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HOYME, GJERMUND (Oct. 8, i847-June 9,
1902), Lutheran clergyman, was born in Vestre
Slidre, Valdres, Hatnar, Norway, the son of
Gjermund Guldbrandsen and Sigrid Christopher-
sen (Ridste) Hoyme. In 1851 his parents set-
tled in Port Washington, Wis., and in 1855
moved to Springfield township, near Decorah,
Iowa. The following year his father died. Early
inured to hardship, Hoyme matured very rapidly.
After a bitter spiritual struggle in which he
eventually found peace for his soul, in 1869 at
the opening session he enrolled in the Theologi-
cal School established in Marshall, Wis. That
winter the school was in danger of collapse due
to the abject despondency of its principal, but
Hoyme rallied to his principal's support, and is
credited with saving the institution (see J. M.
Rohne, Norwegian American Lutheranism up to
1872,1926, p. 193). Urged by Prof. A. Weenaas
and others, Hoyme attended the University of
Wisconsin in 1871-72 as a sub-freshman, and
then continued his theological studies at Augs-
burg Seminary, Minneapolis, the continuation
of the Marshall school. Called to Duluth, Minn.,
he was ordained on June 15, 1873, but the con-
gregation broke up within the year and in 1874
he accepted a call to Menomonie, Wis. This
same year he married Mrs. Ida Othelia Larsen,
nee Olsen, whose two children received his fa-
therly affection. In 1876 he became pastor at
Eau Claire, Wis., where he served until his
death.

Having been tested and approved, Hoyme now
rose rapidly. He served the Norwegian-Danish
Conference in various capacities until that body
became a party to the church union by which the
United Norwegian Lutheran Church of America
was established in 1890. Hoyme was elected the
first president of the new body, and for twelve
years he guided its destinies with a firmness,
clear-sightedness, and sincerity that put to shame
all opposition and moulded the loosely knit ele-
ments into a strong and compact body. At his
death he ?vas mourned as the greatest president
who up to that time had served the Norwegian
Lutherans in America. In spite of his many
duties, he found time to cultivate his interest in
music and literature. In 1878 he and the Rev.
L. Lund issued a book of sacred songs, Harpen
("The Harp"), of which 20,000 copies were
sold in a short time. In 1893 he published a
brochure, Sdoonen ("The Saloon*'), of which
15,000 copies were sold in a few weeks. His

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greatest spiritual and literary strength lay, how-
ever, in his sermons, which were characterized
by beauty of diction and homely, earnest elo-
quence. After Hoyme's death selections from his
sermons and official papers were issued in 1904,
by Dr. E. Kr. Johnson under the titles, G. Hoyme,
Prest og Formand ("G. Hoyme, Preacher and
President") and / Hvttestunder ("In Moments
of Rest"). As a pastor, Hoyme had few equals
among the Norwegians; he could minister to
people in all walks of life; and in attestation of
his great powers as a pastor and of his striking
personality is the fact that at Eau Claire, Wis.,
he built up the largest Norwegian Lutheran con-
gregation in the United States* As a churchman
he labored unceasingly to unite all the Norwegian
Lutheran synods. To that end he made many ad-
dresses, chief among which was his "Address on
Peace" delivered at a conference in Willmar,
Minn., in 1888. Echoes of these addresses rang
through the Church until on June 9, 1917, the
fifteenth anniversary of Hoyme's death, the
synods united and formed the Norwegian Lu-
theran Church of America.

[N. C. Bruun, Fra Ungdomsaar (Minneapolis, 1915) ;
Rasmus Malmin, O. M. Norlie, and O. A. Tingelstad,
Who's Who Among Pastors in All the Norwegian
Lutheran Synods of America^ 1843-192? (1928), being
a translation and revision of O. M. Norlie, Norsk
Lutherske Prester i Amerika (1914) ; J. C. Jensson, in
Am. Lutheran Biogs. (1890) ; O. N. Nelson, in Hist, of
the Scandinavians and Successful Scandinavians in the
U. S. {2 vols., 1897) ; Milwaukee Sentinel, June 10,

HOYT, ALBERT HARRISON (Dec. 6,
i826-June 10, 1915), antiquarian, was born in
Sandwich, N. H. He was the fifth child and
fourth son of the Rev. Benjamin Ray and Lu-
cinda (Freeman) Hoyt His father, a man of
unusual vitality, was a Methodist preacher and
one of the founders of Wesleyan University,
Middletown, Conn. Albert studied at the New-
bury Seminary, Vermont, and graduated from
Wesleyan in 1850. Between that year and
the outbreak of the Civil War he studied law
at Portsmouth, N. H., was admitted to the
New Hampshire bar, and held various local
offices: school commissioner for Rockingham
County, 1852-53 ; clerk of the courts for the same
county, 1853-56; pension agent at Portsmouth;
and from 1857 to 1859, city solicitor of Ports-
mouth. In 1862 he was appointed paymaster in
the United States Army and served in that ca-
pacity until discharged in the summer of 1866,
He ranked as major until November 1865, at
which time he was brevetted lieutenant-colonel
and placed in charge of the final disbursements
to discharged New England regiments. His sym-
pathy for the soldiers and his untiring efforts in

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