Benjamin Hoar

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BENJAMIN F. HOAR, JR.
In the enumeration of enterprises contributing to the development of Sonoma county it would be difficult to mention any that has lacked the sympathetic support of the honored pioneer, Benjamin F. Hoar, a citizen for many years actively associated with ranching interests and commercial activities, in which he still bears a leading part notwithstanding the fact that his busy life has passed into its twilight. A man of versatile ability, he has found varied avenues for his energies. During the pioneer era of our history he found employment in the mines, Later he sought a livelihood by the development of a ranch and the tilling of the soi.l By trade a carpenter, he has been employed in this occupation at different periods of his life and he has further labored as a plumber and as a surveyor. It is worthy of note that he has been a skilled workman in every occupation engaging his attention and his success, though modest, is none the less commendable and gratifying,

The early days of Benjamin F. Hoar were passed in Maine, in a region whose picturesque lakes and dense pine forests are a delight to the eye in summer, but stem and storm bound in the winter months. Born at Rangeley, Franklin county, April 14, 1838, he remembers well the hardships incident to earning a livelihood from the sterile soil or from the woods as yet untouched by the axe. The rigorous climate and lack of opportunities impelled him to seek a home elsewhere and as early as 1859 he came via the Isthmus of Panama to California, landing at San Francisco in October after a voyage lasting three months. His first employment wads as a miner in the mines at Dutch Flat and he remained there from the time of his arrival in the state until 1863 without any interval of leisure, Upon leaving the mines in 1863 he came to Sonoma county and invested his savings in the purchase of eighty acres from John Peters, Leasing the property, he went to the mines in Nevada county, Cal., and continued there until 1869, when he returned to Sonoma county as a permanent resident, and now lives in Healdsburg,

The marriage of Mr. Hoar was solemnized in 1863 at Dutch Flat, Grass Valley, and united him with Miss Eugenia E. Chichester, who wads born at Pleasant Hill, Iowa, December 2, 1848, being one of four children forming the family of Elias H. Chichester, a native of Holland, born in the year 1830. Five sons and four daughters comprised the family of Mr, and Mrs. Hoar, namely: Edward, Benjamin F., Jr., Charles A., Henry H., John A., Addie E., Mary L., Ina E, and Eugenia E. Charles A. married Emma Hamlin and is the father of a son and daughter, Vernon and Frances. Henry H., a resident of Woodland, this state, married Gertrude Harman, and has a daughter, Zelma. Addie E., Mrs, James McDowell, of Healdsburg, has five children, Albert, Frank, Harry, Archie and Hazel. Mary L. married Joseph Stephen's, a resident of the Sandwich Islands and a prominent worker in the church of the Seventh Day Adventists, They have three daughters, Anna, Mildred and Delphina Stephens. Eugenia is the wife of George Typher, of Healdsburg, and has one son, Buster Brown Typher.

Benjamin F. Hoar, Jr., was born in Grass Valley, Cal., September 21, 1868. When he was a child of one and a half years his parents removed to Cotati, where he was reared, and was a pupil in the Copeland district school. After attaining mature years he farmed for three years on his father's place, after which he became an employe of the Gotati Rancho Company, and has been with this company almost continuously since, and at the present time he is assistant foreman. In 1910 he purchased three and eighty five hundredths acres of land near Cotati, well equipped for the raising of chickens, and this he rents to a tenant.

Ever since Mr. Hoar acquired the right of franchise he has been a consistent supporter of Republican principles and has given allegiance to the men and. measures representative of the party. Of a genial, sociable disposition, he has found identification with lodges a source of pleasure as well as an opportunity to aid in charitable work. The Knights of Pythias at Petaluma number him among their members, as does the Improved Order of Red Men in the same town. As vice grand he has been officially connected with the Eagle Lodge, I. O. O. F., which has a membership of forty eight and has accomplished much for the philanthropic and moral upbuilding of the Immunity. He is an active worker with the Native Sons of the Golden West at Santa Rosa and is heartily in sympathy with the activities of this prominent organization. He is also identified with the order of Moose of Petaluma. In the early days his father brought down many a fine specimen of game, nor was he less successful when wielding the fishing line and thus it came about that he acquired a local reputation for skill in these popular sports.

From:
History of Sonoma County, California
With a Biographical Review
History by Tom Gregory
Historic Record Company
Los Angeles, California 1911

Benjamin married Eugenia Chichester on 7 May 1863 in Grass Valley, Nevada Co, California, USA. Eugenia (daughter of Elias Chichester and Nancy Knox) was born on 13 Dec 1848 in Pleasant Hill, Polk Co, Iowa, USA; died on 26 May 1925 in , Sonoma Co, California, USA. [Group Sheet]

1. Adeline Hoar was born on 29 Mar 1865 in , Sonoma Co, California, USA; died on 16 May 1925 in Healdsburg, Sonoma Co, California, USA.
2. Edwin Hoar was born on 17 May 1866 in California, USA; died on 25 May 1877 in Vallejo, Sonoma Co, California, USA; was buried in Petaluma, Sonoma Co, California, USA (Cypress Hill Memorial Park).
3. Benjamin Hoar, Jr. was born on 21 Sep 1868 in , Nevada Co, California, USA; died on 10 Apr 1956 in , Sonoma Co, California, USA.
4. Charles Hoar was born on 27 Jan 1870 in , Nevada Co, California, USA; died on 11 Jan 1944 in , Sonoma Co, California, USA.
5. Mary Hoar was born on 1 Oct 1871 in California, USA; died on 14 Aug 1963 in , Los Angeles Co, California, USA.
6. John Hoar was born on 21 Nov 1875 in California, USA; died on 3 Apr 1877 in Vallejo, Sonoma Co, California, USA; was buried in Petaluma, Sonoma Co, California, USA (Cypress Hill Memorial Park).
7. Inez Hoar was born about 1877 in California, USA; died on 7 Oct 1877 in Vallejo, Sonoma Co, California, USA; was buried in Petaluma, Sonoma Co, California, USA (Cypress Hill Memorial Park).
8. Henry Hoar was born on 28 Jan 1880 in California, USA; died on 3 Nov 1921 in Tucson, Pima Co, Arizona, USA; was buried in Petaluma, Sonoma Co, California, USA.
9. Eugenia Hoar was born on 25 Jan 1882 in Sonoma, Sonoma Co, California, USA; died on 15 Dec 1961 in Healdsburg, Sonoma Co, California, USA.
10. Fern Hoar was born on 18 Jan 1896 in Oregon, USA; died on 1 Jul 1954 in , San Francisco Co, California, USA; was buried in Colma, San Mateo Co, California, USA (Cypress Lawn Memorial Park).

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Maine, Death Records, 1617-1922
Name:John Hoar
Gender:Male
Age:52
Birth Date:1802
Death Date:13 Feb 1857
Death Place:Rangeley
Registration Place:Rangeley, Franklin
Spouse:Lois
Father:Luther
Mother:Latham

John married Lois Brackett on 26 Mar 1828 in Berlin, , Maine, USA. Lois (daughter of James Brackett and Mary Lunt) was born on 1 Dec 1801; died on 13 Jun 1847 in Rangeley, Franklin Co, Maine, USA; was buried in Rangeley, Franklin Co, Maine, USA (Nile Cemetery). [Group Sheet]

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Maine, Death Records, 1617-1922
Name:Lois Brackett Hoar
Gender:Female
Age:45
Birth Date:13 Dec 1799
Death Date:13 Jun 1842
Death Place:Rangeley
Registration Place:Rangeley, Franklin
Spouse:John
Father:James
Mother:Mary

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Shirley Adams is author of "Rangeley Allied Families"
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There is much of interest in the history of Rangeley The first settler was Deacon Luther Hoar who came with his family in April 1817 He was a distant relative of Senator Hoar and moved originally from Rowley Massachusetts to Phillips Maine
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In 1847 David son of Luther Hoar moved his father's house from the place of the first settlement over the ice to the site of what was afterward the Greenvale House

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Bride's Name: Eunice Lakeman
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Marriage Date: 27 Jan 1799
Marriage Place: Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: I00898-0
System Origin: Massachusetts-EASy
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Maine, Death Records, 1617-1922
Name:Luther Hoar
Gender:Male
Age:72
Birth Date:abt 1774
Death Date:21 Aug 1846
Death Place:Rangeley
Registration Place:Rangeley, Franklin
Spouse:Eunice
Father:Possibly

Luther married Eunice Latham on 27 Jan 1799 in Ipswich, Essex Co, Massachusetts, USA. Eunice was born on 10 Feb 1776 in ; died on 21 Aug 1846 in Rangeley, Franklin Co, Maine, USA; was buried in Rangeley, Franklin Co, Maine, USA (Nile Cemetery). [Group Sheet]

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Brackett genealogy: descendants of Anthony Brackett of Portsmouth ..., Part 1
By Herbert Ierson Brackett
James Brackett was born May 5, 1764; he was in the twelfth year of his age the first year of the War of the Revolution; had hardly completed his eleventh year when was fought the battle of Lexington. On becoming fourteen years old, parental authority could no longer restrain his ardent patriotism; he ran away from home and became a privateer. After some months of service of varying success and failure, the little vessel on which he served was disabled in battle, and the crew barely escaped with their lives to the nearest shore, then within the British lines; secreting themselves by day and foraging by night they finally made their escape. In after years, during the war, and while a soldier, when men were detailed from his company to man a sloop of war, those fitted for such service were selected; they were men who could serve a double part at war, fight equally as wel on the sea as on the land; among the number thus selected was James Brackett. When making his claim for pension, over forty years later, he did not mention his naval service aboard the privateer. Not that he had forgotten it. (or his children knew, and his grandchildren know, the story of the cruise of the ill-fated little vessel, from his relating it. Probably it was that the adventure was not pursuant to any contract with the government, continental or state, for service, and hard service as it was, it would not entitle him to pension. But pension was not his object in those days; hence service, such as a recruiting officer would not be required to pass upon his ability to perform, or other officer inquire as to whether he had his parents' consent to enter into, suited his case exactly, and this service he engaged in, and in his old days, delighted to relate about. In 1832, he applied for pension; set forth that he was then sixty-eight years old, a resident of Berlin, Me; that he served in Captain Solomon Walker's company, Colonel Prime's regiment; enlisted in April 1780, for eight months. Relative to this term of service the records of the War Department show that "James Bracket" was a private in Captain Solomon Walker's company, Colonel Joseph Prime's regiment; under command of General Wadsworth; enlisted April 30,
1780, discharged December 26, 1780, served "7 months and 27 days at Eastward."
He further stated that he again enlisted in April 1781, for nine months in Captain Benjamin Lemont's company, Samuel McCobb's regiment; was discharged January 2, 1782, at Bath, Me.; that part of the time he was on board of the sloop of war "Defense."
Relative to said term of service, the records in the War Department show that "James Bracket" was a private in Captain Benjamin Lemont's company, Colonel McCobb's regiment; enlisted May 10,
1781, discharged Dec. i, 1781, "served 6 month and 20 days near Penobscot river;" that on board of marine sloop, "Defense," commanded by Captain James Nivens. he served one month and twentyfour days, "was engaged 2 Aug., 1781, discharged 26 Sept., 1781."
Also published records show that he gave receipt dated "Coxhead 8 June 1781," to Captain Benj. Lemont, for musket, etc.
Abraham Brackett of Sidney, Kennebec county, Maine, testified under date of September 20. 1832, that? "I well recollect that my brother James, within named, enlisted and went into the service at both the times by him mentioned."
The claim was allowed and he was paid pension to the date of his death.
For several years after the close of the war he followed the sea; later he became a shipper and horse dealer; bought horses, shipped them from New Orleans to the West Indies and other places, and once lost a cargo of horses by a storm on the Gulf of Mexico. Shortly before his marriage, he had ceased his wandering and adventurous life; he settled in Sidney, Me., where he became engaged in the manufacture and sale of lumber. Here he prospered for several years, was on the road to wealth, when, at a time he had reached the age of fifty years, and had a family of eight children, in one night all he had, mills and lumber, were swept away by a flood. With property gone and indebtedness of his own to meet, his hard lot was made still harder by an obligation he had entered into by a pledge of his credit for tlie accommodation of another who lost his all by the same flood. This disaster came upon him when he was well advanced in years, when his prospects were the brightest, and when he could reasonably look forward to a life of ease and pleasure. A few years were spent in Sidney in adjusting his affairs and then he went to the wilds of Oxford county to begin life anew in a business way on a farm. Determination of purpose overcomes obstacles. Land was purchased, cleared, tilled to an advantage, and from the profits of this farm the last of his debts were paid. It is gratifying to record that this was accomplished, with the pleasures of life which are the lot of a prosperous farmer.
A personal description of him is, that he was about five feet, ten inches in height, had a clean cut face, a sharp nose and was easy and quick in his movements. Also was, at times, given to making decidedly pointed and pithy remarks.
His farm in Oxford county was in the town called at the time he settled there, Berlin, subsequently Phillips, in that part which is West Phillips; it is now owned (1906) by his grandson William Brackett. On the farm is an orchard which he planted and in which he took great pride. On this farm he settled about 1819, and passed the remainder of his days. He died March 22, 1845. One of his neighbors was his sister Sarah, who married Silas Field. The graves of the four, of himself, his wife, his sister Sarah, and her husband, are in the little graveyard in the Levi Field place; there, side by side, rest their remains.
He married January 31, 1798, Mary Lunt. Of her, Rev. Dr. Nathan Brackett of Harper's Ferry, W. V., wrote? "If grandmother now and then smoked a long-stemmed, clean clay pipe, she did it with such exquisite neatness that none of her many granddaughters would have blushed to have seen her. Nobody could bind a stonebruised bare foot or a whittled finger quite as nicely as grandmother. I wish I had one of those pretty lace caps she used to wear, or, better still, a real picture of her at spinning flax on a little wheel, as I can now see lier."
She was born May 19, 1779, died July 8, 1849, was daughter of Benjamin Lunt. He was born August 15, 1747, died in January, 1822, married January 7, 1768, Mercy Brackett; was son of James. He was son of the 2d Henry, who was born June 23, 1698, in Newberry, Mass., and wife Hannah, daughter of Joseph Noyes. Mercy Brackett was daughter of Joshua and wife Esther Cox (see div. 7, fam. i).

James married Mary Lunt on 31 Jan 1798. Mary was born on 19 May 1779; died on 8 Jul 1849. [Group Sheet]

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Marriage Date: 18 Dec 1760
Marriage Place: Littleton, Middlesex, Massachusetts
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: I08987-6
System Origin: Massachusetts-EASy
Source Film Number: 892249
Reference Number: p 138
Collection: Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910

Joseph married Mary Farwell on 18 Dec 1760 in Littleton, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts, USA. Mary (daughter of Joseph Farwell, 3rd and Mary Gilson) was born on 4 Sep 1738 in ; died in in . [Group Sheet]