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-
