DANIEL KIMBALL, Esq., AND FAMILY

Daniel Kimball, Esq., was a native of Bradford, Mass., born A. D., 1766. He removed to Pembroke, N. H., while young, and there lived for several years. He married Miss Huldah Prescott, November 15, 1792, and in 1796 bought a farm in Bradford, Vt., about two miles back from the river and near the line of Newbury, and there, with his wife and two eldest children, settled about that time. The farm was the same which is now (1874) owned by Mr. John Holmes. In 1814 Esq. Kimball purchased and moved on to the farm next South of that, the one now owned by his son, H. W. Kimball, where he spent the remainder of his days. He was a man highly esteemed by his fellow townsmen, and by them often called to fill various offices. For how many years he officiated as one of the. Selectmen, or as a Justice of the Peace, we have no exact account, but he represented this town in the State Legislature in the year 1802, and again in 1806, and thence onward, without intermission, for some years more, and finally in 1815, making nine years in the whole.  Esquire Kimball and his first wife had a family of nine children, who lived to be men arid women, namely.

1 Eliza C. born November 13, 1794; married Doctor Thomas Colby, of this town, October 29,1815; the first couple thus united by the writer, but not the last, by several hundreds. They had two sons and two daughters, of whom no one is now living, unless it should be one of the sons, who is supposed to be dead, not having been heard of for about forty years. Dr. Colby died here in 1829, at the age of forty-one years.   His widow married John  L. Corliss, of Corinth, and died January 10, 1837, in her forty-third year.

2 James Kimball, born March 26, 1796; went into the State of New York; married Sophia Maltby, March 14, 1819; had four sons and seven daughters; resided in Western New York for many years, when he removed to Florida, and died there in 1871.

3 John W. Kimball, born August 16, 1796; married Mercy Tabor, of this town, April 8, 1822. He kept the principal hotel in the village for a while; exercised the office of a sheriff; was a stirring, energetic sort of a man ; moved to Adrian, Mich., some time prior to 1840, and died there in the winter of 1873 or 4. He had a family of four children, all natives of Bradford. Charles died in Wisconsin. Caroline married Stephen Tabor, of this town, and at this date was living in widowhood in Wisconsin. Anne Eliza married in Maine, and died there. Emily married, and lives in Washington, D. C.

4 Sally Kimball, born August 14, 1801, married Dr.  David Huntoon, of Washington, Vt., October 16,1820; has six sons and tour daughters, and was at this writing living with her children in Lowell, Mass., being a widow. 

5 Hannah Kimball, born February 19, 1804, married Asa Kimball, of Gilead, Maine, January 19, 1824, and had two sons and two daughters.   She died in 1838. 

6 Phebe Kimball, born March 12, 1806, married Dea. Samuel Dearborn, of Corinth, Vt., March 22, 1837, where she still resides, a widow ; no children. 

7 Waity W. Kimball, born April 13, 1808. At the age of twenty, on profession of her faith, she became a beloved member of the Congregational church in this place. In 1839, April 13, she married T. J. Chapman, of Bethel, Maine, and died there in 1862.   No children. 

8 Adeline Kimball, born February 22, 1811, died in 1855, unmarried.

9 Julia A. Kimball, born March 28, 1814. 

Mrs. Huldah Prescott Kimball, the mother of this interesting family of .nine children, died at Bradford, November 7, 1815, nine days after the marriage of her eldest daughter, and at the age of forty-five years.  Daniel Kimball, Esq., married for his second wife, March 3, 1816, Miss Susan Huntoon, of Corinth, who was born April 8, 1790. They had one daughter, Huldah M., who died in her infancy, and four sons, namely:

1 Daniel C. Kimball, born February 23,1819, married Mary J. Smith, of Northumberland, N. H. They settled in Maidston, Vt., and had three sons and two daughters.  Mr. Kimball was called while there to fill various offices of trust and importance, as Constable, Town Clerk, and Representative of the town for two years in the State Legislature. He resided in that town some ten or twelve years, and in 1854 removed to Haverhill, Mass., where he died in April, 1873, in the fifty-fifth year of his age. 

2 Hyram W. Kimball, born July 12, 1822, married, April 21,1845, Lydia S. Burnham, of Chelsea, Vt. They had one daughter and one son, at this date still living, namely, Abbie L., a member of the Congregational church in Bradford, and wife of D. S. Johnson, of Fairlee : and Frank H., still with his father in Bradford. Mrs. Kimball died in March, 1864. Mr. Kimball married, June 1,1867, Mrs. Mary J. Brock, of Burlington, Wisconsin, whose maiden name was Mary J. Chamberlin, formerly of Newbury, Vt. They have one daughter, Alice E., and still occupy the paternal homestead. Mr. Kimball has had occasion to be efficient in town affairs, as his father was before him.

3 Edward L. Kimball, born October 21,1824, married a lady in Maine, and resides in Portland.  4 Denison S. Kimball, born July 3, 1834, married Eunice Kendall, of West Townsend, Mass. He went to re-side in that State. They had one son and two daughters.  He enlisted in a Massachusetts regiment during the late war, and was killed in the battle of Port Hudson, Louisiana, June 13, 1863.

Daniel Kimball, Esq., the honored father of these fourteen children died at Bradford, November 6, 1851, at the age of eighty-five years. His widow has since been passing the peaceful afternoon of her useful and somewhat protracted life at her old home in Bradford, with her beloved son, Hiram W.  Kimball, and his kind family.  Biographie Index

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