Biography
Ammi Bradford Hyde was born March 13, 1825 in Oxford, New York. He graduated from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. in 1846, and later received an M.A. from the same University. He began teaching in 1846 at the Cazenovia Academy in New York state. He was ordained to the Methodist Episcopal ministry in 1850, marrying Mira Smith on July 20 of that year. He served on the U. S. Sanitary Commission during the Civil War. After the war he joined the faculty at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania and serving there until 1884, when he took a position at the University of Denver as Instructor of Greek, a position he held until 1911. While at Denver he served as Acting Chancellor from 1889 to 1890. Hyde was one of the founders of the American Philological Association, and was a member of the American Oriental Society, besides various other learned bodies. He was a member of American Oriental Society, American Philological Society, National Geographic Society, Phi Beta Kappa, Colo. Schoolmasters' Club, Denver Philosophic Society. He died in 1921, in Denver, Colorado, at the age of 97.
Citation:
Allen Breck, From the Rockies to the World (Denver, CO: University of Denver, 1997), p. 277.
Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:
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Identifier: M157.01.0001.00002
Abstract
M157.01.0001.00002 contains several hand-written letters and notes. Most appear to be correspondence between Ammi Bradford Hyde and his parents, Asahel J. Hyde and Marie H. Hyde. The letters are somewhat arranged in chronological order, but most are not clearly dated. Many of the letters addressed to Asahel, when unfolded and flattened, are on unually large pieces of paper. One (1) short hand-written note signed "ABH"; two (2) hand-written letters, one dated Wednesday Jan, (?), 1907 and...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1877 - 1917
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Identifier: U201.02.0011.0063.00002
Abstract
A portrait of Ammi Hyde.
Dates:
circa 1900
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Identifier: U201.02.0011.0063.00003
Abstract
Dr. Ammi Hyde sits in a rocking chair.
Dates:
between 1826-1921
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Identifier: U201.02.0011.0063.00005
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Dr. Ammi Hyde sits in a rocking chair.
Dates:
between 1826-1921
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Identifier: M157.01.0001.00006
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Folder M157.01.0001.00006 contains five (5) photgraphs/clippings. Two (2) are actual photgraphs of Ammi Bradford Hyde and two (2) are clippings of photographs - one (1) from an unidentified newspaper and one (1) from the Wesleyan University Bulletin (photos are at various ages, and none are dated). The fifth item is one (1) black and white postcard of panoramic photo labeled "Oxford, N. Y." (postcard folds in fourths, and one of the sections is separated from the rest).
Dates:
circa 1900
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Identifier: U201.01.0086.0014.00005
Abstract
Torn out sheet from an unidentified pamphlet or magazine, with four images on both sides of sheet of Universit of Denver's circa 1880 faculty, page 9 has portraits of Herbert A. Howe A. M., Sc. D. Applied Mathematics, Director Chamberlain Observatory and signed, Ammi B. Hyde, A. M., S. T. D. Greek and signed, Herbert E. Russell, A. M. Pure Mathematics and signed, James E. Le Rossignol,A. M., Ph. D. History Economics and signed and page 10 has portraits of Wilber D. Engle, A. M., Ph. D....
Dates:
circa 1880
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Identifier: U201.02.0011.0063.00001
Abstract
A portrait of Ammi Hyde.
Dates:
between 1884-1921
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Identifier: U201.02.0011.0063.00004
Abstract
A portrait of Ammi Hyde.
Dates:
between 1867-1910
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Identifier: M157.02.0002.00005
Abstract
Folder M157.02.0002.00005 contains one (1) long, multi-folded document with "Resolutions" typed in all capital letters at the top. The document proceeds to outline three (3) resolutions made by "a large number of citizens of Meadville" regarding their concerns following "... the Board of Control of Allegheny College .... to abolish the chair occupied by the Reverend A. B. Hyde, D D." The typed statement of the resolutions is then followed by and attached to a long list of signatures in two...
Dates:
1882-07-27
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Identifier: U201.03.0011.0010.00001
Abstract
University of Denver (DU) professor Ammi Bradford Hyde poses for a portrait. Hyde served as a University of Denver Vice Chancellor (1889-1891), Professor of Ancient Languages (1884-1885), Secretary of the Faculty, 1884-1889), Professor of Greek and Hebrew, (1880-1891), Vice President 1889 - 1891), Instructor on Mental and Moral Sciences (1889-1891), Professor of Hebrew (1891-1892), and Professor of the Greek Language and Literature, (1891). The University of Denver's Ammi Hyde Interview, a...
Dates:
1898 December
