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He never wasted money,
or spent it for any self-indulgence. But he was ready to
share it with any deserving object. Starr King said of him
that "he lived all the beatitudes daily."
Mr. Hoar was, I suppose, beyond all question, the highest
authority in New England, indeed in the whole country, on
the difficult and abstruse questions belonging to the law of
water privileges and running streams. He was declared to
be such by the late Judge Benjamin R. Curtis. The great Locks
and Canals Company was organized and all the arrangements
for the ownership, management and control of the water-power
of Lowell were made under his advice and direction. The same
methods have been followed in substance at Lawrence and Woonsocket
and other manufacturing places.
He preserved his vigor of body until he entered his seventy-
seventh year, taking walks of five or six miles without fatigue.
About that time he took a severe cold at a neighbor's funeral.
An illness followed which seriously impaired his strength.
He died, November 2, 1856, two days before the Presidential
election.


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