Eleazer Kimberly (November 17, 1639 – February 3, 1709)"Eleazer Kimberly"
''lythgoes.net''. Retrieved 2010-12-13. was the sixth

Secretary of the State of Connecticut The secretary of the state of Connecticut is one of the constitutional officers of the U.S. state of Connecticut. (The definite article is part of the legal job title.) It is an elected position in the state government and has a term length of four ...

. Born in

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, to Thomas Kimberly and Alice Atwood of

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, Kimberly was reportedly the first male child born in New Haven.McGhan, Judith.
Genealogies of Connecticut Families: From the New England Historical and Genealogical Register
' (Genealogical Publishing Com, 1983), pp. 355-356. He was a

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in Wethersfield from 1661 to 1689."Eleazer Kimberly"
''nefamilies.com''. Retrieved 2010-12-13. In the 1690s, he held several positions in

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, including Commissioner and Town Clerk. Kimberly served as Secretary of Connecticut from 1696 until his death in 1709. He was "one of the best penmen of his time, as attested by the town and colony records." Kimberly was married three times and had five children. He built the

Kimberly Mansion The Kimberly Mansion is a historic house at 1625 Main Street in Glastonbury, Connecticut, United States. It was the home of Abby Hadassah Smith, Abby and Julia Evelina Smith, political activists involved in causes including Abolitionism in the ...

in the early 18th century. Kimberly was also a minor character in the 1958 children's historical novel, ''

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''."''The Witch of Blackbird Pond''"
. ''clem.mscd.edu''. Retrieved 2010-12-13.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kimberly, Eleazer 1639 births 1709 deaths Politicians from New Haven, Connecticut Secretaries of the state of Connecticut People from Glastonbury, Connecticut