Samuel Hoar '67, a Fellow of Harvard College, general counsel for the Boston and Albany railroad, a veteran of the Civil War, and one of the leading lawyers of the State, died of cerebral hemorrhage, with paralysis, at his home in Concord yesterday morning. He had been ill just two weeks.

Mr. Hoar was born in Concord in 1845, and after graduating from College, studied law with his uncle, Senator G. F. Hoar '46, at Worcester, and at the Law School during the year 1869-70. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1870, and then practiced law in Boston, engaging largely in corporation work, especially for the Boston and Albany Railroad, whose general counsel he has been since 1887. The same year he was elected an Overseer of the College, was reelected in 1893, and was chosen a Fellow of Harvard college without time limit in 1894. He was appointed counsel for the Boston Terminal Company, and vice-president of the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company in 1896. In 1902 he was prominently mentioned as the successor of the late Justice Horace Gray as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court.

Mr. Hoar rendered the Corporation valuable services, freely giving to the College the benefit of his extended legal experience. As he was especially familiar with the legal history of the College, all questions involving its legal rights were referred to him. He did a most important service to Massachusetts and its higher education by his argument in the "Williams College Case," when he supported the exemption of our educational institutions from taxation.

The funeral services will be held at the First Parish Meeting House, Concord, tomorrow afternoon at 3.15 o'clock. A special train will leave Boston--North Union Station--at 2.10.

Notice will be made of Mr. Hoar's death at Chapel this morning.