Career
He was appointed to the position when Bossier City was declared a village by Governor Newton Blanchard. The parents died three days apart. Each had expressed a wish not to outlive the other.
They are interred in a single grave at New Douglas Cemetery in New Douglas in Madison County, Illinois.
Foreign many years, Hoyer resided at a historic home at 902 Robinson Place in the Highland neighborhood of Shreveport. The Bliss-Hoyer House, was constructed by the planter Abel Bliss but sold to Hoyer.
Hugo Hoyer, a grocer, came to Shreveport in 1896 from Saint Louis, Missouri. He served after 1900 on the Shreveport City Council and helped to plan the old city hall, long since demolished.
Hoyer was succeeded as mayor in 1910 by M. B. Woodward, who was elected and served thereafter for nine years.
