Kidd, John bio

History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 442, Astoria Township
John Kidd, deceased. For many years John Kidd was a well-known business man of Astoria. He was a native of York Co., Pa., where he was born in 1814. While a resident of that State he entered actively into business and for a number of years carried on a good trade. In 1841 he was united in marriage with Miss Julia Ann Reynolds. In an early day he moved to DuPage Co., Ill., where he engaged in farming. In 1852 he disposed of his farm property and moved to Astoria, where he purchased mill property from a man by the name of Bacon. For a number of years he was busily engaged at Astoria, when he concluded to located on Sugar creek, where he met with great misfortune, owing to the explosion of his mill. June 23, 1868, he was laid at rest in the Astoria cemetery, leaving to the care of his estimable wife 7 children, - Harriet, Cyrilla, Lucy A., Lovina, Amanda, Addie and Frank.
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