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Rh the organization of the insurrectionary movement of November, 1838. He took part in the capture of the " Brougham," at Beauharnois. on 3 Nov., and passed several days in Camp Baker, where the Canadian patriots received orders to concentrate in Napierville. After the defeat of Nelson at Odell- town, he set out for the United States, but lost his way when near the frontier, and was arrested, with seven of his companions, on 12 Nov. He was taken to Montreal, tried by court-martial, found guilty of high treason, and hanged. Money was raised for his wife and children, in Canada, in 1883. LORING, Charles Greeley, lawyer, b. in Bos- ton, Mass., 2 May, 1794; d. in Beverly, Mass., 8 Oct., 18G8. He was graduated at Harvard in 1812, studied law in Boston, and for many years was a well-known member of the Boston bar. He was actuary of the Massachusetts hospital life-insur- ance company from 1857 until his death, and in 1862 he served in the state senate. He was a memlaer of the American academy of arts and sciences, and of the Massachusetts historical so- ciety. Mr. Loring was an eloquent and effective speaker. His numerous addresses include one that he delivered, 4 July, 1821, before the town authori- ties of Boston, Mass., that before the Boston mer- cantile library association in 1845, at the Republi- can mass-meeting in Faneuil hall in 1862, an ora- tion on the death of Edward Everett, whom he succeeded as president of the Boston union club, and an address at the meeting of Boston citizens after the assassination of President Lincoln. Har- vard gave him the degree of LL. D. in 1850. Be- sides addresses, he published " Neutral Relations between the United States and England " (Boston, 1863), and "Life of William Sturgis" (1864).

LORING, Ellis Gray, lawver, b. in Boston, Mass., in 1803 ; d. there, 24 May, 1858. He entered Harvard college in 1819, but was not graduated with his class, afterward studied law, was admitted to the Suffolk bar, and became eminent. He was one of the twelve that formed the first anti-slavery society in Boston in 1831. He distinguished him- self chiefly in the defence of the slave-child "' Med " in the Massachusetts supreme court, where he suc- ceeded in obtaining the decision that every slave brought on Massachusetts soil by the owner was legally free ; a case precisely analogous to the celebrated " Somerset " case in England. By this argument he achieved the unusual success of con- vincing the opposing counsel, Benjamin R. Curtis, afterward justice of the U. S. supreme court, who shook hands with him after the trial, saying: " Your argument has entirely converted me to your side, Mr. Loring." He also attracted some attention as the author of a " Petition in behalf of Abner Kneeland," which was headed by the name of Rev. Dr. William E. Channing. Abner Knee- land {q. V.) was a professed atheist who was indict- ed for blasphemy, and Mr. Loring's petition was a strong plea in behalf of freedom of speech. Sev- eral of Mr. Loring's arguments and addresses were published at different times, including " An Ad- dress before the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery So- ciety" (Boston, 1838). At the New England anti- slavery convention, 27 jIay, 1858, two days after his death, Wendell Phillips said : " The great merit of Mr. Loring's anti-slavery life was, he laid on the altar of the slave's needs all his peculiar tastes. Refined, domestic, retiring, contemplative, loving literature, art, and culture, he saw there was no one else to speak, therefore he was found in the van. It was the uttermost instance of self-sacri- fice — more than money, more than reputation, though he gave both."

LORING, Frederick Wadsworth, journalist, b. in Boston, Mass., 12 Dec, 1848 ; d. near Wick- enburg, Arizona, 5 Nov., 1871. He was graduated at Harvard in 1870, and during the brief period between that event and his death gave unusual promise of success as a writer, being connected with several newspapers and a contributor to the " Atlantic Monthly," " Appletons' Journal," " Old and New," the •' Independent," and " Every Sat- urday." In the spring of 1871 he went as cor- respondent of "Appletons' Journal" on the U. S. exploring expedition to Arizona that was in com- mand of Lieut. George M. Wheeler. To that jour- nal he wrote from San Francisco a lively sketch of his Chinese experiences, entitled "Je Horge," and during his wanderings in the wilderness " A Council of War," "A Glimpse of Mormonism," " Silver Mining in Nevada," " The Valley of Death," and several poems. The party suffered great privations, and in August, 1871, Loring wrote to his employers, from the " Valley of Death," a canon in California and Nevada, three hundred feet below the level of the sea, which all former expeditions had avoided, or from which they had never returned : " I am bootless, coatless, everything but lifeless. I have had a fortnight of horrors. This morning an Indian fight capped the climax. However, I am well and cheerful." He escaped from the valley, but when he was on his way home a band of Apaches attacked the stage-coach in its passage from Wickenburg to La Paz, Arizona, killing the driver and Loring, with four other passengers. A short time before Lor- ing's death, Charles Reade, the novelist, said that he seemed to him the most promising of all the young American authors. His collected writings include " Cotton Cultivation in the South," with Charles F. Atkinson (Boston, 1869) ; " The Boston Dip, and other Verses" (1871); and "Two College Friends," a novel (1871).

LORING, George Bailey, agriculturist, b. in North Andover, Mass., 8 Nov., 1817; d. in Salem, Mass., 14 Sept., 1891. He was graduated at Har- vard in 1838, and at the medical department in 1842. He was surgeon to the marine hospital, Chelsea, Mass., in 1843-'50, a commissioner to re- vise the U. S. marine hospital system in 1849, and postmaster at Salem, Mass., in 1853-'7. He subse- quently devoted himself for many years to prac- tical and scientific agriculture. He was president of the New England agricultural society, was a delegate to the National Republican conventions in 1868, 1872, and 1876, chairman of the Massa- chusetts Republican committee in 1869-'76, U. S. centennial commissioner in 1872-'6, and president of the state senate in 1873-'7. He was elected to Congress as a Republican in 1876, and served till 1881, when he became commissioner of agricul- ture, holding office till 1885. Three years later he became minister to Portugal. Among his nu- merous addresses are " Relation of Agriculture to the State in Time of War" (Concord, Mass., 1862); "Classical Culture" (Amherst, 1866); "Eulogy on Louis Agassiz " (1873) ; " The Cobden Club and the American Farmer" (Worcester. 1880); address at the cotton convention in Atlanta, Ga. (1881); and "The Farm- Yard Club of Jotham," a sketch of New England life and farming (Bos- ton, 1876).

LORING. Israel, clergyman, b. in Hull. Mass., 15 April. 1683; d. in Sudbury, Mass., 9 March, 1772. He was graduated at Harvard in 1701, and in 1706 became pastor of the Congregational church in Sudbury, Mass., continuing in this charge for sixty-six years. Mr. Loring was one of the readi-