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Title: Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2

Author: George Hoar

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*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SEVENTY ***

Produced by Ed Ferris

[Frontispiece: v1.jpg]
SENATOR GEORGE F. HOAR
From a photograph taken in 1897
_Copyright, 1897, by H. Schervee, Worcester, Mass._

[Title page]
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
OF SEVENTY YEARS

BY
GEORGE F. HOAR

WITH PORTRAITS

VOLUME I.

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1903

[Dedication]
TO
MY WIFE AND CHILDREN
THIS RECORD OF A LIFE WHICH
THEY HAVE MADE HAPPY
IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED

[Table of Contents]
CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTORY

CHAPTER II
ROGER SHERMAN AND HIS FAMILY

CHAPTER III
SAMUEL HOAR

CHAPTER IV
BOYHOOD IN CONCORD

CHAPTER V
FAMOUS CONCORD MEN

CHAPTER VI
FARM AND SCHOOL

CHAPTER VII
HARVARD SIXTY YEARS AGO

CHAPTER VIII
1849 TO 1850--FOUNDATION OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY--
DANIEL WEBSTER

CHAPTER IX
LIFE IN WORCESTER

CHAPTER X
POLITICAL HISTORY OF MASSACHUSETTS FROM 1848 TO 1869

CHAPTER XI
THE KNOW NOTHING PARTY AND ITS OVERTHROW

CHAPTER XII
ELECTION TO CONGRESS

CHAPTER XIII
SUMNER AND WILSON

CHAPTER XIV
PERSONALITIES IN DEBATE

CHAPTER XV
THE NATIONAL HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN 1869

CHAPTER XVI
POLITICAL CONDITION IN 1869

CHAPTER XVII
RECONSTRUCTION

CHAPTER XVIII
COMMITTEE SERVICE IN THE HOUSE

CHAPTER XIX
SALMON P. CHASE

CHAPTER XX
ADIN THAYER

CHAPTER XXI
POLITICAL CORRUPTION

CHAPTER XXII
CREDIT MOBILIER

CHAPTER XXIII
THE SANBORN CONTRACTS

CHAPTER XXIV
BENJAMIN F. BUTLER

CHAPTER XXV
BELKNAP IMPEACHMENT

CHAPTER XXVI
ELECTORAL COMMISSION

CHAPTER XXVII
FOUR NATIONAL CONVENTIONS, 1876

CHAPTER XXVIII
FOUR NATIONAL CONVENTIONS, 1880

CHAPTER XXIX
FOUR NATIONAL CONVENTIONS, 1884

CHAPTER XXX
FOUR NATIONAL CONVENTIONS, 1888

CHAPTER XXXI
SATURDAY CLUB

CHAPTER XXXII
THE WORCESTER FIRE SOCIETY

APPENDIX I.

APPENDIX II.

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