Edwin H. Kimball
Edwin H. Kimball, of Marion, one of the younger business men of that city, is at present serving efficiently as auditor of Grant County. He is a native of Indiana and has lived during the greater part of his life in Grant County, where he has won a place for himself in the affectionate regard of the citizens of the community.
The Kimball family is one of the best known in this section of Indiana, the father of Edwin H. Kimball, Dr. A.D. Kimball being one of the most popular men in this part of the state. Dr. Abner Daniel Kimball was born in Coshocton, Ohio, and lived in Grant County, Indiana for many years. He was a man of great nobility of character and was a friend to men of all classes, winning deserved popularity through his kindness of heart and generosity of spirit. He married Henrietta Haupt, who was a native of the state of Illinois. They became the parents of four children. Maude, the eldest, is now deceased, Clyde lives in Wabash County, Indiana, Nellie P. Kimball, of Marion and Edwin H. Dr. Kimball died on the 4th of November, 1904.
Edwin H. Kimball was born at Xenia, in Miami County, Indiana, on the 26th of September, 1874. He later came to Marion with his parents and here he received his elementary education, being graduated from the high school in Marion. He then entered the Indiana Medical College, with the intention of making medicine his profession. His studies were interrupted during his first year, however, by the the outbreak of the Spanish-American war, and his enlistment in the medical corps. After the war was over he took up the study of dentistry, and was graduated from the Indiana Dental College in 1901.
Returning to Marion he began the practice of dentistry and for twelve years he was a successful practitioner in his home city. In 1911 he was elected auditor of Grant County, and assumed office in 1912. He has served in this office since since that time to the entire satisfaction of the residents of this county.
On the 28th of April, 1898, Mr. Kimball was married to Ella Vivian Douris, a daughter of John and Mary Douris, of Bedford, Indiana.
In politics Mr. Kimball is a member of the Republican party. He is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons and of the Knights of Pythias. He also belongs to the Sons of Veterans and to the Spanish-American War Veterans Association. In religious matters he is a member of the Presbyterian church, and his college fraternity is Delta Sigma Delta, which is a professional fraternity. He is a member of the Elks, No. 195, of Marion.
Submitted by: Gina Reasoner