J.N. Hoyt   

  Mr. Hoyt has represented Harristown township,
Macon Co., IL in the Board of Supervisors since 1877. He is
a native of New England, and was born at Concord, New
Hampshire, on the 15th of December, 1831. His ancestors were 
among the earliest residents of New England. The Hoyt family 
is of English origin, and some of its members were among the 
pioneer settlers of Concord. Jacob Hoyt, the father of the
subject of this biography, was born at Concord. Jacob Hoyt,
the father of the subject of this biography, was born at
Concord. He married Fannie Tucker, who belonged to a
Massachusetts family. J.N. Hoyt was the youngest of ten
children. He was raised at Concord, attending the public
schools of his native town, and academies in different parts 
of the state. In the spring of 1853, then twenty-one years
of age, he came to Cleveland, Ohio, where he resided till
1868. He was a clerk in the Cleveland post-office for ten
years, and in 1865 went into the business of manufacturing
paper,   which he continued till he removed to Illinois. He
was married on the 20th of May, 1820, at Delaware, Ohio, to
Mary A. Latimer, a native of that place. Her death occurred
on the 21st of December, 1866. His marriage to his present
wife, formerly Mrs. Eunice N. Thayer, took place on the 7th
of April, 1869. He became a citizen of Macon county in 1868, 
and at that time settled in Harristown township, where he
has since resided. He was chosen supervisor in the spring of 
1877, and has since been selected every year to that office. 
In politics he is a democrat. He has been connected with the 
Masonic fraternity for several years, and is the present
master of Summit Lodge, Mo. 431, A.F. and A.M., at
Harristown.     The History of Macon County, Illinois, 1880, 
p. 187   Transcribed by Pat Hageman


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