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Author: KENNELLYMARKA
Surnames: Clyde,Bolster,
Classification: biography
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Norman Asa Clyde, the eldest child in Charles and Sarah Clyde's family, was born in Philadelphia, in 1885. His father, Charles, who probably didn't get much formal education in his youth, but was eager to learn, began taking private lessons in classical literature and theology in about 1879. His mentor and teacher was David Steele. Charles became ordained to the office of the ministry in Steele's Reformed Presbytery (RP) congregation in 1883. In the year in which Norman was born, his father got involved in a bitter conflict with his mentor. After Steele's death in 1887, Charles Clyde became an itinerant minister with no settled congregation, preaching in various places in Pennsylvania and across the midwest. Charles took care of his eldest son's early schooling, and Norman learned to read Latin and Greek at a young age. In 1897, Charles, his wife, and seven children, moved to Lochiel Township, Glengarry County, Ontario, where Charles began serving in the local branch of the !
Reformed Presbyterian Church (RPCNA). They settled, took Canadian citizenship, and Norman and other children began attending the regular public school. Two more children were born in Lochiel. Contrary to the frequently repeated statement that Charles Clyde had died in 1900, the entire family, including the father, was still there on March 31, 1901, during that year's Canada Census. However, that autumn Charles fell ill from pneumonia and died on December 7, 1901. The family then moved back to Pennsylvania, where Norman enrolled in Geneva College at Beaver Falls, and graduated in classics in 1909. I recently wrote to the school to see if they had any information about Clyde. Mrs. Kae Kirkwood, Archival Librarian at the College, did some research and found that Norman was first mentioned in school's records for 1906/07 school year. (However, the records from 1905/06 are lost or misplaced, and he might have actually enrolled a year earlier). Mrs. Kirkwood also unearthed the fo!
llowing gem: During his student years, Clyde was one of the editors of
the school newspaper The Cabinet, and served for several years as assistant local editor, exchange editor, and Adelphic Literary Society editor! (The latest function may suggest that he was also a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity on campus). No wonder that he later turned into a prolific writer. Clyde is registered in the University of Wisconsin 1910-1911 Catalogue as a graduate student in Letter and Science for the summer session of 1910 (p. 642). He is also listed in the UC Berkeley Catalogue of Officers and Students for 1911-12 ("Clyde Norman, Beaver Falls, Pa., A. B. Geneva College 1909, graduate student in Social Sciences, [address] 2529 Dwight way, Berkeley, [phone] Bkly 4474"), and in the UC Berkeley register of students in the summer session of 1912.
His name was first made known to general public when several major newspapers picked up the Associated Press wire report about Clyde's record setting climb of Mt. Shasta in July 1923. Apparently, Clyde climbed from Horse Camp to the summit in "three hours and seventeen minutes", thus "breaking a record that had stood for forty years". One of the papers that brought this information was Los Angeles Times. This newspaper kept its readers well informed about Clyde throughout the rest of his life. I found more than forty Los Angeles Times articles that had mentioned Clyde and his mountaineering related experiences between 1923 and 1963. But long before the Shasta record of 1923, which launched his public career, Clyde's name was mentioned in an article that had nothing to do with climbing or mountains. In a Sunday issue of Los Angeles Times from June of 1915, we can find a brief description of his wedding. In a simple ceremony, in a small house on West Mountain Street in Pasaden!
a, Winifred Bolster became his wife! (Winifred died in 1919).
(passing this info on from another file, )
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