This is a transcription of the Jane Elizabeth Hoyt, M.D. biography from New Hampshire Women: A Collection of Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Daughters and Residents of the Granite State, Who are Worthy Representatives of their Sex in the Various Walks and Conditions of Life, The New Hampshire Publishing Co., Concord, NH, 1895, page 161.

Jane Elizabeth Hoyt, M.D.

THE first thoroughly equipped woman physician, “native and to the manner born,” to establish a permanent location in practice in New Hampshire’s capital city, is Jane Elizabeth Hoyt, daughter of Sewell and Elizabeth (Nichols) Hoyt. Few physicians, even of the male sex, have commenced their professional work with so complete preparation, or attained such high measure of success in a corresponding period of time, as has characterized the opening of Dr. Hoyt’s career. After attending the Concord public schools and passing four years at Wellesley, she completed the full four years’ course at the Woman’s Medical College of the New York Infirmary, a course, it may be stated, so exacting in its requirements that of eighteen students entering with her but five were graduated. Dr. Emily Blackwell is dean of the faculty of the institution, and the noted Mary Putnam-Jacobi one of the members. During the last year of her course she enjoyed the special advantage of being second assistant in the New York Infant Asylum. Graduating in 1890, she spent the following summer abroad, visiting the noted hospitals of Great Britain. On her return she became house physician at Laselle Seminary, Auburndale, Mass., and at the same time had the advantage of daily clinical instruction at the hands of Harvard professors at the Boston dispensary. After a year’s experience here, she was for another year interne at the New England Hospital for Women and Children. Following this, she spent a year in continental Europe, with close study of practice in the best hospitals of Paris, Vienna, and Italy, enjoying the instruction of the best living physicians and surgeons. With such equipment as this, she commenced practice in June, 1893, in the fine old home on State street where she was born, and, as might naturally be expected, has won success and established a reputation far superior to that of most older practitioners. Although in full general practice, Dr. Hoyt naturally gives special attention to the diseases of women and children.