Kimball Union Academy

Kimball Union Academy is a private boarding school located in New Hampshire. Founded in 1813, it is the 22nd oldest boarding school in the United States.^[1] It is located in the upper Connecticut River Valley village of Meriden, New Hampshire.

Kimball Union Academy
Location
Meriden , NH USA
Information
Type	Private Boarding
Established	1813; 212 years ago (1813)
Head of School	Tyler Lewis
Faculty	approx. 52
Enrollment	approx. 340
Average class size	11
Student to teacher ratio	6:1
Campus	Rural
Color(s)	Orange & Black
Athletics	20 interscholastic
Athletics conference	Lakes Region League
Mascot	Wildcat
Website	www.kua.org

The academy's 1,300-acre (5.3 km²) village campus is 2+1⁄2 hours via major highways from Boston, Massachusetts, and Hartford, Connecticut. Nearby bus, train, and plane terminals link the area directly with Boston, New York City, and Manchester, New Hampshire. The academy is governed by a 17-member board of trustees.

Notable alumni

• Abdul-Malik Abu (born 1995), basketball player in the Israeli Premier Basketball League^[2]
• F. Lee Bailey, defense attorney^[3]
• Frederick H. Billings, lawyer, financier and President of the Northern Pacific Railway
• Francis B. Brewer, congressman^[4]
• Augusta Cooper Bristol (1835–1910), poet, lecturer^[5]
• John Graham Brooks (1846-1938), sociologist and author^[6]
• Henry E. Burnham, U.S. senator^[7]
• Frank Gay Clarke, congressman^[8]
• William Cogswell, congressman, general^[9]
• William N. Cohen, Justice of the New York Supreme Court
• Frank Dunklee Currier, congressman^[10]
• Irving W. Drew, U.S. senator^[11]
• Kasim Edebali, NFL player
• Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, Presbyterian minister, Reconstruction politician^[12]
• Louis B. Goodall, congressman^[13]
• A.J. Greer, NHL player for the Florida Panthers
• Broughton Harris, Vermont newspaper editor and businessman who was one of the Runaway Officials of 1851 as Secretary of the Utah Territory^[14]
• Jordan Harris, NHL player for the Montreal Canadiens^[15]
• Doc Hazelton, major league baseball player and college coach^[16]
• Chester Bradley Jordan, Governor of New Hampshire^[17]
• Ernest Everett Just, African American biologist^[18][19]
• Nathan Knight, NBA basketball player^[20]
• Edward Chalmers Leavitt, artist^[21]
• John C. Lord, Presbyterian minister and nativist^[22]
• James D. Lynch, African American politician, minister^[23]
• Charles W. Porter, Secretary of State of Vermont^[24]
• Samuel L. Powers, congressman^[25]
• Will Sheff, rock musician^[26]
• Steven Sotloff, Israeli-American journalist^[27]
• Taylor Soule, WNBA player^[28]
• Dana Stone, Vietnam War photographer^[29]
• Bainbridge Wadleigh, U.S. senator^[30]
• Aldace F. Walker, railroad president^[31]
• James M. Warner, Civil War general, industrialist^[32]
• Augustus Washington, African American photographer^[33]
• William Wells, Civil War general, Medal of Honor winner^[34]
• Andrew Wheating, Olympian^[35]
• Benjamin F. Whidden, first ambassador to Haiti^[36]

See also

• New Hampshire portal

• New Hampshire Historical Marker No. 77: Kimball Union Academy