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				OLIVER S. AND REBECCA (________) KIMBALL.

	Oliver S. Kimball, of New England parentage, and the eldest in a family of ten children, 
was born at Russell, St. Lawrence Co., March 10, 1812.  His father, Stephen Kimball, was born in 
New Hampshire in 1785, and his mother, Mercy Styles Kimball, first saw the light in Massachusetts
in 1784.  In 1831, when Oliver Kimball was nineteen years of age, he came with his father to 
Calhoun Co., Mich., which then contained but one house, and in that they lived for a time.  
Oliver remained with his father until he was twenty-one, doing the earliest pioneer work in the 
county of Calhoun; but he soon purchased a farm of his own, and conducted its affairs until 1839,
when he sold it and purchased four hundred acres in Lyons township, Ionia Co., which was then but
thinly settled and contained very few houses.  Returning to Calhoun County, he remained there 
until 1849, when he settled finally in Lyons.  He was married, Oct. 29, 1848, to Mrs. Rebecca Ann
Wright, widow of Samuel L. Wright, of Washington Co., N. Y.  She was born in West Haven, Rutland 
Co., Vt., in 1814, and by her first husband had three children.  By Mr. Kimball she had two,
--viz., William H. and Helen M. Kimball.  As the result of an accident, Mr. Kimball's death 
occurred on the 6th of March, 1880.  His widow who survives him, occupies the finely-improved 
farm which he left, and is an energetic, hard-working woman.  Mr. Kimball was in politics a 
Democrat, but was too much occupied with other work to trouble himself much with political 
matters.  He was once elected township treasurer, and was among the most influential and 
respected members of the community in which he resided.



This biography is taken from "HISTORY OF IONIA AND MONTCALM COUNTIES, MICHIGAN" 
by John S. Schenck. Philadelphia:  D. W. Ensign & Co., 1881.  Page 262.  Lyons.