The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-10-05
MR.. HOAR PASSES AWAY
Venerable Statesman Died at His Home
in Worcester, Mass.
END NEAR FOR MANY DAYS.
First Elected to the United States Senate In
1877, and His Fourth Successive Term
Would Have Expired 10 ioo7-A Member Of
the Electoral Commission Of IS76-President
o. Many Historical Societies.

Worcester, Mass. (SpeciaD-United
States Senator George +. Hoar died
at I.4o Friday morning. For months
he had been i'll, and during the last
three days he had slept most OF the
time. He maintained to the last the
wonderful fight he had made against
death from the first.
Senator Hoar did not move nor ut
ter sound for hours beore ne passed
into his eternal sleep.
George Frisbie Hoar was born zS
years ago in Concord, Mass, on AT
gust 20, 1926. He studied during his
early youth at the Concord Academy,
where he prepared for college. and en-
tering Harvard in IS42 he graduated
from that college in 1886 He studied
law and graduated at the Dane Law
School, Harvard University, and set
tied in Worcester, Mass, where he
practiced his profession. He was
made city solicitor in 1860. He was
president OF the trustees of the city
library. He was first elected in 1883
member of the State House Of
Representatives and became state SEN
ator in 1857, He was first elected to
Congress as a member of the House
OF Representatives in the Forty first
Congress, and was reelected to the
torty-second, Forty-third and Forty
fourth Congresses, but declined a re-
nomination to the Forty-fifth Con-
gress
In 1877 he was elected to the Unit
ed States Senate to succeed George
). Butwell and took his seat March 5,
1877. He was reelected in 1888, 1880,
1895 and 1901. His term would have
expired March 3. 1907, had he lived.
Senator Hoar was an overseer OF Har-
ward College, IS74-I88o declined re-
election but was reelected in 1896,
and again for six years in 1000 He
was president OF the Association of
the Alumni OF Harvard; presided over
the Massachusetts State Republican
Convention of 1871, 1877, 1882 and
1885; was delegate to the Republ
can National Convention of 1876 at
Cincinnati, and of 1880. 1884 and 1888
at Chicago, presiding over the con-
vention of 1880. He was chairman of
the Massachusetts delegation in 1880,
1884 and 1888. Was one of the man
ayers on the part of the House of
Representatives OF the Belknap i'm
peachment trial in 1876; was mem
Der OF tthe Electoral Commission in
1870; was regent OF the Smithsonian
Institution in 1880; has been presi-
dent, and at the time of his death was
vice president OF the American Anti
quarian Society; president of the
American Historical Society; president
board OF trustees of Clark University;
1900 made trustee of the Peabody Nut
scum OF Archaeology. He was also
trustee OF the Leicester Academy,
member Of the Massachusetts, Histor-
ical Society, OF the American Histor-
cal Society, the Genealogi-
cal Society, the Virginia Historical So
ciety, the Brooklyn Institute OF Arts
and Sciences, and also a trustee of the
Peabody Fund, He received the de-
gree of IL. d from the following
colleges and universities: William and
Mary, Amherst, Yale Harvard and
Dartmouth
Last fall Senator Hoar published
his "Recollcctons of Sixty Years"
a work that is a distinct contribution
to the history of the United States
in the last half century.