Clyde

Read Genealogy of Newport RI and Freetown MA

Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts

The Read family of which the late Paddock Richmond Read was a descendant, is one of the oldest and best known families of this section of New England. The first of the name in New England wasJohn Reade, a cordwainer by trade, according to tradition, as is his coming from Plymouth, England. He came to this country and was an inhabitant of Newport, R. I.

Biographical Sketch of A. W. Clyde

A. W. Clyde, of the firm of Smith & Clyde, attorneys at law, was born in Otsego County, N.Y.; moved to Mitchell County, Ia., in 1855, and was proprietor of the Mitchell County News, for five years. He then moved to Logan, and engaged in the practice of the law. He was married at Madison, Wis., in 1877, to Bessie Johnson, and has one child, a son.