Reynold Barlow Hoyt
Reynold Barlow Hoyt was born on 15 April 1894 in New York City, by his World War II draft card. His Social Security record gives the same day in 1893. He was the son of George Hall Hoyt, a leather merchant, and Elizabeth Barlow, whose maiden name became his middle name. The 1910 census finds him with his parents in Manhattan, and the New York state census of 1915 finds him there again. His mother died on 14 June 1919. Her estate came to $103,112, most of it in mortgages, stocks and bonds, and $43,700 of it went to him.
On 8 May 1917, a month after the United States entered the First World War, he enlisted in the New York National Guard, by the Guard's own records. By 1918 he was a private in the National Naval Volunteers, Marine Corps Branch, the Marine section of the state naval militia. An act of Congress of 1 July 1918 moved its members that day into Class 2 of the Marine Corps Reserve, in the rank they held. A Marine Corps order of 1918 lists "Reynold Barlow Hoyt" among the privates transferred. Veterans Administration records carry his service to 7 May 1920. His grandson Bob later called him "a trench Marine in World War I." The order bears out the Marine service; whether he served overseas in the trenches is not shown.
He married Elizabeth Terriberry, a New York girl and a 1916 graduate of Barnard College, on 18 November 1920. The New York Times reported the wedding the next day, calling him the son of George Hall Hoyt "and the late Mrs. Hoyt of 393 West End Avenue", and the bride the daughter of Dr. Joseph Frederick Terriberry. Their daughter Betty was born in Massachusetts about 1921, and a Massachusetts vital record names Reynold Barlow Hoyt as her father and Elizabeth Terriberry as her mother. Their son Robert Barlow Hoyt, called Barlow, was born in New York on 10 August 1923.
About 1925 the family settled at Pelham Manor, a village in southern Westchester County on Long Island Sound. "Mr. and Mrs. Reynold Hoyt" turn up among dinner guests in the Pelham Sun by November 1927. They lived on Bonmar Road, which the paper also printed as Bon Mar Road, and in 1940 they were in the same house they had held in 1935.
His father died on 11 October 1938 in Manhattan. The Pelham Sun reported the will on 28 October: "Reynold Barlow Hoyt of Bon Mar Road, Pelham Manor, is one of the principal heirs in the estate of his father George Hall Hoyt, of New York City who died on October 11. In the will which was filed for probate in New York County this week, the Pelham Manor man is bequeathed his father's holdings in the firm of L. W. Habra Co., leather merchants, of which the late Mr. Hoyt was president. Two sisters, Miss Mary W. Hoyt and Miss Ida C. Hoyt of New York City are made beneficiaries for life of the income of the residuary estate and after their deaths the remainder will go to their brother." The two Misses Hoyt were his aunts. The firm was the Louis W. Hraba Co., Inc., dealers in leather goods at 29 East 19th Street; in 1925 his father was its president and Reynold its vice-president. That November he served as a captain in the Pelham community chest canvass, the town's single yearly fund drive for its charities.
The 1940 census shows the household at Pelham Manor. Reynold was forty-six. With him were Elizabeth, forty-four, Betty, eighteen, Barlow, sixteen, and a live-in servant, Mirande Goshe, fifty-six, born in Alabama. On 27 April 1942 he registered for the draft at Pelham, in the registration held that spring for men too old for ordinary service. In January 1943 Betty married Lt. Kenneth McGovern of the U.S. Army in St. Andrew's Chapel at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis. The 1950 census again finds Reynold B. Hoyt at Pelham Manor with his wife, Elizabeth T. Hoyt.
He died on 14 January 1953. Where he died and where he was buried are not known; his widow was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx in 1968. By April 1954 she had left Bonmar Road for the Fairways Apartments in Pelham. His grandson Bob was five when he died. Bob said that after the death the old partners in the business "outfoxed" Reynold's son and took the company away, and the family moved to Pleasantville, New York.
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Cite: Heirology, "Reynold Barlow Hoyt (1894-1953)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/reynold-barlow-hoyt-1894-1953-bc516d.