Stedman Hoar

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• Census: 1900 1910 1930

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Birth:
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FXN4-KPN

Death:
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VPDY-HF4

Stedman married Elizabeth Potter on 28 May 1921 in Cambridge, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of (Male) Potter and (Female) Vanduzue) was born on 27 Dec 1894 in Massachusetts, USA; died on 26 Feb 1985 in Newport Beach, Orange Co, California, USA. [Group Sheet]

1. Brooks Hoar was born on 5 Mar 1922 in Massachusetts, USA.

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• Census: 1900 1910

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Marriage:
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N47J-12R

Photo:
http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Portrait_Exhibit/35.html

Obituary:
Lowell Sun, The (Massachusetts) Friday, December 26, 1952

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• Census: 1880

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Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar was born in 1816 in Concord, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard College in 1835, received a law degree from Harvard Law School in 1939, and pursued politics, first as a Whig, then as a member of the abolitionist Free Soil Party, and finally as a Republican.

From 1849 to 1855, Hoar served as judge of common pleas in Massachusetts, and from 1859 to 1869, as associate justice on the Massachusetts Supreme Court. He then became the first of President Ulysses S. Grant's five attorney generals. During his time in office, Hoar witnessed the transition of the Office of Attorney General to the Department of Justice.

In 1869, President Grant nominated Hoar to a seat on the United States Supreme Court, but the Senate did not confirm him. As a result, Hoar resigned from Grant's cabinet in 1870, though he continued to serve the President as a member of a special commission. Hoar won election to the House of Representatives in 1872 but failed in a second bid in 1876. He then retired from politics and resumed his law practice. Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar died in 1895.

Photo: http://www.concordnet.org/library/scollect/fin_aids/Hoar_6.html
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Date: 1911-10-19
Paper: Springfield Republican

About:
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9505E5DC1539E333A25751C2A9669D946096D6CF

Golden Wedding Anniversary:
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9803E1DE1E3BE533A25754C2A9679D94619ED7CF

Name: Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar
Gender: Male
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Death Date: 31 Jan 1895
Death Place: Concord, Massachusetts
Age: 78
Birth Date: 1817
Birthplace: Concord
Occupation: Lawyer
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Marital Status: Widowed
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: Samuel Hoar
Father's Birthplace: Lincoln
Mother's Name: Sarah Sherman
Mother's Birthplace: New Haven, Conn.
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: B06842-1
System Origin: Massachusetts-EASy
Source Film Number: 961516
Reference Number: v 455 p 171
Collection: Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910

Cemetery:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6844147

Ebenezer married Caroline Brooks on 26 Nov 1840 in Concord, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts, USA. Caroline (daughter of Nathan Brooks and Caroline Downs) was born on 12 Mar 1820 in Concord, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts, USA; died on 14 Jul 1892 in Concord, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Concord, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts, USA (Sleepy Hollow Cemetery). [Group Sheet]

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• Census: 1880

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Golden Wedding Anniversary:
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9803E1DE1E3BE533A25754C2A9679D94619ED7CF

Death date from the Fitchburg Daily Sentinel Newspaper (Fitchburg, Massachusetts) Published Jul 15, 1892.
Died age 72.

Name: Caroline D. Hoar
Gender: Female
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Death Date: 14 Jul 1892
Death Place: Concord, Massachusetts
Age: 72
Birth Date: 1820
Birthplace: Concord
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Race: White
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Ebenezor R. Hoar
Father's Name: Nathan Brooks
Father's Birthplace: Lincoln
Mother's Name: Caroline Donnes
Mother's Birthplace: Boston
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: B06823-7
System Origin: Massachusetts-EASy
Source Film Number: 961507
Reference Number: v 428 p 175
Collection: Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910

Cemetery:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=hoar&GSiman=1&GScid=91709&GRid=75770556&

William married Florence King. [Group Sheet]

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Groom's Name: Samuel Hoar##
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Bride's Name: Sarah Sherman
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Marriage Date: 22 Oct 1812
Marriage Place: New Haven, Connecticut
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M01534-7
System Origin: Connecticut-EASy
Source Film Number: 3251
Reference Number: pg 147
Collection: Connecticut Marriages, 1729-1867

Hoar Family Papers:
http://www.concordnet.org/library/scollect/fin_aids/Hoar_6.html

Death Notice:
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A04E4DC1039E134BC4D53DFB767838D649FDE

http://somanybooksblog.com/2008/01/06/samuel-hoar/
Samuel Hoar
January 6, 2008 by Stefanie
Emerson's essay on Samuel Hoar (1778 - 1856) is actually an obituary. It first appeared in Putnam Magazine in December 1856 and again in a revised and extended version in the Monthly Religious Magazine in January, 1857. Emerson does not go into the details of Hoar's career, a distinguished lawyer and politician, (Wikipedia has a decent article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_hoar about him), but sticks more to his personal knowledge of the man in the everyday.
Emerson describes him as humane, noble, honorable, and "full of mansuetude " (is not that a great word?). Hoar was a man who enjoyed long, solitary walks, trees, and birds. He was a wealthy man but lived a plain life, preferring instead to give his wealth to those in need? young men starting out in life on new ventures and to charitable organizations. A man of "natural goodness and justice," he was humble and modest with a "childlike innocence" and he never held a grudge.
He "was not adorned with any graces of rhetoric," and
So cautious was he, and tender of the truth, that he sometimes wearied his audience with the pains he took to qualify and verify his statements, adding clause on clause to do justice to all his conviction. He had little or no power of generalization.
Nonetheless, he never undertook to defend criminals and had such a reputation that juries were often swayed in his favor simply by him declaring "on his conscience" that his client was entitled to a good verdict.
Hoar had no love of poetry, yet Emerson says he "had a resemblance to the bust of Dante." I wouldn't exactly call Dante an attractive man, but I guess it's better than saying someone looked like Socrates who was supposed to be a rather ugly man.
Hoar was a gentleman in every finest sense of the word. And while he may not have been elegant or particularly spiritual or a man of genius, he focused the "vigor of his understanding?on the ordinary domestic and municipal well-being," which, if you are a public servant, seems to me what one should do but yet, is so often only given lip service.
There is a lot that Emerson doesn't say about Hoar. Like that Hoar's wife, Sarah Sherman, was the youngest child of Roger Sherman, a signer of the US Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Nor does Emerson mention that Hoar's daughter, Elizabeth, was engaged to Emerson's youngest brother Charles. But Charles died of tuberculosis before they could marry. Elizabeth chose never to marry. She did, however, become an intimate friend of the Emerson, Hawthorne and Thoreau families. And she helped Emerson to produce The Dial.
One of Samuel Hoar's sons, Edward, was and intimate friend of Henry David Thoreau. Edward and his wife lived across the street from Thoreau's family for years. And it was Edward and Thoreau who accidentally set fire to three hundred acres of forest along the Sudbury River in 1844 when they let a cooking fire get out of hand. Edward also went with Thoreau on some of Thoreau's hiking and canoeing trips.
So interesting the things that don't get mentioned, eh? But I suppose in an obituary one would not mention some of these things and Emerson is such a formal person, I doubt that he would mention them in a eulogy-type piece either. It's a pity because I bet there are lots of good stories to tell.

Obituary:
http://books.google.com/books?id=ug8ZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA154&dq=Obituary+Hoar&ei=noyKSviNLqKGzAT2spCvDg#v=onepage&q=Obituary%20Hoar&f=false

Cemetery:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=hoar&GSiman=1&GScid=91709&GRid=6844130&

Samuel married Sarah Sherman on 22 Oct 1812 in New Haven, New Haven Co, Connecticut, USA. Sarah (daughter of Roger Sherman and Rebecca Prescott) was born on 11 Jan 1783 in New Haven, New Haven Co, Connecticut, USA; died on 29 Aug 1866 in Concord, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Concord, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts, USA (Sleepy Hollow Cemetery). [Group Sheet]

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Bride's Name: Sarah Sherman
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Marriage Date: 22 Oct 1812
Marriage Place: New Haven, Connecticut
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M01534-7
System Origin: Connecticut-EASy
Source Film Number: 3251
Reference Number: pg 147
Collection: Connecticut Marriages, 1729-1867

Name: Sarah Hoar
Gender: Female
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Death Date: 30 Aug 1866
Death Place: Norwich Aurora
Age: 83
Birth Date: 1783
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: B03420-4
System Origin: Connecticut-EASy
Source Film Number: 3247
Reference Number: p 287
Collection: Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934

Nathan married Caroline Downs. [Group Sheet]