Born on a farm in Luzerne County, Henry Hoyt (1830-1892) taught school at the Towanda Academy and as a professor of mathematics at Wyoming Seminary before becoming a lawyer in 1853. Under Hoyt's governorship, the state legislature revoked the charters of "diploma mill" medical schools, established a new reformatory to teach young male offenders a trade, and banned school segregation. Some urban school districts, however, would ignore the ban for generations to come.
