Otis Hoyt papers, 1792-1921

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Hoyt, Otis, 1810-1885

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Papers of Dr. Otis Hoyt of Hudson, Wis., consisting of routine military correspondence, quartermasters' accounts, and other records connected with Hoyt's positions as surgeon with the 1st Massachus...

Papers of Dr. Otis Hoyt of Hudson, Wis., consisting of routine military correspondence, quartermasters' accounts, and other records connected with Hoyt's positions as surgeon with the 1st Massachusetts Infantry in charge of hospitals at Jalapa, Mexico, in 1847 and 1848, and as surgeon at Camp Randall (Madison, Wis.) and in Kentucky in the Civil War. There are letters dealing with the affairs of the Hollis Evangelical Church at Framingham, Massachusetts in 1844; miscellaneous data concerning the St. Croix and Lake Superior Railroad and the La Crosse and Milwaukee Railroad companies, 1854-1857; the docket of Hoyt while justice of the peace in St. Croix County, Wis., in 1851; account books, 1869-1874 and 1880-1885, used by Hoyt, St. Croix Valley's most prominent surgeon at that time; a household account book kept by Mrs. Hoyt; and a few papers of Hoyt's son, Charles O., and his son-in-law, Dr. Charles F. King, both of Hudson. Also included are genealogical notes on members of the Hoyt and Epley families; reminiscences about the Hoyt family and Hudson, Wis.; diaries of Dr. Frank W. Epley describing his work as a music store clerk in Fond du Lac, Wis., and a drugstore clerk at Menominee, Mich. and Hudson, Wis.; and letters concerning an 1899 tornado which destroyed New Richmond, Wis.

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