BIO: John Joseph CLYDE, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, pages 337-338.
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  CLYDE, JOHN JOSEPH, son of Thomas Clyde (1788-1821) and Mary Dentzel 
(1789-1845), was born December 14, 1813, in Mechanicsburg, Cumberland 
county, Pa.  He was educated in the schools of Harrisburg, and learned 
the trade of bookbinder.  In 1834 he established himself in business in 
Brownsville, Fayette county, Pa., and two years after started the 
Fayette Journal, which he continued for three years.  In 1840 returned 
to Harrisburg and purchased the bindery of Samuel H. Clark, connecting 
a bookstore therewith.  In 1849 he was elected treasurer of the county 
of Dauphin, and in 1851 started the Whig State Journal.  The year 
following purchased the Pennsylvania Intelligencer, uniting it with the 
Journal.  In 1853 sold the establishment to John J. Patterson, and 
commenced the publication of the Chrystal Fountain.  The same year 
bought one-third interest in the Pennsylvania Telegraph, which in 1855 
he sold to Mr. Bergner.  During the Presidential campaign of 1856 he 
published the American.  The same year started the Daily Herald, which 
was continued until 1858, when he sold to O. Barrett and entered the 
service of the Lebanon Valley railroad as its agent.  Mr. Clyde married 
first, in 1834, Emeline Harvey, born 1811, in Perry county, Pa., died 
April, 1870, at Harrisburg, daughter of John and Mary Harvey, and their 
children were:  Virginia D., Joanna H., Mary A., Thomas H., Olive L., 
John Joseph, Edward W., Harvey E., and Annie C.  He married, secondly, 
Mrs. Eliza (Jacobs) Cornyn, of Harrisburg, now deceased.