Sarah Kidder

Sara) (c.1839 - September 1933) was president of Northern California's Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad (NCNGRR) from 1901 to 1913.

[1] During this period the railroad also built the Bear River Bridge, which was at the time the tallest in California.

[3][4] In 1913, shortly after settling a legal challenge to her ownership of the railroad,[1] she sold her stock and moved to San Francisco.

[4] Her adopted daughter, Beatrice, married Harvard University graduate Howard Ridgely Ward, and had three children.

[11] The Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum's railbus is named after Kidder.