Biography

12/23/1864 - 09/20/1909

HOY, John Alva Frank, a Representative from Clarion County; born, December 23, 1864 in New Bethlehem, Clarion County, Pa.; employed, saw mills; employed, flour mills; lawyer; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1896; reelected to the House in 1898, 1900 and 1902; appointed, Committee on Petroleum and Committee on Floriculture and Horticulture, Pennsylvania World’s Fair Commission (1904); unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1904); died, September 20, 1909 in Clarion, Clarion County, Pennsylvania; interred, Clarion Cemetery, Clarion, Clarion County, Pennsylvania.