Henry Horr

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1870 census Montana, Gallatin Co
Horr, Henry, age 28 Male White Store Clerk real value 1500 born NY
Living in a household of men, including;
Buck Daniel, 28 M W Bar Keeper 1000 NY
Hubble Loman, 28 M W Post Suiter 500 500 NY
DeVault George, 26 M W Teamster . . MO

1880 Census Place: Carbon, Moore, Little Blackfoot And Snowshoe, Deer Lodge Co, Montana
Household: Page Number 194D
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
Transcribed as HARR.
Deforest HOBART Self S Male W 60 NY Miner MA VT
William BARTON Other S Male W 34 NY Miner NY ENG
*Harry R. HARR Other S Male W 36 NY Miner NY PA
James GENNETTE Other S Male W 50 NY NY NY

Living with brother Christopher and his wife Teckla/Thekla.
1910 Census: 10-Ward Seattle, King Co, Washington
Transcribed as HARR.
Henry R. Horr, brother, age 67, divorced, bp NY, f's bp NY, m's bp OH, Retired

Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Thursday, February 29, 1912
HORR - Henry R. Horr, member of Stevens Post, G. A. R., brother of Christopher W. Horr, of this city, and Mrs. Adam S. Little, Red Cliff, Colo., Maj. Joseph L. Horr, Chicago. Funeral services held at G. A. R. cemetery at Capitol hill, today (Thursday), February 29, at 10 a.m. Services conducted by Stevens Post, G. A. R. Body can be seen at University Undertaking Parlors, 4214 Fourteenth avenue northeast. -- No flowers. Chicago, Montana and Dubuque papers please copy

Civil War Service Record
Name: Henry R Horr ,
Residence: Dubuque, Iowa
Enlistment Date: 17 August 1861
Distinguished Service: DISTINGUISHED SERVICE
Side Served: Union
State Served: Iowa
Unit Numbers: 233 233
Service Record: Enlisted as a Sergeant 5th Class on 17 August 1861 at the age of 19Promoted to Full Sergeant 4th Class on 24 February 1862Enlisted in 1st Light Artillery Regiment Iowa on 17 August 1864.Mustered out 1st Light Artillery Regiment Iowa on 17 August 1864 in Davenport, IA

Yellowstone Science volume 12 number 3 summer 2004
Harry R. Horr and the Promotion of the National Park
R. Brad Coon
F.J. Haynes stereograph of "Horr and McCartney's Hotel," 1885.
HISTORIAN first "interpreter" Lee Whittlesey has identified G.L. Henderson as Yellowstone's but, with a slight change of perspective, it is possible that honor might be given to H. R. Horr, another early personality in the park's story.(1) After all, Horr's residence within Yellowstone's boundaries predated its establishment as a national park and, as this essay will demonstrate, he apparently had no hesitation in describing Yellowstone's features to anyone willing to listen (particularly if they were willing to pay to hear him).
One of the complications that prevents Horr from being more generally recognized as an interpreter is the scant documentation regarding his involvement with Yellowstone and his residence in Montana. So few documents bearing his name have survived that considerable confusion exists even over his given name. Known variously as "Henry" or "Harry," H.R. Horr left a confusing trail for researchers in the public record and, until now, not a single piece of original personal correspondence has been discovered.(2) However, due to a fortuitous accident, one of Horr's correspondents preserved a personal letter that has recently come to light in the Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections of Montana State University. While examining other materials, a previously unnoted letter authored by Horr was found. This remarkable document, while disappointingly brief, gives new insight into Horr's character and his involvement with the early history of Yellowstone National Park.
Henry Riddle Horr was born in Youngstown, New York, on September 20, 1842.(3) Some time after his birth, he moved with his family to Dubuque, Iowa. He apparently received a good education there, if his subsequent careers and eloquence are any evidence. During the Civil War, Horr received a war-rant as sergeant with the First Independent Battery of the Iowa Light Artillery, but his mili-tary career ended when he received a painful groin wound at the Battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, on March 7, 1862.(4)
Judging from his first appearance in the public record in Montana, Horr may have returned to Dubuque and studied law for a time after leaving the army. He arrived in the Montana Territory in 1867, along with his brother, Captain Joseph Latshaw Horr, Company F, 13th U.S. Infantry.(5) The 1868 Helena City Directory listed Henry R. Horr of Iowa as a lawyer on Main Street, and also included a short historical sketch of the town written by him.(6) By 1870, Horr had moved to the Gallatin Valley. The 1870 census recorded him as "Henry R. Horr," a New York-born white male, 28 years of age, owning property worth $1,600, and employed as a clerk in a store, most likely the post sutlery (trading post) at Fort Ellis, where his brother had been stationed.7 Although years later he would claim to be among the party that rescued Truman Everts, Horr was more likely at Fort Ellis when the other members of the Langford-Doane-Washburn expedition returned from the Upper Yellowstone without Everts in October 1870, and probably heard about the fabulous geologic wonders they had seen.8 Horr arrived at the Mammoth Hot Springs in early 1871 and, along with James C. McCartney, claimed the terraces for their own.9 They established what was variously known as "Horr and McCartney's Hotel," "Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel," and "National Park Hotel."10 Unfortunately for Horr and McCartney, Congress set aside the entire Yellowstone region as a national park in 1872, effectively putting an end to the entrepreneurs' hopes of becoming rich from the tourists and invalids who would pay to use the "curative waters."
That same year, a group of citizens from the Bozeman area nominated Horr for the position of superintendent

Yellowstone National Park, and in the bombastic manner which was so often associated with Horr, proclaimed him "an old mountaineer-one who is thoroughly acquainted with this marvelous region-the first white man who penetrated this region with a view to permanent settlement."11 The Interior Department instead awarded the position to Nathaniel P. Langford, and although one source suggests Langford appointed Horr and McCartney as the park's custodians in 1874, it cannot be corroborated.12 Horr eventually left it to McCartney to care for the "hotel" and returned to Bozeman, where he acquired a reputation as a humorist and lecturer.13 It was during this period that Horr began calling himself in print "Harry R. Horr" or more briefly, "H.R. Horr."
Horr continued his efforts to profit from Yellowstone and its wonders in 1874, when newspaper articles mentioned his intention to set up a "museum" with live animal displays on the park's periphery. Shortly afterward, he announced his plans to tour New York as a lecturer with a panorama of the park.14 Panoramas were popular in the nineteenth century and generally consisted of a large scroll covered with painted scenes. As a narrator described the various scenes, the scroll was unrolled, often accompanied by various props and sound effects. An 1875 newspaper announcement of one of his humorous lectures saw yet another variation in his personal nomenclature when the former army sergeant referred to himself as "Major" Harry R. Horr.15 The "promotion" appears to have been temporary, as no subsequent citation used that rank.
After another stint in Helena, Horr was back in Bozeman in 1880, where he married Aurilla J. Davis on July 21.(16) The following year, he circulated his own petition in Bozeman to support another attempt to obtain the position of superintendent of Yellowstone National Park.17 The petition described Horr as "a gentleman of education, a writer, and lecturer?Republican in politics and was wounded in Federal service." Further, it claimed that he had done "more than any one person to bring that [Yellowstone] region into notice." Curiously, Horr felt the need to write a letter to send to the Interior Department vociferously denying allegations of drunkenness.18
Although Horr felt confident of receiving the position, he again failed and moved with his brother to the upper Yellow-stone, where they founded the town of Horr in 1887.(19) The town processed coal from nearby mines-apparently with some success, as during an 1884 visit to Bozeman, the Boze-man Avant Courier noted he was "the present Coal King of Montana."20 The same article indicates he was then resident in
Cinnabar and had recently become a father. A second son was born on May 23, 1886, in "Upper Yellowstone, Montana."21
Some mystery still surrounds his final years. He would eventually leave Montana and move to Seattle.22 He died there and was buried in the Grand Army of the Republic cemetery. Unfortunately the grave marker lacks the date of his death. Considering Horr's status as one of the first "permanent" settlers in Yellowstone National Park, along with his repeated efforts to link his fortunes with the park's development, any original document he created is important in understanding the region's history. This newly discovered letter, dated March 13, 1876, was addressed to William W. Alderson in Bozeman. Alderson had been one of the earliest settlers in Bozeman, was instrumental in the choice of the town's name, and became the editor of the Avant Courier on February 8, 1877. In the letter, Horr sought Alderson's endorsement in support of "setting up a Panorama of the Park" for an unnamed easterner.
The single note, a mere scrap in the compiled documenta-tion on Yellowstone's early history, is all the more delightful for the way it amply demonstrates Aubrey Haines's assessment of Horr as "quite a wag" by neatly displaying brevity as the soul of wit.24
Transcript of the letter:

(Sub Rosa)
Helena M.T.
March 13th 1876.
Dear Sir.
A certain party residing in one of the Eastern States has written me in reference to the getting up of a Panorama of the Park, and the inquisitive cuss wishes to know if I am one of the Dan Boone kind-if I really lived in the Park and if I have
any ability as a lecturer. I answered his communication in a modest manner and enclosed a list of names of residents of Montana to whom he could write to ascertain these things.
Pardon me for the liberty I took in placing your name among them. If he writes to you, I will not ask that you answer by saying that I can see Boone Carson and that ilk, and go them several hundred slain red skins better.-that I have resided in the Park since the first trip of Lewis & Clark and that as a lecturer old Demosthenes and Susan B. Anthony compared to me are sad failures for I know you won't oblige me by doing it. But give me as good a word as you can & believe me

Major W W Alderson Yours Truly
Bozeman M.T. H.R. Horr (25)

Endnotes
1 Lee H. Whittlesey, "The First National Park Interpreter: G.L. Henderson, 1882-1902," Montana the Magazine of Western History 46, no. 1 (1996): 26-41.
2 Anecdotal evidence suggests that there has occasionally been speculation that Henry R. Horr and Harry R. Horr were two dif-ferent individuals, Lee H. Whittlesey (p.c.) has discovered communications in the public record confirming they are one and the same, U.S. House, letter dated May 15, 1896, 54th Cong., 1st sess., H. Rept. 1846, (Wash-ington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1896), 11-12.
3 Sandra Hoard, "Hoard Family: Desc of Robertus Hore - Gen 19," September 16, 2002 http://sjhoard.tripod.com/hoardfamily/id8.html, entry number 750, accessed on September 27, 2002.
4 United States War Department, War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, ser. I, vol. 8 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880-1907), 265.
5 Records of the Office of the Secretary of Interior relating to the Yellowstone National Park 1872-1886. Reel 4. Appointments Divi-sion, letters received concerning superinten-dents, 1872-86, File No. 234. Joseph L. Horr was the Captain of F Company, 13th United States Infantry. "Returns from U.S. Military
Posts, 1800-1916, Fort Ellis 572-574." Adju-tant General's Office, Washington, D.C.
6 Historical Sketch and Essay on the Resources of Montana Including a Business Directory of the Metropolis. (Helena: Herald Book and Job Printing Office, 1868), 147.
7 Montana Census, 1870, 110; Haines (p. 133) indicates Horr was an employee of the post sutlery at the time of the Everts rescue. Aubrey L. Haines, The Yellowstone Story, vol. 2, (Yellowstone National Park, Wyo: Yellow-stone Library and Museum Association in cooperation with the Colorado Associated University Press, 1977).
8 Lee Whittlesey (p.c.) confirms that Harry Horr was not the discoverer of Mam-moth Hot Springs, which had earlier been described by Everts and Peale.
9 John Vesuvius. "Harry Horr's Hot Springs Claim," Avant Courier, January 11, 1883, p. 1, col. 2-3.
10 Haines, 196.
11 Records of the Office of the Secretary of Interior relating to the Yellowstone National Park 1872-1886. Reel 4. Appoint-ments Division, letters received concerning superintendents, 1872-86, letter dated May 2, 1872.
12 Doris Whithorn, "James C. McCartney: Mayor of Gardiner, Montana," Twice Told on the Upper Yellowstone, vol. I. (Livingston, Montana, 1994), 67. Horr wrote a 10-part humorous column, usually but not always called "Around the Campfire" for the Avant Courier from September 9-December 15, 1881.
13 "Married," Avant Courier, April 2, 1875, p. 3, col. 3.
14 "National Park in the Centennial," Avant Cou-rier, July 31, 1874, p. 3, col. 1; "The National Park Panorama," Avant Courier, August 7, 1874, p. 3, col. 3.
15 "Married," Avant Courier, April 2, 1875, p. 3, col. 3.
16 Avant Courier, July 28, 1880, p. 3, col. 5.
17 Avant Courier, February 10, 1881, p. 3, col. 3; Records of the Office of the Secretary of Interior relating to the Yellowstone National Park 1872-1886. Reel 4. Appoint-ments Division, letters received concerning superintendents, 1872-86, File No. 234. The letters and petitions written in support of this nomination are interesting because this is one of the few instances where Harry R. Horr is referred to as Henry R. Horr as well as the more common "H.R. Horr."
18 Ibid.
19 Avant Courier, March 24, 1881, p. 3, col. 2. Horr indicated he would probably place his headquarters at Fire Hole Basin in the park, but this never happened.
20 Avant Courier, October 23, 1884, p. 3, col. 3.
21 "Born," Avant Courier, May 27, 1886, p. 3, col. 7.
22 Whithorn (p. 48) indicates without any citation that Horr penned a dime novel about Calamity Jane and applied for a post office at Horr in 1887. Doris Whithorn, "Christmas Horror at Horr," In Celebration of Our Past (Bozeman, Mont.: Gallatin County Histori-cal Society, 1994).
23 Row D28, Plot 148. Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. "Governor Isaac I. Stevens Camp #1, Washington State Camp-at-Large, Alphabetical List of Internees G.A.R. Cem-etery-Seattle, Washington. "December 3, 2000 http://home.attbi.com/~suvcw/seacem1.html, accessed September 20, 2002.
24 Haines, 133.
25 Merrill G. Burlingame Papers, 1880-1890, 2245, Box 7, Folder 7, Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections, Montana State Univer-sity Libraries, Bozeman.

Henry married Aurilla Davis on 21 Jul 1880 in Bozeman, Gallatin Co, Montana, USA. Aurilla (daughter of Joseph J. Davis and Margaret S. (Unknown)) was born in Feb 1858 in Indiana, USA; died on 19 Dec 1918 in Seattle, King Co, Washington, USA; was buried in Seattle, King Co, Washington, USA (Lake View Cemetery). [Group Sheet]

1. Harriet Horr was born in Dec 1881 in Bozeman, Gallatin Co, Montana, USA; died on 9 Jun 1966 in Seattle, King Co, Washington, USA; was buried in Seattle, King Co, Washington, USA (Evergreen Washelli Cemetery).
2. Leonard Horr was born in Sep 1884 in Montana, USA; died in Oct 1911 in .
3. Allison Horr was born on 23 May 1886 in Horr, Park Co, Montana, USA; died on 28 Feb 1955 in Tacoma, Pierce Co, Washington, USA.

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Could not find in 1850, probably still in Canada.

1860 Census: Dubuque, Dubuque Co, Iowa
name, age, est birth yr, place of birth, occ
Leonard Horr 42 1817 New York Land Agent
Harriet Horr 46 1813 New York
Joseph Horr 22 1837 Canada Land Agent
Henry Horr 18 1841 New York Clerk
Mary Horr 17 1842 New York
Monroe Horr 15 1844 Canada
William Horr 12 1847 Canada [Christopher William]

1870 Census: Ward 3 Dubuque, Dubuque Co, Iowa
Harriet L. Horr, age 61, born in Ohio
Joseph L. Horr, age 32, Captain USA, born in Canada West
Elizabeth R. Horr, age 27, born in Iowa
Mary J. Horr, age age 27, born in New York
Christopher W. Horr, age 23, Real Estate Agent born in Canada West
Nellie Horr, age 7, born in Wisconsin
Note Leonard is deceased, and dau Harriet went by the name Nellie.
Joseph was married to Elizabeth Ogilby- Oglesby.
The Ogilby- Oglesby family were neighbors in 1860.

1880 Census Place: 4th Ward, Dubuque, Dubuque Co, Iowa
Household:
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
H. L. HORR Self W Female W 64 OH Keeping House MD PA
Christ. W. HORR Son S Male W 38 CAN Deals In Real Estate NY OH
Herrett HORR Dau S Female W 16 WI WI WI
Note Leonard is deceased.

Served in the civil War>
The Daily Gazette Davenport, Iowa
Tuesday Morning October 21, 1962
Military Appointments.
Leonard, Horr, Dubuque, Co. F, 21st inf. Aug. 22.
>http://216.239.53.104/search?q=cache:fzLw4LYZQkgJ:www.celticcousins.net/scott/cwnewsitems1862pg5.htm+ohio+civil+war+horr&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Enlisted as a Captain on 03 June 1862 at the age of 47. Commissioned in Company F, Infantry Regiment, Iowa on 22 August 1862. Discharged Company F Infantry Regiment, Iowa on 27 May 1863 in Vicsburg.

>http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/cwnewsitems1862pg5.htm

http://www.rootsweb.com/~iadubuqu/obits/obits4.html

Leonard married Harriet Latshaw on 19 Jan 1837 in Paris, Ontario, Canada. Harriet (daughter of Joseph Christopher Latshaw and Mary Riddle) was born about 1808 in Ohio, USA; died on 16 Nov 1893 in St. Paul, Ramsey Co, Minnesota, USA; was buried on 19 Nov 1893 in Dubuque, Dubuque Co, Iowa, USA (Linwood Cemetery). [Group Sheet]

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Name: Harriet Satshaw Horr
Gender: Female
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Death Date: 16 Nov 1893
Death Place: Saint Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, United States
Age: 85
Birth Date: 1808
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: I10283-3
System Origin: Minnesota-EASy
Source Film Number: 1309246
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Collection: Minnesota Deaths and Burials, 1835-1990

http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/special/family/latshaw2.txt
Gary D. Smith See Latshaw>
http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/special/family/latshaw10.txt

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Married:
Both of Dundas by license. Witt: Benjamin Spencer, Peter Latshaw.
London District Marriages, 1832 - 1853, Part 4
Marriage performed by Rev. Jacob Goble, Free Communion Baptist Church
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~maryc/londondist4.htm

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Moved from New Salem, Franklin Co MA to Carthage, Lewis Co (now Jefferson Co) NY
Is listed on the Lewis County NY 1807 census as is his brother Robert.
Isaac was a Captain in War of 1812.
Also lived in Worthington, Franklin Co Ohio, returning to Jefferson Co New York.
Two of his sons become physicians, Asa and William Shakespeare.

1810 Census: Lewis co, New York
Image: 18
Isaac How/Horr ?
1 male under 10 - son Isaac
2 males under 26- self Isaac-25, 1 extra male
1 female under 10- dau Nancy
1 female under 26- wife Nancy
same page as Luther Hoar, husband of sister Elizabeth Horr.
I suspect the extra male to be brother Willis.

Returned to Jefferson Co NY to reside in 1827 after the fire of his mercantile business in Ohio.
Could not find him in 1820 or 1830 census.

Isaac married Nancy Smith on 24 Jan 1806 in Carthage, Jefferson Co, New York, USA. Nancy was born about 1783 in Salem, Essex Co, Massachusetts, USA; died on 1 May 1851 in , Jefferson Co, New York, USA. [Group Sheet]

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Nancy was known for her nursing skills and was in demand during the epidemics. JVS

Living with dau Cynthia in 1850.
1850 Census: Elizabeth, Licking Co, Ohio
Nancy Horr, age 66, bp MA

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"One of the oldest settlers in Brant county Canada. He was born in York, State of Pennsylvania, and his wife (Mary Riddel) was a native of Carlisle, in the same state."

Joseph married Mary Riddle on 21 Nov 1799 in Carlisle, Cumberland Co, Pennsylvania, USA. Mary was born about 1781 in ; died on 12 Jul 1849. [Group Sheet]

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Groom's Name: Robert Jr. Hoar
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Bride's Name: Sarah Reed
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Marriage Date: 17 Jan 1768
Marriage Place: Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: I01315-9
System Origin: Massachusetts-EASy
Source Film Number: 945014
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Collection: Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910


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Robert, and his family, lived in Dartmouth, Freetown & Middleboro, of Bristol Co MA. He bought land in Dartmouth, there in 1768. In 1773 "of Dartmouth" when be bought land at Freetown. Sold part of his holdings in 1785. The rest in 1791 after moving to New Salem, before 1790. While living in Freetown, in 1778, he was a sergeant under Capt. Henry Pierce of 4th Co. Middleboro, he served as commissary collecting forage. Note there are five Pierce marriages in this couples descendants.

Hoar, Robert. Sergeant, Capt. Henry Peirce's co., Col. Ebenezer White's regt.; marched Aug. 1, 1780; discharged Aug. 9, 1780; service, 9 days, at Rhode Island on an alarm. Roll sworn to at Middleborough. http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/print.cgi?hoar::593.html

Census: 1790 Middlesex Co. MA, New Salem twp. part of Hampshire Co. pg. 118
Hoar, Robert; 3 males -over 16 yr, 4 males- under 16, 3 females, no others or slaves.
This works out to be;
3 males over 16; head Robert, sons Jacob, Israel,
4 males under 16; Willis, Robert III, Elijah, Issac
3 females; wife Sarah, dau Sarah, & Mercy.
Judith was not yet born. Peter had died.
Note this number does not include son Warren married abt 1790, or dau Elizabeth married abt 1788.
Shadrach Hoar 1790 census has an extra female and male. Half brother Peter Hoar in Plymouth Co has an extra male over 16.

Deed Index for years 1787 to 1889 Hampshire Co, Massachusetts.
Philip Hathaway sold New Salem property to Robert Hoar on July 7, 1788, bk 2, pg 533
Rufus Trask sold Shutesbury property to Robert Hoar on June 10, 1793, bk 7, pg 45
Robert Hoar sold New Salem property to Jonathan Southwick on Feb 17, 1800, bk 14, pg 274
Jacob Hoar sold New Salem property to Robert Hoar on Feb 17, 1800, bk 14, pg 275
Robert Hoar sold New Salem property to Jacob Hoar on Feb 17, 1800, bk 14, pg 275
Robert Hoar sold Shutesbury property to David Pickens on March 9, 1803, bk 9, pg 666
Robert Hoar sold New Salem property to Warren Hoar on March 24, 1808, bk 24, pg 612
Robert is not named again.

1800 Census: New Salem, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts
Hoar, Robert
1 male under 10 yrs. [born btw 1790-1800 Isaac]
1 male 10 to 16 yrs. [b btw 1774 - 1790 Willis]
2 males 16 to 26 yrs. [b btw 1774- 1784 Robert III & Elijah]
2 females under 10 yrs. [born btw 1790-1800 Mercy & Judith]
1 male over 45 yrs. [Robert II]
1 female over 45 yrs. [wife Sarah]
The four oldest children were married as was the sixth, and the 9th had died.

Also in New Salem: Shadrach Hoar.

1810 census: Denmark, Lewis Co, New York
Robber Hor
I believe that sons Willis & Elijah and daughter Mercy as well as son Jacob's family were living with him.
3 males under 10 [Jacob's sons Elijah, Josiah, Walter]
2 males 10 to 16 yrs [Jacob's sons Obed, Pierce]
0 males 16 to 26 yrs
3 males 26 to 45 yrs [Willis, Elijah, and Jacob now married]
1 male over 45 yrs [Robert]
1 female under 10 yrs [Sarah, Jacob's dau]
0 females 10 to 16 yrs
1 female 16 to 26 yrs [Mercy]
1 female 26 to 45 yrs [Hannah, Jacob's wife]
1 female over 45 yrs [Sarah]

Children used the name Horr. A few later generations used Hoar, Hor, Harr, Hoard, Hord, Horrworth, and Orr.
Robert had 37 grandsons. Three were named William, three named Charles, and three named Warren. None were named Robert. (24 granddaughters)

1st child Warren returned to/stayed in Massachusetts, four children resided in New York; 2nd child Elizabeth, 4th Israel, 8th Elijah, and 11th child Mercy. The 3rd child Jacob went to Ohio, 7th Robert went to Illinois, and 12th Judith went to Michigan. The 10th, Isaac went to Ohio but returned to New York. JVS

"Originally the family name was Hoar, of the same pedigree as the distinguished family of that name in Massachusetts, and was changed to Horr by an act of the legislature." THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY

Robert's half brother, Peter, lived in Middleborough, Plymouth Co, MA. Little is known of him. He married Mercy/Marcy Pierce and by census appears to have had two sons and three daughters with unknown names.

Robert's half brother, John, lived in Pelham, Hampshire Co MA. He married Abigail PEIRCE b: 24 Nov 1785 in Pelham, Hampshire, MA. Her parents were George Peirce & Sarah Pierce. Note spelling of surnames.

http://www.massmayflower.org/publications/md/md42/MD42-175-182.pdf
THE MAYFLOWER DESCENDANTS VOL 42 NO 2 JULY 1992 (Page 181)
LOST:
Family Bible of Robert and Sarah (Reed) Hoar.
A Record of Descendants of Hezekiah Hoar of Taunton, Massachusetts, by Norton T. Horr (1907), under the sketch for Robert Hoar (Robert, Samuel, Nathaniel, Hezekiah) (page 14) and his wife Sarah Reed, lists a daughter named Mercy, born 25 January 1790, who married "---- Evans." In the text of this sketch it is reported that "Their [ie. Robert and Sarah's] bible record, begun in 1800, is still preserved." (Etc)

Census:
1790 New Salem, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts
1800 New Salem, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts
1810 Denmark, Lewis Co, New York

Robert married Sarah Reed on 17 Jan 1768 in Middleboro, Plymouth Co, Massachusetts, USA. Sarah (daughter of William Reed and Sarah Warren) was born on 15 Jan 1748 in Middleboro, Plymouth Co, Massachusetts, USA; died on 23 Aug 1822 in New Salem, , Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet]

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Groom's Name: Robert Jr. Hoar
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Bride's Name: Sarah Reed
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Marriage Place: Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: I01315-9
System Origin: Massachusetts-EASy
Source Film Number: 945014
Reference Number: Roll4 P29 R25
Collection: Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910


Richard 1> Nathanial 2> Richard 3> Samuel 4> Sarah Warren5> Sarah Read/Reed 6
Sarah was married near her 18th birthday. Sarah and Robert were married over 50 years. They had 12 children in 24 years. Sarah was about 45 years old at the birth of her last child, Judith. Judith was born near Sarah's birthday and two days before her 25th wedding anniversary. This couple buried one child, Peter in 1786. I have not been able to locate descendants of son Willis or daughter Sarah. JVS

Sarah's Siblings:
1. Priscilla Reed b: 8 Dec 1742 in Middleborough, Plymouth Co MA
2. William Reed b: 24 Jan 1743/44 in Middleborough, Plymouth Co MA
3. Benjamin Reed b: 29 Jan 1745/46 in Middleborough, Plymouth Co MA
4. Elisabeth Reed I b: 4 May 1750 in Middleborough, Plymouth Co MA
5. Israel Reed b: 17 Mar 1752 in Middleborough, Plymouth Co MA
6. Elisabeth Reed II b: 9 Sep 1759 in Middleborough, Plymouth Co MA
7. Abner Reed b: 12 Aug 1764 in Middleborough, Plymouth Co MA

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Married:
Middleboro MA marriages to 1800