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 LOKING. LORING. 583 Mr. Long was elected to the House of Representatives for 1875, and re-elected for 1876, '77 and '78. The last three years he was speaker of the House. In 1S79 he was lieutenant-governor, and governor in 1880, '81 and '82. Having distinguished himself as a leader in the councils of the Commonwealth, he was elected to the 48th Congress, and re-elected to the 49th and to the 50th Congresses. Declining a re-election at the expiration of this third term of congressional service, he returned once more to his chosen vocation, and is at present practicing law in the city of Boston. Few of Massachusetts' favor- ites have maintained so long an uninter- rupted hold upon the popular heart. Quick to apprehend the public pulse, fertile in argument, eloquent in diction, courteous in debate, Governor Long can always be re- lied upon in an emergency. He has proved himself in his eventful career a safe and worthy custodian of the honor and fair name of the old Bay State, which has so often called him to positions of trust and responsibility. Mr. Long has always retained his taste for the classics, publishing a translation of Virgil's SEneid in 1879 (Boston). His ancestry is of the Clark-Davis stock (the former coming to Plymouth, from England in 1623, the latter to Cambridge in 1634), his father and grandmother hav- ing been born in Massachusetts. Mr. Long married Mary W., daughter of George S. Glover, September 13, 1870. His second marriage was with Agnes, daughter of Rev. Joseph D. Peirce, May 22, 1SS6. His children are : Margaret, Helen, and Peirce Long. LORING, George Bailey, son of Rev. Bailey and Sally P. (Osgood) Loring, was born in North Andover, Essex county, November 8, 1817. His early education was commenced in a village school. At the age of ten years he entered Franklin Academy, in which estab- lishment he was under the tuition of Simeon Putnam and Cyrus Pierce. He entered Harvard College in T834, and was graduated in 1838. He afterwards studied medicine with Dr. Joseph Kittredge of North Andover, and Oliver Wendell Holmes of Boston, and took the degree of M. D. at the Harvard medical school in 1842. Dr. Loring then practiced in North Andover from 1842 to '43. He was sur- geon of the United States Maritime Hos- pital, Chelsea, from 1843 t0 '5°> an d was appointed commissioner to revise the United States Maritime Hospital system in 1S49. In 185 1 he removed to Salem, where he now resides, taking great interest in agri- culture. He was a member of the House of Rep- resentatives from 1866 to '68; has been president of the New England Agricultural Society from its foundation in 1864 to the present time ; he was United States Cen- tennial commissioner 1872 to '76 ; presi- dent of state Senate 1873 to '77 ; member of United States House of Representatives GEORGE B. LORING. 1877 to '81 ; United States commissioner of agriculture 1881 to '85 ; American Minister to Portugal 1889. In 1840 he published "An Essay on Phlebitis," this being followed in later years by "Review of the Scarlet Letter" (185 1), "Modern Agriculture" (1861), " The Relation of Agriculture to the State inTime of War " (1862), "Scientific and Practical Agriculture" (1864), "The As- sassination of Lincoln " (1865)," The New Era of the Republic " (1866), "The Power of an Educated Commonwealth" (1867), "The Farm Yard Club of Gotham " (1S76), "The Cattle Industry " (1884), "The In- fluence of the Puritan on American Civili- zation " (1S87), besides a number of other articles.