Thomas Clyde (businessman)

Thomas Clyde (1812 - January 12, 1885) was a ship-owner, founder of the Clyde Line of steamers, as well as civil and marine engineer who built the first screw-driven steamship in America.[1]

For the British film producer, see Thomas Clyde (film producer).

His son William Pancoast Clyde took over the company and it expanded into the Clyde Steamship Company with additional steamships and routes in the last quarter of the 19th century and into the 20th. Thomas Clyde ran the company from 1844 until 1861.[2] The company was sold to Charles W. Morse in 1906.[2]

Clyde was a Scottish immigrant who settled in Chester, Pennsylvania. He was married to Rebecca Pancoast.[1]

He died on January 12, 1885 and was interred at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia.[3]

References
  1. Finkelman, Paul (2006). Encyclopedia of African American history : 1619-1895 : from the colonial period to the age of Frederick Douglass. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press. p. 307. ISBN 9780195167771. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
  2. Blume, Kenneth J. (2012). Historical dictionary of the U.S. maritime industry. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press. p. 111. ISBN 9780810856349. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
  3. "Thomas Clyde". www.findagrave.com. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
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