page_title: Hannibal Kimball
section_title: Early years
hierarchical_section_title: Hannibal Kimball / Early years
caption_attribution_description: English: Figure 1. from US Patent #26564 by States George Cook and Hannibal I. Kimball for a carriage top-prop
context_page_description: Hannibal Ingalls Kimball was an American entrepreneur and important businessman in post-Civil War Atlanta, Georgia.
context_section_description: Born in Oxford County, Maine to family of Methodist wheelwrights.  He was the fifth boy of 10 children by his father, Peter Kimball, a highly regarded wheelwright, and his mother, Betsey Emerson.
  Hannibal stayed in the family business and the carriage business. He moved first to Norway, Maine, and later to the largest carriage manufacturing center, New Haven, Connecticut, where he partnered with his brothers George and John in a business making coach carvings and carriage parts later taken over by G .& D. Cook & Co Carriage Makers. Kimball was made partner in the company after the takeover. The carriage company flourished, and by 1860 it had over 300 employees. Many of their customers were in the South, and after the start of the American Civil War many debts went unpaid and the business failed.
  Kimball and George Cook also invented a top-prop for carriages. The patent was issued on December 27, 1859
  In 1858, Kimball married Mary Cook, the eldest daughter of his business partner, George Cook. Kimball then moved to Central City, Colorado as the agent for a mining company, and regained his fortune.  While in Colorado, he met George Pullman, who hired him in 1866 to establish the Pullman Company's sleeping car lines in the South. Initially to be headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, he decided on Atlanta, moving his family there in 1867.
  Kimball was the father of American printer Ingalls Kimball, born April 2, 1874 with the same full name, Hannibal Ingalls Kimball.
caption: Figure 1 from US Patent #26564 by States George Cook and Hannibal I. Kimball for a carriage top-prop
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