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. The academy's mission is to "prepare students for the challenges of tomorrow’s world by inspiring academic mastery, creativity, responsibility, and leadership." It is located in the upper Connecticut River Valley village of Meriden, New Hampshire.
The academy's village campus is 2½ 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 21-member board of trustees.Notable alumni
- F. Lee Bailey, defense attorney
- Francis B. Brewer, congressman
- Augusta Cooper Bristol, poet, lecturer
- John Graham Brooks, sociologist and author
- Henry E. Burnham, U.S. senator
- Frank Gay Clarke, congressman
- William Cogswell, congressman, general
- Frank Dunklee Currier, congressman
- Irving W. Drew, U.S. senator
- Kasim Edebali, NFL player
- Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, Presbyterian minister, Reconstruction politician
- Louis B. Goodall, congressman
- Broughton Harris, Vermont newspaper editor and businessman who was one of the Runaway Officials of 1851 as Secretary of the Utah Territory
- Doc Hazelton, major league baseball player and college coach
- Chester Bradley Jordan, Governor of New Hampshire
- Ernest Everett Just, African American biologist
- Edward Chalmers Leavitt, artist
- John C. Lord, Presbyterian minister and nativist
- James D. Lynch, African American politician, minister
- Charles W. Porter, Secretary of State of Vermont
- Samuel L. Powers, congressman
- Will Sheff, rock musician
- Steven Sotloff, Israeli-American journalist
- Dana Stone, Vietnam War photographer
- Bainbridge Wadleigh, U.S. senator
- Aldace F. Walker, railroad president
- James M. Warner, Civil War general, industrialist
- Augustus Washington, African American photographer
- William Wells, Civil War general, Medal of Honor winner
- Andrew Wheating, Olympian
- Benjamin F. Whidden, first ambassador to Haiti
