Elizabeth O. Sampson Hoyt was an American philosopher, author, and lecturer of the long nineteenth century. She served as Vice President of the Universal Peace Union and Chair of the "National University Committee of Four Hundred".

Athens is a city and the county seat of Athens County, Ohio, United States. The population was 23,849 at the 2020 census. Located along the Hocking River within Appalachian Ohio about 65 miles (105 km) southeast of Columbus, Athens is best known as the home of Ohio University, a large public research university with an undergraduate and graduate enrollment of more than 21,000 students. It is the principal city of the Athens micropolitan area.