BIO: Charles E. HOYT, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 611 & 612.
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  CHARLES E. HOYT, proprietor of Lone Pine Farm, consisting of ninety acres of 
excellent land, which lies in Huston township, Clearfield county, Pa., at 
Hickory Kingdom, was born on this farm, the old home place, July 31, 1863, and 
is a son of Hiram and Barbara (Brown) Hoyt.
  The Hoyts came originally from New England, Dr. William Hoyt, the grandfather, 
having been born in Vermont.  He was married to Ruby Mason in Massachusetts and 
they came to Clearfield, Pa., in 1819.  Here he practiced medicine and also 
taught school, moving later to Elk county, where he taught the Horton township 
schools, the first school of the township, and from there to Balltown and taught 
on the present site of Brockport, Pa.  From Balltown he moved to Hickory and 
bought the improved farm of John I. Bundy, in Huston township, Clearfield 
county, later turning it over to his son, William H. Hoyt, and then bought 
another improved farm one and one-half miles southwest of this.  He died in 
Huston township in 1872, aged eighty-four years.  Dr. Hoyt was the father of the 
following children:  Cornelia A., who married Benjamin Hulet; Sophia A., who 
married William F. Green; Sarah M., who married Jeremiah Hewett; and William H., 
Edgar M., Eliza Jane, Seth R. and Hiram M.  Eliza Jane married Norman Write.
  Hiram M. Hoyt, father of Charles E., was born in Elk county, Pa., July 13, 
1828.  He became a farmer and accompanied his father to Huston township, 
Clearfield county, and here subsequently bought a farm of about 180 acres on 
which he spent the rest of his life, following the quiet pursuits of 
agriculture.  His death occurred here March 26, 1903.  He married Barbara Brown, 
who survived until December, 1909.  Six children were born to Hiram M. and 
Barbara Hoyt, as follows:  Alexander, who is deceased; Elizabeth, who is the 
wife of W. H. Bundy; Isaac; Charles Edward; Ida, who is the wife of O. R. Bundy; 
and Ellen, who is the wife of C. C. Dodd.
  Charles E. Hoyt attended the country schools and since then has been more or 
less continuously engaged in farming.  During ten years of his life he also 
carried on lumbering.  He makes a specialty of dairying, keeping twenty-two head 
of cattle.  He is a member of the Grange and his practical progressiveness may 
be seen in the excellent care taken of his land and stock and in his building 
and maintaining a silo, and in the substantial character of his residence and 
barns.  Valuable coal deposits underlie his land and he has coal leases in Sandy 
township.  Mr. Hoyt is a stockholder in the Farmers and Traders Bank at 
Clearfield, of which he was formerly also a director.
  Mr. Hoyt was married February 14, 1889, to Miss Elizabeth Bundy, a daughter of 
J. G. Bundy, of Sandy township, and they have two children, Waneta A. and Hiram 
M.  In politics he is a Republican and he is now serving on the township school 
board in his fourth term.