Benjamin S. Hoyt of Newington, NH Biography from A History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire (1915)

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Source: A History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
         by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill, 1915

Page 877

     BENJAMIN S. HOYT, who is engaged in general farming on a
tract of seventy acres of land in the town of Newington, was born in
this town, June 24, 1851, a son of James and Lydia (Smith) Hoyt.  The
father and mother, both now deceased, were natives respectively of
Newington and York, Me.  The former in his younger days was a school
teacher and later engaged in farming.  As an educator he was very
successful.  Their children were Israel; Coriline; Mrs. Valentine Cole-
man; James A.; Simes, deceased; Florence; and Benjamin S.

Page 878

     Benjamin S. Hoyt acquired his education in the common schools,
after which he went to Boston, where he learned the trade of carpen-
tering, which he followed there for about six years.  He then settled
on his present farm in Newington, which he is operating with profit-
able results.  A Republican in politics, he has served as selectman and
town clerk.  Mr. Hoyt was married in 1888 to Edith Googins, of Hiram,
Me., a daughter of Elbion K. P. and Ruth (Bensley) Googins.  Her
father was in early life a sea-faring man and later a farmer.  There
were three children in the Googins family, Fred C., Mary, wife of John
Eatol1, and Edith.
     Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt are the parents of one son, Simes Thurston Hoyt,
who is now in Honolulu, where he went as a school teacher.  He was
educated at the Portsmouth high school, subsequently attending the
agricu1tural college at Durham, N. H., for four years.  He was ap-
pointed in the normal school at Honolulu and for the last year has been
its superintendent.  Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt are members of the Unitarian
Church and the former belongs to the Grange.  He is a progressive
citizen, keeping well posted on current events, and takes a keen inter-
est in the development and prosperity of the town and county.