University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-06-13

(Kepler Hoyt of Washington ha
sent to the University a biOgraphica
sketch of ex-governor John Wesle,
Hoyt, who obtained the location O
the College of Agriculture at the sea
of the University in Columbia unde
the presidency of Daniel Read. Mr.
HOyt also received the degree O
LII. ID. from the University. TIL,
sketch of his life follows:)
Ex-GOv. John Wesley HOyt, Chair
man of the National University Com
mittee of Four Hundred, died o
heart disease, May %, 1912. in the
eighty-frst year of his age. at the
residence of his son, Kepler Hoyt
Chevy, Chase. ID. c.
Governor Hoyt discovered in April
1911. that he had organic heart trou-
BILE, and went to Garfield Hospital for
treatment. After two weeks he re-
turned home much improved, but
since the first of 1912 had been de-
clining again.
The deceased traced his ancestry
back to within eight years of the
landing of the Pilgrims. His grand
father. Nathan HOyt, bore an honor
able part in the Revolutionary War.
He himself was the son of JOab and
Judith (Hawley) HOyt. and was born
on his fathers farm, near Worthing-
ton, Ohio. October 13, 1881. He at
tended country school in the neigh
bOrhood, and later taught neigh
boring country school. In 1S49 he
graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan
University. at Delaware. with the de-
gree of A. b. He then studied law
m the office of Salmon p. Chase and
1t the Cincinnati Law School. and
Medicine at the Ohio Medical Col
ege and the Eclectic Medical Insti-
ute, in Cincinnati. obtaining his de-
,ree in law and medicine, but found
hat he had not the taste for the
Practice of either profession, and
lever practiced either of them.
On November 2S, 1854, he married
'Iiss Elizabeth Orpha Sampson,
laughter of John and Mary Sampson,
# Athens, Ohio.
He was professor of chemistry and
MEDICAL Jurisprudence in the Eclectic
led'cal Institute. 1851. and in the
'incinnati College of Medicine, 1885,
, and also professor of chemistry in
Intioch College, Yellow Springs,
'hio, 1867. by invitation of the
resident, Horace Mann.
lie had vigorous part in the for
nation of the Republican Party, at
ended the conventions which nomi-
ated Fremont and Lincoln, and
effectively in a, number
f states for that party in most of it's
residential campaigns.
In 1857 he removed, for health
to Madison, Wisconsin. In
$50 he engaged Abraham Lincoln to
oliver the annual address at the
Wisconsin State Fair at Milwaukee,,
him to the audience,
nd at the close of his address NAM
lg him for President of the United
tates.
At the outbreak of the Civil War
e was offered cOlOnelcy in the
nion Army. but was prevented from
llisting by physical disability. He
pheld the Union Cause. however,
ith voice and pen. throughout the /;
ruggle. In
From 1857 to 1867 he was pub S
Sher and editor of the wisconsin K
armer and Northwestern Cultiva-i
r." gaining for it prominence t
nong agricultural journals, and il
hile thus employed had a foremost c
Irt, through his paper and on the /
in the advocacy of the Nor t
II Bill for the endowment of COL a
ges of agriculture and the mechan- 1
arts. being credited by Mr.. Morrill, '
th more hard work than any other a
an of whom he knew. From 1858
1862 he was secretary and manag- n
g officer of the Wisconsin State Ag- t
Society, obtaining for it C
larged endowments and increased fl
cilities. From 1869 to 1871 he o
IS also secretary of the Chicago Il
stOrical Society, and at this per- n
was Vice-Prcsident of the u. S. o
Society. s
In 1862 he was WiscOnsin's CON-
ssiOner to the London Universal Il
hibition, and in 1867 was U. S. in
to the Paris Universal p
position. At the close of this ex- pl
sitiOn, and by request of Secretary q