Thomas Clyde (businessman)
Thomas Clyde 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.
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. The company was sold to Charles W. Morse in 1906.
Clyde was a Scottish immigrant who settled in Chester, Pennsylvania. He was married to Rebecca Pancoast.
He died on January 12, 1885 and was interred at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia.
