 1888 - 1941 (52 years)
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| Name |
George Walter Kimball |
| Birth |
6 Dec 1888 |
Hingham, Mass.  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
29 Sep 1941 |
Flossmoor, Ill |
| Person ID |
I54233 |
Cecilie Family |
| Last Modified |
22 Dec 2005 |
| Father |
George Edward Kimball, b. 22 Jun 1853, Woburn, Mass. d. 1 Dec 1941, Hingham, Mass (Age 88 years) |
| Mother |
Alice Tower Howland, b. 30 Jun 1857, Cambridge, Mass. d. 23 Nov 1932, Hingham, Mass (Age 75 years) |
| Marriage |
2 Mar 1878 |
| Family ID |
F22573 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
May Valborg Christofersen, b. 16 May 1888, Chicago, Ill. d. Sep 1933, Chicago, Illinois (Age 45 years) |
| Marriage |
12 Aug 1915 |
Chicago, Ill. |
| Children |
| | 1. Paul Earle Kimball, b. 19 Nov 1916, Cornell, Ill. d. 22 Jul 1989, Indianapolis, Ind (Age 72 years) |
| | 2. Alice Josephine Kimball, b. 19 Jun 1922, Lincoln, Ill. d. 18 Mar 2008, Tempe, AZ (Age 85 years) |
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| Family ID |
F22608 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
22 Feb 2009 |
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| Notes |
George Walter Kimball
photo courtesy of Robert Howland Kimball and Eliana Marcia Villela Gomes Kimball. |
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George Walter Kimball (1868-1941)
Taken in 1926 |
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Played Saxophone in quartet in New England. Choir Director for 30 years. Went to Colby Jr. College, then Amherst for a year. Then went to Portland, Oregon and worked for Studebaker selling cars. Came back to Chicago to go to Moody Bible Inst. and Northwestern Theo. Sem.
His first parish was at Cornell, Ill. where Paul Kimball was born. Then he went to Lincoln where they were hosted by the 'Beach' family.
| Census: 1920 Lincoln, Illinois - 319 Eight Street | | name | relation | age | occupation | | George W. Kimball | head | 34 | minister P. church | | May B. Kimball | wife | 31 | | | Earle P. Kimball | son | 3 1/2 | |
After a couple years in Lincoln and a couple in France with the AEF for the Y in the motor corps., he decided he wasn't called to the ministry, so he resigned and went to work for the Chamber of Commerce in Lincoln. Then he moved to Chicago where he held the top paying job in Kiwanis Intl. (Executive Secretary)
| Census: 1930 Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois 4451 Wrightwood Avenue | | name | relation | age | born in | father born | mother born | occupation | | George W. Kimball | head | 44 | Mass | Mass | Mass | Secy. Businessman's Organization | | May Kimball | Wihe | 41 | Ill | Norway | Norway | none | | Earl Kimball | son | 13 | Ill | Mass | Ill | none | | Alice Kimball | dau | 9 | Ill | Mass | Ill | none |
Had a good baritone voice and played tenor sax. He and his brothers and grand-uncle Jim, had a sax quartet which toured New England when they were young.
After May died in 1933, moved to Flosmoor, Ill.
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