Ralph Wilson Hoyt
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Brigadier General Ralph Wilson Hoyt (October 8, 1849 - November 3, 1920) was commander of the Department of the Lakes.{{cite encyclopedia |author=Edward Hagaman Hall |encyclopedia=Register of the Empire State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution |title=Ralph Wilson Hoyt |year=1889 |page=196 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gvM_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA196 }}
Biography
He was born on October 8, 1849, in Milo, New York, to Benjamin Levi Hoyt and Celestia Ursula Mariner. He was admitted to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1868, and he graduated in 1872.
He married Mary C. Cravens Hoyt (1860–1910), and she died in 1910.
On August 15, 1911, he replaced William Harding Carter in command of the maneuver brigade in Texas.{{cite news |via=Newspapers.com |title=Hoyt Will Succeed Carter |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2206508/brigadier_general_ralph_wilson_hoyt/ |newspaper=Columbus Journal |date=August 2, 1911 |access-date=2015-04-14 }}
On October 10, 1911, he married Cora McKeever Harbold (1879–1946), a nurse, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.{{cite news |title=Brig. Gen. Hoyt Weds Nurse. Commander of Department of Lakes, 62, Married to Miss Harbold, 32 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1911/10/11/104878779.pdf |newspaper=The New York Times |location=Philadelphia |date=October 11, 1911 |access-date=2022-08-04}}
He died on November 3, 1920, in Penn Yan, New York.{{cite news |page= 507|title=Brigadier General Ralph Wilson Hoyt |newspaper=Army-Navy-Air Force Register and Defense Times |date=1920 }} He was buried in Lakeview Cemetery in Penn Yan, New York.
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External links
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