He never wasted money, or spent it for any self-indulgence.

But he was ready to share it with any deserving object.

Starr King said of him that "he lived all the beatitudes daily." Mr.Hoar was, I suppose, beyond all question, the highest authority in New England, indeed in the whole country, on the difficult and abstruse questions belonging to the law of water privileges and running streams.

He was declared to be such by the late Judge Benjamin R.Curtis.

The great Locks and Canals Company was organized and all the arrangements for the ownership, management and control of the water-power of Lowell were made under his advice and direction.