Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Kimball, E. 1832 - 
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  E. KIMBALL, who was for many years closely connected with the business life of the
country, and one of its leading mill owners, although now retired from the active
pursuits of trade or manufacture, still keeps up his interests in whatsoever is for
the benefit of the community. He is a native of the State of Maine, having been born
in Oxford county, Jan. 4, 1832, and is the son of Asa and Esther A. (Walker)
Kimball, both of whom were natives of the “Pine Tree State.” His mother was a
daughter of the celebrated Col. Dexter Walker, whose history is too well known to be
repeated in this connection.

   The subject of this memoir was reared in Androscoggin county, Me., and received a
fair business education. From his boyhood he has always had a taste for study, and
is to-day a ripe scholar. On reaching the years of manhood he embarked in mercantile
business, which he carried on successfully for some thirteen years in his native
State and then came to Minnesota, locating at Forest City in the fall of 1867. The
same year, the firm of Hines, Kimball & Beedy built the large flouring mill at that
place, and the same time opened a store in the village. This business arrangement
continued until 1873, when Mr. Mines retired from the firm, the company having
erected the Manannah flour mill on the Crow River, some ten miles above Forest City.
This last Mr. Hines took and operated for several years, the business at Forest City
being continued by Kimball & Beedy until 1882, when Mr. Kimball retired from the
business on account of ill-health, paying all his attention to the improvement of
his place, one of the handsomest in Forest City township, and to bee keeping, in
which he is pro eminently successful.

   Mr. Kimball was united in marriage, February 7, 1854, with Miss Phoebe Manwell
and they are the parents of two children: Georgiana, the wife of Dr. W. E. Chapman,
of Litchfield, and Edna Cecil, at home. Both Mr. K. and his estimable wife, are
members of the Baptist Church. He is a republican in politics, and is filling the
offices of justice of the peace and coroner, and is a pension and real estate agent.
lie has held the office of justice for over fifteen years.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from
Illustrated Album of Biography
Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota
1888


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