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KIMBEL, Adolph
KIMBEL, Adolph. (Bellevue, IA, July 6, 1872--Clinton, IA, Nov. 16, 1952]] A son of Richard KIMBEL and Katherine Bassel Kimbel, Adolph like other men in the family became a riverman at an early age. He became a pilot of a ferryboat operating from EAGLE POINT to Bellevue when he was eighteen. He received his marine engineer's license at the age of twenty-three.
Kimbel served many years piloting boats on the MISSISSIPPI RIVER and then the Snake River in Idaho and Washington.
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Source:
"Former Bellevuean Dies in Clinton," The Bellevue Leader, November 27, 1952