tendent of the Amoskeag Dye house; Mrs. Isabella Menzies of this city, and Mrs. Janet Nicoll of Dundee, Scotland. Two brothers, residing in Scotland, George and James, also survive him. He was buried in Pine Grove cemetery. His funeral, which took place from his late home, 506 Belmont street, was conducted by Rev. B. W. Lockhart of the Franklin Street Church, and Rev. D. J. Many of the Westminster Presbyterian Church, and was largely attended by sorrowing friends and relatives.

The local press in speaking of Mr. Mungall, said fittingly : "He was the perfect type of the sturdy, honest, large-hearted man, possessing an irreproachable character, a genial temperament and a good judgment. All who knew him respected him, and those who knew him intimately, loved him. In every circle in which he moved his presence was distinctly felt, and his weighty influence was ever on the side of right and truth."

JOSEPH KIDDER.

G. W. B.

JOSEPH KIDDER, M. A., son of Samuel Phillips and Betsey (Stark) Kidder, was born in Manchester, March 13, 1819. His father was a descendant of James Kidder of East Grinstead, Sussex, England, who came to Cambridge, Mass., as early as 1650. His mother was a granddaughter of General Stark of Revolutionary fame.

The subject of this memoir was the fourth of a family of five children. His father died when he was four years old, leaving this large family to the care of the mother. Mrs. Kidder was a woman of energy and courage, and managed to keep the flock together for a time and provide for their support. Joseph's early life was spent upon a farm of about one hundred acres, extending from the river back to Oak Hill. The house which was situated near the water on what would be the edge of the upper Amoskeag canal, has been moved from its location and is known as the Campbell house, said to be still standing south of the gate house at the Falls At ten years of age Joseph was able among the hardy working population of the time and place

to pay his own way. He was a willing and studious attendant at the district school and eagerly read such books as he could obtain, a larger number than might be supposed, for the father, Samuel Phillips Kidder, was a director in the Derryfield Social Library and we may be sure that the son had the perusal of some of those classics which were the foundation of many a school boy's knowledge in that time, Pilgrim's Progress, The Spectator, The Arabian Nights, Don Quixote, Rollin's Ancient History, Rasselas, the Scottish Chiefs, beside many books on theological and ethical subjects such as our fathers used to read. At the age of fifteen, when the sandy banks of the Merrimack were beginning to feel the birth throes of a manufacturing city, Joseph obtained employment as clerk in a store, where he continued three years, after which he entered Pembroke Academy, then at the height of its prosperity, under the charge of Col. Isaac Kinsman. At this school he spent several terms as student, assistant teacher and editor of a semi-monthly paper called the "People's Herald." His academic education was completed at Lebanon and at Dunmer Academy, West Newbury, Mass. At this latter school, in 1900, Mr. Kidder attended the unveiling of a memorial tablet to the memory of the founder, Ex-Governor Dummer.

In 1812, having retired from the publication of the People's Herald, Mr. Kidder, associated with W. H. Kimbali, established the Manchester Democrat which afterwards became the Democrat and American. The next year, in company with Mr. John M. Hill of Concord, he started a campaign paper called the Advocate of Democracy, which ceased publication with the close of the election which called it forth.

From 1845 to 1847 he was editor of the Manchester Saturday Messenger and was a writer for several other papers. From 1881 to 1884 he was editor of the Odd Fellows' department of the New Hampshire Statesman, and later, up to his death, conducted a similar department for the Manchester Union. In 1845, in company with his older brother, Col. John S. Kidder, and John M. Chandler, late cashier of the Amoskeag National Bank, with whom at various times and for longer or shorter

periods was associated John F. Duncklee, he opened a store for the sale of general merchandise at No. 36 Elm street, on the site now occupied by the Weston block. Growing with the growth of the town this came to be known as the "family store," and did a large and increasing business for barter, for cash,jor for credit. The farmers brought their produce and a large territory had its wants supplied in a satisfactory manner. For twenty eight years this was a center of trade until the firm was dissolved by mutual consent.

During the time spent in mercantile pursuits Mr. Kidder gave much attention to local public affairs; took a deep interest in education, was for some years a member of the school board and superintendent of schools. Later he was president of the Board of Trade, vice president of the Old Folks' and of the Historic Associations. He was a trustee of the State Industrial School, to which institution he devoted much time and where he delivered many addresses, a trustee also of the Agricultural College at Durham, where he received the degree of Doctor of Science, and while not an Alumnus of Dartmouth, that institution, in recognition of his public usefulness in many directions, made him Master of Arts. Interested in all that pertains to agriculture he became a member of the Grange and was chaplain of Amoskeag Grange, P. of H., from 1896 to his decease. He became widely known throughout the state as a lecturer, one lecture in particular on the cave in Kentucky, having been many times repeated. In addition to these things Mr. Kidder was an active and earnest worker in the Universalist denomination to which he belonged and in the church of which he was a Sunday school teacher. As a lay preacher he conducted services at many funerals and not infrequently occupied the pulpit in his pastor's absence.

At the close of his mercantile career Mr. Kidder felt free to devote himself to what must be considered the great purpose of his life. He has told us how at four years of age he was impressed at the sight of the Masonic emblems at his father's funeral. In 1845 he joined the Hillsboro Lodge, No. 2, Order of Odd Fellows. On his seventy-fifth birthday he had taken