History of Hill, (Merrimack County) New Hampshire United States of America

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Gilman Kimball Biographical Sketch

Gilman Kimball, surgeon, was born in Hill, N.H., Dec. 8, 1804. He Was graduated from the medical department of Dartmouth college in 1827, and practised medicine at Chicopee and Lowell, Mass. He completed his medical studies at Paris, and on his return, in 1830, settled at Lowell, Mass. He was resident physician of the Corporation hospital for twenty-six years; was professor of surgery in the Vermont Academy of Medicine at Woodstock in 1844 and at the Berkshire Medical institute at Pittsfield, Mass., in 1845. At the commencement of the civil war Dr. Kimball served as brigade surgeon under Gert. Benjamin F. Butler, and superintended the organization of the military hospitals established in 1862 at Annapolis and Fort Monroe. He was president of the American Genealogical society in 1882; contributed largely to medical literature, and was the first to illustrate practically the benefits of tim treatment of fibroid tumors by electricity. Berkshire Medical college gave him the M.D. degree in 1837, the Vermont Academy of Medicine in 1840 and Yale college in 1856. He also received the honorary degree of A.M. from Dartmouth in 1849. He died in Lowell, Mass., July 27, 1892.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor