Earl Harry Kimball (1892 - 1973)

Born 30 Aug 1892 in Highland, Fayette County, Iowa

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Died Jan 1973 at age 80 in California

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Iowa, Delayed Birth Records, 1850-1939," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q246-HWG9 : accessed 4 November 2020), Earl Harry Kimball, 30 Aug 1892, Illyria Township, Fayette, Iowa, United States; citing reference ID 148113, State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines; FamilySearch digital folder 101713546.

"United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9KQ-N7P : accessed 4 November 2020), Earl Kimball in household of Albert W Kimball, Boardman Township Elkader town, Clayton, Iowa, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 43, sheet 10B, family 189, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,425.

Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XJXX-KXY : 10 February 2018), Earl Harry Kimball and Pearl Marguerite Peterson, 25 Dec 1916, Waterloo, Black Hawk, Iowa, United States; citing reference bk 33 pg176 cn 14953, county courthouses, Iowa; FHL microfilm 1,548,421.

• First hand information.

Earl was born the third child in the family. Minnie was first, then Harry. Austa and Florence came next and finally Albert W. III. The children attended a one room schoolhouse near Wadena for the first grades. Their father worked on a steam threshing rig part of the year. After his mother fell in 1901 and was hospitalized his grandmother Elizabeth and older sister Minnie took care of the children and the house. About 1906 Albert W. II moved with the children into Waterloo abandoning the farm. He was resigned to the reality that Melissa was not going to recover and return to the family. Earl graduated from West High in May of 1912 and college in June 1916. He became a mechanical engineer and worked for a gas engine manufacturing company in Waterloo. About 1919 John Deere came to Waterloo to open a tractor manufacturing business and he began to work there as an engineer.

Following his marriage to Pearl Peterson in 1916 he became active in the First Presbyterian church in Waterloo. During the period known as the "Presbyterian Controversy" he served as the local representative to the national meeting of Presbyterians. In 1926 he and Pearl drove their Chevy from Waterloo to San Diego a trip of 13 days each way. In the 1930's he joined the staff of West High to teach mechanical drawing and became Director of Vocational Education before leaving teaching to return to engineering at Deere's. He retired in 1960 and they moved back to San Diego.

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