Arthur Reed Kimball (S&B 1877)
Attorney. Banking. Businessman. Hopkins Grammar School*. Yale University. Skull and Bones. Delta Kappa. Delta Beta Xi (Alpha Sigma Phi). Elizabethan Club 1915.
Author: A Reporter’s Romance (1890) and The Blue Ribbon (1894); contributor to History of Waterbury (1896) and of article on Michael Wigglesworth entitled “A Popular Colonial Poet” to Volume I of the Proceedings of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut (1903) (member of the council of that society 1895-98 and again 1901-04, lieutenant governor 1908 to 1910, deputy governor 1910-12, and governor 1912 to 1914).[4]
Had also written for Atlantic Monthly North American Review, Century, Scribner’s, Harper’s Weekly ‘The Outlook, Independent, Bookman, and Life; delegate from Connecticut to International Press Congress at San Francisco in 1915.[4]
Member Connecticut committee of American Historical Research Fund.[4]
1928 to 1930 - President of Mattatuck Branch of Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.[4]
Since 1927, Class agent of Alumni Fund for Class of 1877.[4]
Since 1926, Trustee of Taft School and Since 1930, Vice-President of Taft School Corporation .[4]
Since 1926, President of Second Mortgage Company of Waterbury.[4]
1925 to 1932 - Director of Waterbury Clock Company.[4]
1922 - Delegate from Connecticut to International Tuberculosis Conference at Brussels.[4]
1924 to 1929 - Vice-President of League of Nations Association and member of its national advisory council since 1929.[4]
Since 1924, Director of Connecticut branch, League of Nations Non-Partisan Association.[4]
1924 - Chairman of pageant committee at celebration of 250th anniversary of founding of Waterbury.[4]
1919 to 1933 - Director, Connecticut Chamber of Commerce (on executive committee since 1921 and President 1927-29).[4]
1919 to 1926 - Director of Waterbury Chamber of Commerce (second Vice-President 1919-1922 and President 1923-26).[4]
1918 to 1929, Director, 1920 to 1922, President and Member of Executive Committee, 1930 to 1933, Member of Advisory Board of Connecticut Society for Mental Hygiene [4].(Eugenics)
Since 1918 - Member State Tuberculosis Commission.[4]
WW1 - During World War served as chairman of Connecticut branch of League to Enforce Peace.[4]
1915 to 1928, Member, 1918 to 1928, Chairman of Council, Since 1928, Vice President of National Civil Service Reform League.[4]
Since its founding in 1915 - President and Director of Morris Plan Bank of Waterbury.[4]
1913 to 1917 - Vice-President of Mattatuck Historical Society of Waterbury and since then President.[4]
Since 1911, Trustee, Since 1916, Director, Since 1920*, Vice-President of Dime Savings Bank of Waterbury.[4]
1912 to 1933 - Director of Colonial Trust Company and Steele & Johnson Manufacturing Company.[4]
1912, 1925, President of Connecticut Conference on Charities and Corrections.[4]
1910 to 1933 - Director of Chase Companies.[4]
1907 - Founder, President until 1929, of Waterbury Anti Tuberculosis League.[4]
Since 1906, Director, 1910, Chairman of Executive Committee of Gaylord Farm Sanatorium, Wallingford.[4]
Since 1904, Director, Since 1912, President of Board of Trustees of Long Lane Farm.[4]
1900 to 1922, Director, 1908 to 1922, Treasurer, President of American Printing Company (publishers of Waterbury American).[4]
Since 1914, Member of Alumni Board as representative of Yale Club of the Naugatuck Valley(second vice-president of the Club 1914 and again 1917).[4]
Member Connecticut committee of Human Welfare Group, Institute of Human Relations, Yale University.[4]
15 May 1895 - Mary Eliza, daughter Sabin and Martha (Starkweather) Chase and sister of Henry S. Chase (‘77), Irving H. Chase (‘80) and Frederick S. Chase (‘87).
1881 - 2 months, Reporter for St. Louis Globe-Democrat.[4]
1881 to 1922 - Connected with Waterbury American, as associate editor until 1907 and then as business manager.[4]
Since 1881 - connected with Connecticut Civil Service Association and its successor, Connecticut Civic Association (elected member of council in 1926).[4]
1880 to 1881 - City Editor of Iowa State Register at Des Moines.[4]
1879 - admitted to Chicago Bar in Chicago. Practiced law there 1879-1880; engaged in newspaper work 1880-1922.[4]
1877 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch.[1]
Since 1874, member Church of Christ in Yale University (associated with Second Congregational Church, Waterbury, since 1895).[4]
Died 27 Jan 1933, from myocarditis and diabetes. Age 77
[3] - Skull and Bones Membership List by David Luhrssen
[4] - Yale Obituary - Page 32. On the page 28.
[5] - Find a Grave - Athur Reed Kimball (S&B 1877)
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