In Memoriam — P. B. Hoy. 
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hygiene and especially in ventilation. He did much to promote 
the prosperity of Racine College and of the public schools of the 
city, and he was a firm and intelligent friend of the American 
common school system, believing that upon its proper develop¬ 
ment depends the perpetuity of the Republic. 
Some of the aphorisms in which he condensed knowledge indi¬ 
cated the practical turn of his mind, such as: “Calisthenics is 
genteel, romping is rude, but the one is the shadow and the 
other is the substance that secures health.” “Sunlight may 
brown the skin, but while it uproots the lily it plants the 
rose. ” “Dirt, debauchery, crime and disease are successive 
steps of one another. ” “Nature never suggests age to us; the 
grass, flowers, trees, insects and birds seem the same year 
after year. ” 
From the time Dr. Hoy came to Wisconsin in 1846 until his 
sudden death, December 8, 1892, at his home, he lived in the 
same house. In 1842 he married Mary Elizabeth Austin, of 
Ripley, O., an accomplished lady and a noble woman, who pre¬ 
sided over his home for thirty years, dying in 1872. They had 
three children, all of whom are living—Albert Harris, who is a 
successful physician and surgeon of Racine, Wis., Jenny 
Rebecca, who is now Mrs. William Henry Miller, of Racine, 
and Philo Romayne, an electrician, of Chicago, Ill. 
Up to the day when Dr. Hoy ended his long, useful and hon¬ 
orable life, he was in the full possession of his mental faculties. 
