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real-estate business has been gained in that position, and in the after-management of his property. When Mr. Little, sr., died in 1889, he left his son John by will the managing trustee of his entire estate, which is in trust. Mr. Little transacts a general real-estate business, in addition to managing the Little estate, and on account of his acknowledged ability has been several times called upon in court to testify as an expert in real-estate matters. He was married in 1872 to Miss Helen, daughter of James H. Beal, president of the Second National Bank, and has seven children. He resides in Swampscott, where his father had one of the finest estates on the North Shore, and where he furnishes a large number of people with summer residences.
LOCKWOOD, RHODES, son of Rhodes G. and Maria (Davidson) Lockwood, was born in Boston, on Fort Hill, Sept. 26, 1839. His father was a native of Providence, R.I., and, coming to Boston about the year 1838, was long established in the wholesale grocery business on Commercial street. His mother was born in New Hampshire, and came with her parents from Derry, where her girlhood was passed, to Charlestown ; here she subsequently mar- ried Mr. Lockwood, whose family had made Charles- town their home soon after his birth. Her grand- father, Francis Davidson, was wounded at the battle of Bunker Hill - shot in the head and left for dead on the field. He was a member of a New Hamp- shire regiment, and his " chum " Benjamin Pierce, years afterward Governor Pierce and the father of Franklin Pierce who became President Pierce, found him, carried him from the field, and saved his life. Rhodes Lockwood was educated in the public schools, a boarding-school, and in Chauncy
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Hall, graduating with the college class in 1857. But instead of going to college he engaged in the wholesale hardware business in Boston as a clerk. After a short time spent here he became a clerk in the large dry-goods house of Francis Skinner & Co., where he remained for seven years. Then, in 1868, he joined his eldest brother, Hamilton D. Lock- wood, as a partner in the rubber manufacturing business, in which the latter had been engaged since 1861. The concern was known as the David- son Rubber Company, taking its name from C. H. Davidson, an uncle of the brothers Lockwood, who was the founder of the business. In 1875 Hamilton D. died, and in 1876 Philip C., the younger brother, was admitted to partnership. The firm has since continued, composed of the two brothers. They now manufacture all kinds of druggists', surgeons', and fine rubber goods, and their products are recog- nized as standard in the United States and Europe. Mr. Lockwood is a director of the Bunker Hill National Bank, one of the auditing committee of the Warren Institution for Savings, and a director of the Boston Woven Hose Company. He is a member of the Bunker Hill Monument Association, the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, the Bos- tonian Society, the Webster Society, the Charitable Mechanic Association, and the Athletic Club. The old Lockwood house in the Charlestown district, which was the home of Rhodes Lockwood, sr., and where the present Rhodes Lockwood passed his boyhood and lived until he removed to Boston, was built by Samuel Dexter in 1792, and purchased by Mr. Lockwood's grandfather in 1830. It is now the club-house of Abraham Lincoln Post, G.A.R. ,
LONGFELLOW, ALEXANDER -WADSWORTH, JR., archi- tect, was born in Portland, Me., in 1854. Gradu- ating from Harvard, he studied architecture at the Institute of Technology and also at the School of Fine Arts in Paris, where he passed three years in study. He worked four years as assistant in the office of the late H. H. Richardson in Brookline, and in 1887 established the firm of Longfellow, Alden, & Harlow, with offices at No. 6 Beacon street, and in Pittsburgh, Pa. They are the archi- tects of the Cambridge City Hall, completed in 1891 ; the Carey Athletic Building, connected with Harvard College ; the house of E. H. Abbott, in Cambridge ; and other buildings, chiefly in Massachusetts, and in Alleghany and Pittsburgh, Pa., where they have lately gained the Carnegie Library in competition.
Axminster, Eng., who came to Hingham in 1634 and was made a freeman, whence his descendants afterwards removed to Boston. Mr. Loring's father, Hon. Charles Greely Loring, was one of Boston's most noted lawyers, and a contemporary of Choate and Webster. When he retired from practice he was one of the leaders of the Suffolk bar, and was celebrated, not less for his scrupulous honesty and uprightness, than for his marked legal ability. One of his great rivals once remarked of him that "you couldn't do anything with the jury when Loring was on the other side, because he was so damned honest they believed everything he said." He was often urged to accept a nomination for Congress, and was twice offered the place of United States Senator when vacancies occurred and the nomination was to be made by the governor. . He was throughout the war an active and leading Republican, and then for the first time served in any public position, be- coming a member of the State senate. Caleb W. Loring took his degree of A.B. in the class of 1839, Harvard College, and was graduated with the de- gree of L.B. from the Harvard Law School in 1842. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar, and afterwards to the bar of the Supreme Court at Washington, where he argued some important cases. It was as junior counsel of the firm of Loring & Dehon, of which Charles G. Loring was the distinguished head, that Caleb W. Loring got his first education in ac- tive practice in the courts. In his early life he had a large practice, and tried a great many important cases, especially in the branch of insurance. He was also associated with Choate, Curtis, Bartlett, and Dana, as junior counsel, at various times. During later years, however, Mr. Loring retired from active practice at the bar, owing to his large and increasing business as trustee and as attorney in the care and management of estates, for which line of business he showed marked ability : although he has always kept a large chamber practice as ad- viser, especially in the matters of wills and trusts. He is now one of the largest and most influential trustees and managers of property in the city, and with his son, Augustus P. Loring, who is associated with him, has the care and management of a great deal of important real-estate. Mr. Loring is one of the directors of the Fifty Associates, and has also been largely identified with the manufacturing in- dustries of New England. He occupies the posi- tion of director in several of her largest mills, and is the president of the Plymouth Cordage Com- pany. While taking no active part in politics, Mr. Loring has always been a Republican of the inde-
LORING, CALER W., was born in Boston July 31, 1819. He is descended from Thomas Loring, of pendent class. In 1847 he married Miss Elizabeth
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S. Peabody, daughter of Augustus Peabody, of Sa- in Middleton, Divinity Hall at Tufts College, and lem. His residence is at Beverly Farms.
LORING, EDWARD P., controller of accounts of county offices, was born in Maine in 1837. His early education was received in the public schools, after which he entered Bowdoin College, and gradu- ated in 1861. At the breaking out of the Civil War he went out with the Thirteenth Maine Regi- ment as first lieutenant, and at the end of two years was transferred to the Tenth United States Heavy Artillery as major. He continued in the ser- vice until 1867, two years after the close of the war. In the meantime he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel by brevet. After he was mustered out of the service he resumed his studies, taking a course in the Albany Law School, from which he graduated in 1868. He was admitted to the bar from the office of Stephen D. Lindsay, suc- cessor to James G. Blaine, of Maine. Subsequently he removed to Fitchburg, Mass., and in 1872 and 1874 he represented that city in the lower house of the Legislature, serving on the committee on the judiciary. In 1883 and 1884 he represented the Fifth Worcester District in the senate ; during the term of Governor Butler he presided at the noted Tewksbury investigation, and in 1884 he was chair- man of the senate committee on the judiciary. In Fitchburg he has served as special justice of the police court, and also in the common council, of which he was president in 1881. He continued to practice law in Fitchburg until June 23, 1887. Upon the creation of the office of controller of accounts of county offices, he was appointed to the position, and reappointed in 1890. Mr. Loring is a Mason, and a member of G.A.R. Post 200.
LORING, GEORGE F., architect, was born in Bos- ton March 26, 1851. He began his professional career in the office of the city civil engineer at City Hall, and had charge of this department from 1872 to 1879. He studied architecture with George A. Clough, and entered into practice in 1882, con- tinuing by himself until 1889, when he entered into partnership with Sanford Phipps, under the firm name of Loring & Phipps; their offices are now in the State Street Exchange Building. As an archi- tect, Mr. Loring has made a special study of school- houses, secret society and library buildings. He has three school-buildings at Melrose, the new high school-houses at Athol and at Braintree, five in Somerville, besides the Masonic Hall, Odd Fellows Hall, and library building in the same city, the Universalist church in Canton, the library building
many fine residences in Boston and the suburbs. Mr. Loring is a prominent citizen of Somerville, one of the executive committee of the Central Club, a member of the Masonic order, Odd Fellows, United Order of American Workmen, and other secret societies. While not a politician or office-seeker, he is active in public affairs. Mr. Loring was married in 1878 to Miss Sarah F. Johnson, of Som- erville.
LOTHROP, AUGUSTUS, the oldest active mason and master builder in Boston, was born in this city Feb. 13, 1823. He learned his trade in 1838, and was with the old firm of Standish & Woodbury for ten years, at the end of which time he went into
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partnership with William Sayward, under the firm name of Sayward & Lothrop. This firm was dis- solved in 1863, and he has since conducted the business alone. Mr. Lothrop helped lay the foun- dation of the Custom House in 1838, and has built a great number of large and substantial build- ings, among them the Equitable, Advertiser, and Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association Building, which is six hundred and fifty feet long and three hundred feet wide, the Brattle-square Church on Commonwealth avenue, the First Church, and the Hotel Tudor. He also rebuilt the Masonic Temple for R. H. Stearns & Co. He has been a
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heavy contractor for all work in the building line, and many of the fine fire-proof structures erected after the great fire of 1872 in the wholesale dis- trict are monuments to his skill and thoroughness as a builder. He is still active as a master builder, being of a nature . which prefers employment to leisure. He is one of the leading members of the Master Builders' Association, and has his office in its building, at No. 164 Devonshire street.
LOTHROP, DANIEL, son of Daniel and Sophia (Horne) Lothrop, was born in Rochester, N.H., Aug. 11, 1831 ; died in Boston March 18, 1892. He was descended in a direct line from John Low- throppe, who in the thirty-seventh year of Henry VIII. (1545) was a gentleman of extensive landed estates, and from Mark Lothrop, his grandson, who settled in Salem in 1644, and whose line joined that of Priscilla Mullins and John Alden of the " Mayflower." On the maternal side he was de- scended from William Horne, of Horne's Hill in Dover, N.H., who held his exposed position in the Indian wars, and whose estate has been in the family name from 1662 until the present generation. At the age of fourteen he was prepared for college, but wisely decided to wait a year, for which time he took charge of the drug-store of his brother, who had gone to Philadelphia to study medicine ; soon he became so interested in business pur- suits that the idea of going to college was aban- doned altogether. His love of books led him to introduce their sale as a part of the business. Then, when a lad of seventeen, he hired and stocked a store in New Market, N.H., and hav- ing well established this business he put another brother in charge of it, and opened a third store in Meredith Bridge, now Laconia, the three brothers being in partnership. In 1850 Mr. Lothrop bought out the stock of books of Elijah Wadleigh in Dover, N.H., enlarged the business, and made it the most noted bookstore of the time in that part of New England. It became a literary centre, a favorite meeting-place for the cultivated people of the town. Meanwhile, he established branch drug and book stores in a number of places, books being the principal stock, and made an extended trip into the West, where he opened a store in St. Peter, Minn., and later a banking-house in the same town, and two other stores elsewhere in that section of the country. Of the banking-house his uncle, Dr. Jeremiah Horne, was the cashier. These sev- eral enterprises well started, Mr. Lothrop settled down in Dover, and directed them all from his quiet
bookstore there. Soon after the Civil War he took a new departure which he had been for some time contemplating. Closing out his various enterprises East and West, he concentrated his force upon the establishment of a publishing-house from which should issue good literature for the people, and especially the young. Removing to Boston, he successfully laid here the foundation of the great house of D. Lothrop & Co., the D. Lothrop Com- pany of the present day. His plan from the 'beginning was to stimulate young writers, and to this end he offered prizes for manuscripts, and paid liberally for those found available. New blood was thus infused into the veins of the old literary life, and with it came a great change in the character and style of juvenile publications. He was inde- fatigable in his efforts to foster ambition and to bring to the surface latent talent; and men and women now well known in literature were many of them first brought before the reading public by him. He constantly endeavored also to foster in his authors a love for American literature, and to pub- lish books with a distinctive flavor of American life and purpose. In due time his famous illustrated magazines for young folks -" Babyland, " Our Little Men and Women," " The Pansy," and " Wide Awake " - were started, and the success which they have met is remarkable. The house has not lost sight of standard publications, and these are still a feature of its business. Indeed, if the firm were not so extensive a publisher of juvenile works, it would be at once considered one of the first publishers of standard works. Mr. Lothrop was first married in Dover, N.H., July 25, 1860, to Ellen J. Morrill; of this union was one son, who died in infancy. On Oct. 4, 1881, he was again married, to Harriet Mulford, daughter of Sidney M. and Harriet M. Stone, of New Haven, Conn. ; they have had one child, Margaret Mulford Lothrop. Mr. Lothrop's summer home was " Way- side," Concord, Mass., the old home of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
LOVELL, BENJAMIN S., son of John P. and Lydia (Dyer) Lovell, was born in Weymouth, Mass., July 10, 1844. He was educated in the common schools of his native town. At an early stage of the Civil War, while only eighteen years of age, he prevailed upon his father, a stanch Union patriot, to permit him to shoulder a musket, and he enlisted in Company A, Forty-second Regiment Massachu- setts Volunteers. In 1870 he became a member of Reynolds Post 58, G.A.R., and was elected its . senior vice-commander for the years 1871, 1872,
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1873, 1874, and 1875 ; was elected commander in '1876, and has been chosen each year since, the present making his fourteenth term. He was junior vice department-commander in 1881, but declined the nomination for department commander in 1882. He was aide-de-camp to Gen. John C. Robinson, commander-in-chief of the national encampment G.A.R., 1877 and 1878; delegate to the national encampment, 1886 ; also a member of the council of. administration in 1887 ; served on General Alger's staff in 1889, and at present (1892) is a member of the staff of General Palmer. He was a member of the staff of Governor John D. Long in 1881 and 1882. He was a delegate to the national Republican conventions of 1880, 1884, and 1888, and is chairman of the Weymouth Republican town committee, first chosen to this position in 1881. He was a member of the lower house of the Legis- lature of 1877, 1878, serving on the committee on mercantile affairs ; was a member of the State sen- ate in 1883, serving on the committees on harbors and public lands, military affairs, Hoosac Tunnel, and Troy & Greenfield Railroad ; and was returned to the Legislature for 1886 and 1887, reentering the field the former year, when the soldiers' ex- emption bill was being agitated, in favor of which measure he gave his voice and vote. In the ses- sions of 1886-7 he served on the railroad and re- districting committees. He is a prominent figure in business, politics, and G.A.R. affairs, and de- voted to the welfare of all who wore the blue. At present he is the treasurer of the firm of John P. Lovell Arms Company, Boston. He was married in Weymouth Nov. 13, 1867, to Miss M. Anna, daughter of Jonathan and Mercy Holmes; they have two children : Lydia Charlotte and Helen Isabel Lovell.
LOVELL, JOHN P., founder of the Lovell Arms Company, was born in East Braintree, Mass., July 25, 1820. He was educated in the public schools of that town, and at the age of eleven went to work in a cotton factory. A year later his mother opened a boarding-house in Boston, and the lad had another year of schooling. After experience in various kinds of work, he settled down to the gun- smith trade, being apprenticed to A. B. Fairbanks, at a salary of two dollars a week for the first year and an allowance of twenty-five dollars for clothes, and an increase of fifty cents a week and ten dol- lars a year additional allowance for clothing for each succeeding year until his twenty-first birthday. He applied himself diligently, and Mr. Fairbanks was so gratified with his progress that he admitted him
to partnership, with a one-half interest in the busi- ness, when he reached the age of twenty. This was the humble beginning of the great house now widely known as the John P. Lovell Arms Com- pany. In 184[ Mr. Fairbanks died, and Leonard Grover entering the house, the firm became Grover & Lovell. Then in 1844 Mr. Lovell bought out his partner's interest, and continued the business alone, extending and broadening it as the years went on. When his sons had grown up and had become famil- iar with the business, the present company was formed, with himself as president ; Colonel Benja- min S. Lovell as treasurer ; Thomas P. Lovell, di- rector ; H. L. Lovell, clerk of the corporation ; and W. D. Lovell.
LOVERING, HENRY B., son of John G. and Mary A. (Martin) Lovering, was born in Portsmouth, N.H., April 8, 1841. When he was five years old his parents moved to Lynn, Mass., and there he was educated in the public schools. Then * he learned the trade of shoemaking. At the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted in the Eighth Massa- chusetts Regiment for nine months, and at the ex- piration of that service he reenlisted in the Third Massachusetts Cavalry. He served with that com- mand until Sept. 19, 1864, when at the battle of Winchester his left leg was shot off. After several weeks in hospital he reached his home, on Thanks- giving night of that year. Soon after the war, be- coming actively engaged in labor matters, he joined the Knights of St. Crispin. In 1870 he was a member of the first board of arbitration that had ever convened for the settlement of labor difficul- ties. In 1871 he was elected to the lower house of the Legislature as a distinctly labor representative. The next year he was renominated, but failed of election. In 1873 again renominated, he secured the seat ; and he was reelected in 1874. In these years he served on the committee on labor. In 1878 he was elected city assessor of Lynn, and served three years. Before his term had expired he was elected mayor of Lynn. In 1882 he was elected to Congress over E. S. Converse, the Republican can- didate, by a plurality of eight hundred and sixty- four; and was reelected in 1884, over Henry Cabot Lodge, the Republican candidate in that year, by a plurality of about three hundred. In 1886 again contesting the district with Mr. Lodge, he was defeated. During his term in Con- gress Mr. Lovering served on several important labor committees. In 1887 he was the Democratic candidate for governor of the State, and was de- feated. In 1888 he was appointed by President
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Cleveland United States marshal for the district of Albany street, where they have been for about twenty Massachusetts. In 1891 he was made warden of years. It is the oldest iron-concern in Boston. Mr. Lovett has been with the works since 1827, and has never been absent over one month at a time during the whole period of nearly sixty-five years, either from sickness or vacation ; he has always personally been present to attend to business. Daily at his post, in active management of his large interests, cords to a man in return for a strict observance of her laws and the living of a correct and industrious life. Mr. Lovett is an active member of the Mas- ter Builders' and the Massachusetts Charitable Me- chanic Associations.
the State Prison. Mr. Lovering is an active mem- ber of the G.A.R., a prominent Knight of Pythias, and sir knight president of Mutual Lodge of St. Crispin, No. 99, Lynn. Mr. Lovering was married in Lynn, Dec. 25, 1865, to Miss Abby J. Clifford ; they have had five children : Emma . J., John H., Mary V., Harry C. (deceased), and . Mr. Lovett is a striking example of what nature ac- Annie C. Lovering (deceased).
LOVETT, JOSEPH, the veteran iron manufacturer, was born in Beverly, Mass., June 24, 1813. He came to Boston in 1827, and learned his trade with Daniel Safford, who had an iron foundry here which he had established in 1813, the same year that Mr. Lovett was born. Mr. Safford took a partner shortly after Mr. Lovett's arrival, and the firm became Safford & Lowe. Albert W. Smith was subsequently admitted, and the name was changed to D. Safford & Co. In 1840 Mr. Lovett became a member of the firm. In 1845 Mr. Safford died, and Mr. Lovett and Mr. Smith succeeded to the business, under the firm name of Smith & Lovett. In 1855 Mr. Smith re- tired, and his nephew, Ammi Smith, was admitted to partnership. Mr. Ammi Smith died in 1876, and Mr. Lovett has continued under the old firm name of Smith. & Lovett to date. Two of his sons, George E. and Joseph W. Lovett, and his grandson, James R. Lovett, son of Joseph W., are now with him - three generations in one house. Mr. Lovett was never in any other business, devoting himself exclusively to the manufacture of all kinds of iron- work for buildings. He has furnished the iron for such buildings as the Quincy Market, the North Market and South Market street blocks, the Old State House, the original iron-work on the Common (fences, etc.), the Charlestown State Prison, the Taunton Prison, the tower and other work in Forest Hills Cemetery, the Women's Prison in Framing- ham, the Winthrop Square Building before the fire of 1872, and many after that fire within the burnt district. The manufacture of architectural iron- work has always been his great specialty, and as a matter of interest it is recalled that when he was working for Mr. Safford he made the first iron bed- stead ever made in this country. His eldest son, JOHN LOWELL. Joseph W., was born in Boston in 1837, and his youngest son, George E., was born here in 1846. school in its day, and entering Harvard, graduated in the class of 1843. He then studied law in the Harvard Law School, graduating in 1845. After graduation he studied with Charles G., F. C., and C. W. Loring, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar The latter is well known to many as the captain of " The Tigers " for a number of years. Mr. Lovett's works were formerly on Devonshire street, between Milk and Water streets, but when the Post-office building was begun they were removed to No. 127 in 1846. He was for a number of years associated
LOWELL, JOHN, was born in Boston Oct. 18, 1824. He is a son of John Amory Lowell, a well- known merchant of Boston, connected as. director and treasurer with many of the mills at Lowell ; and his mother was Susan Cabot Lowell, daughter of Francis C. Lowell, after whom the town of Lowell was named. He was prepared for college in the private school of Daniel G. Ingraham, a noted
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