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Loring, Edward G – Lott, John A

Loring, Edward G

lawyer, jurist, was born in 1802 in Boston, Mass. He was a lecturer on law at Harvard college for several years, and in 1858 was appointed a judge of the court of claims in Washington.

Loring, Edward Greeley

physician, author, was born in 1837 in Massachusetts. He was a physician of New York city, and the author of Text-Book of Ophthalmoscopy; The Normal Eye; and Diseases of the Retina. He died in 1881.

Loring, Edward Payson

soldier, lawyer, legislator, was born in March, 1837, in Norridgewock. He was first lieutenant of the thirteenth Maine; was promoted captain, then major of the United States colored troops, and brevetted lieutenant-colonel. He settled in Fitchburg, Mass., and has represented the city in the legislature of Massachusetts.

Loring, Ellis Gray

lawyer, abolitionist, author, was born in 1808 in Boston, Mass. He was one of the twelve that formed the first anti-slavery society in Boston in 1833. He died May 24, 1858, in Boston, Mass.

Loring, Hannibal H

educator, was born Dec. 23, 1862, in Grant county, Ind.

After completing his education at the Northern Indiana Normal school, he commenced educational work. He has since been principal of schools in various large cities of Indiana, and since 1889 has been superintendent of schools of Porter county, Ind.

Loring, Israel

clergyman, was born April 15, 1682, in Hull, Mass. In 1706 he became pastor of the congregational church in Sudbury, Mass., continuing in this charge for sixty-six years. He died March 9, 1772, in Sudbury, Mass.

Loring, James Spear

author, was born Aug. 6, 1799, in Boston, Mass. He was for thirty years a bookseller in Boston, and a contributor of historical and biographical articles to the New England Historical and Genealogical Register. He was the author of A Hundred Boston Orators. He died April 12, 1884, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Loring, Prentiss

state legislator, was born in February, 1834, in Yarmouth.

He settled in Portland in the business of fire and marine insurance; has been on the superintending school committees of Yarmouth and Portland; and has represented the city in the state legislature.

Loring, William Wing

soldier, author, was born Dec. 4, 1818, in Wilmington, S. C. He was a soldier who, after serving successively in the United States and confederate armies, served in the Egyptian army in 1869-79. He was the author of A Confederate General in Egypt.

He died Dec. 30, 1886, in New York city.

Loskiel, George Henry

bishop, author, was born Nov. 7, 1740, in Russia.

He was a Moravian bishop in Pennsylvania whose two books have been many times reprinted. He was the author of Etwas fürs Herz; and History of the Moravian Missions Among the North American Indians. He died Feb. 23, 1814, in Bethlehem, Pa.

Lothrop, Charles Henry

surgeon, inventor, author, was born Sept. 3, 1831, in Taunton, Mass. He is the inventor of an apparatus for treating fractures of the leg, and of a rubber appliance for club-foot. He served during the civil war as surgeon of the first Iowa cavalry, and has been an examining surgeon for pensions since 1868. In 1876 he edited the Southern Medical Record.

Lott, John A

lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born in 1805. In 1841 he was a member of the Rhode Island state assembly, and in 1842-46 a state senator. He was justice of the supreme court in 1857-65, and judge of the court of appeals. in 1869. He died July 20, 1878, in Flatbush, R. I.