George Henry Hoyt

George Henry Hoyt was an abolitionist and attorney for John Brown. During the Civil War, he served as a Union cavalry officer and captain of the Kansas Red Leg scouts, rising to the rank of Brevet Brigadier General by wars end. Following the war, Hoyt served as the sixth Attorney General of Kansas.

George Henry Hoyt was born in Athol, Massachusetts, on November 25, 1837, the only surviving son of Athol physician and abolitionist George Hoyt and his wife Avelina Witt Hoyt. In 1851, the Hoyts removed to Boston where George studied law. Lysander Spooner, abolitionist anarchist and good friend of Dr. Hoyt, deeply influenced young Georges uncompromising approach to abolition, as did radical orator Wendell Phillips.

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