CLYDE, TX. CLYDE, TEXAS. Clyde is an incorporated community on Interstate Highway 20 and Farm Road 604, five miles west of Baird and eight miles east of Abilene in northwestern Callahan County. The site is on the Callahan Divide between the Brazos and Colorado rivers; its elevation is 1,980 feet above sea level.
Statement of Purpose. Tulane was founded in 1834 by seven brave physicians who sought to form a medical school in New Orleans that would teach others how to care for patients in the midst of an epidemic of cholera and yellow fever.
INTRODUCTION. Many of the more common family names of south-central Louisiana have their origins in Twelfth and Thirteenth Century Europe. They were taken-or given-to describe the man's place of residence, his occupation, his father's name or some physical characteristic of his.ERNARD: This name has the same meaning as Berard. The first Bernards to arrive in Louisiana from Canada were the brothers Michel and Pierre, who came to St. Martin and St. James parishes, respectively, in 1761.