however, Caroline had suffered from illness for many years. Caroline was the half-sister of US Representative George M. Brooks of Massachusetts. Hoar family Hoar's father Samuel Hoar was an influential lawyer and politician. Through his mother, Sarah Sherman, E. Rockwood Hoar was the grandson of American founding father Roger Sherman and Rebecca Minot Prescott. Hoar's brother George Frisbie Hoar served as U.S. Senator from Massachusetts from 1877 to his death in 1904. Hoar's children include U.S. Representative Sherman Hoar (1860–1898) and Samuel Hoar (1845–1904). Hoar's grandchildren include Massachusetts State Senator and Assistant Attorney General Roger Sherman Hoar. Hoar's first cousin Roger Sherman Baldwin was a U.S. Senator and Governor of Connecticut. Another first cousin, William Maxwell Evarts, was a U.S. Senator and Secretary of State (and immediately preceded Hoar as U.S. Attorney General), and yet another one, Sherman Day, was a California State Senator, 1855–56, U.S. Surveyor General, 1868–71, and an original trustee of the University of California. Hoar is distantly related to political commentator Tucker Carlson. Death Hoar died in Concord in 1895. He is interred in Concord's Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. See also Unsuccessful nominations to the Supreme Court of the United States References Sources "HOAR, Ebenezer Rockwood, (1816–1895)" Butler, Benjamin Franklin. Letter of General Benj. F. Butler, to Hon. E. R. Hoar. [Lowell?, Mass.]: N.p., 1876. Cox, Jacob Dolson. "How Judge Hoar Ceased to be Attorney General", Atlantic Monthly July 1895, p. 162–173. (Available online: Making of America. Cornell University Library) Hoar, Ebenezer Rockwook. Hoar, Ebenezer Rockwood. Address at the laying of the corner stone of the Memorial Hall. Boston: Tolman & White, printers, 1870. Hoar, Ebenezer Rockwood. Address in the old Concord Meeting House, April 19, 1894. Boston: Beacon Press, T. Todd, printer, 1894. Hoar, George Frisbie. The charge against President Grant and Attorney General Hoar of packing the Supreme Court of the United States. Worcester, Mass.: Press of C. Hamilton, [1896?] Massachusetts. Bar. Tributes to the Bar and of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth to the memory of Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar. Cambridge, Mass.: J. Wilson and Son, University Press, 1895. Storey, Moorfield, and Edward W. Emerson. Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar: A Memoir, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1911. External links Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar US Department of Justice Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography: The Hoar Family Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts: Office of Reporter of Decisions (1804 – present) 163 Mass. 597 (1895) Ebenezer