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- The World Peace Foundation was the American section of a broader movement for international peace at that time, one goal being the expansion of the league of nations and the Hague Permanent Court of Arbitration to sele international disputes. One advocate of this Court was the grandfather of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles--John Watson Foster--who was on the Advisory Council of the World Peace Foundation with David Starr Jordan. As Foster related in his history of the Hague Peace Conference, among the Americans present in 1899 was Jordan's mentor, Andrew D. White.
White, as first president of Cornell University, also acted as a behind-the-scenes mentor of the man given credit for puing together the coalition that in 1912 elected President Woodrow Wilson--"Colonel" Edward M. House of Texas, who aended Cornell in the mid 1870's but never graduated.
By the time Ruth Paine's grandfather moved to Palo Alto in 1897, Hoover had jumped into his mining career on the international stage, and was determined to assist his somewhat older brother, Tad, in completing his degree in mining engineering at the same college.
As his biographer Will Irwin reported, in 1899 Herbert married Lou Henry, and together they set out to the Far East, where they found themselves at Tianjin in the midst of the Boxer Rebellion in China. From there they would move to London where two sons would be born. By 1909 the Hoovers were able to return at least several months a year to the United States, much of it in Palo Alto, especially by 1912. As Europe became more involved in war, requiring gold as payment for arms, munitions and other necessities, Herbert Hoover remained on call for globe-troing assignments in search of such gold, although in 1912 he became one of Stanford's trustees. The Hoover sons were enrolled in school in Palo Alto, undoubtedly the same school as the children of W.F. Hyde.+
Theodore Jesse (Tad) Hoover entered Stanford in the same class with W.F. Hyde's younger brother, James McDonald Hyde in 1897, and they not only graduated together in the class of 1901, but in 1919 both were named Stanford professors. They had spent the intervening years, much as Herbert Hoover had, traversing the world in search of gold and other precious metals. Dr. Branner continued to head the geology department until President Jordan's retirement in 1918, succeeding him in that position the following year. Tad Hoover got his place heading the geology department, with James Hyde as his chief associate.
James M. Hyde remained in that position until one year before Herbert Hoover's election to the Presidency. During that time he and his wife and daughter lived on Churchill Avenue near the high school. He relocated to Hollywood and became vice president of the the Board of Public Works in Los Angeles. Before long he was elected a city councilman, and served off and on until he finally lost that position in 1939 when the mayor asked for his "purge," along with others. He switched to the Democratic Party in 1935. He died in 1943.
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Background
Hyde, James Macdonald was born on June 25, 1873 in Mystic Bridgett, Connecticut, United States. Son of William Penn and Seraphine Smith (Carr) Hyde.
Education
Bachelor of Arts, Stanford, 1901.
Career
1 daughter, Helen Elizabeth. Curator California State Mining Bureau Museum, 1901-1902. Assistant professor mining and metallurgy, University of Oregon, 1903-1906.
Metallurgist Guanajuato Cons. Mining & Milling Company, 1906. Superintendent Manhaan Ore Reduction & Refining Company, 1907.
Consultant practice and independent operator, 1907-1919. Field agent Mexican Syndicate, 1910. Professor metallurgy, Stanford, 1919-1926.
Engaged as mine operator and in oil production since 1926. Vice president Board Public Works, Los Angeles, California, 1929-1930, member City Council 1931-1939.
Works
Contributor technical articles and editorials. Inventor Hyde roughing and cleaning flotation process, Hyde pneumatic flotation machine, etc.
Politics
Party affiliation: Democrat
Religion
Denomination: Conglist
Membership
Mason.
Connections
Married Bessie Lorrain Ransom, of North San Juan, Nevada Company, California, 1923.
father: William Penn Hyde
mother: Seraphine Smith (Carr) Hyde
spouse: Bessie Lorrain Ransom
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1873 - Yes, date unknown
