History of Plainfield, (Sullivan County) New Hampshire United States of America

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Richard Burleigh Kimball, author, was born in Plainfield, N.H., Oct. 11, 1816; a descendant of Richard Kimball, who came from Ipswich, England, to New England in 1634, and founded the town of Ipswich, Mass. Richard passed the examinations for admission to Dartmouth college in 1827, but was refused admittance because of his youth. He was graduated from Dartmouth, A.B., 1834, A.M., 1837, and studied law at Waterford, N.Y., 1834-85. He went to Paris in 1835, where he continued his studies at the university, and on his return in 1837 he was admitted to the bar, and practised in Waterford, Troy and New York city. He retired from professional life in 1877, and devoted himself exclusively to literary work. He was the founder of the town of Kimball, Texas, and constructed the first railroad built in Texas, running from Galveston to Houston, and was president of the road, 1854-60. The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by Dartmouth in 1873. He was editor of the Knickerbocker Gallery (1853), and is the author of: Letters from England (1842); St. Leger, or the Threads of Life (1850); Cuba and the Cubans (1850); Letters from Cuba (1850); Romance of Student Life Abroad (1853); Undercurrents of Wall Street (1861); In the Tropics; by a Settler in Santo Domingo (1862); Was He Successful? (1863); The Prince of Kashua (1864); Henry Powers: Banker (1868); To-Day in New York (1870); Stories of an Exceptional Life (1887); Half a Century of Recollections (1893). Several of his works have been translated into French and German. He also published stories of travel and historical and biographical essays in magazines. He died in New York city, Dec. 28, 1892.

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

History of Plainfield, (Sullivan County) New Hampshire

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