Samuel A. Hoy Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1663-1664 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	SAMUEL A. HOY, superintendent of schools of Spink county, 
retaining his residence in Redfield, was born in Pickaway county, Ohio, 
on the 30th of October, 1866, being a son of Rev. Samuel and .Melinda 
(Imler) Hoy, both of whom were likewise native of the old Buckeye state 
and representatives of pioneer families of that great commonwealth, 
while both were of German lineage. Samuel Hoy was a minister of the 
Evangelical Association, and for sixteen years—four terms—was presiding 
elder in the Ohio conference. In 1883 he removed with his family to 
South Dakota and took up his residence in Spink county, where he 
continued his ministerial work, being one of the pioneers of that 
section, where he developed a good farm. He died February 17, 1901, and 
his widow died January 1, 1904, leaving eleven children, eight sons and 
three daughters, not a death having occurred among the children. 

	The subject received his early educational discipline in the 
public schools of Ohio, and was seventeen years of age at the time of 
his parents' removal to South Dakota, where he continued his studies in 
the schools of Spink county. In 1887, at the age of twenty-one years, he 
began his career as a teacher in the public schools of Spink county, 
proving successful from the start and continuing to thus follow the 
pedagogic profession for thirteen years, at the expiration of which, in 
1900, he was elected to his present office as superintendent of schools 
of Spink county, and was re-elected in 1902, in which capacity he has 
accomplished an admirable work, gaining the confidence and hearty co-
operation of the teachers in his jurisdiction and the unqualified 
approval of the people of the county. In politics he is a staunch 
adherent of the Republican party, and fraternally is identified with La 
Delle Lodge, No. 133, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. 

	On the 26th of November, 1902, Mr. Hoy was united in marriage to 
Miss Blanche Cadwell, who was born in Illinois, on the 13th of October, 
1873, being a daughter of Simon and Rosa (Bell) Cadwell, who are now 
residing in Ellsworth county, Kansas, where they removed in about 1877.