Some recollections of my father's family / by Wesley Clark Kimberly, [ca. 1928]

1 v. (56 p.) : ill. ; 17 x 23 cm.

English

Purchased from the Alta California Bookstore on the Frederick W. & Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 1977.

Bound carbon copy typescript family history of Reverend William Kimberly and Mrs. Phebe Drake Kimberly and their fifteen children, of whom Wesley Clark was the youngest. The Kimberly family settled in Lee, Jefferson, and Mahaska Counties, Iowa Territory, in the 1840s, where the family farmed and William Kimberly became a preacher in the Methodist Episcopal and Wesleyan Methodist churches. The history includes descriptions of pioneer life in Iowa; the family's work with the underground railroad; brief biographical sketches of family members; and the author's brief memoirs of his experiences as a Union soldier in Arkansas during the Civil War. The volume contains photographic portraits of Reverend and Mrs. Kimberly and Wesley Clark Kimberly, and an undated inscription by the author to his daughter, Anna Maude Kimberly Stuart.

June 01, 2002

Wesley Clark Kimberly, Some Recollections of My Father's Family. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Wesley Clark Kimberly, Some Recollections of My Father's Family. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Photographic prints.