Rockwood Hoar papers, 1835-1949.

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Rockwood Hoar papers, 1835-1949.

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Correspondence, legal papers, financial papers, and bound volumes of lawyer and U.S. Congressman Rockwood Hoar of Worcester, Mass.; his wife Christine Rice Hoar (later Gillett); Frances Helen Hoar Foster; and Louisa Ruth Hoar La Farge. Also some papers of Hannah Bartlett Randlett and the Randlett family. Collection includes family, legal, and congressional correspondence of R. Hoar. Subjects include Hoar family matters, with letters by Hoar's father George F. Hoar and his wife Ruth A. (Miller), as well as letters from William Rice and many other family members; local Republican politics; Church of the Unity (Worcester); Clark University; the Worcester Insane Hospital; requests for Civil Service positions and other political appointments; and various bills pending in Congress. Hoar's legal clients include many ethnic immigrants, other individuals, businesses, and families. Financial papers are mainly household bills and receipts of Rockwood Hoar and Christine R. Hoar Gillett, mostly for businesses in Worcester but also some in Boston, New York, Washington, and European cities. Bound volumes include European travel diaries (1885-93) of Rockwood Hoar and Christine R. Hoar Gillett; engagement diaries of debutante Frances H. Hoar Foster kept in Washington, D.C. (1909-14); scrapbooks of Rockwood Hoar, Christine R. Hoar Gillett, and Reginald C. Foster (for the Civilian Technical Corps); legal casebooks and briefs of Rockwood Hoar as attorney in Worcester, Mass.; incorporation and bylaws for the Sons of Abraham in Worcester, Mass.; and account books of Rockwood Hoar, Hannah B. Randlett, and Christine R. Hoar Gillett.

24 cartons (stored offsite) and 1 extra tall v. (stored onsite)

Massachusetts Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7563823

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Rice, William, 1931-2006

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Brunswick Co., Va. resident. From the description of Accounts, 1815-1825. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36635434 d. 2006. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)). WorldCat record id: 82232618 ...

Clark university Worcester, Mass.

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Civilian Technical Corps.

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Hoar, Rockwood, 1855-1906.

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Hoar family.

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Foster, Reginald Candler, d. 1945.

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Sons of Abraham (Worcester, Mass.)

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Hoar, Ruth Ann Miller, d. 1903.

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La Farge, Louisa Ruth Hoar, 1898-1945.

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Gillett, Christine Rice Hoar, b. 1895.

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Hoar, George Frisbie, 1826-1904

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U. S. Senator from Massachusetts. From the description of George Frisbie Hoar letter to S. S. McClure [manuscript], 1894 January 5. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 694733616 George Frisbie Hoar (1826-1904) was a Republican Senator from Massachusetts (1877-1904). From the description of Autograph collection, 1598-1945. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122405022 From the guide to the George Frisbie Hoar autograph collection, 1598-194...

Church of the Unity (Worcester, Mass.)

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The Church of the Unity of Worcester, Mass., was formed in 1845 by members of the First Unitarian Church. The church building was erected on Elm Street and was dedicated in April 1846. The first pastor was Rev. Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909), who administered the church for ten years. In December 1858 Rev. Rush R. Shippen (1828- ) was installed as the second pastor. Among the later pastors were Rev. Henry Blanchard ( - ), Rev. Roland A. Wood ( - ), and Rev. Charles Brown Elder ( - ). The church...

Randlett, Hannah Bartlett.

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Randlett family.

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First Church (Worcester, Mass.)

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The First Church of Worcester, Mass., was organized in 1716. The first meetinghouse was erected in 1719, and the Rev. Andrew Gardner (1691-1773) was installed as the first minister. After 1854, it was more commonly referred to as the Old South Church, though never incorporated with that name. The church was incorporated as the First Church, Old South in 1908 and was called that until 1965 when it merged with the Tatnuck Congregational Church to form the First Congregational Church i...

Foster, Frances Helen Hoar, b. 1895.

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Worcester Insane Hospital

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