Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-10-05


last unsuccessful attempt to admins
lucid intervals were followed by longer
durations of Inconsistencies until
Tuesday morning, when the venerable
statesman sank into a state of coma
from which all efforts to rouse him
proved futile. During the last hours
there was not a movement of the body
and only scarcely perceptible pulse
evidenced the final struggle. There
were present at the bedside when death
came the senator's son, Gen. lockwood
Hoar; his daughter, Mary Hoar, and
DR.. Warren r. Gilman, who for weeks
has been in almost constant attendance
upon the senator.
President Expresses Sympathy.
lockwood Hoar, son of the late Sem
ator Hoar, Friday received the follow
ing message from President Roosevelt:
Gen. lockwood Hoar: Accept my
most profound sympathy. The loss is
not yours only, but of all those who be-
lieve in the lofty standard of purity, in
tegrity and fearlessness in public life.
(Signed) Theodore Roosevelt"
TO Be Buried Monday.
The funeral will be held at the Church
of the Unity, Elm street, Worcester, on
Monday at $3.50 p. m. 1t is understood
that Rev. Edward Everett Hale, chap
lain of the United States senate, will be
asked to officiate.
The president pro tempore of the SEN
ate has designated the following SEN
ators as the committee on the part of
the senate to attend the funeral of the
dead senator: Lodge (Conn.); Hale,
Depew, McComas, Spooner, Foraker,
Beverage, Elkins, Dryden, Stewart,
Cockrill, Bacon, Blackburn, German and
Morgan.
The Public Notified.
Intelligence of Senator Hoar's demise
was first communicated by telephone
from the residence to the press by DR..
Gilman. Immediately after pre-
arranged signal was transmitted on the
fire alarm system and the long dreaded
tidings were conveyed to the people
of the city by the tolling of the church
bells. Arrangements were made to no.
tify the public in this manner when the
physicians attending him decided that
death bed.
Senator Hoar had been in i'll health
since last winter and even when attend
ing the sessions of the senate he was
obliged to exercise extreme care lest his
exertions should overcome him. At that
time he was troubled with lumbago and
the death Of his wife in Washington
proved such a blow that he never re-
covered entirely from its effects. He
had suffered from malaria at times
while in Washington and he occasional
ly remarked to his friends that this
trouble was his greatest enemy at the
capitol. His physicians advised him
last winter to keep as quiet as possible,
to refrain from making long speeches
and not to attend public functions.
His Career.
George Frisbie Hoar was born in Con-
cord, Mass, August 20, 1926. He was
educated at Concord academy and at
Harvard college, from which he was
graduated in 1916. He studied law at
Harvard Law school and was admitted
to the bar at Worcester. where he was
soon chosen as city solicitor and as pres
ident of the city library trustees. In
1851 he was elected to the Massachusetts
legislature, and in 1856 to the state SEN
ate. In 1868 he was sent to congress and
was reelected to the three following
congresses, but declined renomina-
ton finally. He was chosen, senator
from Massachusetts, in 1877, and has
been in the senate continuously since.
He was a potent force in shaping legis-
lation and in the councils of his party.
He was an overseer of Harvard COL
lege from 1873 to 1880; he presided over
the Massachusetts, state republican con-
ventions Of 1871. 1877. 1882 and 1885. He
was q delegate to the national republican
conventions Of 1876 at Cincinnati, and of
1880, 1884 and 1888 at Chicago. He was
one OF the managers of the Belknap i'm
parchment trial in 1876 and a member
OF the electoral commission In the same
year. At various times he had been
regent of the Smithsonian institution,
trustee Of Leicester academy and Of the
Peabody Museum Of Archaeology,
president and vice president Of the
American Antiquarian Historical 50
!ctety, American Historical society and
the Historic Genealogical society. The
degree of ILAD va. con fesrred a hillIhy
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