Addison Kimball
(Richard, Richard, John, Richard, Richard, Lemuel)

Addison was born in Rindge, NH on July 19, 1806 and died in Madison, OH on December 23, 1893.

He married on December 16, 1835, to Samantha Webster.  She was born in 1806 and died in 1887.  They had no children.

He went with his father, Lemuel, in 1812 to Madison, OH. 

From a notice of his death we extract the following:  "Without doubt he resided longer in the township, and was better acquainted and identified with its history than any other citizen.  His memory was a store-house of information in regard to incidents connected with the evolution of the town from a primeval forest to the present time.  When a young man he made choice of the carpenter trade as a pursuit.  He built the first framed school-house in the town, which was located within the present village limits.  Many of the framed houses in the town were built by him, and their enduring quality attests substantial and thorough workmanship.  In 1851 he was employed by the Cleveland, Painsville and Ashtabula Railway Company to superintend the construction of all its depots, freight houses, etc., on its line between Cleveland and Erie.  He continued in the employ of the company until 1858, when he retired from the active pursuits of his calling.  he was long connected with the Congregational church in Madison, and was one of its active members.  He was largely instrumental in the construction of the church building, and when it was repaired, shortly before his death, he presented the pews to the society.  He was not a man who cared or sought for positions of public trust, but had held one or two town offices, and at the time of his death he was a director in the Exchange bank."