Harrison County, West Virginia    Biography of Robert Edward KIDD

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New 
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc. 
Chicago and New York, Volume II, 
Pg. 402 

ROBERT EDWARD KIDD has been prominent in the civic and official life of Clarksburg
for a number of years.  He is justice of the peace, juvenile court officer and 
proprietor of a real estate and insurance business there.

He was born at Point Comfort in Harrison County, West Virginia, May 7, 1883, son
of Charles R. and Florence M. (Corley) Kidd.  His paternal grandparents were William 
and Martha (Watkins) Kidd, who moved out of Old Virginia to Harrison County in an
early day.  They reared a family of nineteen children.  The maternal grandfather 
of Mr. Kidd was William Corley, who also came from Old Virginia to Harrison County.
He married a Miss Holden.  Both the grandfathers of Robert E. Kidd were pioneer
draymen or teamsters.  Charles R. Kidd, better known as Jack Kidd, also took up 
that occupation, and for years conducted a transfer business in Clarksburg, where
he became well and favorably known.  He died at the age of sixty-three, and is 
survived by his widow.  He was a republican in politics, and some of his brothers
served in the Union Army during the Civil war, and his brother Jim was killed in 
the Custer raid.

Robert Edward Kidd has spent practically all his life at Clarksburg.  He attended
the public schools, but his parents not being rich he early started to contribute
his own labors to the family exchequer, and at the age of twelve was driving a 
team for his father in the transfer business.  He worked in that line for several
years, then was employed in the Lowndes Woolen Mills, and also in the Atlas Glass
Company's works.  He was appointed in 1908 and for several years held the office 
of constable.  In 1914 he was appointed justice of the peace to fill out an unexpired 
term of G. H. Gordon, who had resigned, and in 1916 and again in 1920 Mr. Kidd was
duly elected to this office.  With the establishment of the Juvenile Court at 
Clarksburg in 1919 additional duties were given him as juvenile officer.  For 
several years past he has employed the intervals of his official work in conducting
a real estate and insurance business.

Mr. Kidd is a republican and a Knight of Pythias.  Some years ago he bought the 
old home of his parents where he was born and where he now resides.  In 1908 he 
married Miss Edith Prickett, who died in 1915.  In 1919 he married Edith Pickett.  
The two children of his first wife were Robert Earl and Ruth Christine, the latter
deceased.  By his present marriage he also has two children, Virginia May and Jack
Pickett Kidd.