Sidney Kidman

Sir Sidney Kidman ( born May 9, 1857 in near Adelaide, † September 2, 1935 ) was an Australian self -made man.

Life

Kidman grew up near Adelaide. His father died when he was six months old. At the age of only 13 years he bought for £ 2 10s a one-eyed horse and moved to New South Wales has to offer. In the vicinity of Broken Hill, he got a first job at a horse station. Later he started his own business with a team of cattle drivers and opened a butcher shop and a shop during the onset of copper intoxication in Cobar. At age 21, he inherited from his grandfather 400 pounds and bought horses and cattle. Later he bought a 1/14-Anteil at the "Broken Hill Proprietary Mine", he paid this with 10 cattle to per £ 4 and later sold the stake to £ 150 In 1886 he bought the " Owen Springs Station " and extended his business to Queensland from. In 1899 he founded the company " S. Kidman and Co ". In the times of the First World War, he was a millionaire. He and his wife support the Australian armed forces. In 1921 he donated his farm " Eringa ", near Kapunda, the state, there set up with the support a school. Kidman was beaten for a knight. Sidney Kidman moved to Adelaide and handed over the business to his son.

In 1885 he married Isabel Brown Wright, from the marriage went three daughters and a son out. Kidman was nicknamed " The Cattle King".

The company " S. Kidman and Co " is today with a total of 124,000 km ² ( equivalent to the area of the two Alpine countries Austria and Switzerland together) is the largest private landowner in Australia. You belong among other things, the Anna Creek Station, one of the largest cattle ranches in the world.