1901 Kidder Steam Wagon Kidder Motor Vehicle Co. New Haven, CT 1900-1901
WELLINGTON PARKER KIDDER of Boston and Malden, Mass., born at South Norridgewock, Me., 19 Feb. 1853; died at New York City, 4 Oct. 1924. He married at Maplewood, Mass., 4 Sept. 1878, EMMA LOUISA AXTELL, born at Huntington, Mass., 1854
In 1898, after intensive study in this country and Europe, he brought out important and generally accepted improvements in the automobile, then known as the "horseless carriage," and organized the Kidder Motor Vehicle Co., of New Haven, Conn., in which he was a leading figure.

Capt. SOLOMON KIDDER -(1732 - 1776) Killed in Action during Revolutionary War.

Capt. SOLOMON KIDDER served in the French and Indian War as a member of Capt. Melvin's Company in 1754.
Solomon Kidder marched on the alarm of 19 April 1775, for 26 days service. He served in Col. Green's Regiment, and later commissioned Captain in Col. Sargent's Regiment. He was at the Battle of Bunker Hill and the Siege of Boston. In 1776, was placed in command as Captain of a company of 65 Billerica men, in Colonel Simeon Spaulding, 7th Middlesex Regiment of Massachusetts. He was a Captain in the 9th Company, of Colonel Eleazer Brook’s Regiment list of officers drafted from Middlesex Militia. General Oliver Prescott ordered them to Horse Neck, 26 September 1776. He reported to have lost a coat in the Battle at White Plains.
Military records for Captain Solomon Kidder reveal two different dates, he was Killed in Action one was White Plains, New York, 20 Nov. 1776 and the other was the Battle of Monmouth, New Jersey, in 1778. It appears he died in 1776 and not at Monmouth, NJ in 1778.
Solomon Kidder married first, DOROTHY TOMPSON; secondly LYDIA WHITE.

Stephen Kidder (1747 - 1775/6) died on board a British Prison Ship in New York City Harbor.

STEPHEN KIDDER was a shipmaster. He was captured by the British at the beginning of the Revolutionary War and died of smallpox on a prison ship in New York harbor. The circumstances surrounding why Stephen Kidder was captured and reasons for his confinement on a British ship remain unknown. Federal and State archive records failed to substantiate any military enlistment for Stephen Kidder. Its possible that Stephen Kidder was captured as a civilian since he was a “shipmaster” and was dedicated to the sea.
Stephen Kidder married Eunice Knowles.

Three Brothers served during the Revutionary War - Thomas Kidder - died in action June 1777 - Jonathan and Franicis Kidder served on same ship.

Three sons of Jonathan Kidder and Mary Lambert of Billerica, Mass., served during the Revolutionary War.

THOMAS KIDDER born 27 Mar. 1754; died in the service of his country 28 June 1777.
Thomas Kidder served during the Revolutionary War. He enrolled 27 April 1777, in Capt. Brown's Company, of Colonel Bigelow's Regiment, for three years service. He also served in Capt. Joshua Brown's Company, of Colonel Timothy Bigelow's Regiment in the Continental Army. His military pay records between 30 April 1777 and 28 June 1778, have a notation that Thomas Kidder was reported Killed in Action, 28 June 1778. The circumstances and place of occurrence are unknown. After checking Revolutionary War battles, on that date 28 June 1778, there was a major battle at Monmouth (Freehold Court House), New Jersey and it’s suspected Thomas Kidder was killed in action at that location. Died unmarried.

JONATHAN KIDDER born at Billerica, Mass., 30 Apr. 1760; died at sea.
Jonathan Kidder enlisted in Captain Brown's Company of Colonel Bigelow's Regiment and re-enlisted 13 April 1777 at Boston, Suffolk County to serve in the same company and regiment and appeared as a Fife. He enlisted "for three years or the war" in the Continental Army, reporting for service at Worcester, Mass. The Regiment was stationed at Providence, RI from Jan. 1780 to Mar. 1780. He enlisted in the Navy on the ship "G Pickering", commanded by Captain Jonathan Harraden. Jonathan along with the officers and crew were sworn in 10 November 1780. This ship was reported taken by the British while on cruise to West Indies, the date and circumstances are unknown regarding its capture. Jonathan Kidder and his brother Francis Kidder served on the same ship “G Pickering“. On 20 August 1800, a ship with the same name, sailed from Newcastle, Del. and was never heard from again. The “G. Pickering” was lost at sea with all its crew in a gale that Sept. 1800. He and his son Charles are believed to have been on that ship. Neither was heard from again.
Jonathan Kidder married in Apr. 1784, Catharine Payne.
One son, Charles Kidder born 6 Sept. 1784. He became a sailor and was lost at sea.

FRANCIS KIDDER, born 19 Apr. 1765; died at Billerica, 28 Feb. 1796.
Francis Kidder served during the Revolutionary War in the Navy on the ship "G Pickering", commanded by Captain Jonathan Harraden. Francis along with the officers and crew were sworn into service, 10 November 1780. The said ship was reported taken by the British while on cruise to West Indies, the date and circumstances are unknown regarding its capture and disposition of the crew. His brother Jonathan Kidder above served on the same ship. Francis Kidder gave his age as 16 but he was actually 15 years old at enlistment. Died unmarried.

Benjamin Kidder (about 1738 - 1759 ) died in French Prison

Benjamin Kidder, date of birth not recorded ( born about 1738 in NH ); died before Feb. 1759.
Benjamin Kidder served as a drummer in Capt. John Goffe's Company, Col. Blanchard's Regiment, at Crown Point, in 1755, again in 1756 in the same company in Col. Nathaniel Meserve's Regiment. August 1757, while serving in Col. Meserve's Regiment, Benjamin Kidder was captured by the French at Fort William Henry, NY, taken to Canada, after four months of suffering there, was sent to "Rochelle in old France where he died in Goal." His brother John Kidder was granted letters of administration of his estate and in a Petition to the General Assembly of the Province of New Hampshire, dated Jan. 1759, John Kidder asks for losses incurred because of Benjamin Kidder's death. In these papers he is referred to a "Sergeant Benjamin Kidder."
Benjamin Kidder was the 5th child of Benjamin Kidder and Sarah Goffe.

PERLEY KIDDER ( 1891 - 1918 ) aged 27

PERLEY KIDDER ( 1891 - 1918 ) - aged 27 - was Postmaster in Wardsboro, VT - He enjoyed photography, taking many pictures of the Village of Wardsboro. Below are a few of his picture postcards which now appear on eBay. The photos were taken sometime between 1915 and 1918. He died unmarried.

Bridge Street, Wardsboro, VT

W W Kidder Hardware Store owned by William Walter Kidder his son Perley Kidder took photo

Bird's Eye View of Wardsboro

Post Office

Main Street, Wardsboro

Lt. Lyman Kidder - Dispatch to General George Custer

1st Lt. Lyman Stockwell KIDDER served in the 1st Minnesota Cavalry, Co., K, during the Civil War. Following the war, Lyman S. KIDDER was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the United States Army, assigned to 2nd United States Cavalry. He was killed at Beaver Creek, Kansas, 2 July 1867, while carrying a dispatch from General William T. SHERMAN then at Fort Sedgwick, Kansas, to General George CUSTER, in camp at the forks of Republican River, Kansas. Lt. KIDDER (age 24) and all his soldiers were killed by a Indians. The bodies were discovered by General CUSTER and buried on the spot where attacked.
A book written regarding the attack upon Lt. KIDDER and his men. “A Dispatch to Custer, The Tragedy of Lieutenant Kidder”, by Randy JOHNSON and Nancy ALLAN, (1999) Mountain Press Company, pages 119, best portrays the incident. Lt. Lyman S. KIDDER'S father Jefferson KIDEER went to Kidder battle site in Kansas about a year later with a regiment of Cavalry soldiers and recovered the body of his son and buried him at Oakland Cemetery, St. Paul, MN.

There is a historical marker near the site at Beaver Creek, Kansas.

Lt. Lyman KIDDER was the second child of Jefferson P KIDDER and Mary Ann STOCKWELL.

Colonel Reuben Kidder - Coat of Arms

Prior to the Revolutionary War, Colonel Reuben Kidder of New Ipswich, New Hampshire, had what purported to be the arms of the Kidder family carved upon the mantel of his dining room, and also had a coat painted which hung upon the walls of the drawing room of his mansion house. Except for the addition of a carpenter's square, the arms are strikingly similar to those described by Burke as having been granted to the unknown Kidder of Maresfield in the time of Henry VII. These arms cannot be found recorded in the standard works on heraldry.

Colonel Kidder's carved Arms were destroyed during the demolition of his house years after his death, while the painted ones are reported to have consigned to the flames during his lifetime by an irate member of his household who, as an adherent to the Revolutionary cause, regarded them as a Loyalist emblem which she felt she was fully justified in destroying.

Coat of Arms - Unknown Kidder - about 1485-1509

In his General Armory (London 1878, page 563), Sir Bernard Burke, C.B., LL.D., Ulster King of Arms, describes three coats-of-arms under the names of as many Kidders. The first is shown to have been granted to an unknown person of that surname during the reign of Henry VII (1485-1509), and is as follows: Vert. three crescents or (which translated means three golden crescents upon a shield of green).

1902 Family Photo - David Elwyn Kidder

Front Row, L to R - David Elwyn Kidder age 54, Abbie Ayers Kidder age 50, Bryan Ayers Kidder age 21, Royal Elwyn Kidder age 23.
Standing L to R - Eva Mary Kidder age 13, Gordon Elwyn Kidder age 20, Charles Stuart Kidder age 17, Wallace Jackson Kidder age 15.

David E Kidder was a farmer in Marshall and White Bear Lake, Minnesota.

George Washington Kidder (1840-1913) and family

Photo taken during 1870s Rio Grande Valley, Texas.
George Washington Kidder (left seated) his wife Jesusa (seated middle) their son James next to his mother.
Their children (Standing left to right) Virgina, Joe, Carlota, Adelina, Mary, Samford.

Kidder, South Dakota

Kidder, South Dakota early 1900's

Kidder Home, Blanco, Texas (1896)

Edwin Euler Kidder and Mary Almira Eppes Kidder with family in front of their home in the McKinney Community near Blanco County, Texas about 1896. Edwin E. Kidder was a school teacher and judge between 1900 and 1904 in Blanco, Texas.

Photo (L to R) EE Kidder, Claude abt 5 years old, Walter abt 11 years old, Ida Grace abt 13 years old, Clement abt 6 years old. Not in picture was oldest son William Thomas Kidder.

To enlarge picture "hit it with your cursor", unknown occasion possibly Easter it appears to be springtime.

Actress and Author Margaret "Margot" Kidder

Margaret “Margie” “Margot” Ruth Kidder was born at Yellowknife, Northwest Terr. Canada, 17 Oct. 1948. She married first, John Heard, second Thomas McGuane, a writer, third Philippe de Broca. Margaret Kidder lives in Montana. Her parents are Kendall Kidder and Jocelyn Mary Wilson.
Margot Kidder's has numerous web sites - here are two of them:

Actress and Author Margaret "Margot" Kidder Web Site
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Actress and Author Margaret "Margot" Kidder Web Site

Filmography for Margaret Kidder (list of 119 movies and TV shows)

Actress and Author Margaret "Margot" Kidder Web Site

Actress Kathryn Kidder

KATHRYN COURTNEY KIDDER, born at Newark, NJ 23 Dec. 1869. She studied dramatic art in New York, London, and Paris, and under her maiden name of Kathryn Kidder. She made her debut in Chicago in 1885 as Lucy Fairweather in Mayo's "The Streets of New York" and later took leading parts in the "Davy Crockett," in "Little Lord Fontleroy," "Held by the Enemy," and many other popular plays, and the leading roles in various companies producing French romantic dramas and Shakespearean tragedies. Since 1904 she was starred in comedies of Old England and in many of the more popular of the plays of Shakespeare and other dramatists.

Kathryn Kidder married at Fayetteville, Onondaga Co., N.Y., 24 Oct. 1905, Louis Kaufman Anspacher. Her parents were Col. Henry Martyn Kidder and Sarah Courtney Barnet.

Actress Janet Kidder

Janet Kidder born in Canada. Janet Kidder is Margot Kidder's niece

Actress Janet Kidder Web Site

Sylvanus Kidder (1891-1983) WWI Veteran

Sylvanus KIDDER served during the 1st World War. In 1917, Sylvanes Kidder left behind his home a 40-acre farm on C.R. 8 in Elkhart, Indiana known as "The Ranch" by friends and family, to fight in World War I. From 1917 to 1920, Sylvanes served in France and Germany, bringing fresh horses to the front lines. Sylvanes Kidder fancied himself a cowboy, so the task suited him.
He married 12 June 1920, Olga ESKILSSON, they had 8 children.

HENRY KENDALL KIDDER (1841-1863) Killed in Action

HENRY KENDALL KIDDER at twenty-one years of age enlisted at Concord, NH, 12 August 1862, in the 12th New Hampshire Infantry, Company D, during the Civil War. Henry KIDDER was “Killed in Action”, at the Battle of Chancellorsville, VA, on Sunday, 3 May 1863. His brother Uriah Hill KIDDER, same regiment and company was at his side when he received a wound in the head, which killed him instantly. Henry Kendall KIDDER was lying on the ground just before advancing into battle when Henry KIDDER raised his head to get a better view of the field, he was fatally struck. He was among the 1,606 Union men killed in action at the Battle of Chancellorsville, VA.
He gave the following at induction height six feet, dark complexion, brown hair, brown eyes, and occupation blacksmith.
His parents were Joseph KIDDER and Dorcas NELSON.

ZOLA MAE KIDDER - Served during WWII

ZOLA MAE KIDDER enlisted in the Navy Waves and was called to active duty in Feb. 1943. Following boot camp, Zola KIDDER was sent to Norman, Oklahoma where she was trained to be an Aviation Machinist Mate. From there she went to Whiting Air Force Training Base, Pensacola, FL where she served as “plane captain“. Zola KIDDER was sent to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in 1945, then to Guam. In November of 1945, she was discharged with the rank of Aviation Machinist Mate 3rd Class.
Zola Mae Kidder married Henry Morrison KNOBLOCK in 1947, they had five children.
She was the daughter of Eugene Ransom Kidder and Grace Lilly.

Killed in France during 1st World War

HARVEY W. KIDDER (27 Mar. 1896 - 16 Oct. 1918)

Harvey W. KIDDER born at Marshfield, WI, on 27 March 1896. In 1917, Harvey Kidder was living in Miles City, Custer Co., MT, unmarried, working in a restaurant.
Harvey KIDDER enlisted in Montana, to serve in the Army during World War I. He was assigned to the 307th Infantry Regiment, 77th Infantry Division, rank of private. Harvey KIDDER was Killed in Action 16 Oct. 1918, buried at Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Plot C Row 15 Grave 31, in the City of Romagne, France.

His mother MINNIE HART KIDDER CORLEY of Box 343, Butte, Oroville Co., MT, made a pilgrimage to his grave in 1930.