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JAMES
MacDONALD HYDE
James
MacDonald Hyde, well-known mining engineer, is rendering effective and valuable
public service as a member of the Los Angeles city council. He was born at Mystic Bridge, Connecticut,
June 25, 1873, a son of William Penn and Seraphine S.
(Carr) Hyde. His early education was
acquired in grade and high schools and his more advanced intellectual training
was received at Leland Stanford Junior University in California, from which
institution he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1901. Thereafter he was connected with the
California State Mining Bureau as curator in 1901-02 and next was assistant
professor of mining and metallurgy at the University of Oregon from 1903 until
1906. In the latter year he was
identified with the Guanajuato Consolidated Mining & Milling Company as
metallurgist, while in 1907 he became superintendent of the Manhattan Ore,
Reduction & Milling Company. In 1910
he served as field agent with the Mexican Syndicate, Ltd. During the twelve-year period between 1907 and
1919 he was engaged as an independent operator and construction engineer, and
for the succeeding seven years was professor of metallurgy at Leland Stanford
Junior University. In 1926 he resumed
activities as a private mine operator.
Mr. Hyde is the inventor of the Hyde roughing and cleaning flotation
process. His name is on the membership
roll of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, and
fraternally he is affiliated with the Masons.
He served as vice president of the board of public works in Los Angeles
in 1929-30 and was subsequently elected to the city council, of which he is now
a member. His political views are in
accord with the Republican Party, and his record of public service is indeed a
commendable one.
In
1903 Mr. Hyde was united in marriage to Miss Bessie L. Ransom and they are the
parents of a daughter, Helen Elizabeth Hyde.
Transcribed
by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: California of the South
Vol. V, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages 541-542,
Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 V.
Gerald Iaquinta.
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