Biographical Sketch of A. C. Hyde, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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A. C. Hyde, farmer and stock raiser, Section 32, post office St.
Joseph, was born January 11, 1819, in Bath County, Kentucky.  His
father was a native of the Green Mountain State, and his mother of
Massachusetts, and both were among the pioneers of Kentucky.  A. C.
was taken to Greenock County when quite young, and lived on a farm
and received a limited education in the schools of that vicinity.
He emigrated West in the fall of 1840, and settled in this county,
upon the claim where he now resides.  He may truly be called one of
the pioneers of Buchanan County, for the settlers were few and far
between.  They built cabins and improved their farms, facing many
privations and hardships, and it is to such sturdy pioneers as Mr.
Hyde, that the rising generation are largely indebted for the 
present growth and prosperity of the county.  He has never been an
office-seeker, but has always preferred the quiet of his legitimate
business.  during the war he displayed his patriotism by shouldering
his musket and going to the front, to defend the lives and property
of the citizens.  He belonged to the famous Pawpaw Militia, and he
served some six months.  His landed estate consists of 456 acres of
fine farming land, and is well adapted to stock.  He has been twice
married, first in 1845, to Miss Elizabeth Whitlock, a native of 
Clay County, Missouri.  She died in 1846, and he was again married
to Miss T. Cure, a native of New York State.  They have had a family
of nine children: J. L., Eliza J., Mrs. H. S. Martin, of Augusta, 
and Mrs. George W. Conner, William, James, Cassie, Charles and Calvin.
He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, of King Hill Lodge No. 376,
and has been six times elected Master of the Lodge.

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