Surgeon 1st Mass Inf.
Mexican War.

Otis Hoyt, 1814-1885
Otis Hoyt, M. D., one of the oldest and best known citizens of St. Croix county, Wisconsin, was born in Sandwich, New Hampshire, December 3d, 1810.
Was the son of George and Mary Hoyt. Both grandfathers, Hoyt by name, served in the revolutionary war. His father was a farmer by occupation. During his early life Otis assisted his father on the farm.
At the age of fourteen he entered the academy at Fryburg, Maine, where he prepared for college. In 1829 he entered Dartmouth College, and graduated in 1833; then studied medicine for a time with Prof. Massey. Afterwards completed his course at Philadelphia, and graduated from Jefferson Medical College in 1836. After two years practice in Mason, N. H., he removed to Farmington, Massachusetts, and practiced until 1846, at which time he entered the Mexican war as surgeon in the regular army, and remained until its close.
In April, 1849, he visited Hudson, but there being no houses to live in, he went to St. Croix Falls, and spending one year, returned to Hudson, where he has resided since. At that time there were more half-breeds than whites, more log cabins than frame houses. The only white men with families were P. Aldrich, Ammah Andrews, Moses Perrin, W. R. Anderson, John A. Henning and Joseph Tyler. In 1851 Dr. Hoyt was elected to the legislature. House room being so scarce in Hudson he removed his family to Stillwater during his absence. When the doctor opened his office in Hudson in 1850, there was no other physician in the state within 150 miles. The nearest one being at Fort Snelling, Minnesota. He often went from fifty to seventy-five miles to attend a patient. Sometimes be traveled on mule-back, sometimes on foot. He was no respecter of person, but obliged every call, whether in an Indian wigwam, or a white man's cabin. He has always had a good reputation as a physician and surgeon.
In 1862 Dr. Hoyt went into the army as surgeon of the Thirtieth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, but was on detached service most of the time. For a time he had charge of the hospital at Camp Randall, Madison. He was examining surgeon of 11,000 recruits. He was medical director at Bowling Green and Louisville, Kentucky. He was known as one of the most successful surgeons in the state.
Dr. Hoyt was twice married, his wives being sisters, Misses Mary R. and Eliza B. King, of Ipswich, New Hampshire. By the first he had two children, a son and daughter. By the second wife seven children, two sons and five daughters.
Excerpts from The History of the Saint Croix Valley, by Augustus B Easton∼Otis Hoyt is the son of George and Mary Hoyt.

Major Otis Hoyt was Regimental Surgeon during the Mexican American War serving in the 1st Massachusetts Infantry. Father and son, Lt. Charles Hoyt of the Civil War, are buried here side by side on the west edge of Old Willow River Cemetery.

Otis was married twice. His first marriage was to Mary King in 1838 and she died in 1843.

Otis' married a second time to Eliza B. King in Aug. of 1844.