James Hazen Hyde [SEP] place of death
resignation from The Equitable and relocation to France.
Early life.
James Hazen Hyde was born in New York City on June 6, 1876. He graduated from the Cutler School, and received his degree from Harvard University in 1898. Hyde studied French history, language and literature, and was involved in efforts to establish an exchange program that enabled French authors and educators to lecture at universities in the United States, with American professors reciprocating at universities in France. Hyde's efforts included the endowment of a fund to defray
Paris.
- Henry Baldwin Hyde Ripley (–1959), who married Lesley Frederica Pearson, daughter of Commander Frederick Pearson and grand-niece of James Cook Ayer, in 1919.
- Sidney Dillon Ripley Jr. (1891–1970), a prominent real‐estate broker who married Betsy Ann Sherry.
- James Hazen Ripley (–1977), who married Marguerite Doubleday (1901–1932) in 1925. After his first wife's death, he remarried to Gladys Livermore in 1934.
In 1895, Ripley and James Lorillard Kernochan