Hoyt, John

WESLEY, educator, born in Franklin co., O., Oct. 13, 1831; educated at Ohio Wesley an University and in the Law and Medical Schools of Cincinnati, O. In 1860-72 was secretary and manager of Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, vice-president of U. S. Agricultural Society commi ioner from Wisconsin to London Exhibition (1862); from the U. S. to Paris Exposition (1867); and from the U. S. to Vienna Exposition (1873); Governor of Wyoming (1878-82); president of Wyoming University (1887). Hoyt, WAY LAND, clergyman and author, born at Cleveland, O., Feb. 18, 1838; educated at Madison University, Brown University (where he graduated in 1860) and Rochester Theological Seminary. He has been pastor of prominent Baptist churches in Pittsfield, Ma ., Cincinnati, O., Brooklyn, Philadelphia (Memorial Church), Minneapolis, and again in Philadelphia (Epithany Church), his present charge (1897). He is author of Hints and Helps for Christian Life; Present Le ons for Distant Days; Gleams from Paul's Prison; Light on Life's Highway, . Hoyt'ville, in Pennsylvania , a post-village of Tioga co., 34 m. S.S.W. of Tioga, on Erie R.R.; has tannery. Pop . (1890) 560.