Papers of the Charles Greely Loring family, 1821-1943

Charles Greely Loring, son of Caleb Loring (1764-1850) and Nancy "Ann" Greely Loring (1769-1819), was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on May 2, 1794. He graduated from Harvard College in 1812, then studied at Litchfield Law School in Connecticut. He practiced law in Boston with Franklin Dexter from 1816 to 1819, and later with his brother, Francis Caleb Loring, and Charles's son, Caleb William Loring, specializing in marine insurance and real estate. He represented Suffolk County in the Massachusetts Senate in 1862, serving as chair of the Judiciary Committee and the Committee on Mercantile Affairs. In 1818, he married Anna Pierce Brace (1798-1836); they had four children, Caleb William Loring (1819-1897), Jane Lathrop Loring Gray (1821-1909), Susan Mary Loring Jackson (1823-1895), and Charles Greely Loring (1828-1907). In 1940, he married Mary Anne Putnam (1804-1845). Following Mary Anne's death, he married Cornelia Amory Goddard (1810-1875); they had one son, Kirkland Lathorp Loring (1851-1852). Charles Greely Loring died in his summer home in Beverly, Massachusetts, on October 8, 1867.

Jane Lathrop Loring, daughter of Anna Pierce Brace and Charles Greely Loring, was born on August 27, 1821. She married Asa Gray, a botanist and Harvard University professor, on May 4, 1848. She was a member of the Female Humane Society of Cambridge, a charitable organization for the relief of sick and indigent women, and in 1894, following the death of her husband in 1888, edited Letters of Asa Gray. She died at the Loring Estate in Pride's Crossing, Massachusetts, on July 29, 1909.

Caleb William Loring, son of son of Charles Greely Loring and Anna Pierce Brace, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on July 31, 1819. Following graduation from Harvard Law School he practiced law in Boston and later served as the president of the Plymouth Cordage Company. In 1845, he married Elizabeth Smith Peabody (1822-1869); they had four children: Katharine Peabody Loring (1849-1943), William Caleb Loring (1851-1930), Louisa Putnam Loring (1854-1924), and Augustus Peabody Loring (1856-1938). He died in Camden, South Carolina, on 29 January 29, 1897.

Katharine Peabody Loring, daughter of Elizabeth Smith Loring and Caleb William Loring, was born on May 21, 1849. She was a founder of the Society to Encourage Studies at Home and taught there for twenty years. She was a trustee of the Beverly Public Library, American Red Cross worker, and officer in the Woman's Education Association and in the Massachusetts Library Club. She wrote The Earliest Summer Residents of the North Shore and Their Houses (1932) and assisted in the preparation of Loring Genealogy (1917). She died on August 16, 1943.

Louisa Putnam Loring, daughter of Elizabeth Smith Loring and Caleb William Loring, was born on January 15, 1854. She was the founder and president of the Aiken, South Carolina, Sanitarium, also called Aiken Cottages, and the Beverly Anti-Tuberculosis Society. She also held offices in the Beverly Hospital and the Essex County Chapter of the American Red Cross. She compiled The Hymns of the Ages (American Unitarian Association, 1906). After 1872 she lived at Pride's Crossing, Massachusetts, until her death on May 18, 1924.