ASHTABULA COUNTY OHIO 
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Transcribed by Cherre Loftus Flynn.

THE HISTORY OF ASHTABULA COUNTY OHIO 
            WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 
              OF ITS PIONEERS AND MOST PROMINENT MEN  
              Published in Philadelphia by Williams Brothers in 1878

 WILLIAM KIDDLE.  "This gentleman was the youngest of three, the children of
 Richard and Jane Kiddle, of Long Sutton, Somersetshire County, England, and
 was born on June 29, 1837.  He came to America in 1858, landing at Bedford,
 Canada, July 31, of that year.  On August 10, same year, he arrived in the
 township of Wayne, and located in the southeatern corner of the township.  He is
 by occupation a wagon-maker.  His first purchase of land was but a part of his
 present fine estate.  He now has some four hundred acres of land, and is largely
 engaged in dairying and the raising of Durham cattle.  In 1860 he returned to
 England where he remained some five months.  On the 23rd day of April 1861, he
 was united in marriage to Miss Mary, daughter of Hezekiah and Caroline Platt,
 who are at present both deceased, as are also his parents. The result of this
 marriage has been a fmaily of five children - three girls and two boys.  Prior to the
 birth of his children (1869), he again returned to England, with his Yankee bride
 and remained on this visit some two and one half months. ... ."