BIO: A. V. HOYT, Centre County, Pennsylvania

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Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania: Including the 
Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion: Containing Biographical 
Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, Etc. 
Chicago: J. H. Beers, 1898.
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COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD, pages 94-95

A. V. HOYT, of Philipsburg, Centre county, is an expert civil and mining 
engineer, and his success demonstrates the wisdom of choosing an occupation that 
is in line with one's inclinations. He is of a studious turn of mind, and aside 
from his scientific work has read extensively of the best literature. His 
family, which is of English origin, has been identified with Clearfield County 
for many years, his paternal grandfather, with several brothers and sisters, 
having come from Vermont to Pennsylvania in 1819.

COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 95

  Mr. Hoyt was born at Clearfield, Penn., January 30, 1851, and his early years 
were spent at the old home in Clearfield County. At the age of thirteen he 
accompanied his parents to Osceola and there took advantage of the public 
schools, preparing for a collegiate course. His bent toward engineering 
manifested itself with unusual clearness, and in 1865 he began to study in that 
line. Later he attended St. Francis College, at Loretto, Penn., for two years, 
and then began practical work in his chosen profession, assisting in railroad 
surveys. After a time he opened an office in Philipsburg, but in 1875 he went 
west to engage in professional work in California and Nevada. During his stay of 
five years on the Pacific coast, for fifteen months he edited the Independent, a 
weekly newspaper at Cherry Creek, Nev. The price - $10.00 per year or twenty-
five cents per copy - would indicate to an Eastern journalist that he had struck 
a bonanza; but in that land of inflated prices he was able merely to hold his 
own, and finally sold the paper and went out of the business. Returning to 
Philipsburg, he resumed his regular work, and has since continued it with signal 
success. Mr. Hoyt is married and has five children, four girls and one boy: 
Edwin F., Mary, Juanita, Josephine and Jenevieve. Mr. Hoyt is recognized as a 
progressive and scholarly man, being secretary of the Philipsburg Board of 
Trade. In. political faith he is a Republican, and is recognized as one of the 
active workers of his party. Mr. Hoyt's one brother is in the Government employ 
under the civil service law, as an architect, and at present writing is U. S. 
superintendent of construction at Little Rock, Arkansas.