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Loring, Francis Hammer

soldier, business man, was born July 9, 1832, in Belpre, Ohio. In 1863 he enlisted as a private soldier in company G, ninety-second regiment Ohio volunteer infantry; was promoted to captain on organization of company, served three years and was commissioned major of volunteers at the close of the war. He has been prominent in political and educational affairs; president of the Iowa Masons' Benevolent society of Oskaloosa, and held numerous offices of honor in various fraternal orders.

LORING, FREDERIC WADSWORTH, journalist, author, poet, was born Dec. 12, 1848, in Boston, Mass. He was a Boston journalist killed by the Apaches in Arizona, and the author of Two College Friends, a novel; and The Boston Dip, and Other Verses. He died Nov. 5, 1871, near Wickenburg, Ariz.