Sullivan Cicero Kimball (8-2661)

Sullivan Cicero Kimball (8-2661)

Richard KimballBenjamin KimballDavid KimballDavid KimballAsa KimballJohn Kimball, Hazen Kimball, Sullivan Cicero Kimball

BORN:  July 21, 1838

MARRIED:  (1) Feb 12, 1866 to Julia A Ayer

                  (2) May 25, 1868 to Ednah Azuba Shaw

DIED:  Mar 3, 1924

BURIED: 

Preparatory studies at Hopkinton academy, graduated at Dartmouth college in 1860.

He became a teacher of a female seminary in Albany, NY in 1860 for six months.  He became commissioner of deeds in December, 1860.  

He began studying for the ministry in the fall of 1863 at the NH Theological Seminary in Concord, NH, graduating in 1866.

Licensed to preach by the Freewill Baptists at North Weare, NH in January 27, 1864.  He began working at the North Weare church on January 17, 1864.

He was principal of Contoocook academy from 1863 to 1865, principal of Riverside academy in North Weare from 1865 to 1867, principal of Austin academy in Centre Strafford from 1875 to 1879.

He was ordained pastor on july 30, 1865 in North Weare, NH and dismissed on July 30, 1867.

He was pastor at Newmarket from August 1, 1867 to March 1, 1869

He was pastor at Wells, ME from March 1, 1869 to January 31, 1870

He was pastor at Gilford Village from February, 1871 to January 31, 1875.

He was pastor at Strafford Centre from February 1, 1875 to January 31, 1880

He was pastor at Newmarket since May 1880

He read law in 1860-61 and became the Assistant Editor ofThe Republican Statesman from 1861 to 1863 in Albany NY. He was the reporter of state senate debates from October, 1861 to April 1863 for the paper.

He was secretary of the New Hampshire Christian Association since 1875.

He has edited and published The Christian Witness monthly, since 1880.

He is a life member of several benevolent societies.  He has written and lectured much against Freemasonry and for this has been much persecuted and met the violence of four furious mobs.

He received his A.M. from Dartmouth college in 1865.

Julia A Ayer was the daughter of Daniel Ayer of Albany, NY.  She was born on May 30, 1848 and died October 29, 1866 at North Weare, NH

Ednah Azuba Shaw was the daughter of J. Weare Shaw, of Kensington.  She was born on July 16, 1850 and died on Oct 13, 1824

PUBLICATIONS:

1 - Volume of Poems, 1858

2 - Facts for the People, an Anti-Masonic Tract

3 - The Funeral Discourse

 

CHILDREN:

1.  Hazen Kimball

 

 **Information taken from "Life and Times in Hopkinton, NH, by CC Lord 1890