Samuel KIMBALL

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22 January 1845 , Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

Died

5 October 1930 , Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

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Leonard KIMBALL Harriet STURTEVANT

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Born: 22 January 1845 in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

Father: Leonard KIMBALL

Mother: Harriet STURTEVANT

Paternal grandparents: David KIMBALL , Betsey FALES

Maternal grandparents: Samuel STURTEVANT , Sarah RICE

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Samuel married Helen Frances SPRING 2 October 1865 in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Helen Frances SPRING was born 7 May 1846 in Sterling, Massachusetts, USA. Helen Frances died 14 May 1910 in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. Helen Frances was the child of Joseph Warren SPRING and Nancy Harrington GIBBS.

Samuel KIMBALL died 5 October 1930 in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.
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Helen Frances SPRING
Marriage date: 2 October 1865
Marriage place: Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Helen Frances SPRING was the child of Joseph Warren SPRING and Nancy Harrington GIBBS

Children of Samuel KIMBALL and Helen Frances SPRING

Helen Frances "Fannie" KIMBALL

Born: 11 September 1872 , Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Died: 24 February 1947, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

Married: Joseph Henry CLARKSON 26 July 1893 Place: Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

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Birth — 1845
22 January 1845
Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

1849 - The safety pin is invented (Walter Hunt, United States)

1849 - Zachary Taylor becomes President of the United States

1850 - Millard Fillmore becomes President of the United States

1853 - Franklin Pierce becomes President of the United States

1857 - Toilet paper is invented (Joseph Gayetty, United States)

1857 - James Buchanan becomes President of the United States

1857 - March 6 – Dred Scott v. Sandford: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that Blacks are not citizens and slaves can not sue for freedom, driving the country further towards the American Civil War.

1858 - March 30 - H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, patented the first pencil with eraser

1861 - February 8 – American Civil War: The Confederate States of America are formed, comprising the first six break-away states.

1861 - Abraham Lincoln becomes President of the United States

1863 - January 1 - President Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slaves.

1863 - October 3 – President Lincoln proclaims a national Thanksgiving day to be celebrated the final Thursday in November in the United States

1863 - November 19 – American Civil War: U. S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the military cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

1865 Marriage / Partner
Samuel KIMBALL and Helen Frances SPRING 2 October 1865, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

He was 20 years old.

April 14, 1865 - President Abraham Lincoln was mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth at in Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. He died the next day. Andrew Johnson becomes President of the United States.

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1869 - Ulysses S. Grant becomes President of the United States

1870 - June 26 - Christmas becomes a Federal holiday in the United States. It was still illegal in some states.

1872 Birth of Child
Helen Frances "Fannie" KIMBALL was born 11 September 1872 , Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

Samuel was 27 years old.

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1877 - Rutherford B. Hayes becomes President of the United States

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

1881 - The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton.

1881 - March 4 - James A. Garfield becomes President of the United States

1881 - July 2 - James A. Garfield was shot at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C., at 9:30 am on Saturday, July 2, 1881. He died in Elberon, New Jersey, two months later on September 19, 1881. The shooting occurred less than four months into his term as president. Charles J. Guiteau was convicted of Garfield's murder and executed by hanging one year after the shooting. Chester Arthur becomes President of the United States.

1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)

1885 - Grover Cleveland becomes President of the United States

1886 - October 28 - Statue of Liberty is Unveiled

1889 - The automobile is invented (Gottlieb Daimler, Germany)

1889 - Benjamin Harrison becomes President of the United States

1891 - The zipper is invented (Whitcomb L. Judson, United States)

The motion picture camera is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson, United States)

First Perforated Toilet Paper Roll is Patented

1893 - Grover Cleveland becomes President of the United States

1893 Marriage of Child
Helen Frances "Fannie" KIMBALL married 26 July 1893, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA to Joseph Henry CLARKSON

1897 - Aspirin is invented (Felix Hoffmann (Bayer), Germany)

1897 - William McKinley becomes President of the United States

1898 - April 25 – Spanish-American War: The United States declares war on Spain

1898 - December 10 – The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Spanish-American War.

1901 - King Camp Gillette and William Emery Nickerson invented the world's first disposable razor blade in 1901. (Boston, Massachusetts, USA)

1901 - William McKinley, the 25th president of the United States, was shot on the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition in the Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York, on September 6, 1901, six months into his second term. He was shaking hands with the public when an anarchist, Leon Czolgosz, shot him twice in the abdomen. Theodore Roosevelt becomes President of the United States.

1902 - July 17 - Willis Haviland Carrier designed the first modern air-conditioning system. (Buffalo, New York, USA)

1903 - The first engine-powered airplane is invented (Wilbur & Orville Wright, United States)

1904 - June 28 - U.S. begins construction of Panama Canal.

1906 - August 22 – The first Victor Victrola, a phonographic record player, was manufactured, revolutionizing the way people listened to music at home.

In 1906, Reginald Fessenden made the first AM radio broadcast on December 24th. This event marked a significant advancement in radio technology, paving the way for the modern broadcasting industry.

1907-1908 - The electric washing machine is invented (Alva J. Fisher, United States)

1908 - First Model-T car is produced by Henry Ford (United States)

1909 - William Howard Taft becomes President of the United States

1910 Death of Spouse/Partner
Helen Frances SPRING died 14 May 1910, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

1912 - April 15 - Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic

1913 - The assembly line is invented (Henry Ford, United States)

The bra is invented (Mary Phelps Jacob, United States)

1913 - Woodrow Wilson becomes President of the United States

1913 - October 31 – The Lincoln Highway, the first automobile road across the United States, is dedicated

1915 - January 25 - First United States coast-to-coast long-distance telephone call

1917 - March 2 – The enactment of the Jones Act grants Puerto Ricans United States citizenship.

1917 - April 6 – WWI: The United States declares war on Germany

1918 - March 19 – The United States Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time

1919 - June 4 – Women's rights: The United States Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which would guarantee suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification

1920 - January 17 - Prohibition goes into effect on January 17, 1920, under the provisions of the 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution

1921 - Warren G. Harding becomes President of the United States

1921 - Charles Strite of Minnesota patents the pop-up toaster.

1923 to 1927 - Television is invented (Vladimir Kosma Zworykin (Russia), Philo Taylor Farnsworth (United States))

1923 - Calvin Coolidge becomes President of the United States

1927 - The aerosol can is invented (Erik Rotheim, Norway)

1927 - April 7 – Bell Telephone Co. transmits an image of Herbert Hoover (then the Secretary of Commerce), which becomes the first successful long distance demonstration of television

1928 - Sliced bread (bread slicing machine) is invented by Otto Frederick Rohwedder (United States)

1929 - Herbert Hoover becomes President of the United States

1929 - October 29 - Black Tuesday - Stock market crash - The Great Depression Begins - It lasted until 1941 (WW2)

Death — 1930
5 October 1930
Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
He died at the age of 85.

Funeral
SAMUEL H. KINBALL

Funeral services for Samuel H. Kimball, 85, who died Saturday at his home, 81 May street, was held at 10 o'clock this morning at the funeral parlors of Darius A. Putnam, Inc., 866 Main street. Rev. Charles O. Farnham, pastor of Second Advent Christian church officiated. Burial was in Hope cemetery.

He was a lifelong resident of Worcester, the son of Leonard and Harriet (Sturtevant) Kimball and was a member of the Dewey street Baptist church.

Mr. Kimball is survived by two sons, Arthur W., of Melrose, and Leonard Kimball, and a daughter, Mrs. H. Fannie Clarkson, of Worcester.

The Evening Gazette
Worcester, Massachusetts
October 6, 1930

FINAL RESTING PLACE