Kimball, Nathan
soldier, was born in Indiana. He served in the Mexican war as captain of volunteers, and at the beginning of the civil war was appointed colonel of a regiment of Indiana infantry. He commanded a brigade at the battle of Winchester, and was commissioned as a brigadier-general of volunteers on April 15, 1862. He was brevetted major-general on Feb. 1, 1865, and mustered out of the service on Aug. 24, 1865.
KIMBALL, RICHARD BURLEIGH, lawyer, author, was born Oct. 11, 1816, in Plainfield, N. H. He was a lawyer of New York city who founded the town of Kimball in Texas, and built the first railroad in that state. He is the author of St. Leger; Undercurrents of Wall Street Life; Letters from Cuba; Letters from England; Cuba and the Cubans; Was He Successful? To-Day in New York; Stories of Exceptional Life; Henry Powers, Banker, a novel; and Romance of a Student Life Abroad. He died in 1892.