May P. Hoyt

May P. Hoyt
Short Name: May P. Hoyt
Full Name: Hoyt, May P.
Birth Year: 1849
Death Year: 1923

May (Mary) Pierpont Hoyt, born 1849 in South Avon, N.Y., daughter of Uriah Grandison Hoyt and Emma G. Pierpont. Her mother died in 1856 when she was 7 years old. She attended Oread Collegiate Institute in Worcester, Mass., a school for women, from 1862-1863. She then returned to Rochester, N.Y. and attended Livingston Park Seminary, another school for women. She graduated from Livingston and taught there for two years, and then taught for two years in the public schools. She later moved to Albany, living with a friend for twenty years until the friend remarried. she then lived at the Albany Hospital. She claims to have written two hymns appearing in "Church Hymnary" (edited by Edwin A. Bedell, published in 1900 by Maynard, Merrill & Co.) Nos. 736 and 985. #736 is "Here at Thy table, Lord" and #985 is "Though life be long and life be sad." She died in November 11, 1923 in Albany and was buried at Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, N.Y.

Dianne Shapiro, from History of the Oread Collegiate Institute, Worcester, Mass. (1849-1881): with biographical sketches" by Martha Burt Wright and Anne M. Bancroft (New Haven, Conn.: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1905; Ancestry.com record for Uriah Grandison Hoyt, 1824-1901; and Find A Grave Memorial website (both accessed 3/19/2021)

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Hoyt, May Pierpont (late 19th century?). Disciple (?). Nothing is known of this writer except what can be inferred from the appearance of one hymn credited to this name, "Here at thy table, Lord, This sacred hour," a communion hymn written in the meter of, and printed with the tune of, "Break thou the bread of life," and apparently intended to supplant Lathbury's 1877 Bible hymn often used as if it were referring to the bread of the Lord's Supper. "Here at thy table" has been reported as early as 1889, and it has appeared quite generally in Disciple books since as early as 1905, but seldom in books of other denominations. --George Brandon, DNAH Archives


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