Hoar

the author of the law of 1887 which repealed the
portion of the tenure-of-office act then in force,
and of the presidential succession act of 1886,
and he had a large part in framing bankruptcy
and anti-trust legislation.

Moral issues won his prompt and tireless sup-
port. In the House he opposed the "salary grab"
of 1873 and he turned over every penny of back
pay which that brought to him to found a schol-
arship in the Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
In the Senate he was the chief sponsor for laws
to curb lotteries. His contempt for the bigotry
of the "A. P. A." nativist movement led him,
against the advice of his friends, to write a scath-
ing letter which helped bury that movement "in
the 'cellar* in which it was born" (Dresser, post,
p. 7). Reckless of the possible political effect
upon his future, he fought most strenuously
against the Republican administration's Philip-
pine policy. Although his stand upon this ques-
tion was disapproved in Massachusetts, yet so
great was the admiration for his sincerity that
he was reflected in 1901 by a very large ma-
jority. Devotion to the country's service in the
House and Senate involved not only the renun-
ciation of a rapidly increasing legal practice but
also the declining of other high honors. Twice
he was offered an appointment to the supreme
judicial court of Massachusetts. Hayes and Mc-
Kinley each offered to send him to represent the
United States in England, where his friendships
among judges and scholars and statesmen would
have made his position exceptionally congenial,
but his modest means did not permit him to
accept

His counsel was sought in behalf of many edu-
cational and literary institutions. For twelve
years he was an overseer of Harvard College.
He helped establish in his home city the Worces-
ter Polytechnic Institute and Clark University
and was an influential trustee of both these in-
stitutions from their organization until his death.
He served as a regent of the Smithsonian Insti-
tution and as president of the American An-
tiquarian Society and of the American Historical
Association. He was ever a student, accumu-
lated for himself a choice library in history and
in English and classical literature, and took an
active interest in the development of the Library
of Congress. He was instrumental in obtaining
the return to the Commonwealth of Massachu-
setts of the manuscript of Governor Bradford's
History of Plymouth plantation. He was a for-
midable debater, quick in repartee and in sus-
taining his arguments by legal and historical
precedents. He was often invited to address
literary and historical associations. Though he

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had neither a pleasing voice nor a graceful pres-
ence, he was an effective speaker possessed of a
noble and dignified style. The stern puritan-
ism to which he had been accustomed in child-
hood was mollified in his later years. He was a
liberal Unitarian, scrupulous in the support of
his church and tolerant of the views of others.
He delighted in the associations of the Saturday
Club and in loyalty to his friends.
He was twice married: to Mary Louisa Spurr
in 1853, and to Ruth Ann Miller in 1862. He
was survived by the two children of his first wife.
[G. F. Hoar, Autobiog. of Seventy Years (2 vols.,
1903); Proc. Mass. Hist^ Soc.f 2 ser., XVIII-XIX
(1905-06); a critical estimate by T. W. Higginson
in Proc. Acad. of Arts and Sci., vol. XL (1905) ; F. F.
Dresser, G. F. Hoar: Reprint from Reminiscences and
Bioff. Notices of Past Members of the Worcester Fire
Soc. igi? (1917); eulogy in Proc. Am. Antiquarian
Soc., vols. XVI-XVII (1905-07); G. F. Hoar, Me-
morial Addresses Delivered in the Sen. and H. of R.
(1905); Talcot Williams, in Rev. of Rev. (N. Y.),
Nov. 1904; M. A. DeW. Howe, Later Years of the
Saturday Club (1927); Bradford's History of Plimoth
Plantation . . . With a Report of the Proceedings In-
cident to the Return of the MS. to Mass. (1899) J H.
S. Nourse, The Hoar Family (1899) ; Records of the
Trustees of Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Boston
Transcript, Sept. 30, 1904; Springfield Daily Repub-
lican, Sept. 30, 1904.] G. H. H.
HOAR, LEONARD (c. i63O-Nov. 28, 1675),
third president of Harvard College, was the son
of Charles Hoare, brewer, stapler, and alderman
of Gloucester, England, and his wife, Joanna
Hinksman. Both were devoted to the Rev, John
Workman, a victim of Archbishop Laud. The
father died in 1638, after willing that Leonard be
educated at Oxford (New-England Historical
and Genealogical Register, October 1891, p.
286); but within three years the mother took her
young family to Braintree, Mass. Leonard en-
tered Harvard College in 1647 and, after taking
his master's degree in 1653, he sailed for Eng-
land, where he was incorporated M.A. in the
University of Cambridge, July 5, 1654 (Cam-
bridge University Registry, Supplicats, 1651-
56), and became rector of Wanstead, Essex.
Ejected in 1662, he studied medicine and botany,
became acquainted with the group of experi-
mental philosophers who were organizing the
Royal Society, and by royal mandate, obtained
probably by his friend, Dr. Robert Morison, bot-
anist and physician to Charles II, was created
M.D. by the University of Cambridge on Jan. 20,
1671 (Calendar State Papers, Domestic Series,
1671, 1895, p. 10; Cambridge University Regis-
try, Subscription Book). In 1668 he published
an Index BiUicus (also 1669 and enlarged edition
1672). Leonard Hoar married Bridget, daugh-
ter of John Lisle, the regicide, and of the unfor-
tunate Alicia. Returning with her to Boston ia