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GEORGE WASHINGTON HORR, Lawyer, was born in New Salem, Massachusetts June 22, 1829, the son of Warren and Sally Peirce (Sloane) Horr, of old New England ancestry on both sides of the family. He received his early education in district and high schools, in Quaboag Seminary, Warren, Massachusetts, and New Salem Academy, qualifying him at the age of fifteen years to teach a district school, which he did for three winters. Continuing his studies at Phillips-Andover Academy he finished his preparation for College at Williston Seminary from which he was graduated in 1848, delivering the Salutatory oration of his class. In the same year he entered Harvard with the Class of 1852 ; was matriculated January 1 1, 1849, but did not continue to graduation. Instead, he became a special student in the Lawrence Scientific School of that L^niversity, and was thus enabled in 1856 to enter the field as a popular lecturer on astronomy, in which he continued, in addition to his other occupations, for a period of more than thirty years consecutively. He received the degree of Bachelor of Law in i860 as a graduate of the Law School of Harvard, was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar, at Greenfield, in the same year, and commenced practice in his native town, soon removing to .-Vlhol, where he has conducted a successful law business since that time. Notwithstanding his extensive GEORGE \\V. HORR professional business, he has always been engaged to a considerable extent in literary work, since 1854, when in company with the late Charles G. Colby he organized a literary bureau in Brooklyn, New York. He is the author of the histories of Athol, Petersham, Royalston, Phillipston, and Dana of 'orcester county, published in 1879, and was a contributor to tiie history of the same county published in 1889. He is the author of The Flora of Northern Worcester, illustrated, published in Picturesque Worcester, and is now engaged upon an extended history of New Salem Academy. Among the public addresses delivered by him, are those at the dedication of the Town Hallof Ervingin 1875, and of theTown Hall of Warwick in 1895 ; the Centennial Fourth of July UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS ^7S address in Athol in 1876, and on tlie Worcester North West Fair Grounds in 1887; the first ad- dress delivered before the Worcester North West Agricultural and Mechanical Society after its incor- poration in 1867 ; the Memorial Day address at Hatfield in 1890; one at the annual meeting of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, of which he is a life member, in 1893, on Academic System of Schools in Massachusetts. Mr. Horr was the orator of the Association of the Alumni of New Salem Academy at their annual reunion in 1890, was elected President of the association in 1892, and presided and gave an address at the centennial of the academy in 1895. He was one of the in- vited guests at the unveiling of the statue of Josiah Bartlett, signer of the Declaration of Independence, at Amesbury, Massachusetts, July 4, 1888, and was one of the speakers on that occasion. In 1870 he was admitted to practice in the Federal Courts. Mr. Horr was Chairman of the School Committee of New Salem 1 859-1 860 and held the same position in Athol in 1874. He has also served as Commissioner of Insolvency and in other judicial offices. In national politics he is a Democrat and cast the only Democratic vote in Athol in 1865 for General Darius N. Couch, the Democratic Candidate for Governor. He was actively engaged as a campaign speaker for Tilden in 1876. Mr. Horr is an asso- ciate member of Hubbard V. Smith Post Grand Army of the Republic of Athol, a member of Har- vard Law School Association and the Worcester County Bar Association. In November 1853, he married Grace De la Hooke, the daughter of George Patrick Boyle of Plymouth, England, Surgeon in the British Navy. She was gifted with musical and literary talents, and contributed to the metropolitan newspapers and other publications for forty years. Selections from her ballads, carols, and hymns have been set to music by the most eminent composers of this country and England. Mrs. Horr died March 19, 1894.
Name: George W. Horr
Gender: Male
Burial Date: 26 Oct 1905
Burial Place: Athol
Death Date: 24 Oct 1905
Death Place: Athol, Massachusetts
Age: 76
Birth Date: 1829
Birthplace: New Salem
Occupation: Lawyer
Race:
Marital Status: Widowed
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: Warren Horr
Father's Birthplace: New Salem
Mother's Name: Sally Sloan
Mother's Birthplace: Prescott
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: B07465-5
System Origin: Massachusetts-EASy
Source Film Number: 2070051
Reference Number: 539
Collection: Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910
Cemetery:
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[[The following census information was compiled and contributed by Joyce S.
Transcribed as HORE, seen as HOR.
1860 Census: New Salem, Franklin Co, Massachusetts
George W. Hor, 30, Bp: Massachusetts, Attorney at Law
Grace Hor, 30, Bp: England
Baxter D. Whittaker, 28, Bp: Massachusetts, Farmer
Could not find as a head of household in 1870.
1880 Census Place: Athol, Worcester Co, Massachusetts
George W. HORR Self M Male W 49 MA Lawyer MA NH
Note he was married and living alone.
Could not find Grace in 1880.
1900 Census: Athol, Worcester, Massachusetts
George W. Horr, June 1829, age 70, widow, bp MA, p's bp MA, Lawyer
No others listed.
Lived and practiced law in Athol, Worcester Co MA.
Educated at New Salem Academy, Quabog Seminary in Warren; Phillips Academy in Easthampton where he graduated in 1848; Harvard, 1849. Practiced in New Salem 3 years, to Athol in 1863. Wrote History of Athol in Jewett's County History, 1879.
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Book: Annals of the Harvard Class of 1852 By Grace Williamson Edes
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1829 - 1905 (76 years)
