Charles Hoare (1590-1638)/List of Famous Descendants

Famous descendants of Englishman Charles Hoare (1590-1638) and his wife Joanna Hincksman (1586-1661). Their children were closely involved with the family of Lord John Lisle, part of the group to order the execution of King Charles I.  As such, many of them later fled to America when the Royalists returned to power.

Family Tree

 * Roger Sherman (1721-1793)/Immigrant Ancestors

Children & Grandchildren

 * John Hoar (1619-1704) - (Son) immigrated to America - md Alice Lisle
 * Leonard Hoar (1630-) -(Son) immigrated to America - md Bridget Lisle

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 *  Hoar, Elizabeth S (1814-1878) - ( RPrescott,  BPrescott4,  BPrescott3,  EHoar,  JHoar, CHoare1) was engaged to Charles Chauncy Emerson (1808–1836), youngest brother of Ralph Waldo Emerson and young law partner of Samuel Hoar; Charles died of tuberculosis before they could marry, and she never married. She was an intimate of the Emerson, Hawthorne and Thoreau families. R.W. Emerson invited Elizabeth into the Transcendentalist community, and she aided in producing their journal, The Dial.
 *  Hoar, Ebenezer R (1816-1895) - ( RPrescott,  BPrescott4,  BPrescott3,  EHoar,  JHoar, CHoare1) - was Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and US Attorney General for President Ulysses Grant; later nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court by Grant, but the nomination was not approved by the Senate; he married Caroline Brooks of Concord.
 *  Hoar, Sarah S (1817-1907)- married Robert Boyd Storer (1796–1870), a Boston, Massachusetts importer trading with Russia, and Russian Consul at Boston.[11][12]
 *  Hoar, Edward S (1823-1893) - married childhood neighbor Elizabeth Hallet Prichard of Concord,[14] and was an intimate of Henry David Thoreau (the Thoreau family lived across Main street from the Hoars, in several different houses over the years). Edward Sherman was a California state district attorney for the fourth Judicial district in 1850.
 *  Hoar, Greoge F, Sen, (1826-1904) - became a prominent U.S. Senator representing Massachusetts for 27 years, from 1877 until his death.
 *  Hoar, Samuel (1845-1904) son of Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, was editor of the American Law Review from 1873 to 1879. In 1887 he became general counsel for the Boston and Albany Railroad Company.[22]
 *  Hoar, Samuel (1887-1952) was partner in a prominent Boston law firm, called during his lifetime Goodwin, Procter and Hoar.

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 *  Sherman, Roger, Jr. (1768-1856) - was a 1787 graduate of Yale College served in the Connecticut General Assembly in 1810–1811.
 *  Sherman, Edward S (1818-1882) - ( RSherman2, RPrescott,   BPrescott4,  BPrescott3,  EHoar,  JHoar, CHoare1) - Edward removed to Fairfield CT, was a dealer in metals and trustee of The Hopkins School.