Joseph Hidy
Joseph Hidy, attorney-at-law, Washington, was born in this county, August 23,1854. He is a son of Urban and Mary A. Hidy, natives of Ohio, who reared a family of five children, two dead and three living.
Joseph, the subject of our sketch, is a member of the Jeflersonville lodge of Freemasons. He received his education at the common school, and then took a philosophical course, receiving the degree of bachelor of philosophy at Buchtel College, Akron, this state. He then went to Ann Arbor, Michigan, and t9ok a collegiate course, graduating in the spring of 1878. He was admitted to the bar in April, 1878, and commenced practice the following May, under the firm name of Savage and Hidy.
From R. S. Dills' History of Fayette County