The Descendants of John Heywood

BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM DASCOMB KIDDER

From NEW ENGLAND FAMILIES GENEALOGICAL & MEMORIAL
by William Richard Cutter, A.M., New York, 1915

Page 961

William Dascomb Kidder, son of John Kidder, was born May 8, 1798, probably at Ashby, Massachusetts. He lived in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts, for a time, and in 1825 located in Burlington, Vermont, where he built the brick house now occupied by John Franklin Kidder. He was a wheelwright by trade, a manufacturer of brick and lumber, and owned a livery stable. He was a prominent citizen, active in the church, and the largest factor in raising junds for the Congregational church at Winooski, Vermont. He died at Burlington, September 24, 1856. He married, April 20, 1823, Caroline Shipley, born May 30, 1803, of an old Croton family, died April 11, 1885. Children: William; Waldo, born May 3, 1831, died November 13, 1899; Mary, born October 18, 1834, married Henry Chamberlain.




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