Biography of Manning M. Kimmel Excerpted from "Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society, 1911-1912", Edited by Geo. W. Martin, Secretary. Vol XII., State Printing Office, Topeka, Kansas 1912. submitted by Teresa Lindquist (merope@radix.net); (copyright) 2001 by Teresa Lindquist ----------------------------------------------------------------------- KSGENWEB INTERNET GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY COPYRIGHT NOTICE: In keeping with the KSGenWeb policy of providing free information on the Internet, this data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other gain. Copying of the files within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- MANNING M. KIMMEL was born in Perry county, Missouri, October 25, 1832. He was appointed a cadet at the United States Military Academy, entering in 1853 and graduating in 1857. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Second cavalry, July 1, 1857; was promoted to a first lieutenancy in the same regiment April 1, 1861, and resigned in July following. He immediately entered the Confederate military service with the rank of major, and was assigned to duty as adjutant general on the staff of Gen. Ben McCulloch, serving in that capacity until the latter was killed at the battle of Pea Ridge, Ark., March 6, 1862. He then served as chief of staff to Gen. Earl Van Dorn until the death of that officer, in May. 1863. He was then appointed adjutant general of Missouri by the acting (Confederate) governor of that state, Thomas C. Reynolds, with the rank of brigadier general. The election and installation of Thomas C. Fletcher, the Union candidate for governor, having ended the last showing of a Confederate state government in Missouri, General Kimmel returned to the active service as chief of staff to Gen. J. B. Magruder early in 1865, continuing in that capacity until the end of the war. He then went to the City of Mexico, where he secured employment as a civil engineer on the railway between that city and Vera Cruz. He returned to Missouri in 1866 and engaged in the practice of the engineering profession, chiefly in mine engineering in Kentucky. His home has been at Henderson, Ky., for more than forty years past. One of his sons, Husband E. Kimmel, is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, and is now a lieutenant in the navy. Another son, Manning M. Kimmel, jr., is now (October, 1911) a cadet in the third year of the course at West Point. (Included with the article: "Indian Fight in Ford County in 1859," page 323)