Education
He came as a boy to New York City where he studied under private tutors and at the normal school.
He came as a boy to New York City where he studied under private tutors and at the normal school.
He was principal of a grammar school 1846-1856. He was then appointed deputy superintendent of common schools in New York City. Mr. Kiddle received the degree of A. M. from Union College in 1848, and that of “officier d"académie” from the University of France in 1878.
He edited several revisions of Goold Brown"s English Grammar (last ed, New York, 1882) and other school text books, including a Text-Book of Physics (1883), and wrote A Manual of Astronomy and the Use of the Globes (1882), New Elementary Astronomy (1868), Cyclopædia of Education (1877) with Alexander J. Schem, Year Books of Education, 1878-1879, and Spiritual Communications (1879).