, was born Marcli (i. 1S44, in Pliiladelphia, Pa. Since 18I».> he lias been president of the Norfolk and Western railroad at Philadel-

Mass.

seientiiic '

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was

iMirn

June

20,

184»!.

served in the fourteenth regiin the civil war. He is the author of Pinev Home; Jay Gould Harmon; and the Laekawannas

on Moosehend. Kimball, Gilman, educator, surgeon, was born Dee. 8, 1804, in Hill, N.H. He was professor of surgery in N'ermont medical college in 1844; and for many years had charge of the Lowell medical institute. He died July 27. 18!V2. in Ltnvell, Mass. Kimball, Hannah Parker, author, poet, was born April 2."», 18t51, in Hoston, Mass. She is a Uoston poet and tiie author of Soul and Sense, and Other Verses; The Cup of Life and Other Poems; and Victory, and Other Wrses. Kimball, Harriet McEwen, poet, was born Nov. 2, 1834, in Portsmouth, N.H. She is Portsmouth, N.H. writer of a religious She is the author of Swallow Flights of Song; Hymns; The Rlesscd Company of All Faitiiful People; and ('omplete Poems. Kimball, Increase, inventor, was born Oct. 2(i, 1777. in Concord, N.H. He invented cut nails; and devised the lirst machinery He died Sept. 16, for th»'ir manufacture. Hanover. N.H. 1S.")(5, ill Kimball, Ingalls, publisher, founder, was

West Newton. Mass. he graduated frorn April 2, 1874, in

In

18V>4

linn

of

Stone

and York

Kimball of New and in 18!»4 founded The Chap Hook. In 18!)7 he es-

City;

tablished the Chelten-

ham

press,

<»f

which

he is president. He is also president of the

Kngraving machine company, the Neucompany, the London and other corcraft

Chelt«'nham press of porations.

Kimball, James William, litterateur, auwas lM»rn F<'h. 4. 1812, Salein, Mass. the author of Heaven Mv Father's Friendly Words With Fellow Pilgriujs; Fncourageinents to Faith; How to See Je^Ms; and The Christian Ministry. He thor,

He was Home;

died

March

28, 1885, in

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Newton, Mass.

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Hampden,

in

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ment Maine volunteer infantry

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Kimball, George Clifton, educator, was born March 28, 1803, in Farniinjijton, N.H. IN' has Ix'cn instructor in latin and Greek at Pliillipa academy; and at lirewster academy of Wolfeborough, N.H. Kimball, George Selwyn, soldier, author,

school;

at

Harvard college; and Germany. He was geologist of the Wisconsin and Illinois geological surveys; and in 186102 was professor of chemistry and economic geology at the New York ogrieulat universities of

L

phia, Pa.

Maine.

James Putnam, soldier, geolowas born April 20, 1836, in Salem, He was educated at the Lawrence

Kimball,

political

questions.

I^H

tural college of Ovid, In 1862 he entered the I'nion army as as^*i^tant a<ljutant-general, with the rank of captain. In 1804-74 he resumed ills mining |)ractice in New York City. In 873 he acceptfd honorary professorship of •;eology in Iy«diigh university at Bethlehem. Pa. In 1885 he was appointed director of tillCnitrr of the constitutional convention to revise the constitution of the state. In 1880 he became president of the Concord gas light company; and is now its treasurer. In 1881 he became a member of the New Hampshire state senate; and was elected its president. Since 1870 lie has Ix'en treasurer of the Merrimack county savings bank; and is a dircn:tor of various corporations. He is the autlior of (Jenealogy of The Joseph Kimball Family. senator. 1821,

Kimball, John Calvin, clergyman, educaauthor, was born May 23, 1832, in Ipswich. Mass. In 1802-63 he was chaplain in the eighth Massachusetts regiment. He is now a clergyman of Sharon, Mass. He is tile author of The Evolution of a New Knglan<l T<iwn; Anarchism and the Anarchists iind a scoti- of other works. t«»r.

Kimball, John White, soldier, was born F. b. 27. 1S2.S. in Fitchburg. Mass. In 1861 he was major in the Hfteenth regiment Massa<-husetts infantry; and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers. He was )ionoral)1y mustere<l out in 1863. Kimball, Joseph Horace, journalist, author, was born in 1813 in Pembroke, N.H. He edited The Herald of Freedom of Concord, an anti-slavery jotirnal. He published jointly with two friends Kmancipation in the Wrflt Indies: a Six Months' Tour in Antigua. Parbadoes. and .Tumaica. in 1837.

He

died April

11, 18.38, in

Pembroke, N.H.

Kimball, Martha Gertrude, philanthropist.