The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-21
Counselor for the State De-
partment SuccumbS to all
Attack Of PcritOnitis.
WAS RIGHT HAND MAN
OF SECRETARY KNOX
Served for Years as Assistant
AttOrney-General and as
SOIicitOr-General.


tyn Hoyt. counselor for the department
OF state, died at his home here at 500
O'Clock this morning from perltonltis.
Mr. Hoyt was taken i'll in Canada while
there in connection with the reciprocity
negotiations between the United States
and that country. Since his return last
Monday he had been confined to his
home.
Physicians called into consultation con-
sidercd the case extremely serious from
the beginning,
His condition was such last night that
DR.. Robert NJ. Baker Of this city and
the wife, son and daughter of Mr.. Hoyt
side throughout the night Shortly after
midnight they noticed a change for the
worse when a perceptible weakening OF
the pulse beats was noticeable. From
ing which he rallied somewhat. Mr.. Hoyt
sank rapidly. until death came at $40
o clock
. Mr. Hoyt 1t was said. had been suf-
more than a year. resulting eventually
in the disease which caused his death,
He suffered during his last illness with
perforating ulcers of the stomach which
In the death chamber besides the ply
sicians were Mrs. Henry NJ. Hoyt. Henry
NJ Hoyt. jr.. and Mrs. Philip Hichborn.
wife, son and daughter of the deceased
Wikesbarre, Pa. for burial, which will
be private following short funeral serv
ices at the residence here tomorrow. The
date has not yet been fixed.
Great Aid to Knox.
Henry Martyr Hoyt was the strong
hand OF Philander G. Knox when the lat
ter was attorney general in fact. he
made himself so indispensable that when
Mr. Knox became secretary Of state he
lost no time In obtaining the transfer
OF Judge Hoyt from the department OF
justice to his own field OF action,
Mr.. Hoyt was assigned August 81
1909 to new Office. that OF counselor
OF the department. In that field Mr.,
Hoyt rendered invaluable service to the
government.
Mr. Hoyt had a thoroughly trained le-
ga mind. Because of the brief Term OF
his service in the state department COM
or justice. his legal reputation must rest
principally upon what he accomplished
before entering the realm of diplomacy,
His service In the department is bright.
general in the prosecution of many OF
the cases which involved governmental
attack upon the great corporate violators
of the antitrust law.
as an assistant attorney general in 1897
He was appointed by President McKin-
ley and served In that position until
March 81 1909 when he was appointed
solicitor general by President Roosevelt
to succeed John *. Richards.
Appeared in Noted Cases.
While he was solicitor general Mr..
Hoyt prepared and argued several noted
cases with success, Many of them were
Of n constitutional character. and the
trace OF his work Is left in the law OF
the land,
one case in particular. which he fought
and won, but did not serve long enough
In office to sec completed. was the ia
nous contempt Of court case against
Sheriff Joseph Shipp and other men OF
Chattanooga. Tenn. His successor in
office. Lloyd w. Bowers. now dead.
moved sentence in that case.
Mr.. Iloyt was born in Wilkcsbayre:
Pa. December .. 1856, being the son OF
General n. NJ. Hoyt, once governor of
the commonwealth. Tie was educated In
the public schools, graduated from Yale
in 1873. took post graduate law course
in the University OF Pennsylvania in
1881. and afterward was admitted to tho
bar and practiccd law in Pittsbure,
Colonel Morton McMichacl one of the
foremost citizens OF Philadelphia
IIc moved that year to New York to
become assistant cashier of the United
States National bank. but after three
years returned To Pennsylvania to be-
come trca surcr and afterwards president
of the Investment Company OF Philadel-
ph!a.
In 1894 hc resumed the practice OF law
In 1897 TO accept an appointment as as
sistant attorney general This pos, ne
filled until 1905. until he was made sole
itor general.