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 THOMAS HYDE YDE, THOMAS, banker, was born in Georgetown, District of Columbia, January 27, 1839. His father, Anthony Hyde, was at one time a clerk in the department of the United States treasury; afterward becoming secretary to W. W. Corcoran, of Washington, District of Columbia. Colonel Ninian Beall, commander-in-chief of Provincial forces in Maryland in 1678, and later a member of the House of Burgesses, was his earliest known ancestor in America, and Thomas Hyde of Severn, his great-grandfather, born in 1725, was prominent in the Revolutionary war. Except for occasional travel, Mr. Hyde has spent his life in Georgetown, District of Columbia. Leaving school at fifteen he became a clerk in the banking house of Riggs & Company, Washington, District of Columbia. After serving for years as a clerk with this house, he became a member of the firm; and at this date, 1906, is vice-president of the Riggs National Bank, perhaps the most important banking house of the Capital city.

Mr. Hyde is a member of the Metropolitan club, of the Chevy Chase club, of which he is president, and of the Dumbarton club, all of Washington, District of Columbia. He is governor of the Society of Colonial Wars, and junior vice-commander of the Society of American Wars. He is affiliated "with the Protestant Episcopal church, with which his family has been connected, as shown in local records, since 1725, and doubtless from long before that period."

Every community of any size is dependent upon leading men in its business life for the establishment and maintenance of such standards of integrity, promptness and public spirit, in its business transactions, as will give tone and character to the commercial transactions of the city and exalted public spirit to the promotion of plans for the general welfare. In such an inner circle of leading business men at Washington, Mr. Hyde has won a place for himself. He is a prominent banker and financier, whose name lends weight to, and inspires confidence in, any transaction in which he engages.

He married Fannie, daughter of Charles E. Rittenhouse, October 27, 1864.