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INDIAN WARS AND PIONEERS OF TEXAS.
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RICHARD KIMBALL,
MERIDIAN,Richard Kimball, a leading lawyer and one of
the most extensive planters in Bosque County,
Texas, was born in New York City in 1845, the
eldest of five children born to Richard B. and
Julia C. (Tomlinson) Kimball. The Kimballs
were a very old English family, tracing their
genealogy back to remote times. The progenitor
of the American branch, Richard Kimball (a name
that has passed down from generation to generation
in the family), crossed the ocean and settled in
Massachusetts in 1635. The Tomlinsons were also
an ancient English family, representatives of which
came to America in colonial days. Both families
contributed gallant soldiers to the patriot armies of
the American Revolution and distinguished members
to the learned professions in America in the
earlier and later history of the country. The
fatherof the subject of this memoir graduated with
honors at Dartmouth College, studied law and
began practice at Waterford, N. Y.; shortly thereafter
moved to New York City, where he soon rose
to eminence and became attorney for various railroad
corporations and financially interested in
railroad building; in 1846 bought various tracts of
land in Texas, aggregating more than 100,000
acres, and about 1859 founded the town of Kimball
on the Brazos river, in Bosque County. It
was on the cattle trail and soon became a flourishing
place. Its prosperity continued until railroads
were built throughout the country and then, beingleft inland, its fortunes declined. It is still a postoffice.
He was the leading spirit in the Galveston,
Houston studied law at Poughkeepsie,
N. Y., and was admitted to the bar in 1867,
and the following year came to Texas and located
on a fine estate on the Brazos river, some 3,000
acres, which he proceeded to improve. In 1888 he
moved to Meridian and engaged actively in the
general practice of his profession and is now considered
one of the best lawyers in that section of
the State.
He has'ever been an active working Democrat, is
chairman of the County Democratic Executive
Committee and has for years been a delegate to
the various party conventions.
In 1881 he married Miss Nannie A. Ogden, of
Missouri. They have five children: Richard Huntington,
May, Julia, Harold Ogden, and Margaret C.JOHN M. ZIPP,
NEW BRAUNFELS,Oldest son of a Texas pioneer of 1847, the late
John Jacob Zipp, was born in Germany and was
about seventeen years of age when he came to
Texas with his father and family.
He married in June, 1864, Miss Helen Hoffman,daughter of a worthy Comal County pioneer. She
was born in 1839.
They have a family of six children. Mr. Zipp is
a prosperous farmer, a man of great thrift and industry,
and a fair type of Comal County pioneer.
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Brown, John Henry. Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas, book, 1880~; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth6725/m1/639/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.