. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . s and twenty-two daj-s old at received his education in the commonschools after which he started to work as arailroader in 1845. He was united in marriagein January, 1865, to Elizabeth McCarty, whopreceded him to the grave several years this union was bom one son, Edward Kidd,of this city, who with two grand-sons, PeterKidd, Jr., of this city and Robert E. Kidd,survive. He was a member of the Odd Fellowslodge and was a charter member of the B. ofL. E. The deceaseds first position as a railroaderwas that of running a locomotive on the Ne
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . s and twenty-two daj-s old at received his education in the commonschools after which he started to work as arailroader in 1845. He was united in marriagein January, 1865, to Elizabeth McCarty, whopreceded him to the grave several years this union was bom one son, Edward Kidd,of this city, who with two grand-sons, PeterKidd, Jr., of this city and Robert E. Kidd,survive. He was a member of the Odd Fellowslodge and was a charter member of the B. ofL. E. The deceaseds first position as a railroaderwas that of running a locomotive on the NewYork and New England Railroad between NewYork City and New Haven, Conn. He wentwest in 1847 with two engines for the Louisvilleand Frankfort Railroad, then he gave up rail-roading for a time and accepted a job as a steam-boat engineer running a boat from Cincimiatito New Orleans. While in the west he hadoccasion to visit the country where St. Louisnow stands and he has often recalled to hisfriends that he was offered a part of that land. Lieutenant William F. Himmler. Jr. for .5800 in gold, but refused it, as the site at thattime was ^nothing but a frog pond, as he putit. Mr. Kidd was with Colonel Seymour when thefirst survey for the old O. & M. Railroad, nowa part of our Illinois and Indiana Divisions,was made. He recalled that the survey startedat Versailles through to Old Vernon to Farm-ington and thence on through BrownstowTi. Hewas with Colonel Seymour when he asked $500and feed for his men and horses to bring theroad through that place and was refused, as aresult of which the road was built around theedge of the to^^^l. For several years after the O. & M. Railroadwas completed he ran an engine and later tooka position with the old J. M. & I. road, working:there during the Civil War. In 1867 he wasrunning a train on the O. & M. Railroad andwas seriously injured when the engine turnedover on the Whitcomb Hill, just west of NorthVernon, caused by a broken truck. In 1873 the
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