Loring, Edward G – Loud, Hulda Barker
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, 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.
Loring, George Bailey
surgeon, congressman, was born Nov. 8, 1817, in North Andover, Mass. His father was the Rev. Bailey Loring, pastor of the unitarian church of that city. Dr. Loring graduated from Harvard college in 1837, studied medicine under Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes; and was made United States surgeon in the Chelsea hospital. He afterward devoted himself to agriculture and public affairs. He was sent as a member of congress at Washington from Salem for two terms; was United States commissioner of agriculture under President Garfield and during President Arthur's administration; and was made United States minister to Lisbon by President Harrison. He was the author of many works on agriculture and education, and a work entitled A Year in Portugal, which was completed just before his death in September, 1891.
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.
Lossing, Benson John
historian, engraver, author, was born Feb. 12, 1813, in Dutchess county, N. Y. He was an artist and wood-engraver of Poughkeepsie who made many valuable contributions to American history. His later years were spent at Dover Plains, N. Y. He was the author of Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution; Pictorial Field-Book of the War of 1812; Pictorial Field-Book of the Civil War; Life of General Philip Schuyler; The Two Spies: Nathan Hale and John André; Cyclopædia of United States History; Mary and Martha Washington; History of the United States Navy for Boys; Mount Vernon and Its Associations; The Empire State, a History of New York; Life of Washington; Lives of the Presidents; and other works. He died in 1891.
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.
Lothrop, George Van Ness
lawyer, diplomat, statesman, was born Aug. 8, 1817, in Easton, Mass. He was attorneygeneral of Michigan from 1848 to 1851; was recorder of the city of Detroit from 1851 to 1853; and was general counsel for the Michigan Central Railroad company from 1854 to 1880, when he resigned the position. In 1882 he was made a member of the commission in whose charge the public library of Detroit was placed. He is a director of the First National bank of Detroit, Mich.
Lothrop, Mrs. Harriet Mul- Ford
author, was born June 23, 1844, in New Haven, Conn. She is a popular writer of juvenile literature, living at Concord, Mass.; and the author of Five Little Peppers and How They Grew; The Pettibone Name; So as by Fire; Half Year at Bronckton; What the Seven Did; Rob; The Golden West; How They Went to Europe; and Hester, and Other New England Stories.
Lothrop, Thornton Kirkla
lawyer, author, was born in 1830 in North Carolina. He is a lawyer of Boston, and the author of The Life of William H.
Seward.
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.
Loucks, Henry Langford
farmer, journalist, was born May 24, 1846, in Canada. He was president of the Dakota Territorial Farmers' Alliance, and South Dakota Farmers' Alliance from 1885 to 1892 inclusive. He has been president of the National Farm-- ers' Alliance, and also president of the:
National Farmers' Alliance and Indus-- trial Union, which was the largest farmers' organization that. ever existed. He was the permanent. chairman of the first national people's party convention, held at Omaha in 1892..
Since 1891 he has been editor of The Dakota Ruralist, and is the author of The New Monetary System; and also author of a work on Transportation in Government.
Ownership of Railroads. He resides on his farm at Altruria, one of the largest and best farms in South Dakota.
Loud, Eugene Francis
soldier,. legislator, congressman, was born March. 12, 1847, in Abington, Mass. He was with. the army of the Potomac and with Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley until the close of the war. He was a member of the California legislature in 1884, and was elected to the fifty-second, fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Loud, Henry Martin
was born Dec. 11, 1824, in Westhampton, Mass. He is president of the Au Sable and Northwestern railway; and has been for several years president of the Vermillion and Grand Morris Iron company, having its offices in Duluth. Notwithstanding these important and extensive business interests, giving employment to an aggregate of over eight hundred men, he has served as mayor of the city of Au Sable, and also accepted the republican nomination for congress.
Loud, Hulda Barker
educator, journalist, lecturer, was born Sept. 13, 1844, in East Abington, Mass. After receiving a liberal education she became a successful school teacher. She is the editor and owner of The Independent of Rockland, Mass., is a successful lecturer and takes a prominent part in the religious and educational affairs of her city. In 1887 she represented the Knights of Labor in the woman's international council held in Washington, and has delivered numerous public addresses in behalf of that order.
She has also lectured on woman suffrage and kindred topics. 4