Lucien Carpenter Kimball (9-10001)
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Lucien Carpenter Kimball (9-10001)
Richard Kimball, Benjamin Kimball, David Kimball, David Kimball, Asa Kimball, John Kimball, Hazen Kimball, Charles Carroll Kimball, Lucien Carpenter Kimball
BORN: June 5, 1858 in Webster, NH
MARRIED: Aug 31, 1886 to Edna Pike Stanyan in Wentworth, NH
DIED: Apr 8, 1938 in Contoocook
BURIED: Contoocook Village Cemetery
Named after his mother's brother Lucien B who was a candidate for Bishop in the Methodist Church when he died.
He went to the Austin academy in Strafford, NH and the New Hampton Institution to get ready for Dartmouth College.
Graduated Dartmouth college in 1882 with BA.
Graduated Andover Theological Seminary in 1887 after being absent one year while he preached at Wentworth, NH
Ordained Congregational minister at Canterbury, NH on June 17, 1887 and was pastor there from 1886 to 1889
From 1890 to 1892 he was employed by the Vermont Domestic Missionary Society as a financial evangelist.
From 1892 to 1896 he was pastor at Middlefield, MA. While here he published a newspaper for 2 years.
From 1897 to 1898 he was financial agent of the state Congregational paper of NH.
From 1899 to 1890 he was pastor at Dummerston, VT
From 1901 to 1904 he was pastor at Swanzey, NH
From 1904 to 1908 he was pastor at Chicester, NH Was there for 4 years and 1 month ending Oct 31st
His last pastorate was for Hopkinton Congregational Church for 19 years, retiring in 1927. He began Nov 1st, 1908 and purchased a home in Hopkinton at this time behind his church.
For six years he ran a sanitarium for nervous patients in Hopkinton, NH
They donated money to the Southern Union College in Wadley, AL to rebuild their main building in 1935 and named "Kimball Hall" and served as mostly a dormitory. In 1971 this building was razed (destroyed). They also gave students money for tuition scholarships to this college.
In 1920, Lucien and Edna gave to the NH State Conference of Congregational Churches the sum of $18,000 to be known as the Kimball-Stanyan Fund in memory of their parents. With annuity provision for the donors during their lifetime, but afterwards the income to be used, two-thirds for work among the rural churches of NH and one-third for the work of the Ministers' and Windows' Fund.
Edna P Stanyan was the daughter of Newell and Martha (MacQuestern) Stanyan Jr of Wentworth, NH. She was born Dec 2, 1869 in Wentworth, NH
Lucien had a stroke of paralysis on April 3rd and died five days later.
They resided in Hopkinton, NH
CHILDREN:
1. Charles Carroll Kimball (10), b. Aug 23, 1888; m. 1910
2. Leroy Raymond Kimball (10), b. Mar 29, 1895; m 1922
Rev. Lucien & Edna Kimball at Hopkinton, NH Parsonage on South Rd
**Information taken from "History of Boscawen & Webster, by Willis G Buxton, 1933
**Additional information provided by "A small Treatise on the life and times of Rev Lucien C Kimball" by his great nephew Rufus Little