David Patten Kimball was an early Mormon leader, one of the three young men of the Sweetwater handcart rescue.
Kimball was born on August 23, 1839, in Nauvoo, Illinois the son of Heber C. Kimball and his wife the former Vilate Murray. His father was an Apostle in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints and left to serve a mission in England about the time of Davids birth.
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