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

Early Life and education
William Edwin Hoy was born near Mifflinburg, Pennsylvania and graduated Franklin and Marshall College in 1882. He ordained a priest in 1885 by the Lancaster Theological Seminary.

Career
Hoy became a missionary for the Reformed Church in the United States. His first posting was to Japan in 1886. He identified Sendai in northern Japan as strategic and started a small school to train Japanese pastors, the Sendei Theological Training School. This later became Tohoku Gakuin University (Northern Japan University). He later started a girls school, the Miyagi Girls' School, which later became Miyagi Gakuin Women's University. Suffering from asthma, and with many responsibilities including an English bimonthly journal, The Japan Evangelist, he took a three month lhealth furlough in 1898 and traveled to China. While there he decided to move to Hunan for missionary work; he resigned form his Japan post and moved to Yochow in 1900. In China he continued missionary work, organizing evangelical outposts, and establishing a schools, including the first girls school in Yochow. Active in medical work, the hospital was known as Hoy Memorial Hospital.

Personal
He married a Mary Ault, a teacher at the girls' school. They had two daughters, both of whom were also missionaries in China. In 1927 the revolutionary turmoil led him to be ecvacuated from China. He had a stroke and died aboard ship.