Sherman Hoar

1917 - 1991  (73 years)

• Name	Sherman Hoar
  Born	7 Apr 1917	Concord, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts, USA
  Gender	Male
  Census	1930
  Died	30 Mar 1991	Boston, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts, USA
  Person ID	I33167	A00 Hoar and Horr Families North America
  Last Modified	26 Sep 2013

  
  

  Father	Roger Hoar,   b. 8 Apr 1887, Waltham, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts, USA ,   d. 10 Oct 1963, South Milwaukee, Milwaukee Co, Wisconsin, USA  (Age 76 years)
  Mother	Elva Pease,   b. 8 Dec 1892, Massachusetts, USA ,   d. 23 Apr 1967, Wisconsin, USA  (Age 74 years)
  Married	25 Jun 1913	Edgartown, Dukes Co, Massachusetts, USA
  Family ID	F2323	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Living
  Children	1. Living   2. Roger Hoar,   b. Jul 1947, ,   d.
  Last Modified	26 Sep 2013
  Family ID	F22822	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Harriet Brenner
  Last Modified	6 May 2011
  Family ID	F22824	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  [[ Obituary: SHERMAN HOAR, 73 WAS CIA AGENT FOR 12 YEARS: Newspaper Obituary and Death Notice Boston Globe, The (MA) - April 23, 1991 Deceased Name: SHERMAN HOAR, 73 WAS CIA AGENT FOR 12 YEARS Sherman Hoar, a Central Intelligence Agency agent who became a woodcutter, sewage plant manager, teacher and real estate broker on the island of his boyhood summers, Martha's Vineyard, died of heart disease March 30 at Massachusetts General Hospital. He was 73 and lived in Edgartown. A graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard College in 1940, Mr. Hoar served with the Army Air Corps' 325th Fighter Group in North Africa and Italy during World War II, emerging as a major. In 1951, when he was chairman of the Department of Industrial Administration at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, he was recruited into the CIA by one of his former students. He spent 12 years in CIA work in Hong Kong, Buenos Aires, Lima, Peru, and, in the early 1960s, in the Belgian Congo, now Zaire. He left the CIA in 1963 after becoming unnerved by would-be robbers. Back in Martha's Vineyard, he chopped and sold firewood at $60 a cord, taught at Cape Cod Community College and at the Martha's Vineyard Regional High School and volunteered on the staff of the Dukes County Conservation District. In 1978 he and his wife opened a real estate firm on the island. He also joined his wife in founding the Pet Adoption and Welfare Service, or PAWS. Mr. Hoar also served on the executive committee of the Massachusetts Teachers Association, as commissioner of the Edgartown Sewer Commission, supervisor of the Dukes Conservation District and chairman of the Edgartown Fishermen's Association. He leaves his wife, Harriet; two children from a previous marriage, Roger S. 2d of Cataumet and Ann B. Floyd of Edgartown; a sister, Caroline Baker of South Milwaukee; and four grandchildren. Edition: THIRD Page: 35