About Ralph Wilson Hoyt
Lived 1849 – 1920 (aged 71). Ralph Wilson Hoyt was an American military officer.
Brigadier General Ralph Wilson Hoyt (October 8, 1849 - November 3, 1920) was commander of the Department of the Lakes.
Biography He was born on October 8, 1849, in Milo, New York, to Benjamin Levi Hoyt and Celestia Ursula Mariner. He was admitted to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1868, and he graduated in 1872.
On October 10, 1911, he married Cora McKeever Harbold (1879–1946), a nurse, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He died on November 3, 1920, in Penn Yan, New York. He was buried in Lakeview Cemetery in Penn Yan, New York.
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United States military major general
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Ralph Wilson Hoyt was born on 8 October 1849 in Milo.
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Ralph Wilson Hoyt died on 3 November 1920 in Penn Yan.
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