The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-08
H0ARDEAD.
Passes Away at
Concord.
TYPHOID FEVER
Was the Immediate Oanse
of His Death.

Concord Oct, 7.-Hon. Sherman Hoar.
after an Illness of three weeks, died
shortly after o'clock tonight at hia
home ON Main street. Typhoid fever.
contracted while making a tour through
the southern camps, as agent Of the
Massachusetts Volunteer Aid associag-
ton, was the immediate cause of his
death.
The family who have been constants
ly watching at his bedside ever since
he was taken ILL., felt up to this after
noon that he would recover, but about
3 o'clock his pulse and temperature took
sudden RISE and he commenced to
fail rapidly. The end came two hours
later. AT the bedside was his wife, for
merly Miss Mary Buttriclx of this town:
her brother, Stedman Buttrick. and DR..
George Tarbell of Boston. At a late
hour tonight no arrangements for the
funeral had been made.
Mr.. Hoar returned from the south
during the latter part OF August con-
siderably fatigued, but apparently in
good health. A few weeks later the
fatal disease made it's appearance, but
when he first took to his bed the at
/ tending physicians pronounced It pneu-
monia, and for q week this was SUD-
posed to be the trouble. At the end Of
the week it was pronounced typhoid
fever. For two weeks there was no
change in his condition. He was delir-
lous most Of the time, but as his heart
ana respiration remained strong, and
hope was entertained that he would re-
cover. On Wednesday night, however,
ne was taken worse his pulse running
as high as 40, but from this he rallied
and It was thought that the crisis had
passed. Yesterday he held his own
throughout the day, but In the evening
he had another sinking spell and be-
came rapidly weaker during the night.
During today he fingered until the last
relapse set in and then sunk rapidly
until the end came
Hon. Sherman Hoar was born in Con-
Ieofd, Mass, July 80, 1860 Hls father
was Judge Ebenezer lockwood Hosr
ana his mother. Caroline Brooks both
! OF Concord He attended the public
schools Of Concord, graduating from
them and preparing for college at Phil
| lips Exeter. He entered Harvard. and
IN 1882 graduated with honors After
two years in the Harvard law school,
he was admitted to the Middlesex bar
in 1885.
He began his practice in Walthan.
Mass, and two years later entered the
law firm of Story, Thorndike & Hoar.
Boston He became actively engaged
in politics in $780, and was that year
nominated and elected to congress by
the democrats of the 9Th district. At
the expiration of his term at Wash
ington, he was appointed district at
torney for the Boston district by Presi-
dent Cleveland, and while in that Of
flee conducted the first Bran murder
trial. Outside of his own town, where
for many years he held important po-
sitions of trust he was a director Of the
American Unitarian Society and a
member of the board of trustees of
Phillips Exeter academy.
In 1886 he married Miss Caroline
Prescott Wood of Concord, who died
In 1891, leaving a son and daughter,
In 1893 Mr.. Hoar married Miss Mary
Buttrick also of Concord by whom he
had another son and daughter He
was captain of the local military COM
ways kept his interest in the company.
When they left for the war, he was
very influential N obtaining fund for
their benefit, and Ia many ways was OF
great assistance to them.
In the work o. the Massachusetts
Volunteer Aid Association in the Span
ish- American war. he has been fndefat-
igable He visited all the hospitals
through the south and took great in
terest in all Massac huSetts men wher-
ever he found them. 1t is probable
that while In the hospital at Montauk,
in the interests of the association, he
contracted typhoid fever, which was
the direct cause of his death.