Background
His father, also named Henry Martyn Hoyt, served as governor of Pennsylvania from 1879 to 1883. Hoyt was born in Wilkes-Barre and graduated from Yale University in 1878 and the law school of the University of Pennsylvania in 1881.
His father, also named Henry Martyn Hoyt, served as governor of Pennsylvania from 1879 to 1883. Hoyt was born in Wilkes-Barre and graduated from Yale University in 1878 and the law school of the University of Pennsylvania in 1881.
University of Pennsylvania Law School. Yale University.
After a career spent in private practice as a lawyer in Pennsylvania, starting in Pittsburgh and then in banking he became an assistant attorney general in 1897. In 1903, he was appointed Solicitor General by Theodore Roosevelt. After the end of Roosevelt"s term in office he became a counselor to Secretary of State Philander C. Knox.
Hoyt died in 1910.
Family
Hoyt married Anne McMichael in 1883 and had five children, including the poet Elinor Wylie (September 7, 1885 – December 16, 1928). His other four children were:
Henry Martyn Hoyt (May 8, 1887 in Pa - 1920 in New York City) who married Alice Gordon Parker (January 27, 1885 in Newark, New Jersey - 1951)
Constance A. Hoyt (May 20, 1889 in Pa - 1923 in Bavaria, Germany) who married Ferdinand von Stumm-Halberg on March 30, 1910 in Washington, District of Columbia Nancy McMichael Hoyt (October 1, 1902 in Washington, District of Columbia - ?) romance novelist who wrote Elinor Wylie: The Portrait of an Unknown Woman (1935).