Heber C. Kimball Home, Illinois, United States
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A leader in the early Mormon movement
Next to Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball was the most significant and most influential leader in the early movement of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, or the Mormons. He was one of the original 12 apostles, served in the Utah Territorial Legislature from 1851 to 1858 and was the first counselor to Brigham Young in the 1st Presidency of the LDS Church for more than two decades from 1847 until his death in 1868 at age 67. His home, located at 995 Munson Street in Nauvoo, Illinois, on the northeast corner of Munson and Partridge Streets, is one of the most impressive structures in the community. Kimball purchased a lot in 1841 after returning from a mission to England. He began to construct the two-story, red brick house with a front porch and verandah on the second floor in 1845, completed the work in six months but lived in the house for only three months before being forced to leave Nauvoo on the Mormons' westward trek to Utah in February, 1846. The interior of the house includes a parlor with period furnishings and portraits of Kimball and his wife Vilate, a dining room, stairway and hallway, master bedroom, music room with a piano, nursery and children's bedroom. Perhaps the most valuable relics in the house is one of the original temple plates commissioned by Lucius Scovil in 1847, which hangs on a wall in the dining room. A close friend of Brigham Young, Kimball joined the church in 1821 and was ordained an apostle in 1835. The Kimballs had six living children when they lived in this house. Three of them were born in Nauvoo. They had 10 children in all, with seven living past infancy. However, Kimball advocated plural marriage, then part of church doctrine. He eventually married 43 women and had a total of 66 children by 17 of his wives. He supported his families by farming, ranching, milling and freighting, in addition to his church responsibilities.
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995 Munson Street, Nauvoo, IL 62354
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https://www.thisistheplace.org/heritage-village/buildings/heber-c-kimball-home
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