William Hyde

William Elisha Hyde (1836-1898) was an American journalist, the managing editor of the Missouri Republican newspaper of St. Louis, Missouri, for nineteen years. Personal life Hyde was born on August 27, 1836, in Lima, New York, the son of Elisha Hyde of Connecticut, a teacher at Genesee College, and Amanda N. Gregory, also an educator, of Ithaca, New York. He had a brother, Horace L. Hyde, a journalist. William Hyde as a young man worked in the drug business, then became a teacher in a country district school. He attended McKendree College and then taught school. He received a legal education from Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Hyde registered for the draft in June 1865.