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Ursus:

--- Quote from: "Wayne Kernochan" ---Was the Hyde School named after this guy? I don't know the history.
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--- Quote from: "spacecadet" ---No. Hyde School was named after the property that the original campus was built on, the mansion and estate of John S. Hyde, and no relation I'm sure. The founder of Hyde School is Joe Gauld who bought the property in the '60s.
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I more or less concur with spacecadet. That is, the Hyde School was named after the family that had originally developed that property. Back during their ownership, it was called "Elmhurst." What is currently referred to as "the mansion" was, once upon a time, the Hyde family's house.

The fountain of funds that enabled such a display of wealth resided primarily in the simple economics of war. The Hyde family founded Bath Iron Works, Inc. The bulk of ships produced by BIW were and perhaps still are destroyers under naval contract. At the height of production during World War II, they were churning one out every 17 days.

Whether or not Dr. Robert Hyde is related to this family is another story, one which I don't have an answer to, although I'd venture that if they *are* related it is probably distantly. A preliminary and admittedly cursory search was inconclusive, although it's interesting that the maiden name of Robert Hyde's mother was Wells. There is a Wells, Maine...

At any rate, the Hydes of Bath, Maine, were primarily a merchant family. The Hydes of Bakersfield, Vermont, had quite a few doctors and ministers, and not so many merchants, or so it seems.

Ursus:
Here are the obituaries of Dr. Robert W. Hyde's parents (1941, 1954), for archival purposes...

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William Brown Hyde - Obituary
(1866 - 1941)
Unknown Bakersfield, VT Newspaper

Funeral of Dr. William B. Hyde

Funeral services for Dr. William B. Hyde were held from the Methodist church Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. Warren P. Waldo officiated assisted by the Rev. O. B. Wells of Williamstown. The bearers were: Dr. Landon Abernethy, Prin. Chalres P. Nason, Frank A. Start, Tennyson L. Doane, Wilmer C. Whitney and Chauncey F. Start. Interment was in Maple Grove cemetery. The church was filled to capacity and there were many beautiful floral tributes.

Among relatives and friends from away to attend were: Dr. and Mrs. Robert W. Hyde of Boston; G. Edward Hyde of Montpelier; Mr. And Mrs. Charles H. Hyde of Windsor; Miss Rohda A. Hyde of St. Albans; Rev. and Mrs. Oscar B. Wells of Williamstown; Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Matthews and son Ralph of Essex; Supt. and Mrs. Lynford L. Wills of Newport; Mr. and Mrs. Leonard L. Pierce of Cambridge; Mr. and Mrs. Andrew T. Collins of Swanton; Rev. S. V. Francis and Mr. and Mrs. Elson Blood of St. Albans; M. B. Maynard, Mrs. Leslie Church and Mrs. Evelyn Irish of Cambridge; W. C. Marsh, Harlow H Mower, Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tillotson and Mrs. Mark Stephenson of Sheldon; Wesley Chandler, Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Nichols, Mrs. Margaret Fairbanks, Mr. and Mrs. King of Fairfax; Miss J. Kay Connor and Miss Kathryn M. Doane of Burlington; Carleton Soule, Fred Bashaw and Francis Bashaw of Fairfield; W. E. Shattuck, Albert Morey, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Wells, Miss Lena Merril, Mrs. Merle-Bunting, Mrs. Inez Wells, Mrs. Hannah Erickson, Mrs. Eric Nichols, Leonard Storey, Mrs. H. J. Soule, Mr. and Mrs. Max Burleson, Mrs. D. C. Marshia and Mrs. George Barber of Esat Fairfield; Mr. and Mrs. Morton H. Marshia of Underhill; Bradley A. Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. George Tyler and Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Hull of Enosburg Fall.

The following members of the Franklin County Medical society attended in a body. Dr. Landon Abernethy of Bakersfield; Dr. C. G. Abell and Dr. H. C. Hinman of Enosburg Falls; Dr. H. H. Johnson and Dr. M. A. Bisson of St. Albans and Dr. R. J. Catlin of Swanton. Session fo Brigham Academy were suspended for the day and the students and faculty attended in a body. Members of Barnes Lodge F. and A. M. also attended in a body.

Dr. Hyde was born in Eden March 21, 1866, the son of Rev. W. H. and Rhoda (Brown) Hyde. He attended Brigham Academy and Montpelier Seminary and studied medicine at the University of Vermont and the Kentucky School of Medicine in Louisville, where he received his Doctor's degree in 1894. He began the practice of medicine in Bakersfield in December of that year and was actively and continuously engaged in his profession here for over 47 years. He married in 1906 Florence L. Wells of Bakersfield who survives him with their only child, Dr. Robert W. Hyde, who is captain in the U. S. Army Medical Corps stationed at Boston.

Dr. Hyde was prominent in community affairs of Bakersfield. He served as superintendent of schools from 1895 to 1907 and has served on the Brigham Academy committee at different times for a total of 12 years. He was trustee of public funds for 28 years and health officer for over 15 years. He was a member of the Vermont Legislature in 1902. He was secretary and treasurer of the Bakersfield fire district and treasurer of Library trustees. He was a member of the Volunteer Medical Service corps and active in the work of the Red Cross. He was a life long member of the Methodist church and was steward and trustee at the time of his death, and a member of the executive committee of the Franklin County Men's Social union. He was a charter member and past master of Barnes Lodge No. 107 F. and A. M. He was a member of the County and State Medical societies and a Fellow in the American Medical association.

Dr. Hyde will be greatly missed by his many friends in Bakersfield and surrounding towns for his devotion to duty and his kindly and friendly ministration in all cases of need. He was a wise man in the finest sense that word can convey. He was a man of sincere Christian faith, of sterling integrity, of wide interests, and with all kindly and friendly in all his dealing. He was wise in the ways of his profession keeping up with the advances in medical practice.

The speakers eulogized Dr. Hyde by quoting the closing lines from Edwin Markham's poem, "Lincoln, the Man of the People":

"And when he fell in whirlwind, he went down
As when a lordly cedar, green with boughs
Goes down with a great shout upon the hills
And leaves a lonesome place against the sky."

The passing of Dr. Hyde truly leaves a lonesome place against the sky of Bakersfield.

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Florence (Wells) Hyde - Obituary
(1882 - 1954)
Unknown Bakersfield, VT Newspaper

Mrs. Florence Hyde

BAKERSFIELD, Dec. 3 -- Mrs. Florence Wells Hyde, 72, widow of the late Dr. William B. Hyde of Bakersfield, died early this morning at the home of her brother, Rev. Oscar B. Wells of Essex Junction.

Mrs. Hyde is survived by a son, Dr. Robert W. Hyde of Boston; five brothers, Rev. Oscar B. Wells of Essex Junction, Rev. George F. Wells of South Hero, Arthur and Leon Wells of Bakersfield and Dr. Wesley R. Wells of Syracuse, N.Y., and several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be held in the Methodist Church Sunday at 2 p.m. Burial will be in the family lot in Maple Grove Cemetery. Rev. Merrill D. Powers will officiate. The body will be at the Gibson funeral Home in Enosburg Falls until the hour of the funeral.


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