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(II) John Allen, son of Samuel Allen (1), was born about 1645; married December 8, 1669, Mary Hannum, daughter of William and Honor Hannum. She was born April 5, 1650. He was killed by the Indians at Bloody Brook, Deerfield, Massachusetts, September 18, 1675. Children : 1. John, born September 30, 1670; married Bridget Booth, and Elizabeth Gard- ner ; settled in Enfield, Connecticut. 2. Sam- uel, born February 5, 1673; mentioned below. 3. Hannah, born at Northampton. May, 1675 ; baptized June 20, 1675.
(III) Samuel Allen, son of John Allen (2), was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, Feb- ruary 5, 1673 ; married there, in 1700, Hannah Burroughs, who was born in 1675. He re- moved from Northampton to King street, En- field, Connecticut, to escape from Indians, about 1700. His farm was the present Chaun- cy Allen place. He died in Enfield in 1735. Children, all born in Enfield, Connecticut : I. Samuel, born in 1702; mentioned below. 2. Joseph, born July 30, 1704; married Mary Hewlett ; lived in Enfield. 3. Hannah, born
November 13, 1706. 4. John, born 1712; re- sided in Enfield, Connecticut.
(IV) Samuel Allen, son of Samuel Allen (3), was born in 1702, at Enfield. He mar- ried, January 27, 1728, Elizabeth Booth, who was born in Enfield, August 19, 1705, and died at East Windsor, September 10, 1751. He set- tled at East Windsor, where he died Decem- ber 20, 1771. His home was on the old "Landlord Allen Place." Children, all born at East Windsor, Connecticut: I. Samuel, born June 13, 1729; died January 20, 1759. 2. Elizabeth, born March 28, 1731. 3. Abel, born August 14, 1733; mentioned below. 4. Tabitha, born April 13, 1736; married, in 1781, Abner Chapin, of Somers, Connecticut ; died April, 1790; one child. 5. Love, born July 13, 1738; died September 17, 1757. 6. Pele- tiah. 7. Zachariah, born October 31, 1742; married Huldah Parsons, and Hannah Baker ; kept public house; also tanner and carpenter. 8. Sarah, married Jonah Pasco. 9. Amzi.
(V) Abel Allen, son of Samuel Allen (4), was born in East Windsor, Connecticut, Au- gust 14, 1733 ; married January 1, 1756, Eliza- beth Chapin, of Enfield, Connecticut. Chil- dren: I. Peter, mentioned below. 2. One other child.
(VI) Peter Allen, son of Abel Allen (5), was born in East Windsor, February 3, 1764. He was a soldier in the Revolution, enlisting in a Connecticut regiment June 1, 1781. Late in life he applied for a pension, living at that time at Bristol, Connecticut. He married at Andover, Vermont, January 12, 1790, Abigail Towne, born at Amherst, New Hampshire, February 18, 1765, daughter of Archelaus and Patty Towne. He died March 18, 1809. She died April II, 1852. Children: I. Dr. Cha- pin, born December 21, 1790; married Decem- ber 1, 1817; lived at Boston, Massachusetts, and at Jacksonville, Illinois, where he died ; his son succeeded to his practice. 2. Abbott, born December 24, 1792, mentioned below. 3. Samuel, born December 19, 1795; married first, October 1I, 1820, Mary Saul; second, December 16, 1821, Harriet Maynard; third, Elizabeth Conley, sister of Mrs. Hezekiah Allen, May 19, 1828; they settled at Lagrange, Texas, where both died. 4. Mary, born April 5, 1798: married, April 19, 1820, Asa Mc- Clure ; resided at Amherst, New Hampshire. 5. Martha Towne, born April 25, 1800: died unmarried at Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Au- gust 22, 1873; buried at Nashua, New Hamp- shire. 6. Hezekiah Rice, born April 28, 1803 ; married Catherine Augusta Conley, of Boston,
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November 1, 1829; died at the home of his brother, Chapin, at Jacksonville, Illinois, when on a visit, July 18, 1840, and was buried in the college burying ground there; his widow died at Boston, January II, 1887; children : i. George Hillman, born in Boston July 28, 1830, died December 6, 1835. ii. Catherine Elizabeth, born in Boston, March 12, 1832, died June 5, 1859, married Robert Restieaux Kent, of Boston, December 22, 1852, (only surviv- ing child is (1907) George H. Kent of New York City) ; Robert Restieaux Kent married secondly, and has two children, Harry and Catherine Kent. iii. Hannah Augusta, born at Boston, December 19, 1834, died August 16, 1838; iv. George Hillman (twin), born at Bos- ton, April 13, 1837, died at Chelsea, Massa- chusetts, October 23, 1851. v. James Henry (twin), born April 13, 1837; went west, died at Rockford, Illinois; married February 4, 1859, Mrs. H. M. Hovey, of Cleveland, Ohio, at Kewaunee, Wisconsin, (children : Hannah Milton, born November 10, 1859, died Decem- ber 15, 1862; Sarah Cassandra, born October 4, 1863, married William H. Keyt, of Rock- ford, Illinois, and was living there in 1907; James Charles, born December 30, 1868, lives at Rockford) ; vi. Hannah Augusta, born at Boston, April 17, 1839; died there August 28, 1894, married July 24, 1860, Augustine J. Chamberlain, of Winchester, Massachusetts ; vii. Henrietta Rice, born at Boston, November 13, 1840, died in Chelsea, September 14, 1842.
(VII) Abbott Allen, son of Peter Allen (6), was born at Andover, Vermont, December 24, 1792, and died at Arlington, Massachusetts, in 1877. When he was a young boy the family removed to Amherst, New Hampshire. He re- ceived a common school education, and learned the trade of harness maker. At the age of six- teen he left home and found employment at Arlington, Massachusetts, in the card clothing factory of William Whittemore & Company. This factory stood just south of the present site of the Robbins Library. He worked for Gershom and Henry Whittemore until about 1825, when he resumed farming on his wife's father's place, the site of the present Allen homestead, on Massachusetts avenue. Later he bought the farm. He carried on market gardening, and became one of the earliest and best-known market gardeners of West Cam- bridge. He added much land to the farm, in- cluding the Horne estate and the island in Spy Pond, which was part of the farm, but being inadvertently omitted in his deed he lost it and the Fitchburg Railroad Company bought it. He was very industrious and conscientious
in his work, achieving a large measure of suc- cess. In his later years his two sons Andrew , and Henry took the farm, and he worked for them, free of responsibility. £ The produce found a good market in Boston. Mr. Allen was a selfmade and self-educated man, having an excellent memory and a vast store of gen- eral information. He was a member of the Baptist Society at Arlington, and on the board of trustees. He was a total abstainer himself, and an earnest temperance worker. Original- ly a Democrat, he was in later life a Republi- can in politics. He was for many years town clerk, assessor and town treasurer, and the town paid him the honor of exempting him from giving a bond. He served in the war of 1812 at Fort Independence for one day.
He married, May 1, 1825, Hannah Foster, of West Cambridge, daughter of James Fos- ter. Children: 1. John Foster, born Novem- ber 16, 1826, died July 30, 1886; married, Feb- ruary, 1855, Mary Jane Leach, born July I, 1833, daughter of Jonathan Gove and Lucy Jane Tuttle Leach, of New Boston, New Hampshire; children: i. George Gove, born December 6, 1855, married October 27, 1881, Fannie Dora Crane, of Arlington, Massa- chusetts, and had son, John Watson, who died in infancy, and daughter Helen Gertrude; ii. Elizabeth, died in infancy; iii. John Foster, Jr., married Lucia Evelyn Cole, of Brockton, and have Andrew Foster; iv. Etta Frances, died in childhood ; v. Irving Atherton, married Lena Morse, of Hudson, Massachusetts. 2. William Henry, born July 1, 1829; married January 5, 1860, Ann Louisa Ramsdell; chil- dren: i. Ann Louisa; ii. Arthur Lincoln, graduate of Harvard College; iii. Abbott, married Minnie Gifford; iv. Edith Louise, married Charles Burleigh Horton; v. William; vi. Herbert, unmarried. 3. Andrew Foster, born February 1, 1834; mentioned below.
(VIII) Andrew Foster Allen, son of Abbott Allen (7), was born in Arlington, Massachu- setts, February 1, 1834. He attended the pub- lic schools there, and then studied under the tutorship of Daniel C. Brown in the old Groton Academy at Groton, Massachusetts, where he was graduated in 'his eighteenth year. He then became associated with his father in the market gardening business. Later he entered partnership with his brother, taking their fath- er's farm and continuing his business. For about thirty years this firm of brothers con- tinued together in business with constant suc- cess, having a stall for retailing their produce in Faneuil Hall market, Boston. In 1886, ow- ing to impaired health, Andrew F. Allen dis-
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posed of his interests to his brother, William Henry, about two years before his death. His department of the business was the selling of the produce and transporting it to Boston. The firm's gardens were among the finest and most extensive in that section. They made a specialty of lettuce, cucumbers and tomatoes. His residence was at 333 Massachusetts ave- nue, where he died November 15, 1888.
Mr. Allen had a genial and social disposi- tion, cheerful, good-natured and pleasant, at- tracting to himself a host of friends. Upright and honest in all the walks of life, he com- manded the confidence of his townsmen al- ways. He was public spirited and interested in the welfare of the town, though he never sought or held public office. He was a Repub- lican. He was a member of the Baptist so- ciety, though not of the church. He was made a member of Hiram Masonic Lodge, October 25, 1860; was a member of Cambridge Chap- ter of Royal Arch Masons, and a charter mem- ber of Menotomy Royal Arch Chapter ; also of Boston Council, Royal and Select Masters ; member also of De Molay Commandery, Knights Templar, of Boston; of the Massa- chusetts Consistory, thirty-second degree; of the Boston Horticultural Society; and the National Lancers of Boston during the six- ties.
He married, December 14, 1870, Mary Jane Webber, born December 29, 1839, daughter of Philip and Ann (Underwood) Webber. Her father was a baker in Boston. Children: I. Emma Webber, born July 7, 1871; married October 22, 1891, James Edwin Kimball, born October 17, 1868, son of Samuel E. and Maria (Durgin) Kimball. (See sketch.) 2. Gracie, born February 18, 1873, died March 14, 1873.
(For first generation see Richard Kimball 1.)
(II) Benjamin Kimball, son KIMBALL of Richard Kimball (I), was born in 1637, about the time his father moved from Watertown to Ipswich. He died June 11, 1695. "He was a carpenter by trade ; resided in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1659; removed to Salisbury, Massachusetts ; thence to Rowley, where, May 12, 1663, he bought land of Elizabeth Starrett, of Haver- hill. This land was in what was later Brad- ford. On February 20, 1668, at the first town meeting in Merrimack, afterwards Bradford, he was elected an overseer of the town. He bought various other lots of land in Bradford. He and his brother Richard Kimball were sol- diers in 1683 and 1684 in Captain Appleton's
company. Another brother, Thomas, was killed by an Indian, May 3, 1676. Benjamin was a cornet of horse troops. His house was in the west parish of Bradford, not far from the ancient cemetery. He was a wheelwright as well as farmer. He married, in Salisbury, April, 1661, Mercy Hazeltine, born October 16, 1642, and died January 5, 1707-8, daugh- ter of Robert and Ann Hazeltine. She was one of the first members received into the First Church in Bradford, when she and sixteen other women were admitted January 7, 1702-3. He owned a fourth part of a saw mill at Ha- verhill, near Amesbury, bought of Matthew Harriman. The gravestones of Benjamin and Mercy Kimball are in the old graveyard. Chil- dren : I. Anna, born December 23, 1661 ; died January I, 1774 ; married April 21, 1682, Rich- ard Barker, of Andover. 2. Mary, born De- cember 27, 1663; died February 5, 1663-4. 3. Richard, born December 3, 1664; died January IO, 1710-II. 4. Elizabeth, born July 24, 1669 ; married Edward Carleton, of Bradford. 5. David, born July 26, 1671 ; died June 14, 1743. 6. Jonathan, born November 26, 1673; men- tioned below. 7. Robert, born March 5, 1675-6; died February 24, 1744. 8. Abra- ham, born March 24, 1677-8; died February 25, 1707-8. 9. Samuel, born March 28, 1680. IO. Ebenezer, born June 20, 1684; died Janu- ary 23, 1715. II. Abigail, born June 20, 1684 ; died January 23, 1715 ; married June 2, 1703, Moses Day.
(III) Jonathan Kimball, son of Benjamin Kimball (2), was born in Bradford, Massa- chusetts, November 26, 1673; died September 30, 1747 ; married, July 15, 1696, Lydia Day, who was born March 18, 1676, and died Sep- tember 16, 1739, daughter of John and Sarah (Pengry) Day. He married second, Novem- ber 3, 1739, Jane Plummer, widow, who died in 1764. She survived him. He bequeathed all his lands to be equally divided between his four sons, Benjamin, Jonathan, Nathaniel and Isaac, November 12, 1733. Children, born in Bradford : I. Benjamin, born May 16, 1697; mentioned below. 2. Jonathan, born October 30, 1698; died August 12, 1746, at Boxford. 3. Nathaniel, born August 30, 1700. 4. Lydia, born February 15, 1703-4; married May 22, 1729, Thomas Eaton. 5. Moses, born March 20, 1705-6; died young. 6. Isaac, born July 2, 1707. 7. Rebecca, born July 2, 1707 ; mar- ried January 7, 1731, Stephen Webster. 8. Ruth, born January 30, 1709-10; married Oc- tober 2, 1730, Joseph Hardy. 9. Abraham, born June 12, 1712, died young. 10. Mehitable, married, March I, 1737, Ebenezer Webster,
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born September 22, 17II. II. Hannah, bap- tized January 19, 1718.
(IV) Benjamin Kimball, son of Jonathan Kimball (3), was born in Bradford, Massa- chusetts, May 16, 1697; died August 5, 1741 ; married March 21, 1696, Mary Emerson, daughter of Joseph and Martha (Toothaker) Emerson, and granddaughter of Robert and Ann (Grant) Emerson. He lived in the north- ern part of Haverhill, Massachusetts, and when the line was fixed between Massachusetts and New Hampshire, his farm fell in the latter province, in the present town of Hampstead. He and his wife belonged to the church in Plaistow, or North Haverhill, in November, 1730. He was the first deacon of the church in Plaistow, elected February 3, 1731, He bequeathed land in Chester, New Hampshire, to his son Moses. It is said that he married at the age of eighteen, and went north of the river, three miles into the woods, to clear his farm, and his mother was very much dis- tressed at the great danger he ran from the In- dians. The date of his death on the monu- ment erected to his memory in Plaistow grave- yard as 1752 is wrong. Children: I. Mary, born June I, 1718. 2. Jonathan, born April 14, 1720; mentioned below. 3. Benjamin, born May 3, 1722; resided at Hampstead. 4. Lydia, born October 20, 1724; died May 3, 1762 ; married November 10, 1741, Isaac Brad- ley. 5. Martha, born December 28, 1726; died September 23, 1737. 6. Moses, born June 15, 1721 ; resided at Hampstead. 7. Abi- gail, born April 12, 1733; died September 13, 1737. 8. Joseph, born November 12, 1735; died August 12, 1737. 9. Mehitable, born August 28, 1739 ; married, 1755, Thomas Hale. IO. Benjamin.
(V) Jonathan Kimball, son of Benjamin Kimball (4), was born in Haverhill, April 14, 1720; died October 17, 1807; married August 22, 1738, Elizabeth Little, daughter of Daniel Little. She was born November 12, 1719, and died February 8, 1753. He married, second, November 29, 1753, Abigail True, of Salis- bury, born November 26, 1723, died January 23, 1814. He joined the church February 5, 1738, and was elected deacon January 25, 1739. His wife Elizabeth joined the church May 18, 1740. He is said to have been one of the first to settle in the northern part of Plaistow, now Hampstead, New Hampshire ; that he went up into the woods and had twenty men to help him build his log cabin, and that two stood guard against the Indians while the others worked. He afterwards returned to the pres- ent town of Plaistow, where he was the town
clerk twenty-one years from 1757 to 1778, and was deacon fifty-seven years. Children: I. Benjamin, born August 5, 1741 ; died August 25, 1779. 2. Jonathan, born September 14, 1744, resided in Haverhill, Massachusetts. 3. Daniel, baptized July 19, 1747, died in in- fancy. 4. Nathaniel, born November 7, 1748. 5. Daniel, born July 5, 1751 ; mentioned below. 6. Elizabeth, born October 6, 1754; married June 16, 1785, John White. 7. True, born January 28, 1757 ; died July 16, 1816. 8. Mar- tha, born January 4, 1758; died November 30, 1849; unmarried. 9. Joseph, born October 15, 1759; resided at Plaistow.
(VI) Lieutenant Daniel Kimball, son of Jonathan Kimball (5), was born in Plaistow, New Hampshire, July 5, 1751; died in 1813; married Lucy Dutton, daughter of Jacob and Rebecca (Hildreth) Dutton, of Billerica, Mas- sachusetts, and granddaughter of Thomas Dut- ton. She survived him, and married second, June 26, 1817, Daniel Hartwell, of Littleton. Kimball removed early in life to Littleton, Massachusetts, and became a prominent citi- zen of that town. He was a soldier of the Rev- olution, taking. an active part; was corporal in Captain Reed's company, Colonel Prescott's regiment, April 19, 1775 ; also sergeant in 1775 in Captain Gilbert's company, Colonel Pres- cott's regiment ; also first lieutenant, commis- sioned April 24, 1776, in Captain Jewett's company, Sixth Middlesex regiment. Chil- dren: I. Lucy, born September 27, 1778; married March 18, 1813, Abraham Mead. 2. Daniel, born April 20, 1780, died July 23, 1852. 3. James, born October 24, 1782; men- tioned below. 4. Benjamin, born March 30, 1784; died May 27, 1858. 5. Jesse, born Sep- tember 12, 1787; died December 27, 1862. 6. John, born April 16, 1792. 7. Sophia, born April 27, 1794 (twin) ; married Colonel Na- hum Harwood. 8. Sibia, (twin), born April 27, 1794; died August 21, 1858. 9. Rebecca, born July 8, 1800; married June 22, 1822, Eleazer Fletcher, of Littleton, Massachusetts.
(VII) James Kimball, son of Daniel Kim- ball (6), was born in Littleton, Massachusetts, October 24, 1782; died June II, 1869; mar- ried June 27, 1807, Rachel Hartwell, born in 1785, died September 6, 1845. He married second, November 25, 1847, Mary B. Harris, who died March 24, 1874. He was brought up on his father's farm, and educated in the public schools of his native town. He became an expert penman. He owned a hundred acre farm near Nashoba Hill in the eastern part of the town of Littleton, and known later as the Varnum Flagg place. Later in life he sold this.
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farm, and bought a house in the village, retir- ing from active labor at that time. He was a short but powerful man, said to have been the strongest man in the town in his day. He was town clerk for more than thirty years, and his records are models of fine script. He was a Whig in politics, and served the town also as assessor and selectman many years. Children : I. James, Jr., born December II, 1807; died July 4, 1857. 2. Mary Ann, born October 13, 1809; died in Littleton, April 24, 1856; mar- ried John Adams, of Littleton. 3. Lucy Maria, born August 30, 1811; died July 23, 1834. 4. John H., born January 9, 1814; died Febru- ary 9, 1850. 5. George, born December 29, 1815; died December 26, 1840. 6. William, born December 2, 1817; mentioned below. 7. Sophia Hartwell, born November 4, 1819; married August, 1840, William Hurter, of Jacksonville, Florida. 8. Elizabeth Rachel, born January 5, 1823 ; died at St. Paul, Minne- sota, October 26, 1891; married September 19, 1850, George Stevens, of Pittsfield, Mas- sachusetts. 9. Martha S., born May 12, 1825; died January 28, 1852 ; married April 29, 1850, P. H. Perkins, of Kennebunk, Maine. IO. Josiah Pollard, born June 10, 1827, died Octo- ber 8, 1865. II. Henry Dix, born June 26, 1829; died November 7, 1882, unmarried ; was over seven feet tall, and was called "the Little- ton giant."
(VIII) William Kimball, son of James Kimball (7), was born at Littleton, Massa- chusetts, December 2, 1817, and died October 14, 1884. He worked on the farm in his youth, and attended the winter terms of the district schools. He left home to take a clerkship in a grocery store in Boston. After two years of experience he established himself in business in his native town as the proprietor of a gen- eral store. He was successful from the out- set, and continued for a period of twenty years. His health failed owing to overwork and to close attention to business, and he accepted a favorable opportunity to sell his business. He spent a year in the west at Omaha, Nebraska, at St. Louis, and elsewhere. Later he occupied a farm of one hundred acres near Littleton common, and conducted it to the time of his death. He had a dairy of forty cows, and sold his milk in the Boston market. He went to the Brighton cattle market each week, and bought and sold cattle. He was a tall, power- ful man ; sturdy, upright, genial; of excellent judgment, good common sense and quiet de- meanor. He had strong convictions, and was especially earnest in supporting temperance reforms. He was a devout member of the
Congregational church, and served on various committees. He was a Whig in his younger days, later a Republican, and served the town as assessor, selectman, and for a period of thirty years he was town clerk. He belonged to the state militia when a young man.
He married first, in 1845, Mary Adams Law- rence, of Littleton, born June, 1827, and died May 9, 1864, daughter of George and Re- becca (Merriam) Lawrence. Her father was a farmer. He married second, in 1869, Mrs. Lucy Maria (Goldsmith) Houghton, who was born September 15, 1833, and died March, 1896, daughter of John and Sebia (Kimball) Goldsmith, of Littleton, Massachusetts. Chil- dren of the first wife: I. Josephine Merriam, born October 21, 1846; died September 21, 1849. 2. George Albert, born May 14, 1850; mentioned below. 3. William Lawrence, born January 7, 1854; married first, September 12, 1877, Henrietta Bruce, of Littleton; married second, November 8, 1906, Caroline B. Record, of Onset, Massachusetts ; children of William Lawrence and Henrietta Kimball; i. Bernard Marshall, born November 20, 1878, resides in Cleveland, Ohio; ii. William Lawrence, Jr., born August 10, 1882, married February 22, 1906, Marion F. Jones of Cambridge ; child of William L. and Caroline B. Kimball; Mildred Chapin, born January II, 1893. 4. Alfred Adams, born May 29, 1859; died August II, 1860. 5. Myron Adams, born May 8, 1864; married May 12, 1885, Grace E. Putnam, of Westford, Massachusetts. 6. Mary Eliza.
born May 18, -; married September 6, 1888, John W. Harlow, of Becket, Massachu- setts ; children : i. Myron Lincoln Harlow, born November 15, 1889; ii. Leslie Kimball Harlow, born May io, 1891 ; iii. Vivian, born December 17, 1895.
(IX) George Albert Kimball, son of Wil- liamı Kimball (8), was born in Little- ton, Massachusetts, May 14, 1850. He received his education in the common schools, supplemented by a course
in the academy at New Ipswich, New Hamp- shire, where he prepared to enter the soph- omore year at Dartmouth College, but ow- ing to serious trouble with his eyes he had to abandon a college course. In 1869 he took up the study of civil engineering in the office of Frost Brothers, of Somerville, continued with the firm, and in 1873 was admitted to partnership, the firm name remaining Frost Brothers. He made a specialty of railroad and municipal work, such as sewerage and water- works. In 1874 he withdrew from the firm and opened his own office in Union Square,
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Somerville, continuing two years with work in adjacent towns and cities. In January, 1876, he was elected city engineer of Somerville, and served in that office until 1887. He was also chairman of the Somerville Board of Health eleven years. During his administration of the engineering department the water works were extended, several fine parks laid out, and the sewer system established. He resigned in 1887 to resume his private business as an en- gineer, with offices at 194 Washington street, Boston. He made a specialty of sewerage, and was consulting engineer during the construc- tion of sewerage plants and extensions in Brockton, Massachusetts; Montpelier, Ver- mont; New Bedford, Milton, and Arlington, Massachusetts. He built the water works for the town of Millis, Massachusetts. In 1888 he was appointed by Governor Ames a member of the grade crossing commission, consisting of three expert engineers, to examine all the grade crossings in the state and to report some feasible method of abolishing them. The re- port of this commission resulted in the passage of the Grade Crossing Act, under which a large number of the dangerous crossings have been abolished, the state, railroad and locality sharing the cost jointly.
In 1896 he was appointed by Governor Roger Wolcott a member of the Metropolitan Sewerage Commission and served on that board until it was consolidated with the Met- ropolitan Water Board in 1901. In 1896 he was elected chief engineer of the Boston Ele- vated Railroad, and proceeded immediately to plan a system of elevated railways for Boston and suburbs. The project was duly author- ized by the general court in 1897, and con- struction begun soon afterward, part of the system being completed in 1901 and opened for business in June of that year between Rox- bury and Charlestown, including Atlantic ave- nue. This original system, with its stations, power house and rolling stock, cost a round thirteen million dollars. This elevated system was designed by him and constructed under his personal supervision. The subway plans were submitted to him for approval ·also, as the chief engineer of the Boston Elevated Rail- road Company, which was to lease and operate the tunnels. In 1902 Mr. Kimball was sent abroad by his company to study methods of transportation, and he visited England, France, Germany, Austria, Scotland and Ireland, re- turning late that year. In 1903-4-5 he was engaged in making extensions in the elevated railroad system of Boston, and in planning further subway and elevated roads to improve
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