Hanniball Kimball

Hanniball Ingalls Kimball (May 16, 1832 – April 28, 1895) was an American entrepreneur and important businessman in post-war Atlanta, Georgia.

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May 16 - 1832 - April 28 - 1895 - American - Atlanta, Georgia

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Born in Oxford County, Maine to family of Methodist wheel-wrights, he stayed in that and the carriage business moving first to Norway, Maine then later to the largest carriage manufacturing center, New Haven, Connecticut where he was a manager for the G .& D. Cook & Co Carriage Makers.

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Oxford County, Maine - Methodist - Norway, Maine - New Haven, Connecticut - G .& D. Cook & Co Carriage Makers

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Unfortunately, many of their customers were in the South and after the beginning of the American Civil War money owed them was not payed and the business failed.

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South - American Civil War

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Kimball then moved to Central City, Colorado as the agent for a mining company and regained his fortune.

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While in Colorado, he met George Pullman who hired him in 1866 to run the Pullman Company's southern operations.

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George Pullman - 1866 - Pullman Company

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Though initially to be headquarted in Nashville, Tennessee, he thought it would be more prosperous in Atlanta and moved his family there in 1867.

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Nashville, Tennessee - 1867

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