Background
He was born the oldest son of Mary Ella Beebee Hoyt and Doctor James Hoyt, a Baptist minister, lawyer, businessman and author One of his brothers, Colgate, was in business with his father and another, Elton, practiced law.
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He was born the oldest son of Mary Ella Beebee Hoyt and Doctor James Hoyt, a Baptist minister, lawyer, businessman and author One of his brothers, Colgate, was in business with his father and another, Elton, practiced law.
Brother of James Humphrey H. Bachelor of Arts, Brown University, 1860, Master of Arts, 1863. Graduate Rochester Theological Seminary, 1863.
(Doctor of Divinity, University of Rochester, 1877. Doctor of Laws, Ursinus College, 1901).
Born on February 18, 1838 in Cleveland, Ohio. Wayland was one of six children. He was ordained in Pittsfield, Massachusetts at a Baptist church.
The following year he became pastor of the Ninth Street Baptist Church in Cincinnati, Ohio.
In 1867 he moved to Brooklyn where he became minister of the Strong Place Baptist Church. The church, described as a "large and influential church", was where Hoyt "began the development of his powers as a profound thinker, a scholarly writer, and an able preacher." Hoyt left the Strong Place church and was briefly the minister at the Tabernacle Baptist Church in New York and then the Shawmut Baptist Church in Boston.
He then returned to Strong Place in Brooklyn. In July, 1882, he succeeded Doctor Henson at Memorial, Philadelphia.
Seven years later, in December, 1889, he moved to Minneapolis.
He thereafter returned to Philadelphia to accept a call to Epiphany. Hoyt developed a widespread reputation as a preacher. Hoyt was one of the managers of the American Baptist Publication Society and served on the Missionary, Publication and Bible Committees.
He was a manager on the American Baptist Missionary Union in Hoyt delivered addresses to young ministers and the Ministers" Union of the Among the causes to which he dedicated himself were the education of freed slaves and their descendants, following the Civil War.
The expanding of missions to Native Americans and to Mexico, and the prohibition of liquor. He died at Salem, Massachusetts.
Married Maud Fairfax Mansfield, 1864.