PVT Henry M Hoyt
BIRTH 24 Oct 1914
New Jersey, USA
DEATH 12 Mar 2012 (aged 97)
Morristown, Morris County, New Jersey, USA
BURIAL
Evergreen Cemetery
Morristown, Morris County, New Jersey, USA
PLOT Section: SG-1 Grave: 2128 Plot: Grave: 1
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Suggested edit: Obituary: HOYT, HENRY M. - passed away on Monday, March 12, 2012, at Morristown Medical Center. Known as Harry, he was born in West Orange, N.J., on Oct. 24, 1914, the son of Henry M. Hoyt and Alice Parker Hoyt. After the death of his father (when he was five years old,), his mother married Harold Robert Shurtleff, who for many years was a devoted stepfather of Mr. Hoyt. Mr. Hoyt attended St. Bernard's School in New York City; Carteret Academy in Orange, N.J., and St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H., from where he graduated in 1932. Mr. Hoyt was a graduate of Harvard College, earning an A.B. in 19th-century history and literature in 1936. He was a 1940 graduate of Yale Law School.
In 1941, he and his wife, nee Helen Iselin Hall, were married in Morristown, N.J. They celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary in September 2011. Their marriage produced six children, 11 grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren and two step-great-grandchildren.
During World War II, Mr. Hoyt served in the U.S. Army in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, from 1943 to 1945. While in the Army, Mr. Hoyt studied Russian, an interest that endured for many years. After the war, Mr. Hoyt returned to New Jersey and practiced law first in Newark, N.J., and later, for more than 35 years, in Morristown, N.J.