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.
This is one possible explanation of the meaning and origin of the surname Waldrop: Wardrop, Wardrope, etc. is occupational in origin, that is, it derives from the trade or profession of the first bearer. The name is from Old Norman French garder or warder meaning to watch and robe.