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Elizabeth Sherman Hoar Farnsworth was born 14 July 1814 in Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts to Samuel Hoar (1778-1856) and Sarah Sherman (1783-1866) and died 7 April 1878 Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts of unspecified causes.

Hoar, Elizabeth S (1814-1878) - 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.






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Offspring of Samuel Hoar (1778-1856) and Sarah Sherman (1783-1866)
Name Birth Death Joined with
Elizabeth Sherman Hoar (1814-1878) 14 July 1814 Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts 7 April 1878 Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar (1816-1895) 21 February 1816 Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States 31 January 1895 Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States Caroline Downes Brooks (1820-1892)
Sarah Sherman Hoar (1817-1907) 9 November 1817 Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts 23 July 1907 Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Robert Boyd Storer (1795-1870)
Samuel Johnson Hoar (1820-1821) 4 February 1820 Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts 10 January 1821 Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Edward Sherman Hoar (1823-1893) 21 February 1823 Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts 22 February 1893 Washington Elizabeth Hallet Pritchard (1822-1917)
George Frisbie Hoar (1826-1904) 27 August 1826 Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts 30 September 1904 Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts Mary Louisa Spurr (1831-1859)
Ruth Ann Miller (1830-1903)

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