Tulare County
Biographies
BANK OF VISALIA -
RICHARD E. HYDE
Bank of Visalia, one of the leading financial institutions of Tulare County, California, was organized and incorporated in 1874, by Richard E. Hyde, Andrew H. Broder, John W. Crowley, Tipton Lindsey, Cuthbert Burrel, S. C. Brown, Fielding Bacon and Elias Jacob - all business men of ability, character and wealth. The capital stock was $200,000. Richard E. Hyde was elected first president, and has held that important office continuously up to the present time (1891). Under his efficient management the bank has attained a business reputation second to none in the county.
Mr. Hyde has been a resident of California since 1856, and the most of this time
has been spent in Visalia. He has been engaged in lumbering, milling and other
business enterprises; was one of the incorporators of the Visalia and Goshen
railroad, and a stockholder in the Visalia and Tulare railroad, both of which
were built and successfully managed by home capital. He has made investments in
real estate, and owns considerable property in Visalia and Tulare County. There
is, perhaps, not another man in the county who had a more successful business
career than Richard E. Hyde, and he is to-day one of the largest capitalists in
Tulare County.
Personally, he is a most courteous and obliging man, is naturally of a reticent
disposition, always eschewing everything that tends toward fame or notoriety.
SOURCE: Memorial and Biographical History of the Counties of Fresno, Tulare and
Kern, California: Chicago, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1892 Page 517, 518
Transcribed by Beverly Green