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For creation of MK article Marie Goebel Kimball was a noted Jefferson biographer and scholar, author and historian. Born in Hackensack, NJ on March 17, 1889, to a Professor of Germanic Languages, Julius Goeble and his wife, Kathryn, she was raised with seven six additional siblings and lived in the San Francisco Bay area, New York, Philadephia and Charlottesville Virgina.

Her father, Julius x. Goebel, was a German professor who immigrated from xxx, germany in xxxx and began his scholarly work at New York. In 1887, he accepted one of the first professor ships at the newly established Stanford University, where he stayed until 1905 when he accepted a xxxx at the University of Illinois, Champagne, Urbana.

In her younger years, Marie attended school in the Palo Alto area until xxx when her mother and siblings moved to meet her father in Urbana. She attended Radcliff College eventually transfering to Champagne where she received her undergraduate degree in 1911.

On xxx, xxx 1913, she married Sydney Fiske Kimball in Urbana, Illinois. Thus began a lifelong collaboration on Jefferson. Fiske Kimball was an archtect by training and in the midst of research for her husband, she discovered architectural papers of which