Henry H. Hyde Biography


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				HENRY H. HYDE. 

	Henry H. Hyde, secretary and treasurer of the Peoples Gas Company 
and one of the stockholders of that company, which supplies gas to the 
citizens of I,ead and of Deadwood, is a resident of the latter city and 
a well known business man, both forceful and resourceful. He was born 
in Cleveland, Ohio, October 2, 1865, a son of Gustavus A. and Elizabeth 
R. (Fusselman) Hyde. The father was born in Newton, Massachusetts, 
January 5, 1826, and the mother,s birth occurred in Fremont, Ohio, 
December 18, 1823. The father was a civil and gas engineer. He removed 
to Ohio, where he engaged in business as engineer with the Cleveland 
Gas Light & Coke Company for many years, both he and his wife spending 
the greater part of their lives in that city, the father dying in 
November, 1912, while the mother passed away in September, 1907. 

	Henry H. Hyde attended the public schools of Cleveland and at the 
age of eighteen years began learning the gas business in Saginaw, 
Michigan, with an older brother, remaining at that place for seven 
years. He then went to Michigan City, Indiana, where he assumed his 
first superintendency of a gas plant, being given the position by the 
Michigan City Gas Company. After a year there passed he returned to 
Cleveland and bad charge of the construction of the plant of the 
Cleveland Gas Light & Coke Company for a year. He then returned to 
Saginaw and accepted the management of the East Saginaw Gas Company, 
remaining there until the spring of 1899, when he took over the 
management of the Racine Gas Company at Racine, Wisconsin. He was 
associated with that company until July, 1909, when he became manager 
of the Tacoma Gas Company at Tacoma, Washington, continuing there until 
November, 1911. He then did engineering work in Chicago until February, 
1913, when he came to Deadwood as secretary and treasurer of the 
Peoples Gas Company which supplies the cities of Lead and Deadwood. He 
now devotes his entire time to the gas business, which he is 
successfully managing, making this a profitable enterprise. 

	On the 28th of September, 1893, Mr. Hyde was united in marriage 
with Miss Estelle Louise Smith, who was born in Saginaw, Michigan, a 
daughter of Thomas N. and Gertrude Smith, the former a native of Canada 
and the latter of Michigan. The father was a lumberman and in early 
life became a resident of Michigan. Some years prior to his death he 
removed to Tacoma, Washington, and there engaged in business until 
called to his final rest in 1908. His widow now resides in Florida. Mr. 
and Mrs. Hyde have two children, Dorothy G. and Helen H., both of whom 
are graduates of the Kenwood Loring school of Chicago. 

	Mr. Hyde is connected with various gas associations. He also 
belongs to the Business Club of Deadwood and to the Benevolent 
Protective Order of Elks. His religious faith is that of the Episcopal 
church and his political allegiance is given to the republican party. 
He has never been an aspirant for office, preferring to concentrate his 
energies upon his business affairs, whereby he has advanced steadily. 
He is now regarded as one of the wide-awake, alert anti enterprising 
business men of Deadwood, his success being the direct result of his 
close application and unfaltering energy.