Monroe Allen Hoyt, a prominent attorney, and member of the firm of Beach & Hoyt, Carroll City, was admitted to the bar at Panora in 1867, Judge Maxwell presiding. He opened a law office in Carroll, and soon after engaged in the hardware and farm implement business. In 1881 he resumed his law practice. Mr. Hoyt was born in the town of Maria, Essex County, New York, in 1842, and one year later his father, Samuel Hoyt, removed to Maquoketa, Jackson County, this State, being one of the pioneers of that county. He erected the first business block in Maquoketa. In 1856 the father removed to Daviess County, Missouri, and in 1862 returned to Jackson County and purchased a farm near Bellevue, where he lived until his decease, which occurred in February, 1868. He was a native of Vermont. The parents had twelve children, six sons and six daughters. Two died in infancy, and five sons and five daughters are still living. All are residents of Iowa except one son, Samuel C., who resides in New Mexico. Mr. Hoyt’s early educational advantages were quite limited. He left home at the age of fourteen years, and being very desirous of obtaining an education he improved every opportunity that came in his way, thus fitting himself for the teacher’s profession. He taught his first school in Bates County, Missouri, and later, taught the school at Panora, Guthrie County, Iowa. The winter of 1860-’61 he spent at Granby Mines, and at Timber Hill and Black Dostown, in the Osage nation, trading with the Indians. He then returned to Daviess County, Missouri, and entered the organization of Home Guards under Colonel Craner, which was for some time engaged in pursuit of the rebel Colonel Patton. After this expedition he came back to Bellevue and entered the law office of Booth and Graham, where he remained two and a half years, then went to Stevenson, Alabama, as clerk in the Quartermaster’s department, going thence to Eastport, Mississippi, in the same capacity. He returned just as the war closed, and soon after entered the law office of Colonel Byam at Marion, Iowa, going thence to Panora, where he had charge of the recorder’s office, and where he was admitted to the bar, as before stated. Mr. Hoyt was married at Cedar Falls, Iowa, to Miss Susan A. Bowman, a native of the State of New York, and daughter of John Bowman. Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt have two children—Annie Beryl and Monroe Allen. The oldest child, John T., died when in his twelfth year. Mr. Hoyt cast his first presidential vote for Bell and Everett, and was identified with the Republican party until 1878, since which he has been a Greenbacker. Mr. Hoyt comes from an old and well-known family of the Empire State. Dr. Hiram Hoyt, of Syracuse, and Dr. David Hoyt, of Palmyra, are brothers of his father. He was long one of the prominent business men of Carroll. April 5, 1881, by order of the town council of Carroll, by virtue of an illegal ordinance, his building and stock were moved into the street, but after an extended litigation he recovered his goods and building, and a judgment for costs against the town.

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