Background
Kimball, Charles Nathaniel was born on September 20, 1872 in Parkville, Missouri, United States. Son of Chester Frayer and Sarah Margaret (Boydston) Kimball.
Kimball, Charles Nathaniel was born on September 20, 1872 in Parkville, Missouri, United States. Son of Chester Frayer and Sarah Margaret (Boydston) Kimball.
Graduate Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, 1899. Student Harvard Law School, 1899.
Admitted to Pennsylvania bar, 1894, to West Virginia bar, 1904. Member Kimball & Sugden. Active in organizing and operating gas and oil companies in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Illinois, Kansas, Ohio, Wyoming and Kentucky since 1907.
President Old Hundred Gold Mining Company (Silverton, Colorado), General Petroleum Engineers, Inc. Director Sistersville Tank & Boiler Works, First Tyler Bank & Trust Company Director Sistersville Cemetery Association. Mayor Sistersville, West Virginia, 1 term: member West Virginia Republican State Committee since 1916, state chairman, 1934-1936.
Delegate at large West Virginia to Republican National Convention, Cleveland, 1936. Presidential elector from West Virginia 4th Congressional District, on Republican National Ticket, 1940. Alternate delegate-at-large, West Virginia to Republican’ National Convention.
Chicago, Illinois, 1944. Delegate from West Virginia to Progressive National Convention, Chicago, 1916. Alternate delegate-at-large, to Republican National Convention, Philadelphia, 1948.
Chairman Tyler County West Virginia, Republican Executive Committee 6 years.
Member Pennsylvania Society of Order of Founders and Patriots of America, N.E. Historic Genealogical Society (life. Mason, Knights Templar, Shriner (life. Clubs: Country of Sistersville (director).
Married Mary Jane McGlinchey, July 3, 1904. Children: Chester Frayer, Mary Boydston, Walter Sugden.