Hon. Samuel Hoar, Jr.

1778 - 1856  (78 years)

• Name	Samuel Hoar
  Prefix	Hon.
  Suffix	Jr.
  Born	18 May 1778	Lincoln, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts, USA
  Gender	Male
  Died	2 Nov 1856	Concord, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts, USA
  Buried	Concord, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts, USA (Sleepy Hollow Cemetery)
  Person ID	I1117	A00 Hoar and Horr Families North America
  Last Modified	24 Apr 2013

  
  

  Father	Lt. Samuel Hoar,   b. 23 Aug 1743, Lexington, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts, USA ,   d. 22 May 1832, Lincoln, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts, USA  (Age 88 years)
  Mother	Susanna Peirce,   b. 9 May 1752, Waltham, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts, USA ,   d. 9 Jan 1829, Lincoln, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts, USA  (Age 76 years)
  Married	8 Jul 1773	Lincoln, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts, USA
  Family ID	F66	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah Sherman,   b. 11 Jan 1783, New Haven, New Haven Co, Connecticut, USA ,   d. 29 Aug 1866, Concord, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts, USA  (Age 83 years)
  Married	22 Oct 1812	New Haven, New Haven Co, Connecticut, USA
  Children	1. Elizabeth Hoar,   b. 14 Jul 1814, Concord, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts, USA ,   d. 15 Apr 1878, Cambridge, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts, USA  (Age 63 years)   2. Judge Ebenezer Hoar,   b. 21 Feb 1816, Concord, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts, USA ,   d. 31 Jan 1895, Concord, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts, USA  (Age 78 years)   3. Sarah Hoar,   b. 9 Nov 1817, Concord, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts, USA ,   d. 23 Jul 1907, Cambridge, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts, USA  (Age 89 years)   4. Samuel Hoar,   b. 4 Feb 1820, Concord, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts, USA ,   d. 10 Jan 1821, Concord, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts, USA  (Age 0 years)   5. Edward Hoar,   b. 22 Dec 1823, Concord, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts, USA ,   d. 22 Feb 1893, Washington, District Of Columbia, USA  (Age 69 years)   6. Charles Hoar,   b. Oct 1825, Massachusetts, USA ,   d. Abt 1901,  (Age ~ 75 years)   7. George Hoar,   b. 29 Aug 1826, Concord, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts, USA ,   d. 30 Sep 1904, Worcester, Worcester Co, Massachusetts, USA  (Age 78 years)
  Last Modified	1 Jun 2010
  Family ID	F469	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 18 May 1778 - Lincoln, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Groom's Name: Samuel Hoar## Groom's Birth Date: Groom's Birthplace: Groom's Age: Bride's Name: Sarah Sherman Bride's Birth Date: Bride's Birthplace: Bride's Age: Marriage Date: 22 Oct 1812 Marriage Place: New Haven, Connecticut Groom's Father's Name: Groom's Mother's Name: Bride's Father's Name: Bride's Mother's Name: Groom's Race: Groom's Marital Status: Groom's Previous Wife's Name: Bride's Race: Bride's Marital Status: Bride's Previous Husband's Name: 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&