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\"18th Pennsylvania Gov\" Henry M. Hoyt Hand Signed 2.5X3.5 Card:
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Up for sale the "18th Pennsylvania Governor" Henry M. Hoyt Hand Signed 2.5X3.5 Card. 

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Henry Martyn Hoyt, Sr. (June

8, 1830 – December 1, 1892) was the 18th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1879 to 1883, as well as an officer in

the Union army during the American Civil War. Henry

M. Hoyt was born in Kingston, Pennsylvania,

the son of Ziba Hoyt (b. September 1788, Connecticut – d. December 1853,

Luzerne County, PA) and Nancy (née Herbert) Hoyt, who had moved to Luzerne County after

the Revolutionary War. Henry M. Hoyt was grandson of Daniel and Ann (Gunn)

Hoyt, and nephew of Levi Hoyt. They were descended from Walter Hoyt

(1616–1698), who was born in West Hatch, Somerset, England and settled in the Connecticut Colony.

He

attended lower education at Wyoming Seminary. He started higher-level classes

at Lafayette College, where

he studied from 1845 until 1848. He transferred to Williams College, graduating in 1849 with Phi Beta Kappa honors, as a member of The Kappa Alpha Society. After

graduating from Williams College, he returned to Pennsylvania, where from 1851

to 1853 he taught Mathematics at Wyoming Seminary. Hoyt first held elected

office as a district attorney. A member of the Whig Party, Hoyt

participated in John Fremont's 1856

presidential campaign. As a soldier in the Civil War, Hoyt was

initially commissioned as Lieutenant Colonel, then as colonel of the 52nd Pennsylvania Infantry.

He led it during the Peninsula Campaign and

subsequent actions of the Army of the Potomac until

January 1863, when the regiment was ordered to Charleston, South Carolina.

He participated in the siege of Morris Island under Brig. Gen. Quincy A. Gillmore. Hoyt led

troops in a rare night attack on Fort Johnson, stealthily arriving in the

darkness via boats. He initially captured the fort, but was unable to hold it

for lack of reinforcements. He and many of his men were captured in a Confederate counterattack. After being confined in a prisoner-of-war camp

in Macon, Georgia, Hoyt was

taken back to Charleston. He escaped briefly before being recaptured. Upon his

eventual exchange, he rejoined his regiment. He served with them until the

close of the war, when he was mustered out with the rank of brevet brigadier general. After the war, Hoyt returned to

his law practice. After briefly serving as a judge, he rose in influence chaired the state Republican party from 1875 to 1876. In 1878, he won the

governor's seat, the third consecutive Civil War general to hold the office.

During his term, the debt of the state was reduced to $10,000,000, and refunded

at the rate of three per cent. Hoyt wrote two books: Controversy

between Connecticut and Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, 1879), about their

competing colonial claims settled after the Revolutionary War; and Protection

vs. Free Trade (New York, 1885). 

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