Arthur Penryhn Stanley Hyde (1875-1943)
Looking for ancestry of Arthur Penryhn Stanley Hyde. He is named after that novelist. Who are his parents? Is he related to Henry Baldwin Hyde, the Equitable Life Insurance founder?
He was born in New Jersey and graduated from West Point in the Class of 1900. Hyde’s family played an important role in the settling of Massachusetts and Connecticut. He originally was assigned to the Infantry but, after graduation, was changed to Artillery. As a Coast Artillery officer, Hyde was stationed at Ft. Riley, KS, with a battery of siege artillery. He was a law instructor at the General Service and Staff College at the Army School of the Line. He also graduated from the Artillery School, commanded the 130th Company, and was an instructor in the Coast Artillery Reserves during 1903–4. Stationed at Ft. Terry, he put into service the first battery of six-inch guns on disappearing carriages and developed a mine prediction board. He was an instructor at camps for training the National Guard at Ft. Stevens, OR, and was a military advisor to authorities in Pierce County, WA.
During WWI, Hyde went to France with an Artillery regiment and temporarily commanded the 43rd Coast Artillery Regiment (Railway). He retired in 1922 due to a physical disability.
Dedicated to his religion, in his spare time he was ordained a deacon of the Episcopal Church. He also passed the exam for the priesthood. After he retired from the military, he devoted his life to the ministry and served throughout the country.
Active with his classmates, he organized class reunions and was class secretary. He was editor of an historical volume about the Class of 1900, West Pointers of 1900, which he wrote in 1937. It chronicled the past 35 years of the members of his class.
He lived the last 15 years of his life as Rector of Holyrod Church in New York City and died in 1943 at the age of 68.
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