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				DANIEL AND ELSEY ANN (HANDY) HOYT.

	Daniel Hoyt was born in the town and county of Windsor, State of Vermont, Dec. 3, 1822, 
and was the youngest in a family of seven children,--two sons and five daughters.  His father, 
John Hoyt, was a native of Hopkinton, N. H., as was also his mother, Joanna (Tenney) Hoyt.  When 
the son was but four years old his father moved with the family to Allegany Co., N. Y.  At the 
age of seventeen Daniel Hoyt sought employment away from the home-farm, upon which he had until 
then remained.  Oct. 22, 1834, he married Elsey Ann Handy, who was born in West Bloomfield, 
Ontario Co., N. Y., Oct. 9, 1816, and was the second in a family of seven children.  Her father, 
Russell Handy, was a native of Connecticut, while her mother, Eunice Houghton Handy, was born in 
Vermont.  After his marriage Mr. Hoyt purchased a small place of seventeen acres of land, but 
sold out in 1838 and removed by team to Michigan.  He purchased, in 1839, eighty acres of the 
farm upon which he now resides, and built a shanty upon it the same fall.  During the next year 
he erected a log house.  He is now the owner of one hundred and seventeen acres of land, and is 
in good circumstances.
	To Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt have been born ten children, as follows:  Lucy Maria, Aug. 4, 1835; 
Almira Eunice, June 9, 1837; Dwight Handy, Jan. 29, 1839, died Oct. 7, 1854; Maryetta Eliza, Nov.
9, 1842; John Russell, Feb. 18, 1843, died Jan. 31, 1865, in the rebel prison at Florence, S. C.;
Sylvia Susan, Oct. 16, 1847; Quincy Daniel, June 11, 1852; Edna Elsie, July 23, 1854, died Sept. 
3, 1854; Edgar, July 23, 1854, died Aug. 20, 1854; George Handy, March 31, 1859.
	Politically, Mr. Hoyt is a Republican, and his views are liberal upon religious matters, 
although he respects the opinions of others.  He has been very successful in life, and is 
esteemed for his worth as a man and a friend.



This biography is taken from "HISTORY OF IONIA AND MONTCALM COUNTIES, MICHIGAN" 
by John S. Schenck. Philadelphia:  D. W. Ensign & Co., 1881.  Page 313.  Orleans.