Payette County ID Archives Biographies.....Hurd, Clyde E. 1882 - 1968
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/id/idfiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Cheryl Hanson ihansonb@fmtc.com January 19, 2006, 12:14 am

Author: James H. Hawley

History of Idaho, Gem of the Mountains
James H. Hawley
S. J. Clarke Publishing Co, 1920

CLYDE E. HURD

About five miles south and two miles west of Fruitland, in Payette county, is 
situated the home farm of ninety acres owned by Clyde E. Hurd, who took up his 
abode thereon in 1904.  He is one of Idaho’s native sons, having been born at 
Washoe, when Payette county was a part of Ada county, his natal day being 
February 15, 1882.  His father, F. E. Hurd, was born in Illinois and in 1881 
came west to Idaho accompanied by his wife, who in her maidenhood was Phyanna 
Clement and was born in Michigan.  They made the long journey across the 
plains after the primitive manner of travel at that time and took up their 
abode on the Washoe bottom, between the  Snake and Payette rivers.  There the 
father homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres of land, which he devoted to 
general farming.  There was nothing on the land but sagebrush when it came 
into his possession.  The rabbits and coyotes were numerous and destroyed 
crops and the small farm animals.  The Indian still lived in the district and 
there was every evidence of frontier life.  The soil was as yet untouched by 
the plow and it was some time before they could make it profitable to farm.  
F. E. Hurd worked in the vicinity of Boise and  Emmett in order to keep the 
wolf from the door.  His father, F. F. Hurd, came to Idaho in 1882 and 
homesteaded near Payette, on the Payette river, after which he worked with his 
son, F. E. Hurd.  He died upon the old homestead property and his wife, who in 
her maidenhood was Permila Walters, is now living at the advanced age of more 
than eighty years with her son, Dr. R. B. Hurd, in Payette.  F. E. Hurd, the 
father of Clyde E. Hurd, sold his homestead and purchased a part of his 
father’s land and thereon still resides with his wife, having occupied that 
place for the past thirty years.  He carries on general farming and to some 
extent engages in dairying but is practically living retired, enjoying the 
rest which he has truly earned and richly deserves.  To him and his wife were 
born five children:  Clyde E., of this review; Claude A., thirty-six years of 
age; Glenn F., aged thirty; Earl C., aged twenty-five; and Stella G., the wife 
of Robert L. Jimerson, who follows horticultural pursuits near Weiser.  Earl 
C. was married in 1916 to Miss Marian E. Arment, a native of Iowa, and they 
reside upon a farm adjoining that of his brother Clyde.  They have two 
children, Frank Grant and Joselyn.  Claude A. does general farming and 
dairying, having fifty acres of land, and in addition to the cultivation of 
his fields he raises a few horses and has twenty head of cattle.

The father, F. E. Hurd, was a constable in the early days of Payette and at 
that period it took a real man to fill the job, as in the execution of the 
duties of the office it required great fearlessness and bravery.

Clyde E. Hurd was reared under the parental roof upon the old homestead and 
while acquiring a public school education devoted his vacation periods to work 
upon the farm.  He purchased his present place of ninety acres in 1904 and has 
an excellent farm property near Fruitland.  It was unimproved when it came 
into his possession and still is without irrigation facilities, but it is 
believed that water can be secured in 1920.  He now raises cattle, having 
eleven head upon the place, and which he now occupies, as his father worked on 
the ranch of Lash Bellar, who was at that time the owner of the property.  The 
poplar grove which surrounds the home is over forty-five years old and is 
supposed to be the oldest grove in the state.  The trees are over one hundred 
feet in height and measuring one of the trees, Mr. Hurd found it to have a 
circumference of eleven feet.  

In 1912 Clyde E. Hurd was married to Miss Effie Adams, of Oklahoma, and they 
have one son, Clyde E., Jr.

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/id/payette/bios/hurd17nbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/idfiles/

File size: 4.5 Kb