Heber C. Kimball

Heber C. Kimball was born on June 14, 1801, in Sheldon, Franklin County, Vermont, to Solomon Farnham Kimball and Anna Spaulding Kimball, and married Vilate Murray on November 7, 1822. He was converted to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1832, became a member of the Church's Quorum of Twelve Apostles in February 1835, and led the first missionary thrust to England during the 1830's, resulting in much Church growth. On July 24, 1847, he arrived with the first group of Mormon pioneers in the Salt Lake Valley, and in December 1847 he became Brigham Young's first counselor in the Church's First Presidency. By 1849, he had become the first chief justice of the provisional State of Deseret and the state's lieutenant governor. Kimball was involved in many important events in Utah Territory and the Church, and because he owned property and had family in the North Cañon Ward, now known as Bountiful City, he felt a need for a flour mill there. As farm efforts in Bountiful were dominated by grain production, he saw the mill as a good investment. He was granted land rights in 1851, and after the mill was completed in the fall of 1853 he dedicated it. Water to run the mill was stored in a pond excavated on its south side, an adobe cottage faced the mill on the east bank, and poplar trees were planted around the pond. Kimball died on June 22, 1868, in Salt Lake City.

Bountiful, Utah · United States