Henry Baldwin Hyde

Henry Baldwin Hyde (February 15, 1834–May 2, 1899)

Personal life In 1864, he was married to Annie Fitch, a daughter of Capt. Martin Halenbeck Truesdell and Jane Maria (née Reed) Fitch. Together, they were the parents of:

Anna Baldwin Hyde (1865–1865), who died in infancy. Mary Baldwin Hyde (1866–1938), who married Sidney Dillon Ripley in 1886. After his death in 1905, she married banker Charles R. Scott in 1912. Henry Baldwin Hyde (1872–1880), who died in childhood. James Hazen Hyde (1876—1959), who married Marthe Leishman (1882–1944), a daughter of John George Alexander Leishman and the widow of Count Louis de Gontaut-Biron.

He was a founding member of the Jekyll Island Club The Millionaires Club.

Hyde died at his home in New York City on May 2, 1899. His widow died in 1922.

Legacy Hyde sought to guarantee that his son James Hazen Hyde would continue the family’s control of the company after his death. The younger Hyde was appointed a vice president of the company at 22, and was 23 when he inherited a majority interest in the company. By the terms of his father's will, he was scheduled to assume the company presidency in 1906, but a concerted effort against him by the current president and several members of the board of directors led James H. Hyde to leave the company and move to France.

Through his son, he was a grandfather of Henry Baldwin Hyde (1915–1997), who married Marie de La Grange, a daughter of Baron Amaury De La Grange and Emily Eleanor, Baroness De La Grange (daughter of Henry T. Sloane), in 1941. Marie's brother was Henry-Louis de La Grange, a musicologist and biographer of Gustav Mahler.