Sedgwick County KS Archives Biographies.....Kimball, Ellwood D. 1859 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   Ellwood D. Kimball, who has achieved a prominent place in the mortgage loan
world of Wichita, Kan., is a scion of the Granite state. He was born at Nashua,
N. H., on September 29, 1859. The family is an old and historic one, tracing
their ancestry back to the Puritan days of 1640. The parents of Mr. Kimball were
John G. and Betsy Chandler (Spalding) Kimball, both of whom spent their entire
life in New England. Young Kimball acquired his early education in Nashua, where
he went through the grammar grades, the Nashua High School, after graduation
from which he went to historic Dartmouth College, from which he received the
degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1861 and Master of Arts in 1884. His first
occupation was that of a teacher of Latin, in which capacity he served the Rayen
(funded) High School at Youngstown, Ohio, during the years 1882-83-84. Mr.
Kimball came to Wichita in December, 1884, and at once engaged in the loan
business as a clerk in the office of Judge W. C. Little. During the years
1885-86 he was engaged as a clerk, but in 1887 he was admitted to a partnership,
the style of the firm being Little & Kimball. This partnership continued until
1890, when the firm organized the Wichita Loan and Trust Company, with Mr.
Little as president and Mr. Kimball as treasurer. The company continues in
business until the present time, but in 1891 Mr. Kimball withdrew and engaged in
the mortgage loan business, in which he has been successfully engaged ever
since. Mr. Kimball has been actively identified with affairs in the city and
county and is a member of the Commercial Club, the Country Club, the Chamber of
Commerce and the Masonic fraternity, including the commandery and consistory. He
is also a Shriner. Mr. Kimball is also a life member of the New England
Historical-Genealogical Society, of Boston, Mass., and the Kansas State
Historical Society. Mr. Kimball was married on September 12, 1888, to Miss
Luella A. Johnson, daughter of Levi L. Johnson, of Burton, Ohio. Mrs. Kimball is
president of the Colonial Dames of the State of Kansas.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from 

History of Wichita and Sedgwick County: past and present, including an account
of the cities, towns and villages of the county

Editor in chief: O. H. Bentley
Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co. (1910)


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