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Hyde, Edward – Hyer, George

Hyde, Edward

governor, was born about 1650, in England. He was governor of North Carolina about 1706-12, when the colony was in a state of confusion from the conflicting claims of the Anglicans and Quakers. He died Aug. 8, 1712, in North Carolina.

Hyde, Edward Wyllys

educator, author, was born Oct. 17, 1843, in Saginaw, Mich. He is a professor of mathematics and civil engineering in the university of Cincinnati from 1875, and author of Skew Arches; and Directional Calculus.

Hyde, Frederick

educator, surgeon, banker, author, was born Jan. 27, 1809, in Whitney's Point, N. Y. He was president of the New York state medical association in 1865, since 1876 has been president of the board of trustees of the state normal school at Cortland, and in that year was a délegate to the International Medical congress at Philadelphia. In 1876 he became president of the Cortland Savings bank. He has published reports on the Surgery of Cortland County.

Hyde, Henry B

insurance president. He is president of the Equitable Life Assurance society of New York, and draws the highest salary in the United States. His salary is one hundred thousand dollars a year.

Hyde, Ira B

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 18, 1838, in Guilford, N. Y. He entered the union army in a Minnesota cavalry regiment in 186z.

He removed to Missouri in 1866; was prosecuting attorney in 1872; and was elected to the forty-third congress.

Hyde, James Nevins

surgeon, author, was born June 21, 1840, in Norwich, Conn. He is a surgeon of Chicago, and the author of Early Medical Chicago; and Diseases of the Skin.

Hyde, Samuel Clarence

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born April 22, 1842, in Fort Ticonderoga, N. Y. He served in the seventeenth regiment Wisconsin infantry in the war of the rebellion. He was elected prosecuting attorney for the district embracing northeastern Washington in 1880; and was elected three terms, holding that office for six years. He was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican.

Hyde, Thomas Worcester

soldier, ship builder, author, was born in Italy. He was a brigadier-general in the army of the Potomac in the civil war, and is a builder of steel ships at Bath, Maine. He is the author of Following the Greek Cross, or Memories of the Sixth Army Corps.

Hyde, William De Witt

clergyman, author, was born Sept. 23, 1858, in Winchendon, Mass. He is a congregational clergyman, president of Bowdoin college since 1885, and the author of Practical Ethics; and Outlines of Social Theology.

Hyde, William H

railroad president, was born May 27, 1849, in Ridgway, Pa. Since 1891 he has been president of the Clarion River railway.

Hyder, H. H

author, poet. He is the author of a volume of poems entitled The Lover's Dream.

Hyer, George

journalist, state legislator, was born July 16, 1819, in Covington, N. Y. He was a member of the Wisconsin legislature in 1846, 1850, and 1863, and in the first-mentioned year was a representative in the state constitutional convention. He established the Madison Democrat in 1865, and from 1867 till the time of his death was connected with the Oshkosh Times. He died April 20, 1872, in Oshkosh, Wis.