Hugh Alexander Hoy Biography

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	representative citizens of South Dakota..." Published by G. A. 
	Ogle & Co., Chicago, 1898. Pages 486-487

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HUGH ALEXANDER HOY, an influential farmer of Alton township, Brookings county, 
South Dakota, was born at La Prairie, Canada, June 25, 1848, a son of George and 
Emily A. (McAllister) Hoy.  George Hoy was a native of LaPrairie, and his 
father, Hugh Hoy; a native of Dublin, Ireland.  About the beginning of the 
present century he came to America and operated a grist mill in Canada.  His 
wife, Jennie Douglas, was born in Scotland and became his wife in Ireland.  
George Hoy learned the miller trade of his father, but afterward became a 
millwright.  In 1858 he moved to Fillmore county, Minnesota, where he still 
lives on a farm and is seventy-nine years of age.  Mrs. Emily A. Hoy was born at 
Odletown, New York, and died in Fillmore county, Minnesota, November 10, 1862, 
at the age of forty-four years. She was a daughter of James McAllister, a farmer 
who died at Burr Oak, Iowa, about 1862, at a very old age.

Hugh A. Hoy, our subject, was ten years old when the family moved to Minnesota. 
He enlisted in November, 1863, in Company D, Brackett's Battalion, and served 
until May 19, i866, when he was discharged at Fort Snelling, Minnesota.  During 
this time he participated in several skirmishes with the Indians, and marched 
over the most of Minnesota, Dakota and Montana, and spent the last winter of his 
service at Sioux Falls, at which time they built Fort Dakota.

April 23, 1867, Mr. Hoy was united in marriage to Miss Belinda Clark, daughter 
of Nathaniel and Lura (Rexford) Clark, of Fillmore county, Minnesota.  Mr. Clark 
was a native of Connecticut, and died in Canada. His father, Eleazer Clark, was 
also a native of Connecticut and moved from thence to Canada where he engaged in 
farming. Mrs. Lura Clark was born in Canada, and died in Moody county, South 
Dakota, February 13, 1893, at the age of eighty years.  Her father. Samuel 
Rexford, was a native of Vermont.  Mr. and Mrs. Hoy have one son, William 
Wallace, who married Miss May Belle Tewkesbury, daughter of Charles and ~ Belle 
Tewkesbury, of Moody county, South Dakota.  To this union have been born two 
children:  Emily Ann and Laura Belle.

Mr. Hoy is a very pleasant neighbor, genial, warm-hearted, and has an agreeable 
family, and resides in one of the most hospitable homes of the township.   He is 
broad-minded and public-spirited and has served the people in the various 
communities in which he has lived in the capacity of several of the local 
offices.  He located on his present farm of eighty acres, situated on section 
32, Alton township, in the spring of 1891, and has since labored hard to make it 
one of the best stock and grain farms in that part of the county, and has 
provided it with good improvements and has a fine cottonwood grove surrounding 
the house.