About James P. Kimball
Lived 1836 – 1913 (aged 76–77). James P. Kimball was an American engineer, mining engineer, botanist and geologist.
James Putnam Kimball (April 26, 1836 – October 23, 1913) was an American metallurgist and geologist who was Director of the United States Mint from 1885 to 1889.
Biography
James P. Kimball was born in Salem, Massachusetts on April 26, 1836. In 1854, he entered the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University; after a year he traveled to Berlin to study at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität; he then transferred to the Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen, receiving a Ph.D. in 1857.
Kimball married Mary Elizabeth Farley July 22, 1874 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They had three children: Russell, named after a Revolutionary era ancestor, Edith, and Farley. Kimball died in Cody, Wyoming October 23, 1913.
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American geologist (1836–1913)
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James P. Kimball was born in 1836 in Salem.
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James P. Kimball died in 1913 in Cody.
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James P. Kimball was an engineer, mining engineer, botanist and geologist.
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