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KIMBALL

of Slieridan's base of supplies in the Indian cam- paign of 1868-09 ; was quaitei master, Department of Arizona, and Held quartermaster witii General Miles in the campaign against Geronimo in 1887 ; was chief quartermaster of various militar}- de- partments, 1887-97, and in March, 1897, was assigned to the charge of the general depot of the quartermaster's department in New York city. During the Spanish war of 1898 he distributed over $8,000,000 in four months, purchased and distributed to the army in the field 100,000 uni- forms in twenty days, and purchased and shipped to Tampa, Fla., fifteen car-loads of intrenching tools in thirty-six hom*s. His duties included transportation of troops, purchase and distribu- tion of supplies and the purchase and charter of transport vessels. On Nov. 13, 1898, he was pro- moted assistant quartermaster-general with the rank of colonel, U.S.A.

KIMBALL, Arthur Lalanne, educator, was born at Succasunna Plains, N.J.,Oct. 16, 1856 ; son of Horace and Mary (Fisher) Kimball, and grand- son of James Kimball of Newburyport, Mass., and of the Rev. Samuel and Alice (Cogswell) Fisher. He was graduated from the College of New Jersey, Princeton, in 1881 ; was a fellow in science there, 1881-83, and a fellow at Johns Hopkins university in 1882. He carried on ex- periments, in 1883-84, under Professor Rowland at Johns Hopkins for determining the unit of electrical resistance, under an appropriation made by the U.S. government, and received from tiiat institution the degree of Ph.D. in 1884. He was married in 1884 to Lucilla P. Scribner, of Plain field, N.J. He was an associate and an associate professor of physics at Johns Hopkins, 1884-91, and was elected professor of physics at Amherst college, Mass., in 1891. He is the author of : Physical Properties of Gases (1890), and con- tributions to scientific periodicals.

KiriBALL, Arthur Richmond, librarian, was born in Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 1862; son of AVilliam H. and Sarah M. (Cate) Kimball; grandson of Richard and Margaret (Ferrin) Kimball and of Capt. Jonathan and Elizabeth (Sanborn) Cate ; and a descendant of Ricliard Kimball (1595-1675), who emigrated from Eng- land, April 10, 1634, and was made a freeman in Watertown, Mass, in 1635. He was educated at tlie public schools and the Moses Woolson private school, at Concord. He was admitted to the New Hampshire bar in 1889, but never practised. He was state librarian of New Hampshire, 1890-95 ; cataloguer and classifier of tiie state library, 1895-97 ; New York regents' examiner for New Hampshire, and upon the organization of the New Hampshire Library association in 1890, he was made secretary, serving until January, 1897. He w^as also chosen a member of the New Hamp-

shire free public library commission, and of the American Lil)rary association in 1890. He was appointed an assistant librarian of the Library of Congress, under its enlarged administration pre- paratory to the occupancy of the new building, September, 1897 ; and was given the special work of the organization of an order division, March, 1898. Upon the passage of the act of congress establishing an order division in i)ermanent form, April, 1900, he received the appointment as chief of that division. He is the author of various contributions to newspapers and of bibliograph- ical work of local importance, which appeared in various reports of the state library.

KIMBALL, Edgar Allen, soldier, was born in Pembroke, N.H., Jan. 3, 1822. He became a printer in the office of the Baptist Register at Concord, N.H., and from there went to "Wood- stock, Vt., working in the office of the Spirit of the Age, a Democratic paper, of which he later became owner and editor. On the outbreak of the war with Mexico he was commissioned cap- tain in the 9th U.S. infantry, April 9, 1847. He was brevetted major for gallant and meritorious conduct at Contreras and Churubusco, Aug. 20, 1847, and distinguished himself at Chapultepec by scaling the walls of the stronghold, and after cutting down the flag that floated from the cita- del, with the assistance of Maj. Thomas L. Sey- mour, he received the surrender of tlie castle. After the cessation of hostilities he opened com- munication with Vei"a Cruz, and on his return to the City of Mexico he acted as paymaster of the departing troops, and was himself mustered out at Fort Adams, R.I., Aug. 26, 1848. He accepted a position on the New York Herald, and was ap- pointed weigher in the New York custom-house by President Pierce in 1853. In 1861 he was commissioned major of the 9th New York volun- teers, better known as Hawkins's Zouaves. The regiment was first sent to Fort Monroe, and afterward to Newport News, where it formed a part of General Mansfield's brigade on the penin- sula. The regiment accompanied General Burn- side's expedition to North Carolina, and Kimball led his regiment in storming the Confederate fort on Roanoke island, Feb. 7, 1862. For making this, one of the most brilliant charges of the war, he was promoted lieutenant-colonel, Feb. 14, 1862. He took part in the battle of New Berne, N.C., March 14, 1862 ; succeeded to the command of the regiment, April 8, 1862, and led in the re- duction of Fort Macon, N.C., April 25, 1862. His regiment was then assigned to the Army of the Potomac, forming a part of the 1st brigade, 3d division, 9th army corps. He led his regiment in the battles of South Mountain, Sept. 14, 1862 ; Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862, and Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862. In February, 1863, the division