Louis Maurice Kimball

History of New Hampshire
By Everett S. Stackpole
Five Volumes
Vol V, P 41-2

Louis Maurice Kimball, one of the most successful merchants of North Haverhill, New Hampshire, and a public-spirited and popular citizen of this community, is a son of Maurice Eben Kimball, who is the subject of extended mention elsewhere in this work.  He was born in 1876, at North Haverhill, New Hampshire, and has continued to reside here constantly ever since.  As a child he attended the local public schools and here he gained the elementary portion of his education, proving even at that early age an apt scholar.  He later attended St. Johnsbury Academy at St. Johnsbury, New Hampshire, and was graduated form this institution in 1897, having been there prepared for college.  He then matriculated at Dartmouth College, where, after a notable career of four years, he was graduated with the class of 1902 and the degree of A.B.  His father had been engaged in a very successful mercantile enterprise at North Haverhill, and the young man decided to follow in his footsteps.  He had an opportunity to learn of general business methods in his father's establishment and then, in partnership with his brother, Roy Kimball, opened an independent establishment, which has since thriven greatly in this place.  The two gentlemen have always conducted their business on principals of the highest business ethics and have won for themselves a well-deserved reputation that has brought to them a large and always growing patronage.  Mr. Kimball at the present time occupies a very important place not only in the commercial, but also in the financial world of this region, and is connected with the Woodsville National Bank in the capacity of director.

Perhaps, however, he is still better known through his connection with the public life of the place, as he has held some very important offices here.  In addition to some minor post, he has for the past twelve years (1917) served the town as its treasurer, in which capacity he has done much to advance its financial standing and condition, having brought to bear upon its affairs the same business talents and foresight which he has displayed in the conduct of his personal interests.  In the year 1911 he was elected to represent the town in the New Hampshire General Court and served as a member of that body in that and the following year.  He is a prominent figure, also, in the social and fraternal circles of North Haverhill and is particularly prominent in the Masonic order, having taken the thirty-second degree in Free Masonry.  He is affiliated with practically all the Masonic bodies in the region, among which should be mentioned; Grafton Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Haverhill, New Hampshire; Franklin Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of Lisbon, New Hampshire; Hiram Council, Royal and Select Masters, of Lisbon, New Hampshire; St. Gerard Commandery, Knights Templar, of Littleton, New Hampshire; Bektash Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Concord; and New Hmapshire Consistory, Sovereign Princes of the Royal Secret, of Nashua.  Mr. Kimball's club is the Dartmouth of Boston.  He is unmarried.