Background
Hyde, John was born on December 16, 1848 in Stalybridge, England. Son of Abel and Emily (Adshead) Hyde.
Hyde, John was born on December 16, 1848 in Stalybridge, England. Son of Abel and Emily (Adshead) Hyde.
Educated Stamford Academy, and Owens College (now University of Manchester).
Began as clerk country bank: made researches into economics effects of preventable disease. Traveled in the United States and Canada, 1882-1883. Associate editor Prairie Farmer, 1884-1885, Bankers’ Monthly, 1885-1886.
Investigations of economics conditions in the United States and Canada, 1886-1890.
Special agent 11th United States Census, in charge agriculture, 1890-1894. Editor National Geography Magazine, 1895-1901.
Chief bureau of Statistics, Department of Agriculture, 1897-1905. Member United States Geography Board, 1899-1905.
Cotton expert United States Commission to Paris Exposition, 1900 (grand prize for American cottons).
Member Jury of Awards, Transport-Mississippi Exposition, Omaha, 1898, Saint Louis Exposition, 1904. Studied Far Eastern problems in China and Japan, 1906-1910. Contribute editor Japan Mail, 1908-1909.
Washington correspondent North. China Daily News and Herald, 1911-1924.
Presented library of 4,000 volumes of statistical (“Hyde Library”) to Tokyo Statistical Society, 1913. Presented collection North. American Indian ethnologica to Harris Museum, Preston, England, 1914.
Home: Washington, Distric.
Member United States Geographical. Member Jury of Awards, Transport-Mississippi
Married Emily Watson, of Leamington, England, 1874. Children: Edith Emily, Elizabeth Adshead, Edward Alderson, John Lawrence, Mistress (Mary) Winifred Lee.