The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-09-30

On sunday, however AL nope was """''
doned after a last unsuccessful attempt
20 administer medicine and nourishment
Brief lucid intervals were followed by
longer durations Of Inconsistencies until
Tuesday morning. when the venerable
statesman sank into state Of coma from
which all efforts TO arouse him proved
futile.
During the last hours there was not
movement OF the body and only a scarcely
perceptible pulse evidenced the final
struggle.
There were present at the bedside when
death came the senator's son. Gen Rock
wood Hoar. and his daughter. Mary Hoar'
and DR. William r. Gilman. who for weeks
has been In almost constant attendance
upon the senator.
When the death OF Senator Hoar was
announced by telephone from his residence
a signal was sent on the fire alarm circuit
OF the city and the long expected news
was conveyed TO the citizens by the toll
ing OF the church bells few minutes Ia
ter Arrangements were made 10 notmy
the people Of Worcester in this manner
more than month ago, when the physl-
clans attending him decided that the ven
cradle legislator was on his death bed
AN INTELLECTUAL tlANl'
Senator Hoar for many years had stood
out as a conspicuous type Of the old
school statesmanship and manners. He
was regarded as the intellectual giant OF
the senate.
Mr.. Hoar's knowledge OF the constitu-
tion. OF precedents and traditions and his
keen appreciation OF the functions OF the
executive and legislative and the judicial
branches OF the government were greater.
perhaps. than that OF any OF his COL
leagues
In recent years. when he believed that
the executive power was encroaching more
and more upon the power OF the senate
his voice was raised In protest frequently
IN the senate.
George Frisble Hoar was born at Con-
cord Mass. on Aug 29 1925. His ma
ternal grandfather was Roger Sherman,
the only person who signed all four OF the
great state papers, the Articles OF Asso-
citation of l774, the Declaration OF lnde-
pendence the Articles OF Confederation
and the Constitution.
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 Manson
and Choate in many hard-fought legal
battle.
Jt was this same Sarnuel ltOar Nuo SuS
ceeded Edward Everett representative
IN congress from the Middesex district In
1885, and who. four years later, helped tc
nominate William Henry Harrison for the
presidency.
A HARVARD GRADUATE.
Mr.. Hoar matriculated at Harvard col
lege on his 10th birthday. In 1912. He
graduated in 1s46. or Harvard, during
his own student days. he wrote that II
had not changed materially for a century
He held that the teaching was or littl,
value, there being nothing in II TO In
epire a student with any love OF Greek
or Latin literature.
There were not four men in his class
ne declared, who could write decent
Latin sentence without the laborious use
OF grammar and dictionary
He studied law at the Dame law schoo
at Harvard and began the practice o.
his profession at Worcester, where h,
settled.
His fntert,t in the local politics of tn
day was intense. IL led to his election
TO the state. house of representatives ii
1852 and TO the state senate I'm 1855.
II was about that time that his genius
for politics attracted the attention o
Charles Sumner and Daniel Webster
Webster knew him as an EXCEPTIONAL!
brilliant young lawyer, but he died befor,
II.
After n short term In the state senat
Mr.. Hoar was elected a representative
in the Forty first congress, taking his sea
on March 4, 1869. He remained II
congress from that day to his death. witt
an interval OF two years only
He was a representative In the Forty
FIRST. Forty-second, Forty-third an
Forth-fourth congresses; declined a re
nomination for representative In tn
Forty-ffth congress. and became a Unite
States senator from Massachusetts, o
March T. 1877, succeeding Mr.. Boutwell,
During these and following years he wa
an overseer OF Harvard college from 1s7
20 1850. the presiding officer OF the Massa
chusetts state Republican convention q
1871. 1877. 1882 and 1885.
He was delegate TO the Repubica
national conventions Of 1876 at Cincinnati
where he helped 20 prevent the nomina
ton OF James q. Blaine which Robert q