The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-10-08
thursday MORNING, OCTOBER 8, 1874

form his father, who gathered a posse and
intercepted the pair while endeayoring to
find fording place to cross n stream,
which intercepted their line of march. In
some unaccouutablc manner young Hyde
had missed the way.
When Afunah was about seventeen years
old he came to Casteton to attend school
at The academy A brother and two sisters
of his father Arunah W. Hyde Mrs
Daniel Mouton and Mrs. Oliver Moulton
were living in Castleton and the associa-
tons and influences so enlisted his feelings
and interest that not long after he sought
and obtained position as clerk in the store
of the late James Adams. He served in
tins capacity five years, receiving therefor
the sum of five dollars month. At the
end of that time he was received as p part
ner in the business TO whose successful
prosecution his energetic efforts had con
tributed largely. This connection con
tinucd about five years when he bought the
interest of MI Adams and assOCiating with
himself his brother, Oliver NJ. Hyde, com
menced mercantile life on his own account,
prosecuting his affairs with the pertna-
cious energy which marked every step of
his business career. He was the "mddle-
man Of a large agricultural community,
buying whatever the farmers had to sell
The major portion of Tie wool, beet, pork
and other commodities of large section
of country passed through his hands, all
finding ready market through the rcputa-
ton he had secured The labor packing
meat he made point of performing him
self haying learned that in order to be Ger
tain of everything being properly done he
must do it himself.
While pursuing his own business he fur
thered every public interest, aided with
counsel and money the development of
every resource, and in 1923 commenced the
erection of the building now known as the
Castleton seminary. The plan and arrange
ment Of tho institution were the work of
Mr.. Hyde. He was at once protector and
architect and the following year the build
ing was completed and furnished sufilci-
entity for practical purposes, and opened
under the distinctive title Of the Vermont
classical high school with solomon Foot
| ms lrcCcptur Of Il class of sixteen stu
dents, Mho entered that year. Pitt W.
Hyde was member.
1t seems cminently fitting that Edward
j. hyde the cultivated and scholarly son
| of the man to whose pcrscvcIing efforts the
| tmc-honorcd institution stands Il lasting
and noble monument, should succeed to
the position he now occupies, that of prin-
cipal of .hc school, which owes its per-
mancnt existence to the foresight and
energy of his father, and it is probable that
he experienced during the last few weeks
of his life a peculiar satisfaction in seeing
his son at the head of the school, which
had been for nearly half century the OBJ
| ject of his special interest.
| Mr. IIy1p propfpl u u1n,lpr pf builIiutrc
now standing in the village, among them
the Mansion House, which has since given
place to the Bomosecn House, three brick
houses on Seminary street. the marble
block on the corner of Main and Seminary
streets, and a considerable numherof frame
houses in other parts of the village, many
of which are ON streets laid out and opened
by him.
He closed his mercantile operations in
1884. and during the next two or three
years was occupied in the settlement of
past business transactions and in arranging
TO enter new fields of operation
In 1878 he purchased OF Ebenczer Il.
Dcney OF Hubbardton, the lines of mail
stages extending from Castlcton to Salem,
from Rnlllnd to Whitehall, from West
Rutland via Clarendon Springs TO Salem.
together with some other stage property,
and having taken his youngest brother,
Pin " HYDE. ms n roItner in 1890 they,
in tbe firm name of 4. ". HYDE Il Co,
added bv purchase the lines of stages from
Cas,)e,on via Sudbury and Middlebury tc
darlington. from MIddlebury via Brandon
TO Rutland via Woodstock to Hanover. n.
H.: from Middlcbury via Bridpolt to Lake
Champlain and from Fort Ticonderoga tc
Lake George. During the five wears from
1899 to 1874. A. w. HYDE as Il stage pro
prietor and mail contractor, was as wei
known throughout the country. and at tht
postoflice department at Washington. ~
many of the railroad kings are at the pres
cnt time.
In the winters of these wears A. w
HYDE & Co.'S stage lines sometimes EXTENDED
from burlington via St. Adams. Uiqhpat,
and St. Johns TO Montreal. and portion
of the time their stages formed part of tn,
winter line from Albany t, New York.