George Hall Hoyt
George Hall Hoyt was born on 20 June 1868 at Castleton, in Rutland County, Vermont. He was the son of Albert Moore Hoyt, a Castleton farmer, and Frances Delia Hall, called Fanny, who was born at Vergennes, Vermont, and whose maiden name he carried as his middle name. He had two older sisters, Mary Wood Hoyt and Ida Clarke Hoyt, and two younger brothers, Edward Albert Hoyt and John Hall Hoyt. The family was in Castleton in 1870.
His death certificate says he had lived fifty years in New York City, which puts his arrival there about 1888, when he was twenty. By the time his father died at Castleton in March 1899, all five children were living in New York. The same certificate counts forty years in the leather business, which puts his start about 1896.
He married Elizabeth Barlow, called Lizzie, the daughter of Charles Barlow of the credit agency Dun, Barlow & Co. She had married first, in 1889, a chemist named Arthur McGeorge. New York City's marriage record dates her marriage to George to 15 May 1897 in Manhattan, under the name Lizzie Barlow Mc... Their son Reynold Barlow Hoyt was born in New York City in April 1893 or 1894, before that date. Why the son came first is not known. The 1910 census finds George H. and Elizabeth Hoyt in Manhattan with Reynold, and so does the New York state census of 1915. Elizabeth died suddenly on 14 June 1919 at their apartment, 1 West 81st Street, on the Upper West Side, and was buried in her parents' lot at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.
His business was the Louis W. Hraba firm at 29 East 19th Street, makers of fine leather goods: pocketbooks and billfolds, card and cigar cases, jewel cases and travelling bags, many of them sold through jewelers. Louis W. Hraba had come from Vienna and founded the business. George was first his partner. In January 1915 the partnership was dissolved and the business became Louis W. Hraba Co., Inc., with George H. Hoyt as president, Felix V. Hraba as secretary, and George's brother Edward A. Hoyt among the stockholders. George ran it for more than twenty years. In 1925 he sat at the firm's table at the Jewelers' 24 Karat Club banquet with his son Reynold, who was the firm's vice-president by 1930. When Louis Hraba died in 1935, the trade press named George H. Hoyt as the head of the firm.
He last worked in October 1936. He spent his last years at 103 East 75th Street, in an apartment house where his doctor, Frederick R. Bailey, also lived. He had suffered from hardening of the arteries for about five years. He died there of bronchopneumonia at ten past one in the morning on 11 October 1938, aged seventy. His son gave the details for the death certificate, which names him a widower, the husband of Elizabeth Barlow Hoyt. He was buried at Castleton on 13 October, in the family plot in Hillside Cemetery, section 7, under a rough granite block cut with the name HOYT.
His will was filed for probate in New York County that month. The Pelham Sun reported on 28 October that his son Reynold, of Pelham Manor, "is bequeathed his father's holdings in the firm of L. W. Habra Co., leather merchants, of which the late Mr. Hoyt was president." His sisters, "Miss Mary W. Hoyt and Miss Ida C. Hoyt of New York City," were left the income of the rest of the estate for their lives, and after their deaths it went to Reynold. Ida died the next year, and Mary in 1947.
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