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Mr. Rollins married, December 25, 1879, Ellen Ware, daughter of Josiah T. King, of Abington, Massachusetts, a leading shoe man- ufacturer in his day. Children : Helen, born December 22, 1880, and Harriet, March 22, 1883 ; both are graduates of Wellesley College.
From the Herald's College, KIMBALL London, comes the statement that the family of Kimball is from the county of Cumberland, England, and takes its origin from a parish of that name upon the Scottish border. The ancestor from whom the principal American branch of the family sprang, came from Rattlesden, in the county of Suffolk (not far from London) in which county the Kemballs have lived at least four hundred years. The name has been vari- ously spelled, "according to the taste and fancy of the speller." The original name is claimed to have been "Kymbolde;" the American an- cestor wrote it Kemball, and his descendants changed it to Kimball. The Kimballs, as a stock, have been noted for their retentive memories; and in business circles they have been exceptionally strong; and have taken leading places in local affairs.
(I) Richard Kimball, the ancestor in Amer- ica, resided in the parish of Rattlesden, in the county of Suffolk, England, as is shown by the parish register of the date of the baptism of his son Henry, August 12, 1615. He em- barked with his family at Ipswich, county of Suffolk, England, April 10, 1634, in the ship "Elizabeth," William Andrews, master, and sailed for Boston in New England, where he arrived in due course of time. From Boston it seems that he soon went to Watertown. He is said to have been thirty-nine years old
at this time. His home lot in the first division was a parcel of sixty acres, bounded on the north by Cambridge, and now forms a part of that town which afterward annexed the eastern part of Watertown. He was made freeman May 6, 1635, and became a proprietor in 1637. Soon afterward he accepted an invi- tation to move to Ipswich, where he followed the calling of wheelwright the remainder of his days. February 23, 1637, the town granted him a house lot at the west end of town and "40 acres beyond North river." In 1639 he had liberty to pasture "two cows free." On
"the last day of the last month 1641" he is mentioned as "Among the Commoners of Ips- wich." He was appointed one of the seven men March 1, 1645. On the 22d day of the Ioth month, 1647, he was allowed two pounds for killing two foxes. In January, 1649, he was given permission "to sell such white oaks as he hath occasion to use about his trade for the town use." December 19, 1648, he con- tributed with others three shillings as his an- nual proportion toward the sum of £27 7s. as a rate for the services of their military leader, Major David Dennison, then commander of the military forces of Essex and Norfolk coun- ties. In September, 1652, he was one of the appraisers of the estate of John Cross. Jan- uary 25, 1652, Richard and his son Richard Kimball, wheelwrights, "for £14 sell 30 acres of upland bounding on land of Mr. John Win- throp;" also another lot of land of ten acres of meadow. In 1653 he was one of a com- mittee of three to survey fences in the com- mon fields north of the river. In 1664 he owned forty-three shares in Plumb Island. He made his will March 5, 1675, and died June 22, 1675, aged more than eighty years. This will was probated September 28, 1675. The inventory of the estate, although he had given property to his children on their marriages, amounted to £737 3s. 6d., a good estate for that time and place. Richard Kimball mar- ried (first) Ursula, daughter of Henry Scott, of Rattlesden, and (second), October 23, 1661, Margaret, widow of Henry Dow, of Hampton, New Hampshire. She died March 1, 1676. The children of Richard Kimball, all by the first wife, were: Abigail, Henry, Elizabeth, Richard, Mary, Martha, John, Thomas, Sarah, Benjamin, and Caleb.
(II) Henry, eldest son and second child of Richard Kimball, was born in Rattlesden, Suf- folk county, England, baptized August 12, 1615, and came to America in the ship "Eliza- beth" with his father in 1634. He first settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, but some time
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after 1646 followed his father to Ipswich, and about 1655 removed to Wenham, and spent the remainder of his life in that town. November 8, 1657, he subscribed three pounds as minis- ter's rate, one-half in wheat, the other half in Indian corn, "at merchant's price." In 1659 he subscribed three pounds fifty shillings, one- half in corn, and in 1660-61 he contributed ten shillings toward the new meeting house. He was chosen constable October 22, 1669. He died in Wenham, in 1676, leaving an estate in- ventoried at one hundred seventy-seven pounds twelve shillings. He married (first) about 1640, Mary, daughter of John and Mary Wy- att, who came to America in the same ship with him. Mary died in Wenham, August 12, 1672, and he married (second) Elizabeth (Gil- bert) Rayner, widow of William, son of Thurston Rayner, and daughter of Humphrey and Elizabeth Gilbert. Henry and Mary ( Wy- att ) Kimball had children : Mary, Richard, John, Caleb, Dorcas, Abigail, Sarah, Henry, Mehitable, Benjamin, Joseph, Martha and De- borah.
(III) Caleb, third son of Henry and Mary (Wyatt) Kimball, was born about 1646, prob- ably in Watertown, and then disappears from the records. It is presumable that he settled in Wells, Maine, and was the father of the next mentioned.
(IV) The first mention found of Caleb Kimball, of Wells, Maine, is when he married Susanna Cloyes, June 15, 1704. Their chil- dren were: Nathaniel, Richard, Caleb, Su- sanna, Mary, Sarah, Joshua, Samuel and Ben- jamin.
(V) Richard, second son of Caleb and Su- sanna (Cloyes) Kimball, was baptized March 25, 1707, and died in 1781. He was an early settler of Wells, Maine, and in 1750 had seven cows and eight oxen. In 1724 he was hunted by Indians ; in 1730 he kept a store in Kenne- bunk, Maine; in 1755 he was part owner of the first vessel of Wells; in 1767 built a sloop ; and in 1778 is recorded as giving one shirt and one pair of stockings for the army. He mar- ried (first) September 1, 1733, Catherine Couzens, (second) August 6, 1740, Hannah Lord, of Berwick, Maine. His children were : Richard (died young), Richard, Mary, Eliza- beth, Samuel, Isaac, Israel and Hannah.
(VI) Israel, son of Richard and Hannah (Lord) Kimball, was baptized April 29, 1750, at Wells, Maine, and died in 1822. He lived at Kennebunk, Maine, and married, October 12, 1771, Eleanor Dennett, born at Arundel, died in 1823. Their children were: 1. Jacob, born 1771, married Annie Getchell. 2. Israel,
1773. 3. Wilbraham. 4. Eleanor, married
Benjamin Treadwell. 5. Stephen, born June 30, 1783. 6. Betsey, married Daniel Merrill. 7. Sally, married Philip Emery. 8. Polly, mar- ried Abraham Kimball. 9. A daughter, mar- ried Charles Trafton. 10. Richard, born May 24, 1893.
(VII) Wilbraham, third son of Israel and Eleanor (Dennett) Kimball, was born in 1778, at Wells, Maine, and died October 28, 1850, at the same place. He lived at Kennebunk, where he was engaged in shipbuilding. He married, October 20, 1804, Deborah Bourne, born March 29, 1821, died October 15, 1859 ; children: 1. Ivory, born September 21, 1805, died July 24, 1853; was a minister, and grad- uated from Bowdoin College; married Susan K. Poor. 2. Stephen, born June 21, 1807, died July 15, 1888. 3. Isaac, born June 17, 1809, died March 7, 1894. 4. Israel, born January 26, 1812, died December 10, 1890. 5. Wilbra- ham. 6. William, born August 4, 1816, died May 20, 1904. 7. Benjamin H., born August 26, 1818, died October 14, 1889. 8. John Pat- ton, born March 29, 1821, died July 20, 1879; married Emily Skelton. 9. Samuel W., born November 24, 1823, died October 14, 1888. 10. George W., born October 4, 1825, died September 13, 1892.
(VIII) Wilbraham (2), fifth son of Wil- braham (I) and Deborah (Bourne) Kimball, was born March 24, 1814, and died June 3, 1870. June 8, 1842, he married Ann Hatch, born March 15, 1819; children: I. Ivory George. 2. Israel Edward, born February 23, 1853, married (first) Catherine Beaver, (sec- ond) Mrs. Elizabeth Clifford. Israel Edward had one daughter by first marriage, Clara Belle, born May 15, 1874. 3. Jennie Oakley, born September 25, 1855. Mrs. Kimball died November 7, 1891.
(IX) Ivory George, eldest son of Wilbra- ham (2) and Ann (Hatch) Kimball, was born May 5, 1843, at Jay, Maine. In 1846 he moved with his mother to Indiana, where he attended the public schools, and after he reached the age of sixteen he taught school. He served three months as private in the civil war, in Company E, Fifty-fifth Indiana Infantry Regi- ment. In 1863 he went to Washington with Hugh McCulloch, Secretary of the Treasury, who secured him a position in one of the gov- ernment offices. He took a course at the Co- lumbia Law School, graduating in 1867 with the degree of LL.B., and the same year was admitted to the District of Columbia bar ; afterward he was admitted to practice in the court of claims and United States supreme
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court, and commenced the general practice of law. In 1891 he was appointed by President Harrison police court judge of Washington, received re-appointment by President McKin- ley in 1898, and again in 1904 by President Roosevelt, his term expiring in 1910. Judge Kimball has for several years been a promi- nent member of the Grand Army of the Re- public, which has delighted to honor him for many years. He belongs to Burnside Post, No. 8, of Washington. In 1901 he was elected junior vice department commander ; the year following, senior vice department commander ; in 1903 department commander for one year ; and he has for several years past held the posi- tion of chairman of the committee on national legislation for the organization, and he repre- sented the Grand Army on the commission to erect the Memorial Amphitheater in the Na- tional Cemetery at Arlington. Judge Kimball is a Republican as to political views, and is an elder in the Presbyterian Church. He is a member of the order of Ancient Free and Ac- cepted Masons, belonging to Hiram Lodge, No. 10, of Washington, and has attained to the 32d degree, Scottish Rite. Judge Kim- ball married, September 26, 1865, Anna L. Ferris, born January 8, 1839, in Saratoga county, New York, and this union has been blessed with eight children, as follows: I. Ella Clara, born June 24, 1866; married Reverend W. A. Tyler, of Nebraska ; they had eight children, four of whom are living- Tracy, Harry, Ralph and Ivory. 2. Wilbra, born April 6, 1868, died March 9, 1888. 3. Harry Gilbert, born March 26, 1870, married Jennie Fermage; children: Paul, Ruth and Anna. 4. Alice May, born July 7, 1872, mar- ried Dr. John W. McMichel, of Portland, Oregon. 5. Arthur Herbert, born March 13, 1875; married Helen M. Kimball ; children : Ruth and Arthur. 6. Bertha Louise, born January 28, 1878, died April 22, 1907. 7. Edna Gertrude, born September 9, 1879, mar- ried Otto L. Ferris, an attorney, and resides at Portland, Oregon; children : Margaret, died in childhood; and Earle Leonard, living. 8. Walter, born November 20, 1883 ; is an op- tician, and resides at St. Joseph, Missouri.
(For first generation see preceding sketch.)
(II) Richard (2), son of KIMBALL Richard (1) and Ursula (Scott) Kimball, was born in Rattlesden, England, in 1623, and died in Wenham, Massachusetts, May 26, 1676. He came to America with his father. He was called a wheelwright and yeoman. In a deposi-
tion dated September, 1658, he mentions hav- ing "lived on Goodman Shatswell's farm for seven years." He removed to Wenham be- tween 1652 and 1656, settled in the westerly part of the town, and was the first settler named Kimball in that town. It seems that he was the largest taxpayer among the early settlers. That he owned large amounts of lands at different times is shown by the rec- ords of numerous conveyances in the records at Salem, November 8, 1657, he subscribed £3 to the minister's rate, to be paid one-half in wheat and one-half in Indian corn. The next year he was chosen selectman, and was continued in that office with the exception of three years, till 1674. December 4, 1660, he was one of a committee to see about building a new meeting house. February 28, 1663, the town leased two hundred acres of the best of its common land for one thousand years to Abner Ordway, Thomas Searles, John Ed- wards and Richard Kimball Jr. Richard Kim- ball was one of a committee to perfect the line between Bass River and Wenham, and July 18, 1673, was one of a committee to establish rates for the cost of building a meeting house. The amount of the inventory of his estate taken after his death was £986 16s. 6d. His dwelling house and one hundred and thirty- two acres of land and one hundred and sev- enty acres of meadow belonging to it were appraised at £370. He also had two hundred acres at Rowley Village. The genealogist de- duces from the fact that Thomas Kimball had wages due him from the county at the time of his death, as stated in his inventory, that it is possible that he had been engaged in the war with the Indians, and was probably with his nephew, Caleb Kimball, at the time the lat- ter was killed at Bloody Brook. Richard Kim- ball married (first) Mary, whose surname does not transpire. She died September 2, 1672. His second wife was also named Mary, probably Mary Gott. His children, all but the last two probably by his first wife, were: John, Samuel, Thomas, Ephraim, Caleb, Chris- topher, Richard, a child, and Nathaniel.
(III) Caleb Kimball, fifth son of Richard (2) and Mary Kimball, was born in Wenham, April 9, 1665, and died there January 25, 1726. He was a yeoman and mason. He bought land as early as 1720, in Exeter, New Hampshire, and after residing there a while returned to Wenham. He conveyed this farm to his son Abraham on condition that he should pay the other children their shares in their father's estate. His wife Sarah died February 20, 1732. Their children were: Caleb, Sarah.
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John, Abraham, Hannah, Mehitable, Eleazer, Benjamin and Joseph.
(IV) John Kimball, third child and second son of Caleb and Sarah Kimball, was born in Wenham, Massachusetts, December 20, 1699, and died in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1785. He was a carpenter. His father gave him land in Exeter, on which he settled. He also owned land in Kensington and Chester. He married (first) February 14, 1723, Abigail Ly- ford, who died February 12, 1738; and (sec- ond) September 18, 1740, Sarah Wilson, born November 23, 1709, daughter of Deacon Thomas and Mary L. Wilson. He had fifteen children by the first wife and eight by the sec- ond: Judith, Abigail, John, Joseph, Lydia, Thomas (died young), Sarah, Noah, Olive, Nathaniel, Moses, Caleb, Thomas and Jesse.
(V) Joseph, fourth child and second son of John and Abigail (Lyford) Kimball, was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, January 29, 1731, and died November 6, 1814, in the eighty- fourth year of his age. He resided in Exeter until 1788, and then removed to Canterbury. He became blind before leaving Exeter, and never saw the town of Canterbury, in which he lived twenty-six years. Tradition says his first wife was Olive Wilson. He married (second), in 1762, Sarah Smith, born 1740, died March 1, 1808. Children of first wife: Peter Sanborn and Olive; of second wife: Mary, Sarah, John, Betsey, Joseph, Jesse, Smith, Samuel, and Robert.
(VI) Rev. Jesse, sixth child and third son of Joseph and Sarah (Smith) Kimball, was born in Exeter, September 7, 1774, and died May 5, 1818. He was a Methodist clergyman, and lived in Hallowell, Maine, "much re- spected and greatly beloved." He married (first) Hannah Cox, who died March 28, 1814, daughter of James Cox of Boston, Massachu- setts. He married (second) June 11, 1814, Betsey Page, who died July 4, 1878, daughter of Timothy Page, of Hallowell. She was a niece of his first wife. His children were: Betsey, Joseph, Mary, Olive, Robert Moody and George Moody, all but the last by the first wife.
(VII) Robert Moody, fifth child and second son of Jesse and Hannah (Cox) Kimball, was born in Hallowell, Maine, February 3, 1805, and died May 1, 1885, aged eighty years. He was a farmer, and resided in Clinton. He married, September, 1824, Mary Reynolds Packard, died at Parkman, Maine, daughter of Deacon Barnabas Packard, of Clinton. After the death of her husband she lived in West Ripley. Children : Ebenezer Packard,
Lucius Ord, Mary Olive, Hester Ann Cox, Robert Moody, George Moody, Luman Brown, Cynthia Packard, Jesse, Robert Melvin, and Albert Irving.
(VIII) Ebenezer Packard, eldest child of Robert Moody and Mary Reynolds ( Packard) Kimball, was born in Benton, May II, 1825, and died in Corinna, October 16, 1901. He followed the vocation of his father, and re- sided in Corinna and Searsport, Maine; Sep- tember II, 1849, he married Tryphosa Fessen- den Nye, born in Fairfield, Maine, February 3, 1831, daughter of Ellis and Martha Nye, of Fairfield, Maine. She died October 29, 1905. Their children: 1. Irving Ellis, has extended mention below. 2. Willard Carroll, born in Searsport, December 9, 1855, resides in Bos- ton. 3. Ellen Myra, born in Searsport, May 25, 1859; married June 2, 1883, Isaac Mower Bates, of Corinna, Maine.
(IX) Irving Ellis, eldest child of Ebenezer A. and Tryphosa F. (Nye) Kimball, was born in Clinton, September 2, 1851. He received his literary education in the public schools and the East Maine Conference Seminary at Bucksport. Subsequently he attended lectures at the Medical School of Maine and the medi- cal department of Dartmouth College, receiv- ing his degree at the former institution in 1876. He practiced medicine at Wiscasset three years, thence moving to Portland, where he has since resided. In 1894 he went abroad and did post-graduate work in several of the most famous schools of Europe, including the University of Vienna, where he remained longest. In 1881 he was appointed demon- strator of anatomy in the Portland Medical School, and in 1882 he was appointed to the same position in the Medical School of Maine. Returning to Portland in 1881, he engaged in the general practice of medicine and surgery ; this he continued for short time, but for sev- eral years past his practice has been confined to diseases of the nose and throat. In prac- tice he has met with gratifying success, and his patronage is drawn from a large area of the New England states. He is consulting surgeon to the Maine General Hospital and the Maine Eye and Ear Hospital. He is a member of the Cumberland County Medical Society, the Maine Medical Society, the New England Medical Society, the American Med- ical Society, and the American Otological, Rhinological and Laryngological Society. He is vice-president of the Cumberland Club. In religious views he is a Congregationalist. In politics he is a Republican, but takes no part in local politics.
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Dr. Kimball married (first), October 23, 1879, Mary Frances Tucker, who died March 10, 1883, daughter of Captain Joseph and Frances Tucker, of Wiscasset. One child was born of this marriage, Irving Francis, March IO, 1883, who died April 22, same year. Dr. Kimball married (second) June 2, 1886, Susan J. Rollins, who was born February II, 1864, daughter of Franklin J. and Arabella C. (Jor- dan ) Rollins. (See Rollins VII.)
HALE The name Hale under the different forms of de la Hale, at-Hale, Hales and Hale, has been abun- dant in Hertfordshire, England, since the early part of the thirteenth century. No evidence appears that any of the name were above the rank of yeoman before 1560. The name also early prevailed and is probably still found in a dozen other counties in England. Of the Hales of Gloucestershire, to which family be- longed the illustrious Sir Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice, Atkyns, in his history of that county, says: "The family of Hale has been of ancient standing in this county, and always esteemed for their. probity and charity." Within the first fifty years after the settle- ment of Massachusetts Bay, at least eight emi- grants of the name of Hale, and perhaps two or three more, settled in that colony and in Connecticut, descendants of five of whom are traced to the present time. There is no evi- dence that any of these were of kin to Thomas of Newbury, the immigrant ancestor of the line of which this article treats. The name was also found among the early settlers of Virginia and Maryland, and their descendants bearing the cognomen are still found in the southern states. In New England the name has been brought into prominence by Nathan Hale, the patriot; by John P. Hale, the dis- tinguished statesman of New Hampshire; Senator Eugene Hale, of Maine, and others.
(I) Thomas Hale, the earliest known progenitor of the family herein considered, was of the parish of Walton-at-Stone, in Hert- fordshire, England. No record of his birth is found, but the parish register, which styles him "Thomas Hale, Senior," shows that he was buried October 19, 1630. He left a will bearing date October II, 1630, proved De- cember 9, 1630, in the court of the Archdea- conry of Hitchin, in the county of Herts, the original of which is still on file among the rec- ords of the court. After the usual pious pro- fession of faith, thanks to God, committal of his soul to its creator and his body to burial, he disposes of his personal property and his
real estate consisting of eleven, and perhaps twelve, distinct parcels. Among those desig- nated are the house close, the backside close, the hill close, and the meadow and rye close. From the brief record it is apparent that he was of the rank of yeoman of the smaller class as to property but marked by thrift, re- spectability, honesty, piety, and prudent fore- sight. It is impossible to determine the value of the estate which he left, but it was evidently not large, perhaps worth an annual rental of $400 or $500. He married Joan Kirby, who was of the parish of Little Munden, Herts, which was probably the place of her birth and their marriage. They were the parents of five children : Dionis, Thomas, Mary, Dorothy and Elizabeth. At some time between her husband's death and June, 1637, Joan, widow of Thomas Hale, married a Bydes, or Bides, probably John, and was still living in October, 1640, the date of her mother's will, but was probably dead before 1660.
(II) Thomas (2), second child and only son of Thomas (1) and Joan (Kirby) Hale, was probably born in the parish of Walton-at- Stone, in May or June, 1606, and was bap- tized in the parish, June 15, 1606. He was heir to the larger part of his father's estate, receiving all his goods and chattels with a few exceptions. The rents he paid to his mother and sisters was nine pounds a year in all, which in that day were equivalent in value to £27 or perhaps £36, that is $135 or $180 at the present day. Probably through the influ- ence of his mother's brother, Francis Kirby, Thomas Hale became interested in New Eng- land, whither he removed and settled in New- bury, Massachusetts, in 1635. He took from his uncle, Francis Kirby, to Governor John Winthrop, a letter from which the following extract with some changes as to orthography is taken: "These are now to entreat you that you would be assistant to the bearer hereof (Thomas Hale, my near kinsman) in your counsel and advise to put him in the way how and where to settle himself in a hopeful way of subsisting with his family. He has brought with him all his estate, which he hath here or can have during the life of his mother, my sister. He had almost two hundred pounds when he began to make his provision for this voyage. I suppose the greatest half is ex- pended in his transportation, and in such nec- essaries as will be spent by him and his fam- ily in the first use; the lesser half, I suppose he has in money, and vendable goods to pro- vide with a cottage to dwell in, and a milch cow for his children's sustenance. I suppose
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his way will be to hire a house or part of a house for the first year, until he can look out and buy or build him a dwelling wherein, as in other things, I shall entreat you to direct him."
Thomas Ilale and his wife Thomasine (or Tamosin ) and son Thomas, were probably of the party who first settled in Newbury in 1635, on the banks of the "Quascacunquen," or Par- ker river, though his name is not included among those mentioned by Coffin as forming the first colony, "with a few others whose names are not known with certainty." Under date of August 10, 1638, appears the entry in the Newbury records: "Thomas Hale and John Baker are appointed haywards till the town shall appoint anew." February' 23, 1642, Thomas Hale was appointed one of the five men to whom the stinting of the commons was referred. He moved to Haverhill, prob- ably in 1645. In that year he is named as a landholder in Haverhill, and from Newbury. His name heads the list of the first board of selectmen chosen in Haverhill in 1646. In that same year his name first appears on the record of assessments in that town. In 1647 he was chosen by the town and approved by the general court, with Henry Palmer and Thomas Davis, "to try small cases." The same year he was appointed by the general court a commissioner to lay out a road from Andover to Haverhill. In 1648 he was ap- pointed by the town "to keep a ferry." In 1649 he was elected constable, the first chosen in Haverhill. In 1650 he was appointed by the town "to meet men from Salisbury to lay out lands between that town and Haverhill." In 1651 "Little River," in Haverhill, was named as "Thomas Hale's River." In or about the year 1652 he returned to Newbury, and continued to reside there till 1657, when he removed to Salem. There he remained till about the year 1661, when he again returned to Newbury, where he continued to reside till his death. His name appears in the list of proprietors of Newbury, declared by the ordi- nance of December 7, 1642, as the only per- sons "acknowledged to be freeholders by the town and to have proportionable right in all waste lands, commons and rivers undis- posed," etc. His name appears in the town records of Salem in 1657 as "Sarjent Thomas Hale," and he is several times referred to in those records as "clerk of the market." After his final return to Newbury he is found among the active supporters of the Rev. Mr. Parker in his controversies with a portion of his church, while the name of his son Thomas
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