Turner-Yankton County, SD Biographies.....Hoyt, Mel T. 1854 - 
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Author: Geo. A. Ogle & Co. (1897)

MEL T. HOYT, publisher and proprietor of the Parker Press, is a native of
Watertown, Wis., and was born in 1854. His parents five years later removed to
Sioux City, where they remained six or seven years and then located in Yankton,
Dak. Ter. In this latter place our subject grew to maturity and made his home
until 1883, that year coming to Parker shortly after his marriage.

    Mr. Hoyt in 1885 bought the Parker Press of McConnell & Hughes, and in 1889
put in a steam plant, making it the first printing office in the county to
utilize steam. It was also the first building in the town heated by steam.

    Mr. Hoyt and his wife are the parents of three children, two boys and a
girl, but one of the sons died at the age of six months.


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
OF 
Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties,
SOUTH DAKOTA.

Containing Biographical Sketches of Hundreds of Prominent Old Settlers and
Representative Citizens, with a Review of their Life Work; their Identity with
the Growth and Development of these Counties; Reminiscences of Personal History
and Pioneer Life; and other Interesting and Valuable Matter which should be
Preserved in History.

ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO.
GEO. A. OGLE & CO.
Publishers, Engravers and Book Manufacturers.
1897.


Biography is the only true history.—EMERSON.

A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
generations.—MACAULAY.

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