The subject of this sketch, WILLIAM KIDDOO, is a native of Lawrence county (now Beaver county), Pennsylvania, where he was born in 18:30 ; came to Mercer count y in 1847, and located with his parents, James and Margaret Kiddoo, where his widow, now Mrs. Bryant,. resides. He and wife and parents were members of the Presbyterian church.

He married in 1833 Catharine Vance, native of Pennsylvania. born in 1834, and who came with her parents, William and Rachel (Vannatta) Vance, to Mercer county, and located in Keithsburg in 1836. They were members of the Presbyterian church. The former (lied in 1867, the latter now resides with her daughter Caroline. and is seventy-eight years old.

William Kiddoo had by this marriage seven children : E. Vila, Nancy, Olive, Forbes M.. Mary, William M., and Rachel E. He left his family in good circumstances. Like the rest of the Kiddoo family he was a man of exemplar y habits, a good citizen, kind husband and father. His widow married in 1871 Frank B. Bryant of Ohio, by whom she has three children : Laura B., Frank (deceased). and Archie H.

 

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