Charles D. Kimball Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1151-1152 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. V (1915) and was 
	scanned, OCRed and edited by Maurice Krueger, mkrueger@iw.net.

	This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit 
	organizations for their private use. 

	Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval 
	system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other 
	means requires the written approval of the file's author.

	This file is part of the SDGENWEB Archives. If you arrived here inside
	a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at

	http://usgwarchives.org/sd/sdfiles.htm


				CHARLES D. KIMBALL. 

	Charles D. Kimball, conducting an extensive tailoring 
establishment at Sioux Falls, was born in Portland, Michigan, March 21, 
1877, a son of Richard Henry and Myra Louise (Halladay) Kimball. The 
father died in Michigan, but the mother is still living in that state. 

	In the common schools of his native city Charles D. Kimball 
pursued his education and afterward became a traveling salesman, 
spending several years upon the road. He then became a partner in the 
firm of Snow & Kimball, purchasing what was known as the Snow system of 
dressmaking, and established headquarters at Rockford, Illinois. They 
began teaching and introducing this system into the public schools and 
as the value of the system became recognized their patronage increased 
and the system is still being taught in the public schools both east 
and west. The idea was to give instruction in the mechanical side of 
cutting and similar work as well as in sewing and the plan proved a 
great success. Mr. Kimball remained a member of the firm from 1905 
until 1908, but in July of the latter year sold his interest and 
removed to Sioux Falls and established a school of dressmaking, which 
he conducted for two years. He then converted this into a ladies' 
tailoring establishment and in January, 1915, he opened his present 
business for the tailoring of the garments of both men and woman, 
having the finest establishment of this kind west of Chicago. He is 
located on Phillips avenue, the finest business section of the city, 
and has been accorded an extensive and gratifying patronage. 

	On the 6th of November, 1905, Mr. Kimball was married at St. 
Paul, Minnesota, to Miss Louise Pohn, a daughter of Henry W. and Louise 
Pohn, of Winona, Minnesota. Mr. and Mrs. Kimball have two children: 
Gretchen Louise, who was born December 26, 1906; and Richard Henry, 
born October 8, 1908 

	Mr. Kimball holds membership with the Knights of Pythias and with 
Minnehaha Lodge, F. & A. M., of Sioux Falls. He and his wife are active 
members of the First Church of Christ Scientist of Sioux Falls and as a 
business man he is well known and highly respected, depending upon 
ability, enterprise and energy to win him success, which is the merited 
reward of laudable ambition.