Beaver County PA Archives Obituaries.....KIDD, Walter Scott June 20 1918
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  Beaver News, June 21, 1918
  SUMMONS COMES TO W.S. KIDD		
  
  	Walter Scott Kidd, age 70 years, for a number of years a prominent 
  manufactuer of Beaver county and a widely known resident of Beaver died last 
  night at 5:20 o' clock at his residence on Sharon road. He had been ill but a 
  few days. Last Sunday he was out for the last time, having then as usual 
  taught his class in the First Christian church. 
  	Mr. Kidd, who was president and chief owner of the Kidd Drawn Steel 
  company at Aliquippa, was born in Canthorne (should be Cawthorne), Yorkshire, 
  Eng., March 1, 1874 (should be Mar. 1, 1847). He was the son of William and 
  Elizabeth Hall Kidd. His ancestors were strictly English in their origin and a 
  great-uncle of his mother was with the Duke of Marlborough at the battle of 
  Blenheim and fell mortally wounded in the sanguinary conflict. His father was 
  a wire manufacturer in Cawthorne, England for many years. Walter S. Kidd 
  obtained his early educational training in the splendidly equipped schools of 
  his native shire, and when 14 years of age entered the manufacturering plant 
  of his father, who had previously died and the business was being conducted by 
  the family. He remained with the plant until he was 22 years of age, when he 
  came to America and secured employment with the with the firm of Washburn & 
  Moen of Worcester, Mass., the largest manufacturer of steel wire in the United 
  States, holding a superintendency there. He was with this concern for five 
  years and then attended a literary course of three years at Butler University 
  in Indianapolis, Ind. Then he became general superintendent of the wire 
  factory of R. H. Wolff & Co., of Peekskill, N.Y., remaining two years. In 1895 
  the firm of Kidd Bros. and Burgher Steel wire company was formed, their first 
  plant being at McKees Rocks, and later at Aliquippa. The plant now is known as 
  Kidd Drawn Steel company, and is a growing concern in the Beaver-Ohio valley. 
  	Mr. Kidd was married in 1876 to Miss Vine E. Barnes of Barnesville, 
  Ohio. With one son and three daughters, she survives. The son is Walter F. 
  (should be S.) Kidd of Beaver, who is associated with his father in the Kidd 
  Drawn Steel company. Daughters are Miss Ada. D. Kidd at home, Mrs. W.A. Bliss 
  and Mrs. Paul C. Truckis of Beaver.
  	Not only was Mr. Kidd a manufacturer, but a minister of the Christian 
  church. He spent ten years in the ministry chiefly in the west. He held 
  charges at three cities in Wisconsin and one in Illinois. He has been 
  particularly active in church endeavors.
  
  
  
  SCORES AT FUNERAL SUNDAY OF W.S. KIDD
  
  	Attended by scores of friends from Beaver and from a distance, the 
  funeral of Walter Scott Kidd, widely known manufactuer, was held Sunday 
  afternoon at 3:30 o'clock with obsequnes at his late home on Sharon road. Rev. 
  Charles H. Bloom, pastor of the First Christian church, of which Mr. Kidd was 
  an elder, trustee and Men's Class teacher, was in charge of the services. He 
  was assisted by Rev. Park Chapman and R. S. Latimer of Pittsburgh, former 
  associates of Mr. Kidd in missionary endeavor. Singing was by a quartet from 
  the First Christian church, Miss Mae Taylor, Miss Marion Bloom, James Taylor 
  and Fred Garvin. 
  	Business associates and warm friends from Chicago and New York were 
  numbered among those present to pay their last tribute of affection. Floral 
  tributes were many and varied, testifying to the esteem in which the deceased 
  was held by his friends and associates. 
  	Burial took place in Beaver cemetery. Pall bearers were: L. F. Morian, 
  J. G. Kimple, Dr. E.S. H. D. C. Truckis, and W.A. Bliss, the last named two 
  being sons-in-law. 
  	
  
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