Identifier: newyorkstatesprov2harr (find matches)
Title: New York State's prominent and progressive men : an encyclopaedia of contemporaneous biography
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Harrison, Mitchell Charles, 1870-
Subjects: Civic leaders
Publisher: (New York) : New York Tribune
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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ed. It is still in prosperous existence. Throughout a long and successful business career Mr. Hydehas maintained a fine integrity of character and has commandedthe social respect and esteem of all who have known him. Cir-cumstances prevented him from taking part in the Civil War,but he was a loyal supporter of the government, and his familywas represented by four brothers, residents of Illinois, who servedin the army with distinguished gallantry at Forts Henry andDonelson, Pittsburg Landing and Shiloh, Corinth, and elsewhere.Two of them were killed in battle. Mr. Hyde has long been a member of the Union League Clubof New York, and in 1897 was on its executive committee. Hehas also been actively identified with the Protestant EpiscopalChurch. He is a member also of the Merchants Club, the Larch-mont Yacht Club, the New York Yacht Club, and the NewEngland Society. He was married, in 1851, to Miss Marie Louise Shaw of NewYork. Of his five children two sons and one daughter are nowliving.
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EDWARD CLARENCE JONES THE storied hills of Wales were the home of the ancestorsof the subject of this present sketch. Welsh stock hasentered into the composition of the American nation m a liberalmeasure, and with good effect, and of it the family of EdwardClarence Jones is a part. Mr. Joness father, John Perry Jones,a sea-captain, was the son of John Jones of Denbighshire. Hewas directly descended from the famous Tudor Trevor, Lord otHereford, and founder of the tribe of the Morches, who died m948. John Jones, it may be added, came from Llewyn Onu,Denbighshire. Captain John Perry Jones died in 1872. Mr.Joness mother was, before her marriage, Miss Ellen J. Hovey,daughter of George Hovey of Nottinghamshire, England. Sheis still living. Of such parentage, and inheriting the essential traits ot boththe races from which his parents came, Edward Clarence Joneswas born in the city of New York, in 1865, and was educatedthere first in the common schools and then in the College ofthe City of N

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