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.
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