Editing Clyde, Kansas (section)

==History==
Clyde was laid out in 1867, making it the oldest town in Cloud County.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_o8X5krq3fP8C | title=Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Embracing Events, Institutions, Industries, Counties, Cities, Towns, Prominent Persons, Etc. | publisher=Standard Publishing Company | author=Blackmar, Frank Wilson | year=1912 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_o8X5krq3fP8C/page/n372 376]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.skyways.org/counties/CD/ | title=Cloud County | publisher=Kansas State Library | work=Blue Skyways | accessdate=7 June 2014}}</ref> It was named after the [[River Clyde]] in Scotland,<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_5zdAAQAAMAAJ | title=Biennial Report of the Board of Directors of the Kansas State Historical Society | publisher=Kansas State Printing Plant | author=Kansas State Historical Society | year=1916 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_5zdAAQAAMAAJ/page/n270 163]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a3YUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA398 | title=Biographical History of Cloud County, Kansas: Biographies of Representative Citizens. Illustrated with Portraits of Prominent People, Cuts of Homes, Stock, Etc. | publisher=Wilson, Humphrey & Company | author=Hollibaugh, E. F. | year=1903 | pages=398}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=4541 | title=Profile for Clyde, Kansas | publisher=[[ePodunk]] | accessdate=7 June 2014 | archive-date=July 14, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714184314/http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=4541 | url-status=dead }}</ref> or according to another source, it was named for [[Clyde, Ohio]]<ref>Kansas Place-Names, John Rydjord, University of Oklahoma Press, 1972, p. 273 {{ISBN|0-8061-0994-7}}</ref> (which also is named indirectly for the River Clyde).

Clyde experienced growth in 1877 when the Central Branch Railroad was built through it.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a3YUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA399 | title=Biographical History of Cloud County, Kansas: Biographies of Representative Citizens. Illustrated with Portraits of Prominent People, Cuts of Homes, Stock, Etc. | publisher=Wilson, Humphrey & Company | author=Hollibaugh, E. F. | year=1903 | pages=399}}</ref>