Biographical Sketches

DR. B. C. HYDE

Police physician and surgeon, Kansas City, Missouri, is a young man who has but recently entered upon his professional career, and one whose prospects for a bright future are indeed flattering, as he is well equipped both by natural ability and education for the profession of his choice.

Dr. Hyde is a native of this state. He was born in Cooper county, May 6, 1872, and is a son of George W. Hyde, D. D., and Anna Hyde, nee Clark, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Missouri, both belonging to families who have figured prominently in the history of this country. The Hydes have been for many years represented in the various professions, lawyers, ministers and doctors. Dr. George W. Hyde accompanied his father at an early day from the old Dominion to Missouri and settled in Chariton county. He was ordained as a Baptist minister when a young man, later had conferred upon him the degree of D. D. and has spent many years in the work of the ministry, his labors being attended with great success. He is now a resident of St. Louis. During the late war he served as chaplain in Lee's army. His brother William was a colonel in the Confederate army, and was killed at the battle of Wilson creek.

The subject of our sketch is the only son in a family of 4 children. He was reared in Booneville and Lexington, Missouri, where he received his early education in the public schools. Then he took a course in military training at Wentworth Military Academy, at Lexington, graduating there in 1889. Next he attended William Jewell College, at Liberty, where he graduated with the class of 1892, and immediately thereafter took up the study of medicine. In the spring of 1895 he graduated at the University Medical College, of Kansas City, and it was in May after his graduation that he was appointed by the police commissioners to his present position, that of police physician and surgeon, for a term of three years. Dr. Hyde is a member of the Twin City Medical Society.

Later biographers will have other pages to add to the Doctor's history, for he will, without doubt, make his mark in the world.

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