Marie Goebel Kimball (June 7, 1889 – March 2, 1955) was an author, historian, and Jefferson scholar who served as the first curator of Monticello from 1944 until her death in 1955.
Born in Hackensack, New Jersey, on June 7, 1889, to Julius Goebel (1857-1931) and Kathryn Vreeland (1861-1932), Kimball studied at Radcliffe College before taking her degree in literature and arts at the University of Illinois in 1911.
[3] In 1924, Fiske Kimball was appointed to the restoration committee of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, whose mission was to preserve Monticello and operate it as a historic site.
In 1927, Marie Kimball began documentary research to support the TJMF's interior restoration efforts; her research was published in a two-part article in Antiques later that year.
[4] Kimball continued to be involved in the restoration and running of Monticello until shortly before her death, and was named curator in 1944.