Jefferson Parrish Kidder Biography


	This biography appears on page 893 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. I (1904) and was scanned, 
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	JEFFERSON PARRISH KIDDER, born Braintree, Orange county, Vermont, 
June 4, 1814. Lieutenant governor Vermont, 1851. Delegate to congress 
from provisional territorial government at Sioux Falls, 1859. Associate 
justice supreme court of Dakota from 1865 to death in 1883, except four 
years, from 1875 to 1879, when he was delegate to congress. Chief 
promoter of incorporation of State University, at Vermillion.