Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-05-31
THE LATE THOMAS KIMBALL.
Representative in the State Legislature Marshall County

citizens she has ever had or ever will
have. An able man. safe and conserva-
tive on business and political questions
upon which he might be consulted and
successful in his own business. has
made him man among men.
Thomas Kimball was born on small
farm near East North Andover, Mass,
Jan. 90 1916. He was the third child of
! fsee and Lydia Barnes kimball, who
SAsided at the time on the old Simball
homestead. which had been given as a
land grant to the kimball forefathers
by the king of England in 1865. Solong
had the Kimballs occupied the land that
Mr.. kimball was the seventh Thomas
to be brought into the world on the one
homestead. When years of age young
Thomas found himself fatheriess and
eight years later an orphan and without
a home. Having been reared on farm
he quite naturally sought rural life
and began at once to buckle down to the
more serious duties of life. He hired
out" to farmers in the vicinity for u
time, but after a few years sought city
life, where he might have more oppor-
tunities to advance himself He went to
Boston and secured position in ma
chine shop, where he worked five years
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to save $500. With that money, which
he considered fortune, in 1869 he emf
grated and came west. locating in La
Noble, whsre, with Mr.. Barnes, In
May of that year he formed a co-part-
nershop known as kimball & Barnes
with $1,000 capital. The business was
that Of . general store, lumber and coal
and the management OF grain. elevators.
also the buying and shipping to market
OF fattened cattle and hogs. Thai. nest
egg OF $500. with c.ose application to
business and unceasing energy, resulted
in making Thomas kimball wealthy,
and at his death he was worth probably
100000.
Mr.. Kimball was married on Dec. S,
1879, to Miss Caroline Shearer, at the
old Shearer homestead, southeast of
Melbourne. He continued in business
with Mr.. Barnes until February, 1889,
when Mr.. Barnes went west and Mr.
George L. Burdick succeeded him.
Mr.. Kimball's last illness had its
foundation in an attack of pneumonia
which he suffered in the spring of 1886.
A recurrence of a similar illness fol-
lowed that in the spring of 1897 and since
that time he has been in poor health. He
hoped, however, that by travel in west
ern countries he could regain his health
and consequently spent the fall of 1896
6nd 1897 in Colorado and the winter of
1887 in California. He did not improve,
however. as he thought he should, and
N 1889 spent the winters in Colorado.
Wyoming, Montana and the Dakotas.
travelling. By the end of the winter of
1923 he considered his general health
better and was prevailed upon by his
political friends TO come out for repre-
sentative. to succeed Hon. John y. Glass
sen. OF Green Mountain. He did so and
was elected without opposition, his two
year term not expiring until January.
After the excitement of the campaign
and the hard work were over his health
was again impaired and necessitated
him going west. to Nebraska and the
Dakotas for the summer OF 1900. Last
February he concluded. not having been
beneAted materially in the other states