The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-30
THE DEATH OF SENATOR HOAR
WAS FOR LONG TINE IN STATE
OF UNCONSCIOUSNES

Senator OF Massachuset ts-schoiar in
Poiitics-Friendships With Great
Men-served Five Terms rs Senator.
WORCESTER, Mass, Sept. so.-Senator
Hoar died at :S5 this morning.
Among the callers yesterday were Senator
Lodge and the Rev. Edward Everett Hale,
chaplain Of the United States Senate
Neither saw the dying man.
George Frisbie Hoar was born at Con-
cord, Mass, on Aug. 20, 1925. His maternal
grandfather was Roger Sherman, the only
person who signed all four OF the great
State papers, the articles of Association
Of I774. the Declaration OF Independence,
the Articles OF Confederation, and the Con-
stitution.
Mr.. Hoar's father was Samuel Hoar OF
Concord, who was born in l77s and died in
1855. He was one OF the most eminent
lawyers at the Massachusetts, bar, en-
countering Webster, jeremiah Mason and
Choate in many hard fought legal battles.
II was this same Samuel Hoar who sue
ceeded Edward Everett as Representative
In Congress from the Middlesex district
In 1885. and who four years later helped
to nominate William Henry Harrison for the
Presidency.
FROM HARVARD INTO POLITICS.
Mr.. Hoar matrculated at Harvard Col
lege on his sixteenth birthday in 1912. He
graduated in 1s48. or Harvard, during
his own student days, he wrote that il
had not changed materially for n century
He held that the teaching was OF little value
there being nothing in It to inspire student
with any love of Greek or Latin literature.
There were not four men in his class, he de-
clared, who could write decent Latin
sentence without the laborious Use of gram
mar and dictionary. He studied law at
the Dane Law School at Harvard and be-
gan the practice OF his profession at Wor-
cester, where he settled. His interest In
the local politics of the day was intense
1t led to his election to the State House
of Representatives in 1852 and to the State
Senate in 1855. 1t was during this time
that his genius for politics attracted the at
tention OF Charles Sumner and Daniel
Webster. Webster knew him as an ex-
ceptionally brilliant young lawyer, but he
died before Mr.. Hoar achieved any great
reputation.
After his service in the State Senate
Mr. Hoar was elected Representative in
the Forty-first Congress, taking his seat
on March 4, 1869. He remained in Congress
from that day to his death, with an interval
OF two years only. He was Representa-
tive in the Forty-hrst. Forty-second, Forty
third and Forty-fourth Congresses; declined
denomination for Representative in the
Forty fifth Congress, and became United
States Senator from Massachusetts, on
March 4, 1877, succeeding Mr.. Boutwell,.
During these and following years he was
an overseer of Harvard College from 1874
to 1880. He presided over the Massachu-
sets State Republican conventions of 1871,
1877, 1882 and 1885. He was a delegate
to the Republican national convention OF
1876 at Cincinnati, where he helped to pre-
vent the nomination OF James G. Blaine.
which Robert G. Ingersolls White Plumed
knight speech almost brought about
He presided over the Republican national
convention Of 1880 in Chicago and was a
delegate to the conventions Of 1884, 1888.
1892, 1895 and 1900.
The constitutional questions that en-
gagged the attention Of the country In 1875
during the Belknap Impeachment pro-
ceedings and the disputed election OF
Rutherford B. Hayes, brought out Mr..
Hears talent. He was one OF the man
ayers on the part of the House OF Repre-
sentatives in the Belknap proceedings and
was a member of the Electoral Com
mission
FRIENDSHIPS WITH GREAT MEN.
There are few things Of more interest
than Senator Hears account Of the great
questions at issue In Congress and his
descriptions of the famous men who took
cart in them that are to be found In the
Autobiography of Seventy Years George
Q. Boutwell,, Caleb Cushing, Benjamin F.
Butler, Gen. Grant, James A. Garfield.
James G. Blaine were only a few OF the
men whom Senator Hoar labored with
and discussed frankly in his autobiography.
When Mr.. Hoar entered Congress in 1869
the House contained many interesting and
important men, in Mr. Hoar's opinion
Blaine being the most brilliant OF all.
For both Blaine and Grant Mr.. Hoar
had the warmest admiration. although Of
the former he had distrust. AS re-
CARDS Grant his position was somewhat
delicate during the Generals first Admins
tration on account Of the bitter feeling that
arose between the President and MIR. Hoar's
colleague, Senator Sumner. He was walk
ing with Gen. Grant near the house oo-
cupied by Sumner on one occasion when
Grant shook his closed fist toward Sum-
ners house.
THE man who lives up there has abused
me in a way which never suffered from
any man living" he said.
For Garfield Mr. Hoar had the deepest
affection. In his autobiography not word
70 said In criticism OF Garfield Benjamin
Harrison Mr. Hoar characterized as cold.
deficient in tact, unfortunate in manner.
Comparing Harrison to Blaine Mr.. Hoar
wrote that Blaine would refuse a request
in q way that seemed like doing favor;
Harrison would grant request In way
which seemed as II he were denying it,
OF all the public men with whom Senator
Hoar came into contact during his public
career, all save two he spoke Of in sym
pathetic and complimentary manner. These
were Caleb Gushing and Benjamin Butler,
both citizens Of his own State.
MEMBER OF MANY SOCIETIES.
Senator Hoar was member OF a great
many learned and educational societies.
Here is a list showing few Of them: An over
seer OF Harvard College since 1874; president