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Russell (HOWARD HYDE an American)

HOWARD HYDE, an American clergyman and publisher, born at Stillwater, Minn., in 1855. He studied at Griswold College and graduated from the law department of Indianola College, in 1878, practicing law for 5 years.

He served as superintendent of schools in Adams co., Iowa. In 1885 he was ordained to the Congregational ministry and was pastor of missions and churches in Kansas City and Chicago. In 1893 he founded the Anti-Saloon League in Ohio and was its superintendent for the four years following. He was also one RUSSELL of the organizers and the first superintendent of the National Anti-Saloon League in America. He was chairman of the executive committee of the League from 1903 to 1909, and served also in various executive capacities in that organization. He founded the Lincoln-Lee Legion and was a founder and the first American president of the World League Against Alcoholism. He wrote "A Lawyer's Examination of the Bible" (1893), and many pamphlets and articles against liquor traffic.