Banker
Centurion, 1897–1929
Born 29 September 1848 in Orange, New Jersey
Died 9 December 1929 in Saint Cloud, New Jersey
Buried Mount Auburn Cemetery
, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Proposed by Daniel Chester French and John Crosby Brown
Elected 4 December 1897 at age forty-nine
Century Memorial
By profession Alfred R. Kimball was a stock broker, but his special interest was in church affairs, especially the Federal Council of Churches. To that work, in which he co-operated with fellow-citizens and fellow-centurions such as William E. Dodge, Charles E. Hughes, Cleveland Cady and Robert C. Ogden, Kimball devoted his time and thought during more than twenty years. His own unbounded enthusiasm over the undertaking was indicated in his expression of opinion, at the testimonial dinner given to him by his coadjutors in 1925, that the getting of people of one religious denomination “to give their denominational money to something outside the denomination” was one of “the greatest things that has been done since the foundation of the world.” Outside of this special field of activity, Kimball gave freely of his time and money to the two colleges of which he was trustee, and to the city charities.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1930 Century Association Yearbook
