1. Rockwood Hoar was a Representative from Massachusetts, the son of Massachusetts US Senator George Frisbie Hoar.
10 Facts About Rockwood Hoar
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Rockwood Hoar was a member of Company C, Fifth Massachusetts Infantry, from 1875 to 1879, an assistant to the district attorney for the middle district Worcester County, Massachusetts from 1884 to 1887, a member of the common council of Worcester from 1887 to 1891, and aide-de-camp with the rank of colonel on the staff of Governor Oliver Ames from 1887 to 1890.
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Rockwood Hoar served as judge advocate general with the rank of brigadier general on the staff of Governor Roger Wolcott from 1897 to 1900.
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Rockwood Hoar was the district attorney of Worcester County from 1899 to 1905.
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Rockwood Hoar was elected to the 59th Congress in 1904, serving from 1905 to 1906.
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Rockwood Hoar was a board trustee of Clark University, a board trustee of the Worcester Insane Hospital, and board director of the Washburn and Moen Manufacturing Company.
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Rockwood Hoar was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1894.
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Rockwood Hoar died in Worcester after an illness of about five weeks and is buried in the Rural Cemetery there.
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Rockwood Hoar married Christine Rice in 1893; she was the daughter of Worcester manufacturer William E Rice.
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Rockwood Hoar was the grandson of US Congressman Samuel Hoar and the great grandson of Roger Sherman.