A prolific writer, his work included major expositions of the books of Romans, Hebrews, and Revelation, along with Brethren ordinances and beliefs and eschatology.
Herman Arthur Hoyt was born on March 12, 1909, to Clarence Lyman Hoyt and Anna Leola Dorsey in Greenfield, Iowa, USA; he is the first child, and the eldest son in the family of ten children.
[2] Hoyt received Christ due to the godly influence of his mother and Brethren Church pastors at Dallas Center, Iowa.
On August 30, 1930, Herman married his childhood sweetheart, Harriet Lucile Fitz.
He is survived by his two sons, Joseph Paul of Walworth, WI, and Edwin Max of Pequea, PA; three grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; four brothers, Garner E. and Lowell, each of Dayton, TN, Solon W. of Winona Lake, IN, Eldon D. of Indianapolis, IN; and a sister, Thelma Gehman of Winona Lake, IN.