HOYT
HOYT
the mechanic arts; was secretary and manager of
the Wisconsin State Agricultural society and
vice-president of the U.S. Agricultural society,
1860-73; U.S. commissioner to the Worlds exhi-
bition, London, 1862; to the Paris Universal ex-
position, 1867, afterward making an educational
tour of both Europe and America, and by request
of Secretary of State Seward, submitting the re-
port published by congress in 1870. In 1869 he
was made chairman of a committee of the Na-
tional Teachers' (now Educational) association on
a national universit}^, and submitted three annual
reports, which were unanimously adopted, be-
sides offering a bill to congress which was unani-
mously reported by the house committee on
education, 1872. He founded the Wisconsin
Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, 1870;
reorganized the Chicago Historical societj^'s
great librarj-, 1871; was prime mover in the
efforts which secured the enlargement of the
Wisconsin State university. In 1878 he wis U.S.
executive commissioner at the Vienna Universal
exposition, and final acting chief commissioner,
as well as president of the international jury for
education and science. He was commissioner of
water-routes to the seaboard and state railway
commissioner for Wisconsin. 1873-76, submitting
voluminous reports which led to a revision of the
railway laws, and receiving the formal tlianks of
the governor in the name of the people, and of all
railway presidents in behalf of the corporations.
He was U.S. commissioner to the Centennial
exposition at Philadelphia, 1876, and final presi-
dent of its international jury for education;
submitted the educational report published by
order of congress in 1877, and by invitation of
the President, assisted in planning reforms in the
civil service. Having declined the President's
offer of the Spanish and other foreign missions,
he accepted the office of governor of Wyoming in
1878, so discharging its duties that his reai^point-
ment was unanimously petitioned for by joint reso-
lution of the legislature, one house being Demo-
cratic and the other Republican. He was president
of the international jurj' for education. New Or-
leans Universal exposition, 1884-85; originator of
development enterprises, public libraries, the
Wyoming Academy of Sciences and the Uni-
versity of Wj'oming, of which last he was first
president, 1887-91; meanwhile, as member of the
constitutional convention, assisting to secure the
admission of Wyoming into the union of states,
and, though not a candidate, receiving generous
support for the U.S. senate. Repairing to the
seaboard in 1891, for reasons of health, he was
successively vice-president of the Pan-Republic
congress at Philadelphia, 1891; chairman of the
Russian famine relief committee of the United
States, 1891-92; the World's Columbian commis-
sion's special representative for foreign affairs at
Chicago, 1893, so settling the differences between
the American and foreign world that he received
the grateful acknowledgments of all the national
commissions; commissioner plenipotentiarv of
his majesty the king of Korea to the universal
postal congress of Washington, 1897; and chair-
man of a national committee of four hundred to
promote the establishment of the University of
the United States. He received the honorary
degree of LL.D. from the University of Missouri
in 1876, medals from the French and German
governments in 1867 and 1893, and was decorated
with the commander's cross of the imjierial order
of Francis Joseph in 1873. He was elected officer
of the leading national educational, scientific
and patriotic organizations, and is the author of
many published writings.
HOYT, Joseph Gibson, educator, was born in Dunbarton, N.H., Jan. 19, 1815; son of Joshua F. and Olive R. Hoyt. His father was a farmer. He prepared for college at Hopkinton and An- dover academies, taught school five winters, en- tered Y^ale in 1836 and was graduated in 1810, standing sixth in a class of one hundred. He re- ceived his A.M. degree in 1818. While in col- lege he was an editor of the Yale Literary Mag- azine. He was principal of an academy at Ply- mouth, N.H., 1840-41, and professor of mathe- matics and natural philosophy in Phillips Exeter academy, 1841-59. He was married, April 13, 1842, to Margarette T. Chamberlain, of Exeter, Mass. In 1851 he was a member of the conven- tion for the revision of the state constitution. He was chancellor and professor of Greek in Washington university, St. Louis, Mo., 1859-62. He received tiie degree of LL.D. from Dart- mouth in 1859. He revised Colton's Greeh Reader (1845-46) and published Miscellaneous Writings, Addresses, Lectures and Reviews (1861). He died in St. Louis. Mo., Nov. 26, 1862.
HOYT, Oliver, philanthropist, was born in Stamford, Conn., Aug. 23, 1823; son of Joseph and Maria Blackley (Weed) Hoyt, and a grandson of Joseph and Sarah (Weed) Hoyt and of Eliphalet and Martha (Hoyt) Weed. He began life as a currier and in 1844 removed to New York city, where with his brother William he established the leather business of W. & O. Hoyt, which became a leading liouse in the trade and was known from 1849 under the firm name of Hoyt Bros. He was a Connecticut state senator for three yeai's, 1877-79, serving for two terms as president of the senate, and on several important committees, being chairman of the committees on humane institutions and Federal relations in 1879. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal churcli and contributed liberally to its various institutions, especially to the church at
