Kimball, Frederick J – King, Charles
Kimball, Frederick J
railroad president, was born March 6, 1844, in Philadelphia, Pa. Since 1895 he has been president of the Norfolk and Western railroad.
Kimball, Gilman
educator, surgeon, was born Dec. 8, 1804, in Hill, N. H. He became one of the most noted physicians and surgeons of New England; and for many years had charge of the Lowell Medical institute.
Kimball, Hannah Parker
author, poet, was born in 1861 in Massachusetts. She is a Boston poet, whose work includes Soul and Sense, and Other Verses; and The Cup of Life and Other Poems.
Kimball, Harriet Mcewen
poet, was born Nov. 2, 1834, in Portsmouth, N.
H. She is a religious verse-writer of Portsmouth, N. H., and the author of Swallow Flights of Song; Hymns; The Blessed Company of All Faithful People; and Complete Poems.
Kimball, Increase
inventor, was born Oct. 26, 1777, in Concord, N. H. He invented cut nails and devised the first machinery for their manufacture. He died Sept. 16, 1856, in Hanover, N. H.
Kimball, James Putnam
soldier, geologist, was born April 26, 1836, in Salem, Mass. In 1861 he entered the union army as assistant adjutant-general, with the rank of captain, and was assigned to duty as chief of staff under General Patrick. In 1873 he accepted the honorary professorship of geology in Lehigh university at Bethlehem, Pa. In 1885 he was appointed director of the United States mints.
Kimball, James William
author, was born Feb. 4, 1812, in Salem, Mass. He was the author of Heaven my Father's Home; Friendly Words with Fellow Pilgrims; Encouragements to Faith; How to See Jesus; and The Christian Ministry.
He died March 28, 1885, in Newton, Mass.
Kimball, Joseph Horace
journalist, author, was born in 1813 in Pembroke, N. H. He resided in Concord, N. H., where he edited The Herald of Freedom, an antislavery journal. He published jointly with two friends Emancipation in the West Indies; a Six Months' Tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and Jamaica, in 1837. He died April 11, 1838, in Pembroke, N. H.
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.
Kimball, Sumner I
state legislator, was born Sept. 2, 1834, in Lebanon, Maine.
In 1859 he was elected to the Maine house of representatives, and in 1878 was elected superintendent of the United States life saving service.
Kimball, Sumner Increase
lawyer, state legislator, was born Sept. 2, 1834, in Lebanon, Maine. He was a representative in the Maine state legislature in 1859. On the erection of the life-saving service into a separate bureau, he was appointed the general superintendent of that service.
Kimball, William Wallace
piano manufacturer, was born in 1828, in Maine. He was founder of the piano and organ making industries of Chicago, and pioneer of the wholesale music trade of the north. In 1882 the business was reorganized under the corporate name of W. W. Kimball and Co., the founder being president and controlling owner.
In 1887 the growth of trade led to the occupancy of the mammoth structure, southeast corner State and Jackson streets, the final removal to the statelier and more commodious Kimball building, 147-157 Wabash avenue, being made in the spring of 1891.
Kimbark, Seneca Du Bois
manufacturer, was born March 4, 1832, in Venice, N. Y. He has made Chicago the distributing center of heavy hardware in the west, and the exporter of large quantities of this merchandise to Australia, the South American republics and Mexico. In Chicago the business occupies six-story warehouse, and as an adjunct to its operations a factory is maintained in Elkhart, Ind. a
Kimberly, Lewis Ashfield
naval officer, was born April 2, 1830, in Troy, N. Y. He was appointed a midshipman in the navy from Illinois in 1846, and was commissioned rear-admiral in 1887.
Kimble, Sam
lawyer, poet, was born June 19, 1854, in Sarahsville, Ohio. In 1873 he graduated from the Kansas State Agricultural college, with the degree of A.
B. In 1875 he was admitted to the bar, and is now one of the foremost lawyers of Kansas, at Manhattan. He has served as city attorney for three terms; two terms as county attorney; and has filled various other public positions of honor. While his literary work has been chiefly in prose, he has also written a number of meritorious poems, which have appeared in the leading newspapers and magazines, in Poets of America, and other standard works.
Kimbrough, Thomas Charles
lawyer, was born Jan. 29, 1872, in Carrollton, Miss. He is a prominent lawyer of Jackson, Miss.; and secretary of the railroad commission, his term of four years commencing in January, 1896.
Kimmell, William
agriculturist, state senator, congressman, was born in Baltimore, Md. He was a state senator from 1866 to 1871; and was elected a representative from Maryland to the fortyfifth and forty-sixth congresses. He died Dec. 28, 1886.
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Kincaid, Charles Easton
journalist, jurist, was born in 1855, in Danville, Ky. He is the Washington correspondent of the Louisville Daily Times. HARRISON RITTEN- HOUSE, journalist, was born Jan. 3, 1836, in Madison county, Ind. During 1868-79 he was a clerk in the United States senate; and during 1895-99 was secretary of state of Oregon, and also state auditor.
He issued the first number of the Oregon State Journal in 1864; and has contributed extensively to current literature.
Kincaid, John
congressman, was born Feb. 15, 1791, near Danville, Ky.
He was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1829 to 1833. He died Feb. 7, 1875.
King, Adam
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1827 to 1833. He died May 6, 1835.
King, Andrew
lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born March 20, 1812, in Greenbrier county, Va. ne was elected to the Missouri state senate in 1846; to the house of representatives in 1858; and was judge of the circuit court from 1859 to 1864. He was elected to the forty-second congress as a democrat.
KING, MRS. ANNA [EICHBERG], author, was born in 1853, in Switzerland. She is a Boston writer of short stories, and the author of Brown's Retreat, and Other Stories; and Kitwyk Stories.
King, Austin Augustus
lawyer,, jurist, congressman, governor, was born Sept. 20, 1801, in Sullivan county, Tenn.
He removed to Missouri in 1830; in 1834 was elected to the Missouri legislature; was re-elected to the same position in 1836; and in 1837 was appointed a circuit judge for Ray county, which position he held until 1848, when he was elected governor of Missouri, the term of that office expiring in 1853. In 1862 he was elected a representative from Missouri to the thirty-eighth congress. He died April 22, 1870, in St. Louis, Mo.
King, Charles
soldier, journalist, state legislator, college president, was born March 16, 1789, in New York city.
The war of 1812 with England found him actively engaged in business, and although he held the opinion that it was injudicious, he gave the government his support, both in the legislature of New York, to which he was elected in 1813 and as a volunteer in 1814. He published the New York American, a conservative newspaper, and was its sole editor from 1827 till 1845, when he became one of the editors of the Courier and Enquirer, holding that post until 1849. In that year he was chosen president of Columbia college. He died in October, 1867, in Frascati, Italy.
King, Charles
soldier, author, was born Oct. 12, 1844, in Albany, N. Y. He was a United States army officer, retired in 1879 with the rank of captain. Among his many publications are, Famous and Decisive Battles; Between the Lines; Campaigning with Crook; Stories of Army Life; Cadet Days; The Colonel's Daughter; The Deserter; A War Time Wooing; Kitty's Conquest; Under Fire; Waring's Peril; Foes in Ambush; Fort Frayne; and Noble Blood.