PHILO R. HOY, physician and surgeon; was born in Mansfield, Richland Co., Ohio, and is one of the oldest of the white male children born in that county; he is a graduate of the Ohio Medical College, of Cincinnati, and has been engaged in practice since 1839; he came to Racine in September, 1846, and built the first good house on Main Street; there were 2,200 inhabitants, transients and all, when he came.  No one has taken a more active interest in the advancement of science than has Dr. HOY; he is an honorary member of the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences, and has been President of the Wisconsin Academy of Arts and Sciences; he has been Fish Commissioner since the establishment of the Board, in 1874; is a member of the Geological Board of Survey, of the Board of Health, of the American Medical Association, the State Medical Association, and also of the Chicago Academy of Sciences.  He has been active in all local improvements, and was selected by the Council in laying out the cemetery.  He married, at Ripley, Huron Co., Ohio, Oct. 26, 1842, Mary Elizabeth AUSTIN, who was a native of Hampshire, Mass.; she died Jan. 10, 1872; there were three children - Albert Harris, Jennie L. and Philo R.

Carol Holmbeck