Editing Husband E. Kimmel (section)

===Early life===
Husband Kimmel was born in [[Henderson, Kentucky]],<ref name="Axelrod">{{cite book|last1=Axelrod|first1=Alan|title=Encyclopedia of World War Two|date=2007|publisher=Facts on File|location=New York|page=490|isbn=9780816060221|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LbWFgjW6KX8C|access-date=March 16, 2017}}</ref> on February 26, 1882, to Sibella "Sibbie" Lambert Kimmel (1846–1919) and Major [[Manning M. Kimmel|Manning Marius Kimmel]] (1832–1916), a graduate of [[United States Military Academy|West Point]] who fought with the [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] side during the [[American Civil War]] before switching allegiance to the [[Confederate States Army]] to fight alongside his neighbors.{{sfn|Summers|Swan|2016|p=29}} Kimmel was a descendant of [[Herman Husband]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=York Co. grandson battles to clear admiral's name |url=https://www.heraldonline.com/latest-news/article12279821.html }}</ref>

Kimmel was known by various [[List of military figures by nickname|nicknames]] throughout his life: "Kim" and "Hubbie", contractions of his given and family names, and later, "Mustafa", the last being a reference to [[Mustafa Kemal Atatürk]], due to the similar sounding ([[homophone|homophony]]) "Kimmel" and "Kemal".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Twomey |first1=Steve |title=Countdown to Pearl Harbor : the twelve days to the attack |date=November 1, 2016 |isbn=978-1476776507 |page=54 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wpg-DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA54 |access-date=May 26, 2020}}</ref>{{sfn|Summers|Swan|2016|pp=29,43}}

He married Dorothy Kinkaid (1890–1975), sister of Admiral [[Thomas C. Kinkaid]], with whom he had three sons: [[Manning Kimmel|Manning]], Thomas K. Kimmel and Edward R. Kimmel.{{sfn|Summers|Swan|2016|pp=37ff}}