Joseph Gibson Hoyt
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1815 – 1862
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Who was Joseph Gibson Hoyt?
Joseph Gibson Hoyt was the first chancellor and a professor of Greek at Washington University in St. Louis from 1858-1862. Born in Dunbarton, New Hampshire in 1815, Hoyt received his undergraduate education at Yale University, where he was a member of Skull and Bones. After Hoyt's graduation from Yale in 1840, he served as an instructor in mathematics and natural philosophy at Phillips Exeter Academy from 1840 to 1858, before taking up his post at Washington University. In 1862, Hoyt died in St. Louis, Missouri at the age of 47.
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- Born
- Jan 19, 1815
Dunbarton - Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Yale University
- Died
- Nov 26, 1862
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on July 23, 2013
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