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'''Ewald Max Hoyer''' (1863-1957) was a [[dairy]]man<ref name=hhoyer/> and [[real estate]] [[business]]man who served from 1907 to 1910 as the founding [[mayor]] of [[Bossier City]], [[Louisiana]]. He was appointed to the post by [[Governor]] Newton Blanchard.<ref name=bchist>{{cite web|url=http://www.bossiercity.org/Bossier-City-History/|title=Bossier City History|author=Louise Stinson|date=1976|accessdate=January 2, 2015}}</ref> Though he served in Bossier City, Hoyer continued to live in [[Shreveport]] in Caddo Parish, the larger companion city separated from Bossier City by the Red River.
'''Ewald Max Hoyer''' (1863-1957) was a [[dairy]]man<ref name=hhoyer/> and [[real estate]] [[business]]man who served from 1907 to 1910 as the founding [[mayor]] of [[Bossier City]], [[Louisiana]]. He was appointed to the post by [[Governor]] Newton Blanchard.<ref name=bchist>{{cite web|url=http://www.bossiercity.org/Bossier-City-History/|title=Bossier City History|author=Louise Stinson|date=1976|accessdate=January 2, 2015}}</ref> Though he served in Bossier City, Hoyer continued to live in [[Shreveport]] in Caddo Parish, the larger companion city separated from Bossier City by the Red River.
Hoyer was one of four sons and three daughters born in Marine in Madison County in southern [[Illinois]], to Ewald A. Hoyer (1831-1915) and the former Justina Hartman (1837-1916), both [[Germany|German]] natives. The parents died three days apart; each had expressed a wish not to outlive the other. They are interred in a single grave at New Douglas Cemetery in New Douglas in Madison County, Illinois.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107678715|title=Ewald A. Hoyer|publisher=''Edwardsville Intelligencer''|location=Edwardsville, Illinois|date=January 4, 1916|accessdate=February 12, 2015}}</ref>
Hoyer was one of four sons and three daughters born in Marine in Madison County in southern [[Illinois]], to Ewald A. Hoyer (1831-1915) and the former Justina Hartman (1837-1916), both [[Germany|German]] natives. The parents died three days apart; each had expressed a wish not to outlive the other. They are interred in a single grave at New Douglas Cemetery in New Douglas in Madison County, Illinois.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107678715|title=Ewald A. Hoyer|publisher=''Edwardsville Intelligencer''|location=Edwardsville, Illinois|date=January 4, 1916|accessdate=February 12, 2015}}</ref>