Elias S. Kimball (30 May 1857, Salt Lake City – 13 June 1934)[ 1] U.S. Army chaplain and first in any branch of the United States military.[ 2] Spanish–American War with the Second Army Corps Volunteer Engineer Regiment after an appointment to the rank of captain by U.S. President William McKinley around June 19, 1898.[ 3] [ 4] J. Golden Kimball .[ 2] Utah Territorial legislature (Territorial Assembly) 1888–1889 and Logan, Utah city council 1883–1884.[ 5] Mission after his brother J. Golden Kimball, and was named a Seventy by Joseph F. Smith in 1884 and 1894.[ 5]
References
^ "Early Mormon missionaries: Elias Smith Kimball" , Church History website , The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints^ a b Paighten Harkins (March 28, 2018), "More and more LDS chaplains are bringing God, not necessarily a Mormon God, to the troops" , Salt Lake Tribune ^ Whitney, Orson Ferguson (1908). The Making of a State: A School History of Utah 272 . ^ James I. Mangum (2006), "The Spanish-American and Philippine War", in Robert C. Freeman (ed.), Nineteenth-Century Saints at War 155– 193 – via BYU Religious Studies Center website ^ a b Jenson, A. (1914). Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia: A Compilation of Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . Retrieved 2018-03-29 .
