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PEARL C. KIMBALL, a respected gentleman, advanced in years, living at No. 338 Allen street, Jamestown, is a son of Sylvester and Lydia (Atwater) Kimball, of Montgomery county, New York, where he was born Dec. 16, 1818. His great-grandfather, Richard Kimball, came from English parents; lived in Novia Scotia for a time and afterwards came to the State of Connecticut, where he died. His paternal grandfather, Lebbeus Kimball, came to Ames, Montgomery county, this State, and followed the trade of stone-cutting in early life. Prior to his removal inland, he had been a sailor. He married Sarah Crafts and had three children, two sons and one daughter. Caleb Atwater (maternal grandfather) was born in New England, but came to this State, first to Columbia county, and later to Ames, Montgomery county, where he died, a farmer. Sylvester Kimball was born in Connecticut, but came to New York and settled at Ames, where he was employed as millwright. He married Lydia Atwater and had four children: Matilda, died young; Norman (dead) lived at Cherry Creek at the time of his death; Jane, married Geo. N. Frost, and is living at Cherry Creek; and Pearl C. Mr. Kimball was a democrat and a Mason, standing high in the councils of the lodge.

Pearl C. Kimball, after receiving his education, apprenticed himself to a carriage-maker and learned the trade. In 1836 he went to Cherry Creek and worked at his trade for a number of years and was also engaged here in the mercantile business for a time. In 1847 he came to Jamestown and established a carriage manufactory, continuing it until 1873, when he sold out and lived quietly for two or three years, but he was too energetic to remain idle longer, so he opened a grocery store, which he conducted until 1887, when having reached nearly threescore years and ten, he sold out and has since lived quietly and in retirement.

On May 27, 1838, he married Lucy Shattuck, a daughter of Pliny Shattuck, and they have been the parents of five children, four of whom are living: Matilda, now a widow, married Willard Smith; Corolin, wife of Fred L. Farlee, a traveling man for the Jamestown Plush mills; Maurice was twice married, first to Rhoda Williams, by whom he had one child, Ernest; his second wife was Anna Spies, who bore him one child, Frances; and Allen, who married Julia Macy, a daughter of William Macy, of Poland, and has one child. Pearl L.

P. C. Kimball is a republican in politics and has been town clerk for three years, in the town of Cherry Creek.