Kimball M. McLaughlin of Salem, N.H. Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire

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Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

Page 1295

     KIMBALL M. McLAUGHLIN, a prominent farmer and lumber dealer
of the town of Salem, Rockingham County, N. H., was born in this town in
1863, son of John and Susan T. (Kimball) McLaughlin. The father, John
McLaughlin, was born in Belfast, Ireland, where he acquired a good education.
When eighteen years of age he came to America, settling in Providence, R. I.,
where he learned the tailor's trade. Subsequently he worked at his trade in
Lowell, Mass., and later in Methuen, Mass., coming to Salem, N. H., in 1838.
Here he engaged in business for himself, but after awhile went to Wolfboro,
where for some time he carried on a large business. He finally returned to
Salem, however, and devoted the rest of his life to farming. In politics
he was a democrat, and he was widely recognized as a useful and public spir-
ited citizen. His wife Susan was born in Salem, N. H. They had seven
children, namely: James B., who married Carrie Batchelder and has three
sons and a daughter; Maria J., who married I. H. Lancaster; John D ; Mary
Elizabeth, who married L. O. Norris; Clement A., Kimball M. and Loren B.
     Kimball M. McLaughlin was educated in the public schools of Salem and
at Derry, N. H. He subsequently took up farming as his chief occttpation and
is now operating a large farm successfully, besides dealing to a considerable
extent in lumber. One of Salem's substantial business men, he is strongly
interested in the welfare of the town.
     Mr. McLaughlin married Miss Margaret Crowell, daughter of William G.
and Malinda I. Crowell, her father being a native of Salem and her mother
of Haverhill, Mass.