Dade County, Missouri Biographies-Seymour HOYT

History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, Missouri, 1889 
Published by Goodspeed-Pgs. 818, 819

Seymour Hoyt, attorney-at-law, real estate agent and abstracter, of 
Greenfield, Mo., was born in Marshall County, Ill., in 1844, and is one 
of the successful legal practitioners of Dade County.  He is the son of 
James and Maria (Hitchcock) Hoyt, and the grandson of Benjamin Hoyt, who 
was a native of Connecticut.  James Hoyt was born in Stanford, Conn., 
September 19, 1807, and is the seventh child of the seventh generation 
of that family in the United States, Simon Hoyt having emigrated from 
England to the United States in 1628 or 1629.  In his youthful days 
James Hoyt was a tailor by trade, but later in life he followed farming,
and paid for his first forty acres of land by following his trade.  
He was married in New York City, but soon moved to Ohio, where he remained
until 1831, when he removed to Springfield, Ill., and after remaining there
a short time located in Marshall County, Ill., where he resides at the 
present time.  For the past twenty years he has resided at Lacon, the 
county seat; was township treasurer for about twenty years, and justice 
of the peace a number of years.  He is still living, and is one of the 
county's best citizens.  His wife, Maria Hitchcock, was born in Connecticut
in 1811, and died in 1848.  After her death he married Eliza Jane Mathis, 
who is yet living.  Mr. Hoyt was the father of nine children by his first 
wife, and Seymour Hoyt is the youngest child of the nine now living.  He 
was educated in the public schools, also two terms at Lombard University, 
Galesburg, Ill., and took a full course at the commercial business college
of Bryant & Stratton, Chicago, Ill., receiving his diploma in August, 1865.
At the age of nineteen he entered the teacher's profession, and this 
continued until May, 1864, when he enlisted in Company A, One Hundred and
Thirty-Second Illinois Infantry, for 100 days, and was under the command
of Capt. Hugh Shepherd, of Mendota, Ill.  Mr. Hoyt was on post duty for 
five months at Paducah, Ky., and was discharged at Chicago, Ill., April 9, 
1867.  He became a resident of Greenfield, Mo., and in the fall of the 
same year he commenced teaching, and this continued for four terms in 
Missouri.  While in Greenfield he was deputy circuit clerk two years, 
justice of the peace four years, and in 1878 he was elected probate judge
of Dade County, and served four years.  In 1882 he commenced the study of
law, and in April, 1884, was admitted to the bar.  Since then he has 
practiced his profession.  In 1881 he engaged in real estate business, 
and in 1883 in abstracting.  From March, 1883, to 1887, he was notary 
public.  Mary 26, 1868, he married Miss Mattie McDowell, a native of 
Greenfield, Mo., born in 1850, and the daughter of Nelson and Catherine 
(Casebier) McDowell.  Mr. McDowell was a member of the first county court
of Dade County, and was one of her pioneer citizens.  To the marriage of 
Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt were born seven children, five now living: Allen, Kate, 
Nellie, Mary and James L.  In his political views Mr. Hoyt is a stanch 
Republican, and cast his first presidential vote for U. S. Grant in 1868.  
He is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, Greenfield Lodge No. 466, Royal 
Arch Chapter No. 38, Constantine Commandery No. 7.  He is also a member 
of the G. A. R., Greenfield Post No. 75; and he and wife are members of 
the Baptist Church, he being clerk of the same.

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