Hines, H. K. "An Illustrated History of the State of Oregon." Chicago: Lewis
Pub. Co. 1893.  p. 1150.
 
CHARLES F. HYDE

     one of Oregon's rising young men, was born in Yreka county, California,
October 29, 1858. He was the youngest of three children born to H. H. and Susan
Hyde. The former was a native of New York, and came across the plains in 1843,
in Wheaton's company of pioneers, and was one of the men who made his escape in
the Wheaton Meadows massacre, at Mountain Meadow, near Salt Lake City. After his
arrival in Oregon, he married Miss Susan Kinzey, a native of Missouri, who came
with her parents across the plains in 1847, a year fraught with little less
hardships and dangers than the previous one. At the time of the great gold
excitement, Mr. Hyde went with his family to California, following mining, but
returned to Oregon in 1859.
     After obtaining a fair common-school education, our subject took a course
in the business college at Portland, and then found employment in commercial
lines. Later he entered the office of the well-known law firm of Whalley &
Fecheimer, of Portland, with whom he studied law, and earnestly pursuing his
studies for nearly five years, he made application to the Supreme Court for
license to practice. The application granted, he opened an office in Baker City,
then a straggling village, in 1882, and since that date he has enjoyed a good
and lucrative practice, the result of a careful and painstaking method of
conducting the business of his clients. His ability and attentiveness to
business soon procured him an extensive patronage.
     In June, 1890, he was elected State's Attorney for the Sixth Judicial
District by a majority of 1,096 votes. Since his election he has pursued with
relentless vigor the violators of the law, and the many evildoers in durance
vile show that he is not a man to stop or hesitate in the performance of a duty.
His course as a public prosecutor has been marked by an almost phenomenal degree
of success, and yet he is not so instilled with the vain ambition to succeed
that he would for an instant permit the strong arm of suspicion to tear
down the rights of the innocent.
     As an attorney he has had equal good success, numbering among his clients
the best class of the citizens. Since occupying the position of District
Attorney he has prosecuted every class of criminals, from murder in the first
degree to the petty sneak-thief, and but few guilty ones have managed to escape,
and none through any fault of his.
     Mr. Hyde was married in September, 1886, to Miss Mollie Packwood, daughter
of Judge W. H. Packwood, a member of the Constitutional Convention of Oregon.
Mrs. Hyde was the first white child born in Auburn, then the county seat of
Baker county. The names of the children born to Mr. and Mrs. Hyde are as
follows: Editha, Willie and Mary E. Mr. Hyde is a member of the Masonic order,
and has represented his lodge at the Grand Lodge. He is also a member of K. of
P., and Woodmen of the World, and holding minor offices in both orders. He is a
stanch Democrat, and, as a man born of parents, who endured of their own
free-will, a journey beset with the perils and privations that those early
pioneers were forced to endure, is reasonably sure to be endowed with the
courage, pluck and endurance that form the salient features of a strong
character.

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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in August 2007 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned
above.