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He is Yice-President of the National Audubon Society, and wrote the fa- mous " Petition of the Birds," which he sent to the Massachusetts Legislature in May, 1897, and upon which was founded a law providing for the more adequate care and keeping of the feathered songsters. He is also a member of the American Historical Society; of the American Antiquarian Society, of which he has been President, succeeding Stephen Salisbury and being succeeded by the second Stephen Salis- bury in that office; of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College, from which he received the honorary degree of LLD; and of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the New England Historic Genealogical Society, and the Virginia His- torical Society, in all of which he is a trustee. He is a corresponding member of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, and has the de- gree of LLD from Amherst, Yale, and William and Mary Colleges, as well as Harvard. In 1853 Mr Hoar married Miss Mary Louisa Spurr, of Worcester, who died a few days later. In 1862 he married Miss Ruth Ann Miller, also of Worcester. prev next |