Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-24
BANGING ALL HEADS|EX-G0V. HOYT Dead
Heart Disease Fatal to
''Friend of Presidents"
HELD IMPORTANT POSTS
Became Executive Of Wyoming Ter
ritory in 1873, at Solicitation
of President Hayes.

John w. Hoyt. one-time governor of
the territory of Wyoming. one of the par
Elephants in the formation Of the republic
can party and the personal friend Of
Presidents since Lincoln's time. died yes
terday at the residence of his son. KEEP
Ter Hcyt. in Chevy Chase. Gov Hoyt
who was eighty-one years old. had been
| suffering from heart trouble for more
than year. He Is survived by his wife,
son and the latter's wife and two
young grandchildren.
The funeral will be held from the resi-
dence Of his son tomorrow morning at
10 o'clock. The burial at Glenwood will
be private.
Both Doctor and Lawyer.
Gov. Hoyt was known both in America
and abroad as a scholar, educator and
publicist- In his later years he had de-
voted his interest largely to the promo
ton Of higher education in this country.
He was born near Worthington, Ohio.
October IS. 1881, and was educated as
doctor and lawyer.
He attended the conventions which
nominated Fremont and Lincoln, and
campaigned vigorously for the republican
party for many years. In 1875 at the
earnest solicitation of President Hayes
he accepted the governorsh1p OF the ter
ritory of Wyoming. Prior to that time
he was state railroad commissioner IN
Wisconsin.
Gov. Hoyt went abroad many times on
missions connected with educational ana
scientific affairs, and up to year ago
led an active and vigorous intellectual
life.
Traced Ancestry Far Back.
He traced his ancestry back to within
eight years of the landing Of the Pill
grims His grandfather. Nathan Hoyt;
was a soldier in the revolutionary war
He himself was the son Of Joab and Jul
dith (Hawley) Hoyt. He attended
country school at Worthington and
taught a neighboring country school. In
1s49 he graduated from the Ohio ives
leyan University at Delaware, with the
degree of A. B. He then studied law in
the Office of Salmon P. Chase and at the
Cincinnati Law School, and medicine at
the Ohio Medical College and the Eciec-
tic Institute In Cincinnati, obtaining de-
grees In law and mediclne' out never
practiced either profession.
On November %, 1854, Mr.. Hoyt mar
ried Elizabeth Orpha Sampson. daughter
of John and Mary Sampson OF Athens.
Ohio. He was professor OF chemistry
and medical Jurisprudence In the Eclec-
tic Medical Institute. 1881. and In the
Cincinnati College of Medicine. 1861. and
also professor of chemistry in Antioch
College, Yellow Springs. Ohio, 1861. by
invitation of Horace Mann. president.
and superintendent of the Yellow Springs
Sanitarium
In 1857 Mr. Hoyt removed, for the
benefit of his health, to Madison, WIS. In
1859 he engaged Abraham Lincoln to de-
liver the annual address at the Wiscon-
sin state fair at Milwaukee, introducing
him to the audience. and at the close or
his address naming him for President of
the United States.
At the outbreak of the civil war he was
offered a colonelcy in the Union army.
but was prevented from accepting by
physical disability. He upheld the Union
cause, however, with voice and pen,
throughout the struggle
Mr.. Hoyt reorganized the University OF
Wisconsin, addressing the legislature In
its behalf and obtaining for it increased
lands and endowments, the Incorporation
Of professional departments, and high
er university rank, as we'll as the loca-
ton, at its seat. Of the new State Agri-
cultural College. He was invited by
| President Daniel Read of the Missouri
| State University to visit that state. where
| he addressed the legislature in joint SEES
souri, State Agricultural College at the
seat of the state university.
| In 1869 he addressed the National Edu-
| cational Association at Trenton, n. j.. In
| behalf of a proposed national university.
| obtaining it's unanimous Endorsement Of
| the proposition at that and succeeding
| meetings, and prepared q bill for such
university, which was unanimously re-
| ported by the committee on education in
the national House of Representatives
| in 1873