ELLIOTT
KIMBALL - The personnel of the executive corps of Ashtabula
County is such as to reflect credit on the county and to maintain
the high prestige always maintained by its officials. He whose
name initiates this sketch is giving a most discriminating and
sat=recorder and maintains his home in Conneaut, Ohio.
Mr. Kimball is a native of the old Keystone
state, having been born in Girard, Erie county, Pennsylvania, on May
12, 1852, and is a son of Albert T. and Mariette (Hall) Kimball,
both of whom were likewise natives of Pennsylvania and both of whom
are now deceased. Elliott Kimball was afforded the
advantages of the public schools of his native city, including the
high school, and after attaining to years of maturity he was there
engaged in the mercantile business for a time. Later he was
the owner of a general store at Clarks Corners, Ashtabula county,
Ohio, where he took up his residence in 1884 and where he served as
postmaster for the long period of nineteen years. He was one
of the most influential citizens of that village and that he gained
unqualified popularity in Ashtabula county had sufficient voucher
when, in 1901, he was elected to the office of county recorder.
He assumed the duties of the office in 1902 and so satisfactory was
his handling of the same that he was chosen as his own successor in
1904 and was reappointed in 1908, so that he is now serving his
seventh consecutive year as incumbent of this important office.
While a resident of Clarks Corners he rendered efficient service as
justice of the peace and he wielded much influence in public affairs
in the village. He has shown marked executive ability and has
the affairs of his present office thoroughly systematized and
effectively managed. Mr. Kimball is a member of the
directorate of the Conneaut Mutual Loan & Trust Company and the
Conneaut Leather Company, both representative concerns of the
county, and is also a director of the Electric Respirone Company, of
Cleveland. His political allegiance is given to the Republican
party, in whose cause he has rendered yeoman service, and he is
prominently identified with the Masonic fraternity, in which his
affiliations include membership in Cache Commandery, Knights
Templars and Al Koran Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of
the Mystic Shrine, in the city of Cleveland. He and his wife
hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal church.
In the year 1874 was solemnized the marriage of Mr.
Kimball to Miss Marian Hogle, daughter of William
Hogle* of Clarks Corners, Ashtabula county,
Ohio, and brief record is here given concerning the five children of
this union: Jennie C. is the wife of R. E. Mygatt, of
Conneaut; Ida M. is the wife of Attorney Charles L.
Whitney, superintendent of the Conneaut Leather Company;
William A., who is engaged in the general merchandise business
at Clarks Corners, married Miss Lena Robinson; Glenn E. is in
business for himself in Corry, Pennsylvania; and R. Floyd is
a clerk in the Fauver & Walker Clothing Company, Conneaut,
Ohio.
Source: History of the Western Reserve By Harriet Taylor Upton And a
staff of Leading Citizens collaborated on the Counties and
Biographies - ILLUSTRATED - VOL. III - Publ. The Lewis
Publishing Company - Chicago - New York - 1910 Page 1854 |
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