to the industrious and persevering manner with which Mr. Hoyman has adhered to the pursuit of agriculture and stock-raising that he has risen to such a substantial position in farm affairs in this county. Born in Holmes County, Ohio, in 1856, he is the son of George and Harriet (Korns) Hoyman, and grandson of John and Elizabeth (Hay) Hoyman, both of whom were natives of the Keystone State. The grandfather was born in 1808, and is still living, as a retired farmer, in Linn County, Iowa. He was the father of the following children: George, Margaret, Caroline, William, Mary A., Harriet, Jacob, Henry and Eliza. Those now deceased are George, William and Jacob. George Hoyman, father of subject, was a native of Pennsylvania. When but a young man he started for Iowa, intending to locate, but died before reaching his destination. The mother afterward, or in about 1859, married again, to James Claney, and by him became the mother of five children: Ella, Frank, Orpha, Daniel and John, all of whom were born in Ohio, but who later came with the mother to Cedar County, Iowa, where the latter died in 1868. George W. Hoyman was reared by his grandparents, who located in Cedar County about 1870, and in 1880 he came to Story County, where he purchased the southwest quarter of Section 16, on which he has since resided. He was married, in 1883, to Miss Flora A. White, daughter of Warren T. and Sarah White, who were born in Pennsylvania and Connecticut, respectively, and three children have blessed this union: Gertrude M., Mildred and Ada. Politically Mr. Hoyman has at all times supported the Republican party, and is one of the representative men of the county.
Leigh S. J. Hunt, of Seattle, Wash., was born in Whitley County, Ind., August 11, 1855. He was elected president of the Iowa Agricultural College in the early part of 1885, being then less than thirty years of age, and probably younger than any man previously chosen to the chief executive chair of a great college. He had been engaged in pedagogic work in Mt. Pleasant, Cedar Falls and East Des Moines, being at that time superintendent of the schools in the latter city. He had also done very acceptable work in Normal or Teachers' Institutes, had lectured on kindred subjects, and had originated a system of savings banking for school children which had given him wide and favorable advertisement. His energy, administrative ability, tact, pleasant address and previous success in educational work pointed to him as one who might be expected to reconcile some factional jealousies in the board and faculty. There is reason to believe that had he remained he would have more than fulfilled every reasonable expectation. He took hold of the reins with the hand of a master and established order and discipline, but just as the young men and women of the State began to look hopefully toward the college, ill health caused him to tender his resignation in his second year. The cares incident to the presidency of the college, and the labor involved in setting its interests properly before the public, had been a heavy drain upon Mr. Hunt's highly nervous organization, and he sought milder climatic environment on the Pacific coast. He looked favorably on the phenomenal city of Seattle, and cast his lot there. His energy and public spirit were rewarded with a remarkable success. His palatial home on his estate near the city, and his transactions in real and personal property, proclaim him a millionaire. With his cultivated tastes and generous disposition he may be trusted to enjoy his wealth secure from the envy of those less fortunate. Mr. Hunt's value in educational work was more the result of in-