H. A. Kimball
H. A. Kimball, farmer, was born in Champaign County, Ohio, May 7, 1825. He is a son of Bela and Electa Kimball, natives of Stowe, Vermont, who came to Ohio about the year 1849, with a family of eight children. Our subject was married, in 1858, to Miss Elizabeth Johnston, daughter of James and Sarah Johnston, of Ross County. They have two children: Viroca O. and Emily T. Mr. Kimball was in the hundred days' service. He received his education in Champaign County, in the old log school houses, where they had the soft side of a slab for the seats. He has a curiosity in his possession in the way of a violin, supposed to be three hundred years old. It was captured from some aristocratic family of the South during the war, and our subject refuses to take one thousand dollars for it. It is a good one, and a very valuable relic.
From R. S. Dills' History of Fayette County