History of Mendocino County, California : comprising its geography, geology, topography, climatography, springs and timber . e portrait will be found in this work, was born in Bakers-field, Franklin county, Vermont, May 11, 1813, and is the oldest son of Guyand Hannah Tyler Hoyt. He resided at his birthplace until he reached hismajority, receiving the education which was afforded by the common schoolsof the day. In 1834 he went to Lanesborough, Berkshire county, Massa-chusetts, and worked at farming for about two and a half years, at the endof which time he returned to Vermont and sojourned th
History of Mendocino County, California : comprising its geography, geology, topography, climatography, springs and timber . e portrait will be found in this work, was born in Bakers-field, Franklin county, Vermont, May 11, 1813, and is the oldest son of Guyand Hannah Tyler Hoyt. He resided at his birthplace until he reached hismajority, receiving the education which was afforded by the common schoolsof the day. In 1834 he went to Lanesborough, Berkshire county, Massa-chusetts, and worked at farming for about two and a half years, at the endof which time he returned to Vermont and sojourned there for the next eigh-teen months. This brings him up to 1838, when he went to New York Cityand embarked in the dairying business, where he remained till 1849. Hethen went to Hudson county. New Jersey, where he continued in the sameoccupation till 1853 ; March 19th of that year he sailed for California fromNew York City, on board the steamship Prometheus, bound for Nicaragua-He came up on the Pacific to San Francisco, arriving on the 21st of settled in San Francisco, and engaged in the -milk business, which he. AEENA TOWNSHIP. 519 continued till 1859. In December of thatyeai-he came to Mendocino countyand settled on his present place in Arena township, where he has since beenengaged in farming, stock-raising and dairying. His farm consists of threehundred acres of land. In 1872 he paid a visit to the Western States ofthree months duration. July 10, 1850, Mr. Hoyt was united in marriagewith Miss Sarah M. Van Winkle, a native of Geneva, New York, who wasborn January 31, 1831, and from this union one child, Charlotte Isabel, nowMrs. Scott, was born April 6, 1851, in New York City. J. C. Holliday. Was born in the Province of Nova Scotia, Feb-ruary 1, 1854, and resided at his birthplace till he was fifteen years old,when he began an apprenticeship to the blacksmith trade and served threeyears. In 1873 he emigrated to and settled in Providence, Rhode Island,and for one year
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