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Born in Warner, NH
Flora Kimball was a writer, community activist, promoter of education, suffragist, and horticulturist in the early days of San Diego history. Besides promoting increased women's social and political rights, Kimball was the first woman master of the National Grange, an agrarian organization dedicated to economic and social change for the California environment. Kimball planted trees in National City that today are considered a city landmark. Because of her outspoken views and prolific writings, she was considered the most famous woman in California at the time of her death and her eulogy was written by Susan B. Anthony.
Her Obituary states:
Death of Mrs. Flora M. Kimball.
How many of the older readers of the Rural Home Circle will grieve to hear of the death of Mrs. Flora M. Kimball of National City. The following fitting words to her memory are penned by G. P. Hall for the San Diego Union:
The death of Mrs. Flora Kimball, so universally regretted, removes a true friend and untiring helper of the horticulturist, one whose love for nature was ever manifest by untiring tests of her resources and prodigality. The monuments of praise she leaves behind are not only the trees with which she adorned her home and streets of the town, whose interests she labored to promote. Trees, plants and flowers all stretch their arms toward heaven to silently tell of her disinterested benevolence., and in the wave of every breeze will send their incense from the world she helped to make brighter, better and happier.
- Pacific Rural Press, Volume 56, Number 4, 23 July 1898
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