Kimball, Aaron 1836 – 1899

KIMBALL, KELLEY, LAIRD

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Date: 5/22/2024 at 16:07:25

Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer January 20, 1899, FP, C5

Obituary.
The remains of Hon. Aaron Kimball were brought to Cresco on Wednesday and laid to rest in Oak Lawn cemetery. The deceased was born in the city of New York in 1836, hence was about 63 years of age. His parents moved to Elkhart, Indiana, when he was about one year old, that being his residence until he came to Howard county in 1857. He was a graduate of Ontario academy at Ontario, Indiana, and of Michigan University at Ann Arbor. On coming to this county he bought and located on the farm now owned by John E Jackson, adjoining Cresco on the south-east, where he continued to reside until 1864, when he was elected Clerk of the courts. He was afterwards a member of the Board of Supervisors. In 1869 he came to Cresco and became a member of the banking house of Kimball & Farnsworth. In 1877 Mr. Kimball was elected to the state Senate from the senatorial district composed of Howard, Chickasaw and Bremer counties. In that body he was on the ways and means and retrenchment committee, that committee having the credit of a reduction of state expenses of $100,000 per annum. At the second session he was chairman of the committee for the suppression of intemperance, and helped pass the proposed constitutional amendment which was submitted to popular vote June 2S, 1882, and was subsequently knocked out by the Supreme court because of irregularity on its passage in the House. Mr. Kimball was twice married, first to Mrs. Irene S. Kelley, August 1858, who died August 1870, one child Mary A., being the fruit of this union. His second marriage was with Miss Emma W. Laird of Indianapolis, Ind. Three children, Lois C, Ruth L. and Alice W. were born to them while residents of Cresco. In 1885 the banking firm of Kimball & Farnsworth was dissolved, Mr. Kimball retiring, and about two years thereafter removing with his family onto a large farm he owned near the city of Austin, Minn. where he died. He had been in failing health for two or three years, his ailment finally, we are told developed into cancerous tumor, resulting in death. The deceased was a man of integrity and high moral character and leaves an unblemished record as an inheritance to his children, with whom in their sorrowful bereavement, they have the sympathy of all their old friends and neighbors in Howard county.

Source: Decorah Republican Jan. 26, 1899 P 4 C 1

Aaron Kimball Dead.
Last Friday’s P. D. reports the interment at Cresco of the remains of Hon. Aaron Kimball, who was at one time the most prominent public citizen of Howard county. Born in New York city in 1836 but removing with his parents to Indiana in childhood, all his experiences were in the west. He was liberally educated and graduated at Ann Arbor, Mich. His residence in Howard county began in 1857, and in 1864 he was elected Clerks of the Courts; still later he became a County Supervisor, and in 1877 he was chosen Senator for the district composed of Howard, Chickasaw and Bremer counties. In this position he secured such promience{sp} that he became a Gubernatorial possibility, and in one Republican State Convention he received a very liberal support from the radical prohibition wing of the party. From 1869 to 1885 he was the senior partner in the banking house of Kimball & Farnsworth; and in the latter year retired from business and removed to a large farm near Austin, Minn. The Plain-dealer concludes its notice with this comment:—
He had been in failing heath{sp} for two or three years, his ailment finally, we are told, developed into cancerous tumor, resulting in death. The deceased was a man of integrity and high moral character and leaves an unblemished record as an inheritance to his children.

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