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 LORIMER

LORING

Tiemont Temple, 1891-1901, and in 1901 became pastor of Madison Avenue church, N. Y. city. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Bethel college, Ky., in 1870, and that of LL.D. from Georgetown college, Ky., in 1885. He was elected a member of the Victoria institute, Lon- don, England, in 1899. He was married in 1859 to Belle, daughter of Elijah Burford of Harrods- burg, Ky., and their son, George Horace Lorimer (q.v.) became a well-known journalist. Dr. Lor- imer served as editor of The Watchmcm, 1876-77. and of the People's Bible History, 1895. He is the author of: Under The Evergreen (1872); The Great Conflict (1876) ; Isms Old and New (1882) ; Jesus the World^s Saviour (1884) ; Studies in Social Life (1886) ; Argument for Christianity (1894) ; Messages of To-day to Men of To-morroiv (1896) ; Christianity and the Social State (1898) ; Christianity in the Nineteenth Century, Lowell Institute Lectures, 1900 (1901).

LORIMER, George Horace, editor, was born in Louisville, Ky., Oct. 6, 1868; son of the Rev. George Claude and Belle (Burfoi'd) Lorimer and grandson of Elijah Burford. He was educated at the Mosely high school, Chicago, 111., and at Colby and Yale universities. He lectured on literary subjects, contributed to current magazines and was employed on the Boston Post as a reporter. He became literary editor of The Saturday Even- ing Post in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1898, and editor- in-chief of tliat w^eekl}^ in 1899. He married Alma Viola Ennis of Ciiicago. He wrote Letters of a Self -made Man to his Son (1902).

LORINQ, Ellis Gray, abolitionist, was born in Boston, Mass., in 1803. He was prepared for college at the Boston Latin school and entered Harvard with the class of 1819, but was not grad- uated. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1827, and practised in Boston, Mass. He early enrolled himself as a Garrison abolitionist and was one of the " immortal twelve " that formed the first anti-slavery society in Boston in 1831. He aided in the support of the Liberator, founded by Garrison in 1831, and distinguished himself in the defence of the slave child "Med" in the Massachusetts supreme court, where he secured the decision that every slave brought on Massa- chusetts soil by the owner is free. In his argu- ment he succeeded in convincing not only the court and jury but the opposing counsel, Benjamin R. Curtis. He was elected counsellor of the anti- slavery society in 1833, and was a member of the committee of the Lovejoy indignation meeting at Faneuil Hall in 1837. He defended Abner Kneeland (q.v.) who was charged with blasphemy and tried in Boston in 1836, and his argument, which was a plea for freedom of speech, was pub- lished as : Petition on Behalf of Abner Kneeland, He died in Boston, Mass., May 24, 1858.

LORINQ, Qeorge Bailey, representative, was born in North Andover, Mass., Nov. 8, 1817, son of the Rev. Bailey Loring. He attended Franklin academy ; was graduated from Harvard, A.. B., 1838 ; studied medicine with Dr. Ohver Wendell Holmes, and at Harvard Medical school, and was graduated M.D., 1842. He was api)ointed surgeon of the U.S. marine hospital at Chelsea, Mass., in 1843 and commissioner to revise the U.S. marine hospital system in 1849. He removed to Salem, Mass., in 1851 ; was postmaster, 18P3-57 and de- voted himself to scientific agriculture and to the publication of agricultural literature. He found- ed the New England Agricultural society in 1864 and was its president, 1864-91. He was a representative in the state legislature, 1866-67 ; a delegate to the Republican national convention May 20, 1868, June 5, 1872, and June 14, 1876 ; Massachusetts centennial commissioner in 1872; chairman of the state Republican committee, 1869-76 ; a representative in the 45th and 46th congresses, 1875-79 ; U.S. commissioner of agricul- ture, 1881-85 ; and U.S. minister to Portugal, 1889-90 ; and during his term of office the trouble between England and Portugal over the disputed African possessions took place. He was twice married : first, in 1851, to Mary F. Pickman who died in 1878, and secondly, in 1880, to Nina S. Hil- dreth. He is the author of addresses on Hie Relation of Agricidture to the State in Time of War (1862); Classical Cidture (1866); Eulogy oil Louis Agassiz (1873); The Cobden Club and the American Farmer (1880); and a,n Address to the Atlanta Cotton Convention (1881) ; and in book form A Year in Portugal (1891). He died in Salem, Mass., Sept. 13, 1891.

LORING, William Wing, soldier, was born in Wilmington, N.C., Dec, 4, 1818. His parents removed to Florida while he was a child, and in 1831 he enlisted in a company of volunteers against the Seminole Indians. He was promoted 2d lieutenant June 16, 1837. He was sent to school at Alexandria, Va., and was gmduated from Georgetown university, D.C., LL.B. in 1842. He practised law in Florida and was a represen- tative in the state legislature for three years. At the outbreak of the war with Mexico lie was made senior captain in a regiment of mounted rifles and was promoted major in 1847. He commanded this regiment in the assault on the Mexican intrench ments at Contreras and was the first to reach the main works, and he led in the pursuit of the enemy as far as San Angel when counter orders were received. He also led the fighting at Chapultepec on the causeway from the capital to the Belen gate where he was wounded and underwent an amputation of his left arm. He was brevetted lieutenant-colonel for ''gallant and meritorious conduct at Contreras and Cheru-