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PHIL C. KIDD
Vol. 3, p. 1121-1122

One of the prominent young bankers of Oklahoma, Phil C. Kid is vice
president of the First National Bank of Norman. His banking
experience began in St. Louis soon after he finished his work in the
public schools and in addition to a thorough training in metropolitan
banking center.

Born at Lexington, Kentucky, October 30, 1886, Mr. Kidd has a number
of interesting and prominent relationships with old families. His
parents were Philip C. and Lelia (MAJOR) Kidd, his father a Kentucky
stockman who died in 1897. His other was born in Pettis County,
Missouri and is a descendant of the noted DuPays family of France,
whose lineage is traced back authentically to the tenth or eleventh
century. Her ancestors were the French Protestants or Huguenots and
were among the many thousands German out of the country after the
revolution of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 and subsequently found
refuge in America. In the parental line Mr. Kidd had as one of his
great-grandfather's Abraham CLARK, who was one of the representatives
of the colony of New Jersey in planning the Declaration of
Independence in 1776, and was subsequently a member of the
Constitutional Convention which framed the present Constitution of
the United States.

Phil C. Kidd as educated in the schools of Missouri and on leaving
school in 1904 entered the employee of the National Bank of Commerce
at St. Louis. He spent six years with that institution as a clerk,
and at the same time carried on his studies in the Benton College of
Law at St. Louis, where he was graduated LL. B. in 1910. Instead of
taking up practice as an attorney he was made traveling
representative for the National Bank of Commerce and for three years
traveled over the large area tributary to that financial institution.
Then in July, 1913, he came to Norman, Oklahoma, and has since been
vice president of the First National Bank.

Mr. Kidd is a member of Sons of the American Revolution, one of his
direct ancestors having helped to win the struggle for independents.
He is also prominent in Masonry, has taken thirty-two degrees in the
Scottish Rite, is a member of the Consistory at St. Louis, and of
India Temple of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine at Oklahoma City.

At Norman, Oklahoma, on November 27, 1912, he married Miss Ina Mary
JOHNSON, a daughter of E. B. Johnson, one of the leading bankers and
citizens of Oklahoma and president of the First National Bank of
Norman. Mr. and Mrs. Kidd are the parents of a daughter, Mary Lelia
Kidd, born March 29, 1915. Their home is at 303 South Webster Avenue,
Norman.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Carolyn Smith Burns on November 3, 1998.