Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . five cases put on probation during Mr. Hoarsterm as district attorney, only a very few haveproved to be second offenders. The probation systemis not only humane and reasonable, but it is a Chris-tian and philosophical way to teach men who haveerred to keep straight, to demonstrate that the lawof nur times is not provided as an instrument ofvengeance, but merely to protect society and tocorrect the criminal himself. What The WorcesterS/^v
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . five cases put on probation during Mr. Hoarsterm as district attorney, only a very few haveproved to be second offenders. The probation systemis not only humane and reasonable, but it is a Chris-tian and philosophical way to teach men who haveerred to keep straight, to demonstrate that the lawof nur times is not provided as an instrument ofvengeance, but merely to protect society and tocorrect the criminal himself. What The WorcesterS/^v said of Mr. Hoar when he was elected dis-trict attorney is very fitting at the close of his serviceas he enters upon a new career in the public service:In all his official acts, Mr. Hoar has been scrupu-lously painstaking, no matter what degree of im-portance was attached to them and his tenure of theoffice of assistant district attorney was characterizedby a measure of success that augurs well for a satis-factory administration of the department with himas chief. He held many other positions of honor andtrust. He was a member of the common council in. C^i>LK^ <^x^xzL^k^^x.^j^ WORCESTER COUNTY Worcester from 1887 to 1891, inclusive, being presi-dent the last-named year. These were importantyears in the municipal history of Worcester, andWr. Hoar was always useful and energetic. He wasa private in the jNIassachusetts Concord ArtilleryCompany, Company C, Fifth Regiment, Massachu-setts Volunteer JNIilitia, from 1875 to 187S. He was ap-pointed aide-de-camp on the staff of Governor OliverAmes and served from 1887 to 1890 with the rankof colonel. He was appointed judge advocate gen-eral on the staff of Governor Roger VVolcott in 1897and served four years, acting as president of themilitary board of officers, having charge of theequipment of the ^Massachusetts troops in the warof 1S98 with Spain. He had the rank of brigadier-general. He was known by all the prominent menof the s
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