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Ellen Gertrude Tompkins Kidd papers, 1791-1998. Accession 52005. Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.
Gift of Ellen Kidd Penick, Richmond, Virginia
Ellen Gertrude Tompkins was born between 1846 and 1855 in Richmond, Virginia, to Edmund William Tompkins and Julia Moseby Burton Tompkins. She attended the Pegram School for Girls in Richmond. Tompkins began making pickles in 1868 using a family recipe from her great-grandmother, and by 1872, she had established the Pin Money Pickle Company. Also in 1872, she married John Boulware Kidd (1836-1910) on April 4, and they had ten children, five of whom survived to adulthood. Wile the successful Pin Money company continued to grow, Kidd became active in the women's suffrage movement. Ellen Gertrude Tompkins Kidd died 3 February 1932 in Richmond and was buried in Hollywood Cemetery.
Papers, 1791-1998, of Ellen Gertrude Tompkins Kidd (ca. 1846-1932) of Richmond, Virginia, consisting of business records, compositions, correspondence, deeds, insurance policies and records, legal records, money, photographs, poems, receipts, and wills. Papers detail Kidd's Pin-Money Pickle company, her and her family's travels through the United States and Europe, women's suffrage, and Richmond society and culture, as well as the Boulware, Kidd, and Tompkins families. Transcriptions for the collection (excepting money and photographs) are available.Ellen Gertrude Tompkins Kidd papers, 1791-1998. Accession 52005. Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.