Milton Tidd (14 September 1855 - 16 November 1906), my great great grandfather, was born in Philadelphia, the son of Horace T. Tidd and Mary A. Tidd. He suffered from partial deafness from the age of sixteen. By the 1870s he was a pharmacist for several concerns, including working for Samuel Dickinson (of Trenton), the Southern Dispensary of Philadelphia, and John Anistaki (of Trenton). In 1880 he started his own drug and paint store (not sure why the two were connected) on Broad Street, and later a second store on Hamilton Avenue. In 1903 the Tidd Drug Company was formed. Apparently he suffered from Bright's Disease. This photo is from 1905. I don't know if the gentleman shown is in fact Milton, but it would be a good guess.
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