Several ancestral lines of Moses Hyde and his wife Sara Dana, married at Ashford, Conn., June 5, 1757 : with a full genealogical history of their descendants to the end of the nineteenth century : covering three hundred years and embracing ten generations . same year. 187 William Herschel, b. Sept. 19, 1820, at Lake Conesus, near Livonia, N. Y., m. Abigail Otis,Southfield, Mich., Dec, 1849. They went toCalifornia, Jan., 1851, where she d. in were more than two months on theirjourney, going by steamer from New Yorkto the Isthmus of Panama, which they crossedin boats and on mule back,
Several ancestral lines of Moses Hyde and his wife Sara Dana, married at Ashford, Conn., June 5, 1757 : with a full genealogical history of their descendants to the end of the nineteenth century : covering three hundred years and embracing ten generations . same year. 187 William Herschel, b. Sept. 19, 1820, at Lake Conesus, near Livonia, N. Y., m. Abigail Otis,Southfield, Mich., Dec, 1849. They went toCalifornia, Jan., 1851, where she d. in were more than two months on theirjourney, going by steamer from New Yorkto the Isthmus of Panama, which they crossedin boats and on mule back, thence to SanFrancisco by steamer. He m. (2) at Petaluma, California, Eliza-beth Jane Waldron Ham, May 3, 1858. Shewas b. at Rochester, N. H., Aug. 8, was a woman of more than ordinary char-acter and ability, with rare judgment, and witha most gracious manner. She made her homea center of hospitality, benevolence and Chris-tian influence. She d. at San Francisco, April29, 1891. He afterward m. Jane Osgood who livedonly a short time. Mr. Hyde reached California in the heightof the gold excitement, but did not go to themines until some years later. He engaged inbusiness in which he was very successful. Hebought land and put up buildings which. WILLIAM HERSCHEL HYDE, SR. 65 brought a high rental and increased in value,securing to him a more than competency. He was a member of the noted VigilanceCommittee and stood guard at the execu-tion of Casey and Corey in 1855. (See NewAmerican Cyclopedia, on CaHfornia.) Later in life his old love of a farmprompted him to purchase a ranch of a squaremile in Sonoma Valley, where he spends mostof his time, although retaining, besides otherproperty in San Francisco, the old homestead,built in 1858, where his six children were bornand married. The stability of the Hyde home-stead is noteworthy in that city of manychanges. He was one of seven men to organize theThird Congregational Church, with which hewas officially identified while in th
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