Bio of KIMM, Albert P. (b.1879), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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Vol III, pg 235-236
ALBERT P. KIMM
Albert P. Kimm, president of the Kimm Company, is prominently known in
adver­tising circles throughout the United States. For eighteen years he has
made his home in Minneapolis and he is readily conceded to be one of this city's
foremost business men. A native of Minnesota, his birth occurred at Sleepy Eye,
on the 1st of April, 1879, a son of Theodore and Helen (Dreis) Kimm, the former
a native of Alsace-Loraine, France, and the latter of Germany. They were brought
to the United States when children, some time in the early '50s, and their
parents located in Minnesota and Illinois, respectively. The Kimms became
prominent in St. Paul's development and improvement, while the Dreis family took
an equal interest in the growth of Chicago. For some years Theodore Kimm was
engaged in shoe manufacturing in Hastings, Min­nesota, and he achieved
substantial success in that connection. He lived retired in Hastings for some
time previous to his demise, which occurred in 1901.
In the acquirement of his education Albert P. Kimm attended the public schools
of Hastings, Minnesota, and subsequently took a business course. After putting
his textbooks aside he secured a position as court reporter in Hastings and was
also clerk of the probate court of Dakota county in 1897. During that time he
took up the study of law but found that profession not entirely to his liking
and subsequently gave it up, becoming associated with a flour mill at Hastings,
where for nine years he worked in various capacities. In 1904 he came to
Minneapolis as northwestern manager for the Remington-Sholes Typewriter Company
of Chicago, a position he maintained one year, and was then for six cr eight
months northwestern manager for the Elliott-Fisher Machine Company. About this
time, however, Mr. Kimm determined to engage in business on his own account and
he established an advertising business, specializing in circular letters. The
advertising business had suggested itself to him while in the employ of the
flour mill at Hastings and he spent some little time familiarizing himself with
the business before entering it. For a time he conducted the enterprise under
the name of "Kimm, the Circular Letter Man," and in December, 1921, the concern
was incorporated as the Kimm Company, of which he is president. He now makes a
specialty of direct advertising and list and job printing. The company enjoys an
extensive and lucrative patronage, handling advertising for some of the leading
business concerns in the United States. Mr. Kimm, as chief executive of the
company, has manifold duties to perform. His keen foresight and business ability
have won for him well merited success in the business circles of the country and
he is held in high esteem by all who know him. Aside from advertising Mr. Kimm
is connected with the Savings Account Check Company, a system to induce thrift.
In Hastings, in 1910, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Kimm to Miss Katherine
H. Heinen, a daughter of Michael Heinen, who was county auditor of Dakota county
for many years and an old resident of that section of the state. Mr. and Mrs.
Kimm are parents of six children: Gervaise A., Virginia, Alberta, Herbert,
Joseph, and Katherine. Mrs. Kimm is a woman of much culture and refinement and
she is promi­nent in the club and social life of the city.
Mr. Kimm has always strictly adhered to the principles of the republican party,
in the affairs of which he has taken an active part. He is now precinct captain,
and secretary of the Eighth Ward Republican Club. He is a consistent communicant
of the Catholic church, and while a resident of Hastings, Mr. Kimm was secretary
of the Commercial Club. He was also first district governor of the Kiwanis Club
in the Northwest. He is also affiliated with the Minneapolis Athletic Club and
the Automobile Club of this city. During the World war he gave without
reservation of his time and means in the furtherance of the government's
interests and was captain of his district for every Liberty Loan drive. Mr. Kimm
is a man of high intellectual attainments and is a constant student of
scientific, medical and mechanical works. He is a lover of outdoor sports and
finds his greatest recreation in fishing and autoing. Mr. Kimm is one of the
citizens of Minneapolis who has ambition for higher and better things for the
city and who is seeking to improve conditions. He is a man of proven ability and
well calculated to inspire all with his splendid character and manly qualities.