Hoar Family and Relations
Through his mother, Sarah Sherman, G.F. Hoar was a grandson of prominent political figure, Roger Sherman and Sherman's second wife, Rebecca Minot Prescott. Roger Sherman signed the Articles of Confederation, United States Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution.
- G.F. Hoar's father, Samuel Hoar, was a prominent lawyer who served on the Massachusetts state senate and the United States House of Representatives.
- G.F. Hoar's brother Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar was an Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, one of Ulysses S. Grant's Attorneys General, and a nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court.
- G.F. Hoar's first cousin Roger Sherman Baldwin was Governor of Connecticut and a U.S. Senator.
- Another of G.F. Hoar's first cousins, William Maxwell Evarts was US Secretary of State, U.S. Attorney General and a U.S. Senator.
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