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EBENEZER ROCKWOOD, an American jurist; born in Concord, Mass., Feb. 21, 1816; was judge of the Massachusetts Supreme Court in 1859-1869; United States attorney-general in 1869- 1870; joint high commissioner on the Treaty of Washington in 1871, and member of Congress in 1873-1875. He was the son of Samuel Hoar, a lawyer and member of Congress in 1835-1837, and his mother was a daughter of Roger Sherman. He died in Concord, Mass., Jan. 31, 1895.

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