Sedgwick County KS Archives Biographies.....Hoyt, Charles C. 1867 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ks/ksfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com March 25, 2007, 10:55 pm Author: O. H. Bentley (1910) Charles C. Hoyt, merchant, of Kechi, Sedgwick county, Kansas, was born July 21, 1867, in Indiana. His parents were Benjamin F. and Mary (Flint) Hoyt, the father being a native of Indiana and the mother of Michigan. The ancestry on the paternal side is traced to England, and on the maternal, to Holland. Charles C. Hoyt was the eldest of three children. His parents moved to Kansas and located in Grant township, Sedgwick county, and afterwards moved to Wichita, where the father died in 1908. His widow died August 5 of the same year. Charles C. Hoyt attended the public schools of Indiana up to his seventeenth year and afterwards worked as a laborer for some time. He was married February 5, 1895, in Wichita, to Miss Elizabeth Widder. Two children have been born of this union, Reece and Irene. Mr. Hoyt engaged in the mercantile business in Wichita in 1896 for himself, and continued in a general store there for ten years. He then disposed of his business and went to New Mexico, where he engaged in the real estate business. Coming back to Sedgwick county, he bought out the general store of G. S. Warner at Kechi, and has been conducting it ever since. He and his wife are members of the Baptist church. Mr. Hoyt is an independent in politics. Additional Comments: Extracted from History of Wichita and Sedgwick County: past and present, including an account of the cities, towns and villages of the county Editor in chief: O. H. Bentley Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co. (1910) File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ks/sedgwick/bios/hoyt332gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ksfiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb