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William Penn Hyde

William Penn Hyde

Male 1828 - 1919  (91 years)

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  • Name William Penn Hyde 
    Birth 15 Feb 1828  Stonington, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Occupation Reverend (Methodist Episcopal) 
    _AMTID 332573750293:1030:196933463 
    _FSFTID L475-TNP 
    _UID 57C025EE3843518FF2A6C4E2600004507772 
    Death 14 Dec 1919  Palo Alto, Santa Clara, California, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I1655  World of Hyde
    Last Modified 4 Apr 2018 

    Father John Hyde,   b. 16 Jun 1783, Poquetannuck, New London, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Feb 1861, Mystic, New London, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years) 
    Mother Lucy Ann Burrows,   b. 8 Jan 1789, Groton, New London, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Jan 1844 (Age 55 years) 
    Marriage 21 Feb 1808  Mystic, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Spouse: Lucy Ann Hyde (born Burrows)
    Family ID F784  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Seraphine Smith Carr,   b. Abt 29 Oct 1836, Warren, Bristol, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown 
    Marriage 6 Jun 1859  New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Spouse: Seraphine Smith Carr
    Children 
     1. William Fletcher Hyde,   b. 23 Sep 1860, Old Mystic, New London, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Jun 1939, Palo Alto, Santa Clara, California, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years)
     2. Annie L. Hyde,   b. 17 May 1862, Warren, Bristol, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Dec 1869, Warren, Bristol County, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 7 years)
     3. Bessie Carr Hyde,   b. 5 Jun 1864, Warren, Bristol, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Jul 1944, Santa Clara, California, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years)
     4. Laura Hyde,   b. 21 Feb 1866, Somerset, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Mar 1953, Santa Clara County, California, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 87 years)
     5. Edward Lawrence Hyde,   b. 2 Oct 1867, Somerset, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     6. Enoch B. Hyde,   b. 12 May 1869   d. 1869
     7. Mary E. Hyde,   b. 20 Apr 1870   d. Yes, date unknown
     8. John Hyde,   b. 1 Mar 1872   d. 1872
     9. James Mcdonald Hyde,   b. 25 Jun 1873, Mystic Bridgett, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     10. Lillian Seraphine Hyde,   b. 13 Aug 1875, Centreville, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     11. Jennie W. Hyde,   b. 4 Jan 1877   d. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F781  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 30 Jun 2024 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 15 Feb 1828 - Stonington, Connecticut, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 6 Jun 1859 - New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 14 Dec 1919 - Palo Alto, Santa Clara, California, United States Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • https://deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/showthread.php?14267-EXCELLENT-Research-on-LHO-amp-Ruth-Hyde-Paine-and-family-Linda-Minor#.WQ50nFJg0UE

      William Penn Hyde in California


      William Penn (W.P.) Hyde, suffering ill health from which he hoped to recover in California, retired from his Methodist ministry which had sent him to Rhode Island after a variety of pastorates in Massachuses and Connecticut. In 1859 he had married Seraphine Smith Carr with whom he had eleven children, and in 1881 the family moved to Santa Clara County, California, about 50 miles south of San Francisco.


      Leland Stanford was also a transplant to California, having previously been in business in Albany before moving to California after the 1849 gold rush. As a supporter of Abraham Lincoln in the Republican convention in 1860, he aended the new President's inauguration and supported his plans for the transcontinental railroad. That same year he was elected governor of California, and in 1863 president of the Central Pacific Railroad, subsequently renamed the Southern Pacific. Made land-rich by the federal grants made to finance the construction of the railroad, by 1881 Stanford owned thousands of acres of land in Santa Clara County where William Penn Hyde seled that year with his large family.




      334 Lincoln - Hyde residence
      Stanford's teenage son, Leland, Jr. died of typhoid fever in 1884, and his father, former governor and future Senator, as a memorial to his only child, began creating a university--and a new town to house it--out of his acreage. Even before construction was complete, the Hyde family moved within the same county, seling permanently in Palo Alto.


      Herbert Hoover, 1894
      When Leland Stanford, Jr. University opened its doors in 1891, future president Herbert Hoover was among the ten or so students who would study geology and graduate in the class of 1894. The first campus bookstore was managed by William Fletcher (W.F.) Hyde, eldest son of W. P. Hyde, who would remain in that position for sixteen years. His sister, Bessie Hyde, had married in 1891 to a minister named William A. Kennedy, and moved to Denver. Rev. Kennedy did not live long, and Bessie and her daughter Laura eventually moved back to Palo Alto to live in the stately Lincoln Avenue residence with her maiden sisters, which they operated as a boarding house after W.P. died in 1919.


      The Hydes lived in a three-story home at 334 Lincoln Avenue in the now historic area known as Professorville, where William Avery Hyde's uncle, James McDonald Hyde--thirteen years younger than W.F.--had grown up and where he lived while aending Stanford in the same class as Herbert Hoover's older brother Theodore, both of whom studied geology. James McD. Hyde later became a Stanford professor of metallurgy. Their sister,Mary Hyde, studied back east and became assistant librarian at Stanford, living with Lillian, a teacher, and Laura, who ran the boarding house. Their brother Edward L. Hyde, operated a stationery store at 160 University Avenue and lived with his wife, the former Lauretta Coe, at 381 Lincoln.