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gramlsonof Daniel Hoyt, a Revolutionary soldier, who settled in the Wyoming valley about 1795 ; great --^M-an-lson of Walter Hoyt, of Fairfield county, t'onn.. and greats-grandson of Simon Hoyt, the founder of the Hoyt family in x\.merica, who came from Eng- land about 1629 and settled in Charles- town. Ziba Hoyt was commended in of- ficial orders for " gal- lantry in action" in tlie war of 1812. Henry M. Hoyt was prepared for college at Wyoming semina- ry and was a student at Lafayette college, 1846-48, and at Will- iams college, 1848-49, at the .B., 1849,

A.M., 1865. He was tutor at Towauda, Pa., 1849-.50 : and was professor of mathematics in Wyoming seminary, 1851-53, and in a graded school in Memphis, Tenn., 1853-54. He was admitted to the bar in 1853 and practised in Wilkesbarre, Pa. He helped to recruit the 52d Pennsylvania volunteers in 1861 and was its lieutenant-colonel, serving in the Army of the Potomac, 1861-63, and as colonel under Gillmore in South Carolina, 1863-65, except while a pris- oner-of-war at Macon, Ga., and Charleston, S.C. He led the advance of McClellan's army in the march from Bottom's Bridge to Seven Pines and directed the building of bridges across the Chick- aliominy. At Fair Oaks he gave valuable in- formation to General Sumner, and as commander of his brigade he held the Confederates in check at the passage of the Chickahominy. Under Gillmore he engaged in the siege of Morris Island and Fort Wagner. In June, 1864, he led the advance division of boats planned for the capture of Fort Jolinson, landed his men and entered the fort. The other divisions not coming to his sup- port, he was obliged to surrender to superior force. He was imi)risoned at Macon and was returned to Charlest<^)n, where with other Federal officers Ije was placed under the fire of the Federal guns during the siege of the place. After his release he was with his regiment till the close of the war. He wa.s brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers, March 15, 1805, " for gallant and meritorious services in the fifld." He resumed the practice of law at Wilkesliarre ; was addi- tionallaw judge for the 11th Pennsylvania dis- trict, 1867-60 ; internal revenue collector for Luzerne and Susquehanna counties. 1869-73 ; chairman of the Kepublican state committee,

1875-76 ; and governor of Pennsylvania, 1879-88. During his term as governor the debt of the state was reduced to $10,000,000, which was refunded at three per cent.; and a new penitentiary was built and its use restricted to criminals convicted of first offences between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five, abolishing solitary confinement and making it an industrial reformatory. He was married in 1855 to Mary E., daughter of Elijah Loveland, of Kingston, Pa. Their son. Henry Marty n, Jr., was graduated at Yale, A. B., 1878, and at the University of Pennsylvania, LL.B., 1881 : became first a lawyer and then a banker, being president of the Investment ComiJany of Philadelphia, Pa., and returning to the practice of his profession, he was appointed an assistant attornej' -general of the United States in 1897. Governor Hoyt received froju Lafayette college the degree of A.M. in 1805 and that of LL.D. in 1883, and from the L'niversitj^ of Pennsylvania the degree of LL.D. in 1881. He is the author of : The Seventeen Toicnships of the Susquehanna : a History of the Controversy heticeen Connecticiit (t7id Pennsylvania (1879): Protection versus Free Trade : the Scientific Validity of Defensii'e Duties (1885.) He died at HWilkesbarre, Pa., Dec. 1, 1892. HOYT, John Wesley, educationist, was born in Franklin county, Ohio, Oct. 13, 1831 ; son of Joab and Judith (Hawley) Hoj-t, and grandson of Nathan Hoyt, a Revolutionary patriot of Massa- chusetts. He was graduated at the Ohio Wes- leyan university, A. B.', 1849; A.M., 1853, and studied both law and medicine at Cin- cinnati. He was grad- uated, M.D.. at the Eclectic Medical col- lege in 1853, and was professor of chemis- try and medical jur- isprudence therein, 1852-56, succeeding Judge J. B. Stallo when sent as U.S. minister to Italy ; also lectiu-er in Antioch college by invitation ^

of President Horace Mann, 1854-56, and pro- fessor of chemistry in Cincinnati College of Medicine, 1854-56; having meantime, in 1854, been married to Elizabeth Orpha Sampson. Ph.D., of Athens. Ohio. After taking an active part throughout the western and northwestern states in the Fremont presidential campaign, he settled at Madison, Wis., 1857: published the Wisconsin Farmer and Northivestern Cultivator, 1857-67, having a leading part in securing the congres- sional endowment of colleges of agricidture and