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unusual facts about H.I. Kimball



Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

Orson Hyde (27 December 1847—22 June 1868) : When senior Apostle Brigham Young was made President of the Church on 27 December 1847, the next senior Apostle, Heber C. Kimball, was asked by Young to be one of the counselors in the First Presidency.

Alan Cherry

In 1978, after LDS Church President Spencer W. Kimball received what he announced as a divine revelation allowing black Mormon men to receive the Priesthood and act on behalf of God on Earth, Cherry sought and was called on a Mormon mission to Oakland, California.

Alanson M. Kimball

Kimball died in Pine River, Wisconsin on May 26, 1913.

Ángel Abrea

Abrea was called by Church President Spencer W. Kimball as a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy on March 20, 1981.

Charles D. Kimball

In 1925 he was admitted as an honorary member of the Rhode Island Society of the Cincinnati.

Charles F. Kimball

He along with fellow landscape artist, John Bradley Hudson, Jr., shared a passion for painting en plein air, traveling around Casco Bay and Portland with their easels and brushes painting local scenery.

Charles Kimball

Charles F. Kimball, 19th-century American pastoral landscape and marine painter

Charles D. Kimball (1859–1930), American politician and Governor of Rhode Island

Charles T. Kimball, Republican member of the Michigan House of Representatives

Charles L. Kimball

He was awarded the Mexican Ariel Award in 1951 for his editing work on In the Palm of Your Hand, and nominated for another the following year.

Francis Kimball

Francis D. Kimball (1820–1856), Republican politician from the state of Ohio

Frederick J. Kimball

In 1881, the Clark firm bought at auction the foreclosed Atlantic, Mississippi & Ohio Railroad (AM&O), an east-west railroad across Virginia controlled by William Mahone.

For the junction for the Shenandoah and the Norfolk & Western, Kimball and his board of directors selected a small Virginia village called Big Lick, on the Roanoke River.

George Adair

He also helped raise funds for the rebuilding of the Kimball House after it burned down and was instrumental in convincing H.I. Kimball to return to Atlanta to lead the effort.

George E. Kimball

During the war, there was liaison between US and UK analysts in service of RAF Coastal Command.

He returned to Princeton's chemistry department to be a graduate student on a graduate fellowship and worked under Hugh Taylor.

Henry M. Kimball

Kimball was elected as a Republican from Michigan's 3rd congressional district to the 74th Congress serving from January 3, 1935 until his death in Kalamazoo.

Kimball was born in Orland, Indiana and attended the common and high schools of Orland.

John F. Boynton

Boynton believed Smith to have become a "fallen prophet" and said to Heber C. Kimball, "if you are such a fool as to go at the call of the fallen prophet, Joseph Smith, I will not help you a dime, and if you are cast on Van Diemen's Land, I will not make an effort to help you."

Justin F. Kimball

Justin F. Kimball High School - a school in Dallas, Texas, administered by the Dallas Independent School District

Justin Ford Kimball - inventor of the Blue Cross/Blue Shield system, and namesake of the school in Dallas, Texas

L. Tom Perry

The death of church president Harold B. Lee created a vacancy in the Quorum of the Twelve when Spencer W. Kimball, who had been serving as quorum president, became church president.

Marion G. Romney

Lee's death the following year brought Spencer W. Kimball to the church presidency, who retained Romney and First Counselor Nathan Eldon Tanner in their positions.

Nathan Eldon Tanner

Tanner remained in this position for the presidency of Joseph Fielding Smith (1970–1972), and then became first counselor to Smith's successor Harold B. Lee, remaining first counselor to Lee and Spencer W. Kimball until his own death.

Orson Hyde Memorial Garden

The park was inaugurated on October 24, 1979, by the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Spencer W. Kimball.

Reading Viaduct

The Italianate headhouse was designed by New York architect Francis H. Kimball.

Spencer Kimball

Spencer W. Kimball (1895–1985), 12th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Spencer L. Kimball, American lawyer and legal academic; son of Spencer W. Kimball

Stanley B. Kimball

When the missionaries were expelled from the country in 1950, he was relocated to England with Stayner Richards as his mission president.

He was an expert on eastern European history but also wrote on Latter-day Saint history, specifically his ancestor Heber C. Kimball and the Mormon Trail.

Thompsonville, Kansas

Among those settlers was Emily Trask Cutler, one of the plural wives of Heber C. Kimball, counselor to Young and daughter of John Alpheus Cutler, who founded the Cutlerite sect at Manti, Iowa while en route with the main body to the Salt Lake Valley.

Verner Main

Main was elected as a Republican from Michigan's 3rd congressional district to the 74th Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Henry M. Kimball and served from December 17, 1935 to January 3, 1937.


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