Kimball Union Academy

Kimball Union Academy is a private boarding school located in New Hampshire. Founded in 1813, it is the 22nd oldest boarding school in the United States.[1] The academy's mission is to "prepare students for the challenges of tomorrow’s world by inspiring academic mastery, creativity, responsibility, and leadership."[2] It is located in the upper Connecticut River Valley village of Meriden, New Hampshire.

Kimball Union Academy
Location
Meriden , NH USA
Information
Type	Private Boarding
Established	1813 (1813)
Head of School	Tyler Lewis
Faculty	approx. 52
Enrollment	approx. 335
Average class size	11
Student to teacher ratio	6:1
Campus	Rural
Color(s)	Orange & Black
Athletics	18 interscholastic
Athletics conference	Lakes Region League
Mascot	Wildcat
Endowment	$53 million
Website	www.kua.org

The academy's 1,300-acre (5.3 km²) village campus is 2½ hours via major highways from Boston, Massachusetts, and Hartford, Connecticut. Nearby bus, train, and plane terminals link the area directly with Boston, New York City, and Manchester, New Hampshire. The academy is governed by a 21-member board of trustees.

Notable alumni

• F. Lee Bailey, defense attorney[3]
• Francis B. Brewer, congressman[4]
• Augusta Cooper Bristol (1835–1910), poet, lecturer[5]
• John Graham Brooks (1846-1938), sociologist and author[6]
• Henry E. Burnham, U.S. senator[7]
• Frank Gay Clarke, congressman[8]
• William Cogswell, congressman, general[9]
• Frank Dunklee Currier, congressman[10]
• Irving W. Drew, U.S. senator[11]
• Kasim Edebali, NFL player
• Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, Presbyterian minister, Reconstruction politician[12]
• Louis B. Goodall, congressman[13]
• Broughton Harris, Vermont newspaper editor and businessman who was one of the Runaway Officials of 1851 as Secretary of the Utah Territory[14]
• Doc Hazelton, major league baseball player and college coach[15]
• Chester Bradley Jordan, Governor of New Hampshire[16]
• Ernest Everett Just, African American biologist[17][18]
• Edward Chalmers Leavitt, artist[19]
• John C. Lord, Presbyterian minister and nativist[20]
• James D. Lynch, African American politician, minister[21]
• Charles W. Porter, Secretary of State of Vermont[22]
• Samuel L. Powers, congressman[23]
• Will Sheff, rock musician[24]
• Steven Sotloff, Israeli-American journalist[25]
• Dana Stone, Vietnam War photographer[26]
• Bainbridge Wadleigh, U.S. senator[27]
• Aldace F. Walker, railroad president[28]
• James M. Warner, Civil War general, industrialist[29]
• Augustus Washington, African American photographer[30]
• William Wells, Civil War general, Medal of Honor winner[31]
• Andrew Wheating, Olympian[32]
• Benjamin F. Whidden, first ambassador to Haiti[33]

See also

• New Hampshire Historical Marker No. 77: Kimball Union Academy

References

1. "Boarding Schools with the Oldest Founding Date". Boardingschoolreview.com. 2015-02-07. Archived from the original on 2012-07-17. Retrieved 2015-06-04.
2. "Kimball Union Academy ~ Independent Private Boarding School, New Hampshire Private High School". Kua.org. 2015-04-06. Retrieved 2015-06-04.
3. "F. Lee Bailey". notablebiographies.com. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
4. "Francis B. Brewer". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
5. Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life (Public domain ed.). Moulton. pp. 123–.
6. James E. Mooney, "John Graham Brooks," American National Biography Online, Feb. 2000.
7. "Henry E. Burnham". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
8. "Frank Gay Clarke". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
9. "William Cogswell". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
10. "CURRIER, Frank Dunklee, (1853 - 1921)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved January 16, 2014.
11. "Irving W. Drew". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
12. "Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs". Kimball Union Academy. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
13. "Louis B. Goodall". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
14. Ullery, Jacob G. (1894). Men of Vermont Illustrated. Brattleboro, VT: Transcript Publishing Company. p. 181 – via Internet Archive.
15. O'Boyle, Francis Joseph (2000). "Biography: Doc Hazelton". SABR.org. Phoenix, AZ: Society for American Baseball Research. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
16. "Chester B. Jordan". National Governors Association. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
17. "Ernest Everett Just". biography.com. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
18. Kenneth Manning. Black Apollo of Science.
19. "Edward Chalmers Leavitt". piercegalleries.com. Retrieved 13 February 2014.
20. "Memoir of John C. Lord, D.D. Pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church for thirty-eight years". archive.org. Retrieved 2015-12-11.
21. "James D. Lynch". BlackPast.org#sthash.SApGN2w7.dpuf. Retrieved 13 February 2014.
22. Ullery, Jacob G. (1894). Men of Vermont Illustrated. Brattleboro, VT: Transcript Publishing Company. pp. 322–323.
23. "Samuel L. Powers". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 13 February 2014.
24. Sheff, Will. "Will Sheff: The First Time an Adult Took Me Seriously". Retrieved 20 February 2019.
25. "N.H. school Sotloff attended expresses sorrow". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
26. "Dana Stone's Journey". Vermont Today. Archived from the original on 22 August 2016. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
27. "Bainbridge Wadleigh". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 13 February 2014.
28. Walker, Aldace. Officers and Members: Report of Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, Volume 6. Vermont Bar Association. p. 139.
29. "James M. Warner". Arnold Sprague and Claudia Milstead. Retrieved 13 February 2014.
30. "Augustus Washington". The Connecticut Historical Society. Archived from the original on 2007-11-14. Retrieved 13 February 2014.
31. "William Wells". VermontCivilWar.Org Database. Retrieved 13 February 2014.
32. "Andrew Wheating". USA Track & Field, Inc. Retrieved 13 February 2014.
33. Proceedings - Grafton and Coös County Bar Association, New Hampshire By Grafton and Coos Bar Association, p. 351-358

External links

• Kimball Union Academy
• "Boarding Schools with the Oldest Founding Date". Boarding School Review. Archived from the original on 2012-07-17. Retrieved 2007-01-02.
• "Kimball Union Academy ~ Mission, Honor Code & Statement of Inclusion". Retrieved 2007-01-02.