Albert Harrison Hoyt

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Albert Harrison Hoyt (1826-1915) was an American editor and author, born in Sandwich, New Hampshire He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1850, studied and practiced law in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, was a paymaster in the army during the Civil War and rose to be lieutenant-colonel, and after the peace was editor of the New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1868-76) and of Memorial Biographies, volume iv (1885). His other works include:

  • Necrology of the New England Colleges (1869-70)
  • Captain Francis Goelet's Visit to Boston, etc., in 1745-50 (1870)
  • Letters of Sir William Pepperell, Bart. (1874)
  • The Name Columbia (1886)