Heber C. Kimball

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Chase Kimball (June 14, 1801 – June 22, 1868), a pioneer in the early Latter Day Saint movement, was Heber Chase Kimball (June 14, 1801 – June 22, 1868).

He was one of the original twelve apostles in the early Church of Latter Day Saints, as the first advisor to Brigham Young in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) for more than two decades, from 1847 to his death. Kimball married forty-three women and then became part of the church doctrine, but some of them were for caretaking.

By the seventeenth of his wives' marriages, he had a total of sixty-six children.

Early life

Heber Chase Kimball was born in Sheldon, Vermont, on June 14, 1801. He was a descendant of the Kimball immigrants who came from England in 1634. He was chosen after judge Heber Chase, who had supported the family in their attempts to settle in the area. Solomon F. Kimball, his father, worked as a blacksmith and owned a farm. His father lost his investments and his family immigrated to western New York due to the embargo on trade with Britain preceding the War of 1812. About 1811, the two families settled in West Bloomfield, Ontario County, New York.

Kimball left school at the age of 14, trained as a blacksmith and potter, and then followed his brother in Mendon, New York, in about 1820. Vilate Murray, his first wife, was married there in November of 1822.

He started his trades after buying his brother's pottery business for the next ten years. He owned five and a half acres (22,000 m2) of land, designed a house, and planted an orchard.

Kimball was awarded three craft degrees of Freemasonry in the lodge at Victor Flats, Ontario County, New York, in 1823. He sent a petition in 1824 to the chapter at Canandaia, New York, for the York Rite degrees of Royal Arch Masonry. His petition was accepted, but Anti-Masons burnt the chapter building in Canandaia, as he said. Many years later, Kimball reminisced of his New York masonic experiences, saying, "I wish that all men were masons and would live up to their careers," says Kimball, a historian of the United States.

When the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints established itself in Nauvoo, Illinois, Kimball was one of the first petitioners to establish a Freemasonry lodge there. He served as Nauvo Lodge U.D. It was the first Junior Deacon in the United States. During his stay in Nauvoo, he was active in Freemasonry, but he wasn't active until he moved to Utah Territory. In his lifetime, there was no lodge in Utah that would welcome Mormons.

Several of Kimball's close relatives died of tuberculosis within a few years: his father died in February 1824, followed by his brother Charles C. and his sister's sister shortly after.

William Henry Henry Henry was born in Mendon, 1826, and he was Kimball's first child to live infancy. Helen Mar was born on August 22, 1828. She was the only daughter to live.

Kimball claims to have witnessed a miraculous event on September 22, 1827. It was later discovered by Joseph Smith that the Book of Mormon from the Angel Moroni's records were "took place the evening that Joseph Smith had the records of the event." On the horizon, he had seen "a white smoke" emerging, increasing "clear and transparent of a bluish cast," revealing an army "in platoons":

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