Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Kidder, Marcellus 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

Marcellus Kidder, is a prominent and enterprising farmer of Jordan Township, 
and is located on section 14, where he owns a large farm comprising, in 
connection with his acreage on sections 11 and 15, 300 acres in a solid body. 
It is all well improved and supplied with fine farm buildings. Mr. Kidder is 
also successfully engaged in raising stock. He was born Sept. 8, 1840, in 
Bristol, Grafton Co., N. H. Benjamin Kidder, his father, was a native of the 
same place, and was a descendant from a family who came to America during the 
Colonial period, and were participants in the War of the Revolution. Benjamin 
Kidder married for his second wife, Mary Doton, whose father, Ephraim Doton, 
was born in New Hampshire, and was of English lineage, his progenitors having 
come to America previous to the war for Colonial independence. The first wife, 
whose maiden name was Sarah Dodge, was also born in New Hampshire and bore 
three children. One, named Adniram, is still living, in O'Brien Co., Iowa. Of 
the second marriage, three children were born: Electa married H. Taylor and 
died in Poweshiek Co., Iowa, June 9, 1878. She was born Nov. 15, 1837. Nelson 
B. is a farmer in Ogle Co., Ill. Mr. Kidder's parents came West when he was 15 
years old, in 1856. They located on section 11, on a farm containing 160 acres 
of land, where soil had never seen the implements of agriculture. On this 
place the family lived for years, the son remaining at home until he was 
married. The parents went later to Ogle County, where the father died, at 
Woosung, Aug. 6, 1883, aged 88. He was an active and prominent member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church. The mother is 78 years old. Mr. Kidder was married 
April 25, 1871, at Dixon, Lee Co., Ill., to Ella J., daughter of John G. and 
Hannah B. (Torcy) Annan. Her father was of Scotch lineage, and her mother 
descended from parents of English extraction. They were natives of New 
Hampshire, and were married in the city of Manchester. Mrs. Kidder was born 
Sept. 2, 1848, in Grafton, N. H. She was reared and educated principally in 
that county and completed her studies at New Hampton Institute. When she was 
18 years of age, she began teaching and made that her occupation until 1869, 
when she came to Ogle County. She is the mother of two children. Ida L. was 
born May 9, 1875; Royce A. was born July 8, 1878. Mr. Kidder, at the outset of 
his married life, located on 80 acres of the homestead of his father, which is 
now included in his estate. He is a Democrat in political persuasion.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

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