William Edwin Hoy

William Edwin Hoy (June 4, 1858 – March 3, 1927) was a Protestant missionary and educator in Japan and China.

William Edwin Hoy was born near Mifflinburg, Pennsylvania and graduated Franklin and Marshall College in 1882.

Suffering from asthma, and with many responsibilities including an English bimonthly journal, The Japan Evangelist, he took a three-month health furlough in 1898 and traveled to China.

The mission was divided into three branches, evangelical, medical and educational,[4][3] including the first girls school in Yueyang.

He held firm that Christ was only path to salvation, and that Buddhism "converts every Chinese into a spiritual mummy.