Teton County ID Archives Biographies.....Kimball, Ray C. 1869 - 
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    RAY C. KIMBALL is the vice president of the First National bank of Driggs
and is also engaged in stock raising about two miles north of the town. Born in
Salt Lake City on the 22d of August, 1869, he is a son of Heber P. and Phoebe
(Judd) Kimball, who were natives of New York and Canada respectively. The father
devoted his life to farming and stock raising and was among the first
representatives of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to cross the
plains and take up the work of colonizing Utah. He arrived in that state in
1847, after making the journey westward with ox teams, the first trip being in
company with his parents. Later he made various trips across the plains, for he
followed freighting for a number of years. He afterward concentrated his efforts
and energies upon cattle raising near Salt Lake and later he engaged in the same
line of business in Nevada. He then returned to Utah, where he once more devoted
his attention to cattle raising and was thus engaged to the time of his death.
For one year he filled a mission for the church in New York. He passed away in
February, 1885, and was long survived by the mother, who died in July, 1912. 

    Ray C. Kimball was reared and educated in Salt Lake City. He continued with
his parents to the age of twenty years and in 1889 removed to the Teton basin of
Idaho, settling in what was then Bingham county and is now Teton county. He
filed on land and also purchased farm property, which he developed and improved.
His homestead was situated eight miles from Driggs and he continued its
cultivation until 19 18, when he sold the property. He is now engaged in
operating a farm of six hundred and forty acres two miles north and a half mile
west of Driggs. Here he raises sheep and cattle and has successfully continued
the business to the present time. He made a specialty of Ayrshire cattle, having
the only herd of the kind in the state, but is not now engaged in raising that
breed. Since the organization of the First National Bank of Driggs he has been
one of its stockholders and directors and is now its vice president. 

    On the 28th of August, 1896, Mr. Kimball was married to Miss Emily Seymour
and to them were born five children: Chase, Judd, Edith, Cora and Lois. Chase is
attending the Agricultural College at Logan, Utah, while the other children are
in school at Driggs. 

    Mr. Kimball's political endorsement is given to the democratic party. His
has been a life of diligence, actuated by laudable ambition. Each successful
move that he has made has stimulated him for larger activities and his energies
have brought him prominently to the front in connection with public interests
and the material development of the community in which he lives. 


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