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He has been, for four years, a captain of militia; nine years, postmaster at East Clarkson; one year, a school-commissioner; two years, an overseer of the poor; and nine years, a justice of the peace, in Clarkson.
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II. Charlotte Hoyt, b. in Wilton, Conn., 30 Nov. 1803; married, 15 Sept. 1822, at Rochester, N. Y., by Rev. Elisha House, Methodist Episcopal, to Daniel Johns Cobb, who was born in Canaan, Conn., 18 Oct. 1795, son of Elijah William and Sally (Whitney) Cobb, of Canaan, afterward of Lenox, Mass.1 He learned the blacksmith's trade, and after his marriage studied medicine, and became a successful physician of the "botanical school." The Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, O., gave him the honorary degree of M. D. He was also a proficient in the study of vocal music. They dwelt in Castile, Mount Morris, Geneseo, Rochester, and other places in Western New York; and about 1849, moved to White Plains, N. Y., and thence, in Aug. 1851, to Dansville, Mich., where he died, 13 Nov. 1857, aged 62 years, and was buried in Dansville Cemetery. She was married (2d), 14 Ap. 1859, at Dansville, by Rev. Mr. Warner, Protestant Methodist, to Robert Young, of Dansville, who died, 14 Jan. 1872, aged 70 years. She died in Dansville, 16 July 1871, and was buried beside her first husband, her gravestone bearing his name. She had been, for many years, a devoted and consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
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III. Mary Esther Hoyt, b. in Wilton, Conn., 13 May 1805; died unmarried, 13 June 1824, in Henrietta, N. Y., and was buried there.
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IV. Lockwood Hoyt, b. in Wilton, Conn., 14 June 1807; a teacher; was grad. at Union College, 1830; after teaching for three years in Cazenovia Seminary, was elected professor of ancient languages in the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, at Lima, N. Y., and, for twenty-eight years, taught in connection with that seminary and Genesee College, in the same place. Then, after resting a year on account of impaired health, he had charge of the Union and Classical Institute, at Phelps, N. Y., for one year; and, after another year, returned to Lima, and commenced business. He soon removed to Schenectady, N. Y., where he had married, 15 Oct. 1832, at the house of her parents, Amanda Adelaide Selleck, who was born in Saratoga, N. Y., 13 May 1811, dau. of James and Mary Reed (Burnham) Selleck. She died, 10 Nov. 1852, at Lima, N. Y., and was buried there. He married (2d), 16 Oct. 1853, at her father's house in Schenectady, Adeline Eliza Clark, who was born in Schenectady, 29 July 1818, dau. of Edward and Hannah (Morrison) Clark. They were living on the homestead of her father, at Schenectady, in Oct. 1874, he having retired from his profession.
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1 Elijah William Cobb, b. about 1765, married in Salisbury, Conn., 17 Feb. 1786, Sally Whitney, who was born about 1770. He died at Berkshire, N. Y., in May 1816, aged 51 years; and she, in June 1825. They were buried in the Old Cemetery near John Brown's. She was a descendant of John and Elinor Whitney, of Watertown, Mass.
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