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was moved to Newport News, and on April 11, 18G3, the 9tli New York was ordered to Suffolk, Va., where Colonel Kimball was shot and killed by Col. Micliael Corcoran, who declared he had been detained by Kimball when endeavoring to pass through the line on urgent business. He died at Suffolk, Va., April 12, 1863.

KiriBALL, Qilman, surgeon, was born in Hill, N.H., Dec. 8, 1804. He was graduated from the medical department of Dartmouth college in 1827, and practised medicine at Chicopee and Lowell, Mass. He completed his medical studies at Paris, and on his return, in 1830, settled at Lowell, Mass. He was resident jjliysician of the Corpora- tion hospital for twenty -six years; was professor of surgery in the Vermont Academy of Medicine at Woodstock in 1844 and at the Berkshire Medi- cal institute at Pittsfield, Mass., in 1845. At the commencement of the civil war Dr. Kimball served as brigade surgeon under Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, and superintended the organization of the military hospitals established in 1862 at An- napolis and Fort Monroe. He was i^resident of the American Genealogical society in 1882; con- tributed largely to medical literature, and was the first to illustrate practically the benefits of the treatment of fibroid tumors by electricity. Berkshire Medical college gave him the M.D. de- gree in 1837, the Vermont Academy of Medicine in 1840 and Yale college in 1856. He also received the honorary degree of A.M. from Dartmouth in 1849. He died in Lowell. Mass., July 27, 1892.

KlflBALL, Hannibal I., capitalist, was born in Oxford county, Maine, in 1832; son of Peter Kimball. After attending the district school he learned the trade of carriage making, and in 1851 became superintendent of an extensive manufac- tory in New Haven, Conn., with offices in Boston, Mass. He was admitted a mem- ber of the firm in 1853, and was made bankrupt in 1861 by the large indebted- ness due from south- ern customers of the firm. He then re- moved to Colorado, where he became su- perintendent of a mining company. He removed to Atlanta, Ga., in 1865, having arranged with George M. Pullman of Chicago, 111., to introduce sleeping coaches on southern railroads and street cars in soutliern cities. Before the legislature of Georgia had determ- ined to change the seat of government froni

Milledgeville to. Atlanta he anticipated the im- portance to Atlanta of the change, and at his own expense purchased the unfinished opera house, then deserted, and changed the building into a complete state house. He proposed to the city of Atlanta that they purchase the building and offer it as a present to the state if the loca- tion of the state capital was changed to Atlanta. The offer was accepted and the legislature moved, into the new building. In 1870, in view of en- couraging a state fair at Atlanta, he purchased, and transformed an old field of sixty acres near the city boundary into a pleasure park, and erected buildings necessary for a large exhibition of agri- cultural and mechanical products. This state fair was followed by annual fairs and by the Interna- tional Cotton exi^osition of 1881 and the Cotton States and International exposition of 1895. Ta provide for the growing wants of the city, in 1870 he built the H. I. Kimball house, a hotel of 350 rooms, at that time the best equipped and finest hotel south of New York, and when, some years after, it was burned, he rebuilt it on a more ex- tensive scale. He erected the first cotton mill in Atlanta, and repeatedly enlarged it to meet the growing business. He also established lines of street and steam railroads in all directions to de- velop the business of the city, and at the time of his death was an officer in various railroad and other commercial companies in Atlanta and of several banking institutions. He died in Brook- line, Mass., April 28, 1895.

KiriBALL, Heber Chase, Mormon apostle, was born in Sheldon, Vt., June 14, 1801. His father was a blacksmith, and removed to Bloom- field, N.Y., where the boy worked as a black- smith and as a potter. With his brother he con- ducted pottery works at Mendon, N.Y. He was married in 1822. He was converted to the Mor- mon faith and was received. in the Church of the Latter Day Saints at Victor, N.Y., being or- dained an elder by Joseph Smith in 1832, and one of the twelve apostles, Feb. 14, 1835. In 1838 he was arrested in Missouri with Brigham Young and other leading Mormons by order of Governor Baggs, but his identity as a leader not being rec- ognized, he was released, and with Brigham Young led the party of 130 Mormons back to Quincy, 111., transferring the chui'ch to Nauvoo in September, 1839. He visited England with Orson Hyde and several elders, and by April, 1841, they had obtained 5184 converts and brouglit 800 with them to Nauvoo, which so strengthened the church that they decided to found a Zion in Utah, and with Brigham Young he led the first company of 142 men to the borders of the Great Salt Lake and established the church, July 24, 1847. He was made a counsellor of Brigham Young, Dec. 27, 1847, and as chief priest of the