CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG
She was the only child of
Edward Marshall Kimball8 (James Spencer7, Izri6,
Caleb5, John4, Caleb3, Richard2,
Richard1). Edward Marshall was born in Keokuk, Iowa, 26 June 1859 and
married in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 17 Jul 1889, Pauline Madelaine Garrett.
Pauline died in Los Angeles 11
Dec 1919 and was buried at Forest Lawn cemetery. Edward married second, in Los
Angeles, 14 Feb 1922, Alyse Lourdes Hunt, who was a descendant of Benjamin
Kimball2
Edward Marshall Kimball was an
actor (there are not many of them mentioned in anything I have read about the
Kimballs, and this is the only one I think I can remember seeing listed that
way in the original M&S). He was a member of the
Claire M. Pattee Theatrical Company
and toured the country. His marriage in Sioux Falls was to an actress in the
same company, and was celebrated on the stage of the theater where they were
appearing.
Edith Matilda Clara Kimball9 was born in Chicago, Illinois, 6 Sep 1890 and
died 15 Oct 1960. She traveled with her parents until about the age of eight,
and almost as soon as she could talk was taking child parts on the stage. When
of school age she was left with her grandparents and attended school at Benton
Harbor, Michigan, and then to St. Xavier’s School for Girls in Chicago where she
graduated at the age of sixteen. She immediately went into the theatrical
profession and remained in it until 1910 when the Vitagraph Company, recognizing
her ability and beauty, made her an offer to adopt the motion pictures as a
career.
Her beauty, talents and amiable
disposition brought her fame and wealth and she was recognized as a great artist
of the screen. Among her films were My
Official Wife, Magda, Heart of the Blue Ridge and
House of Glass. She met and married
in June of 1910, James Young. It was not a happy marriage and they were divorced
in 1917.
Info from The Francis Wayland Kimball Papers
Check out the website made by Greta de Groat on Clara Kimball Young here!