Lapeer-Oakland County MI Archives Biographies.....Kidder, Charles B. 1848 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

CHARLES B. KIDDER. It has been ascertained by extended research that the Kidder
family is of very ancient origin, that they were an important family in the days
of the ancient Britons and were known as redoubtable warriors previous to the
invasion of Britain by the Romans. Without stopping here to present proofs we
will content ourselves by saying that Mr. Charles B. Kidder is the owner of a
book tracing the genealogy of the family to very remote times and we copy enough
to show the line of descent from James Kidder, the founder of the branch of the
family that settled in America. He was born in Sussex, England, in 1626. In what
year he came to America is not known but he was at Cambridge, Mass., in 1650,
and there married Anna Moore. Their son, John Kidder, married Lydia Parker and
their son, James Kidder, married Abigail Whitcomb, whose son Samuel Kidder,
married Mehitable Maynard and their son, Samuel, married Melinda Bingham. The
son of this marriage, also Samuel, married Eliza Hallock and they were the
parents of our subject, Charles B. Kidder.

  Charles B. Kidder is a resident on section 15, Almont Township, Lapeer County.
He was born in this township on section 22, March 4, 1848, and as above stated,
is the son of Samuel and Eliza (Hallock) Kidder, natives of New York. He was
reared on a farm and in addition to a common school education took the English
training course at Ypsilanti. He began teaching when nineteen years of age in a
country school in Oakland County. He also taught in various graded schools,
spending one year in Hadley, one year in Attica, two years in Dryden and two in
Armada. During all the time he was thus engaged he acted as Principal.

  Our subject was married August 13, 1873, to Miss Martha Jane Batchelder, a
daughter of John W. and Sarah (Clark) Batchelder, who were born in Vermont. Mrs.
Kidder was born at Topsham, Vt., October 20, 1848. Our subject purchased eighty
acres of land on section 16, paying for it with money he himself had earned.

  In July 1875, our subject moved to his farm and later purchased the forty
acres where he now lives. It was sold, however, to his father-in-law. Outside of
his farming interests the tastes and inclinations of Mr. Kidder are those of a
scholar. In addition to his English training, he took a very thorough course in
Latin and German, in the classic tongue, having read Caesar and Cicero and he
reads and speaks German with fluency.

  The original of our sketch in his political preference is a Republican. He
cast his first Presidential vote for U. S. Grant in 1872. He has held several of
the most important offices of the township, principally those, connected with
school affairs. He has also been Justice of the Peace and is now holding the
office of Supervisor for the third term. Charles B. Kidder is the only child
living from the marriage of his parents, his mother having died when he was
about one month old, her decease taking place in April, 1848. He of whom we
write has no children living. His delight and recreation is in his well-stocked
library, where are found the best poets and historians. He reads Schiller and
other German authors in the original.

  Mrs. Kidder was educated in Detroit and is a highly accomplished lady. She is
an artist of no small merit and gives lessons in painting, her specialties being
in landscape and portraiture. She has an only brother whose taste runs to music.
He is an organist and leader of the choir at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in
Detroit. His musical instruction has been received in the best schools in
Europe, having made five trips across the Atlantic in order to study under the
best masters.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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