Clay-Hyde County, SD Biographies.....Hyde, James 1842 - 1902
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Author: John B. Perkins and Rosa E. Beebe

THE NAME

    Hyde County was named after James Hyde, who was one of the earliest and most
influential citizens of Clay County, South Dakota. He died in Vermillion May 28,
1902, and at the time of his death the papers there gave him prominent mention.
Among other things said of him we reprint the following from the Dakota
Republican of April 2, 1902.

    "Last Friday morning the death angel visited a Vermillion home and removed
from that home a kind husband and loving father, and removed from Vermillion
circles a true neighbor and loyal friend.

    James Hyde was one of the pioneers of this county. He came to South Dakota
at the close of the Civil War, and since his coming here he has been prominently
and actively identified with all the interests that went to make up the material
growth of this county. He was widely and favorably known, and all who had the
good fortune to make his acquaintance came to know him as their friend. To his
family he was the embodiment of all that is implied in a kind and loving husband
and father, and his death falls heavily upon the bereaved ones. But his earthly
sufferings are over and he has gone to a brighter and better land.

    James Hyde was born on April 14, 1842, at Mapleton, Penn. When he was a lad
of eight years of age his parents moved to Iowa, where he lived until he was
twenty years old. On May 23, 1862, he enlisted in Co. B, Second Battalion,
Sixteenth U. S. Infantry, and saw a large amount of service during the war up to
the time he was mustered out and received an honorable discharge at Lookout
Mountain, May 24, 1865. Out of the three years he was in the service, he spent
fourteen months in Southern prisons. He was confined in Libby prison for three
months, and for eleven months he endured as best he could the horrors of
Andersonville. When the war was over he came west and settled in South Dakota.
In 1868 he was married to Miss Helen Miner, daughter of Captain Nelson Miner,
who, with seven children, still survive him.

    Mr. Hyde was prominent in society circles. He held a membership in Miner
Post, No. 8, G. A. R., and in Dakota Pine Camp, No. 450, M. W. A. He was also
prominent in Masonic circles, being a member of the R. A. M. and A. F. & A. M.
in this city, and also of Vermillion Commandery No. 16, Knights Templar."

    He represented Clay County in the Territorial Legislature of 1872. We are
indebted to his daughter, Mrs. Rosa E. Beebe, of Vermillion, S. D., for the
kindly interest she has taken in furnishing material for the above mention.


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HISTORY OF
HYDE COUNTY
SOUTH DAKOTA
FROM ITS ORGANIZATION TO THE PRESENT TIME
BY JOHN B. PERKINS
1908

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