Daniel Kimball
(Richard, Henry, Joseph, Joseph, Benjamin)

Daniel was born in Preston, CT on May 20, 1753.  He died in Plainfield, NH on February 27, 1817.

He Married on December 4, 1777 to Hannah Chase of Cornish, NH.  She was born on February 7, 1758 and died on June 17, 1847.

Daniel Kimball was one of the leading men of his adopted town, a man of strong patriotism and decided literary tastes.  He served in the War of the Revolution, was an ensign in Joseph Russell's Co., on October 26, 1778.  His diary is on file in the pension office at Washington, DC.

On November 2, 1797, Daniel Kimball, of Plainfield says that he, with others, has bought some books, and asks that they may be incorporated as a library.  The library was incorporated under the name of The Meriden Library on December 11, 1797.

In 1813 he procured a charter for an academy at Meriden, which was incorporated on June 16, 1813, under the name of Kimball Union Academy.  He endowed the academy with a permanent fund of $40,000.  It is located in what was the old Meriden parish of Plainfield, and has a wide reputation. 

He was a selectman in 1800.  He had no children, but his memory is kept alive by the many hundreds who have graduated from the academy that he founded.