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David Kilbourn was a Methodist circuit rider.

Kilbourn was the seventh generation descendent of Thomas Kilbourn, who arrived in North America on the Mayflower. He was born October 22nd, 1784 to Captain Ebenezer Kilbourn in Gilsun, New Hampshire. He began his career in the Methodist Church as a local preacher there.

Kilbourn was accepted on trial as a circuit rider in 1808. That year he was assigned to the Union River Circuit, in Maine. The following year, he rode the Readfield Circuit. In 1810 he was ordained a deacon and assigned to the Stanstead Circuit in Lower Canada. In 1815 he was made the Presiding Elder of the New Hampshire District, and subsequently received the same position on the Portland, Springfield and Boston Districts. He served as a member of the Board of Visitors of the Wesleyan University from 1833 to 1836, and as the Vice President of the American Sunday School Union in 1845.

Kilborn died July 13th, 1865.