Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Kimberling, Henry A. May 9, 1842 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

HENRY A. KIMBERLING,
an industrious and prosperous citizen of Frankstown township, is a son of
Samuel and Mary (Confer) Kimberling, and was born at Point View, near Canoe
Mountain, in Catharine township, Blair county, Pennsylvania, May 9, 1842. 
His paternal grandfather, John Kimberling, was a farmer by occupation, and
resided for many years at the base of the Loop mountain, where he operated
the flouring mill now known as the Mentzer mill.  He was a republican in
politics at the time of his death, and had been thrice married.  His first
wife was a Miss Stambaugh, by whom he had one child.  He married for his
second wife Lena Geesey, by whom he had two children.  His son, Samuel
Kimberling (father), was born June 20, 1818, in the beautiful valley at the
base of the Loop mountain, in Frankstown township.  In early life he was
engaged in boating on the Juniata canal, afterward worked at Spang's furnace,
and was successfully engaged in farming on the Good farm, near Cove mountain,
and in the Turkey valley, where he died in 1869, aged sixty years, two months
and twenty-five days.  He was a member of the Evangelical Lutheran church, and
a republican in politics, and had served as supervisor of his township.  He
married Mary Confer, who was a native of Pennsylvania, and died in 1890. 
They reared a family of six children, two sons and four daughters:  Henry A.,
Samuel L., Tillie, Hettie M., Lizzie, and Laura R.  Mrs. Kimberling was a
daughter of Jacob Confer, who was of Irish descent, and a resident of Turkey
valley, Blair county.
     Henry A. Kimberling was reared on the farm, received his education in
the common schools, and has always followed farming and stock raising in
Frankstown township.
     In 1867 Henry A. Kimberling was united in marriage with Catherine
Geesey, and their union has been blessed with one child, a son named William,
who was born October 12, 1868, and is assisting his father in farming.  Mrs.
Kimberling is a model housekeeper, and an amiable and entertaining woman. 
She was born at Frankstown on March 26, 1840, and is a daughter of Jacob
Geesey, who was born in 1802, in New York, from which he removed to Dutch
valley, and afterwards to the farm now occupied by Mr. Kimberling, where he
died.  Jacob Geesey married Margaret Gast, by whom he had twelve children: 
Mary M., dead; Catherine, dead; Michael, married; Margaret, dead; Sarah,
dead; Susan, married; Elizabeth, married; Harriet, married; Catherine
Kimberling; Nancy Jane, married; Lydia, dead; and Maria E., married.
     In politics Henry A. Kimberling is a republican.  He give close
attention to his farm and business affairs, and believes that whatever is
worth doing is worth doing well.

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Originally submitted 2001. Transcribed by Donna Thomas.

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