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Mr. Little's unbroken record of intelli- gent and faithful public service, his long career as a shrewd, honorable and success- ful business man, at once qualify him to stand as one of the truly representative men of the Commonwealth.
LOCKE, WARREN EDGAR, son of Amos and Rhoda (Blodgett) Locke, was born in Lexington, Middlesex county, May 28, 1841.
The district schools of Lexington gave him his knowledge of books till he was ten years of age. At this time his parents removed to Woburn, and he attended War- ren Academy and Woburn high school.
He began life for himself as driver on a Cambridge horse-car. He was afterwards brakeman on the Fitchburg Railroad, then baggage-master on a through train from Boston to Burlington, Vt., then conductor on a passenger train on the Cheshire Railroad running between Bellows Falls and Fitch- burg. He left this road in 1866 to take a position on the Boston, Hartford & Erie Railroad, in the freight department. He was afterwards made local freight agent. He left this road in 1869 to take a position as New England agent of the Toledo, Wabash & Western Railroad, and held
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this until he accepted the position of gen- eral agent for the Fitchburg Railroad in 1878, which he now holds.
Mr. Locke was married in June, 1862, to Eliza C., daughter of Captain Allen and Lydia (Bates) Dawes, by whom he has one child : Charles A. Locke.
Mr. Locke was a member of the state Senate from the 2d Norfolk district, 1882 and '83, serving on the committees of en- grossed bills, labor, and street railways (chairman) 1882, street railways (chair- man), federal relations (chairman), and rail- roads, 1883.
He was elected to the governor's coun- cil, 1885, '86 and '87. He is a resident of Norwood, and has presided at all the annual town meetings, except two, since the town was incorporated, in 1872.
He is a member of the Odd Fellows, A. O. U. W., Good Fellows, Masonic, and other organizations ; and a representative of the successful self-made men of the Commonwealth.
LODGE, HENRY CABOT, son of John Ellerton and Anna Cabot Lodge, was born in Boston, May 12, 1850.
He availed himself of the educational advantages that surrounded him, and grad- uated at Harvard University in the class of 1871, from the law school in 1874, and was admitted to the Suffolk county bar in 1875.
In 1875 Mr. Lodge was given the degree of Ph. D. for his thesis on the " Land Law of the Anglo-Saxons" (Boston, 1877). He was university lecturer on American History from 1876 to '79, edited the " North Ameri- can Review " in 1873-'76, and the " Inter- national Review " in 1879-'81.
He was elected to the House of Repre- sentatives in 1880, and was re-elected in 1881. In 1886 he was elected a member of Congress from his district, the 6th, a some- what famous one in the political history of the State. Mr. Lodge at once took a promi- nent part in the somewhat exciting scenes in the sessions of the last Congress, and by his familiarity with the subject, earnestness of purpose, and irrefutable logic, did much to dignify and worthily illustrate the title at first intended as a slur -"the scholar in politics." In one short session he be- came a power upon the floor of the House, and to-day he most honorably represents the Commonwealth, which takes great pride in his somewhat phenomenal suc- cess and manly record.
He was vice-president of the commis- sion that superintended the centennial celebration of the forming of the United States Constitution, in 1887.
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Among the better known productions of this author are : "Public Life and Letters of George Cabot " (Boston, 1877); "Short History of the English Colonies in Amer- ica " (New York, 1881); "Lives of Alex- ander Hamilton and Daniel Webster " (Boston, 1883), in the American Statesmen Series ; and "Studies in History " (Bos- ton, 1884). His lighter works are two
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series of " Popular Tales " and one volume of selected " Ballads and Lyrics " (Boston, 1881). He has also edited the works of Alexander Hamilton, including his private correspondence and some documents hith- erto unpublished, with introduction and notes (nine volumes, New York, 1885).
Mr. Lodge is a nephew of Giles Henry Lodge, a well-known classical scholar. He married Anna Cabot Mills, daughter of Rear - Admiral Charles H. Davis. The children of this union are: Constance Davis, born April 6, 1872 ; George Cabot, born October 10, 1873, and John Ellerton Lodge, born August 1, 1876.
LOMBARD, NATHAN C., son of Joseph and Eliza Lombard, was born in Guilford, Piscataquis county, Me., October 29, 1827.
The first eighteen years of his life were passed on a farm in his native town. His early education was obtained in the dis- trict school.
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At eighteen years of age he left the farm to learn the trade of carpenter and joiner. In the fall of 1847 he attended the Foxcroft Academy in his native county, and the two following winters taught dis- trict schools.
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In the spring of 1850 he left his native state and went to Lowell, where he re- mained five years, engaged in making pat- terns and drawings of machinery.
Mr. Lombard was married in Lowell, June 1, 1851, to Lucy A. Piper of Han- cock, Vermont. Of this union are four children : Alfaretta M., Herbert E., Carrie E., and Walter E. Lombard.
A portion of 1855 Mr. Lombard spent in Ohio, and in 1856 he removed to Bos- ton, where he was engaged for the next three years as draughtsman in the offices of Merriam & Crosby and George A. Stone.
In the fall of 1859 he engaged in busi- ness on his own account as a mechanical engineer, which business he has since fol- lowed, having, however, in 1868, added that of solicitor of United States and for- eign patents.
In June, 1860, he removed to Cambridge, where he now resides.
During the school year of 1863 and '64 he was employed as teacher of drawing in
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the Lawrence scientific school of Harvard College.
His church connections are with the First Baptist church, of which he is a niember and officer. He is ever active in church work and moral reforms, a temperance mover and a strong advocate of prohibition, but believes this work can be done better inside the Republican party than out of it. . Mr. Lombard was a member of the com- mon council of Cambridge for 1882 and '83, and of the board of aldermen for 1884, '85 and '86. While in the city government he invariably voted against licensing the sale of intoxicating liquors.
LONG, JOHN DAVIS, son of Zadoc and Julia (Davis) Long, was born in Buckfield, Oxford county, Maine, October 27, 1838. Securing a common school education in the public schools of those days, and after- wards fitting for a university course, he en-
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tered Harvard University, and graduated with the class of 1857. He then engaged in teaching until 1859, when he began the study of law, and was associated with the Hon. S. C. Andrews in Buckfield.
He was admitted to the bar and practiced for some time in his native town, removing to Boston, where he settled, in 1862. In 1869 he removed to Hingham, but retained his office in Boston.
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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 1879 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 Eneid 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, 1886. 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 1834, 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 to '50, and was appointed commissioner to revise the
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United States Maritime Hospital system in 1849.
In 1851 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
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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 " (1851), "Modern Agriculture " (1861), " The Relation of Agriculture to the State in Time 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 " (1876), " The Cattle Industry " (1884), "The In- fluence of the Puritan on American Civili- zation " (1887), besides a number of other articles.
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LOTHIROP.
Mr. Loring was married at Salem, November 5, 1851, to Mary T., daughter of Dr. Thomas and Sophia (Palmer) Pick- man, who died December 20, 1862. His second marriage was in New York, June 10, 1880, to Mrs. Anne S. Hildreth, daughter of Isaac T. and Elizabeth (Putnam) Smith.
LOTHROP, DANIEL, son of Daniel and Sophia (Horne) Lothrop, was born in Rochester, Strafford county, N. H., August II, 1831.
On the paternal side he is descended from Mark Lothrop, who settled in Salem January 11, 1644, his line subsequently joining that of Priscilla and John Alden, of the "Mayflower." On the maternal side he is a lineal descendant from William Horne, of Horne's Hill, Dover, N. H., who was killed in the Indian massacre of June 28, 1689.
Mr. Lothrop as a student was quick, and possessed of a singularly retentive mem- ory. He was in mathematics a young prodigy. At the age of fourteen he was prepared for college, but by advice of friends he was restrained from entering so early upon that connection. While wait- ing, circumstances thrust him into the arena of business.
On reaching his decision to remain out of college for a year, he assumed charge of the drug store of his brother, who, de- siring to attend medical lectures in Phila- delphia, invited him to carry on the business during his absence. The store became his college, where his love for books soon led him to introduce them as an adjunct to the business. When seven- teen years of age, he hired and stocked a store in New Market, N. H. Having this in successful operation, he called a third brother, who about this time was admitted to the firm, and left him in charge of the new establishment, while he established a similar store at Meredith Bridge, now called Laconia. These three brothers for more than forty years have remained in co-partnership, with absolute unity of in- terests, though in distinct lines of business and located in different cities.
Mr. Lothrop has passed through various activities and widely divergent fields of operation. In 1850 he bought the stock of books held by Elijah Wadleigh, Dover, N. H., enlarged the business and made it a literary centre. Hle established branch stores in many places, books being the principal stock ; made an extended trip West, grasping the vast possibilities of that country; opened a store in St. Peter, Minn., and later on a banking house, of
which his uncle, Dr. Jeremiah Horne, was cashier ; in his book and drug store he placed one of his clerks from the East, B. F. Paul, now one of the wealthiest men in Minnesota Valley, and established two other stores in the same section of the country. In the years following, 1857 and
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'58, years of financial panic, the conduct- ing of his extensive business demanded all his elements of good generalship.
Mr. Lothrop, when he had placed his western branch houses on a good footing, came East, and for the next four years directed his enterprises from the quiet book store in Dover. Soon after the close of the civil war he closed up his various en- terprises in order to concentrate his force for the accomplishment of his long-ma- tured plan of publishing for the people.
He set himself to work to create a greater demand for home and town libra- ries. He determined to publish nothing sensational, nothing save good, strong, attractive literature. His headquarters were planted in Boston. He was success- ful, and to-day he is broadening his field in many directions, gathering the rich thought of many men of letters, science and theology among his publications.
When the time was ripe, he issued the " Wide Awake," a magazine of popular
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literature ; then came "Babyland," and "Our Little Men and Women," followed by "The Pansy."
Mr. Lothrop has enlarged his business houses as his publications have increased in volume, until his salesrooms and ware- houses are among the most extensive in the trade. His enjoyment of art and his critical appreciation are illustrated in all his work. He lives in Boston, his summer residence being in Concord, at "Wayside," the only home owned by Nathaniel Haw- thorne.
Mr. Lothrop was married in Dover, N. H., July 25, 1860, to Ellen J., daughter of Joseph and Nancy Morrill of that town. Of this union was one son, Winifred, who died at the age of three months. He was again married in New Haven, Conn., Oc- tober 4, 1881, to Harriett Mulford, daugh- ter of Sidney M. and Harriett M. Stone of that city. Of this union was one daugh- ter: Margaret Mulford Lothrop, born July 27, 1884.
LOVELL, BENJAMIN S., son of John P. and Lydia (Dyer) Lovell, was born in Weymouth, Norfolk county, July 10, 1844, and received his early education in the common schools of his native town.
At an early stage of the war of the rebel- lion, while only eighteen years of age, he prevailed upon his father, a staunch Union patriot, to permit him to shoulder a musket, and he enlisted in company A, 42d regi- ment, Massachusetts volunteers. His com- panions in arms are pleased to bear witness to his many superior traits of character as a man and soldier. He was brave and generous, and as popular then as now.
In 1870 he became a member of Rey- nolds Post 58, G. A. R., and was elected its senior vice-commander for the years 1871, '72, '73, '74 and '75 ; was elected commander in 1876 and has been chosen each year since, the present making his fourteenth term, a record as satisfactory as it is honorable. He was junior vice department commander in 1880, and senior vice department commander in 1881, but declined the nomination for department commander in 1882.
Mr. Lovell has received many positions of honor and trust from his fellow-citizens. He was aide-de-camp to General John C. Robinson, commander-in-chief of the na- tional encampment, G. A. R., 1877 and '78 ; delegate to the national encampment 1886 ; also member of the council of ad- ministration in 1887 ; member of the staff of Governor John D. Long in 1881 and '82 ; delegate to the national Republican
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conventions of 1880, '84 and '88. He was chosen chairman of the Republican town committee in 1881, which position he still holds ; was elected a representative to the General Court, 1877-'78, serving on the committee on mercantile affairs; a mem- ber of the state Senate in 1883, being appointed to the committee on harbors and public lands, military affairs, and Hoosac Tunnel and Troy & Greenfield Railroad.
In 1885, when the soldiers' exemption bill was being agitated, he resolved to enter the field once more for the purpose of giving his voice and vote in favor of that measure, and was returned to the Legislature for 1886, serving on the rail- road and re-districting committees.
Mr. Lovell is a prominent figure in busi- ness, politics, and G. A. R. affairs, and devoted to the welfare of all who wore the
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blue. At present he is the treasurer of the extensive and well-known firm of John P. Lovell Arms Company, importers and dealers in fire-arms, hunting and fishing tackle, baseball goods, etc., Boston.
Mr. Lovell was married at Weymouth, November 13, 1867, to M. Anna, daughter of Jonathan and Mercy Holmes. Of this union are two children : Lydia Charlotte and Helen Isabel Lovell.
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LOVELL, CLARENCE P., son of Cor- nelius and Sarah L. (Parker) Lovell, was born in Boston, June 21, 1848.
He obtained his carly educational train- ing in the primary, grammar and high schools of his native city.
He entered business life with Alfred C. Hervey and Henry C. Brooks, Boston, 1866, shipping and grain merchant and wharfinger of Commercial Wharf. Subse- quently he was engaged with Cornelius Lovell, his father, ship broker and ship owner. This was in 1868 ; in 1870 he was taken into partnership, and holds the same relation at the present time.
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Mr. Lovell was married in Boston, Sep- tember 28, 1870, to Mary F., daughter of Samuel L. and Angeline (Colby) Fowle. Of this union were five children : Kate E., Clarence N., Mabel, Charles L., and How- ard Burtt Lovell.
Mr. Lovell was six years director of the Merchants' Exchange ; member of Boston common council, 1880, '81 and '82 ; director of East Boston ferries, 1881, '82 and '83. He is now vice-president of the National Ship Owners' Association ; president of the Jeffries Winter Club, director of the Boston chamber of commerce. He was a member of the popular branch of the Legislature, 1888 and '89, serving upon
the committees on finance and expendi- tures. He has been past master work- man of Central Lodge, United Order of Workmen, and a member of the Royal Arcanum.
His residence is East Boston.
LOVERING, HENRY BACON, son of John G. and Mary A. (Martin) Lovering, was born in Portsmouth, Rockingham county, N. H., April 8, 1841.
His early education was obtained in the public schools. He left school at the age of fourteen to learn the trade of shoe- maker, afterwards manufacturing ladies' boots and shoes. He remained in this business until the breaking out of the civil war. a
He enlisted and was made color-corporal of company D, 8th Massachusetts volun- teers, serving in 1862 and '63. During 1864 and '65 he was private and company clerk in company C, 3d regiment, Massa- chusetts cavalry. At the battle of Win- chester, Va., September 19, 1864, he re- ceived a gun-shot wound in the left leg, rendering amputation necessary.
He was a member of the House of Rep- resentatives, 1872 and '74 ; a member of the board of assessors of Lynn, 1879 and '80 ; mayor of Lynn, 188t and '82 ; was elected to Congress from his representative district, 1882, and having served his term, was re-elected in 1884. He was chairman of the Democratic state convention in 1886, and was nominated for governor of Massachusetts by the Democratic party in 1887. He was president of the 3d Massa- chusetts Cavalry Association, 1888 and '89.
He was appointed United States marshal for the district of Massachusetts by Presi- dent Cleveland, April 10, 1888. He is president of the Bond Furniture Improve- ment Company of Washington, D. C. ; has been member of the board of trustees of College of Physicians and Surgeons, Bos- ton ; a prominent Knight of Pythias, and sir knight president of Mutual Lodge, K. O. S. C., No. 99, Lynn.
Mr. Lovering was married in Lynn, De- cember 25, 1865, to Abby J., daughter of Harrison and Eliza J. (Brown) Clifford. Of this union were five children : Emma J., John H., Mary V., Harry C., and Annie C. Lovering (the last two deceased).
LOVERING, JOSEPH, son of Robert and Elizabeth (Simonds) Lovering, was born in Charlestown, Middlesex county, December 25, 1813.
His early education was received in a private school, under the tuition of a female
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teacher. In the Charlestown public schools he prepared for college ; entered Harvard and was graduated in the class of 1833.
He then studied two years in the divinity school connected with the same university. He was instructor and tutor in Harvard from 1835 to '38, and Hollis professor of mathematics and natural philosophy from 1838 to '88. He was regent from 1853 to '69. He is now Hollis professor emeritus, residing still in Cambridge.
Professor Lovering was married in Bos- ton, February 5, 1844, to Sarah Gray, daughter of Prince and Sarah (Gray) Hawes. Of this union were four children: James Walker (Harvard), Cora, Eva (now Mrs. Matthew Carey Lea, Philadelphia), and Ernest Lovering (Harvard).
Professor Lovering has been president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1880 ; is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and was permanent secretary from 1854 to '72, and president in 1873 ; member of the National Academy of Science, California Academy of Science, American Philosophical Society of Phil- adelphia, and of the Buffalo Historical Society.
LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL, son of Rev. Charles Lowell, D. D., and Harriet, daughter of Robert T. Spence of Ports- mouth, N. H., was born in Elmwood, Plymouth county, February 22, 1819.
Perhaps no family in the Commonwealth has attained greater distinction in both the republic of letters and beneficent public service. The first American ancestor was Percival Lowell, who came from Bristol, Eng., settling in Newbury, Mass., in 1639.
The great grandfather of the poet was Rev. John Lowell, minister of Newbury- port, numbered by historians among the special notabilities of the American pulpit. His grandfather, Hon. John Lowell (Chief Justice of the court of appeals, and United States district judge) was a poet of ability, but is chiefly remembered for philanthropic action as a member of the convention which framed the constitution of Massachusetts, as he introduced the clause which effected the abolition of slavery in the State. John Lowell, LL. D., uncle of James Russell, was a noted writer on politics, theology, economics, agriculture, etc.
To Francis Cabot Lowell, brother of John Lowell, is to be attributed the intro- duction of the cotton manufacture into the United States, at Waltham, and the found- ing of the city of Lowell, which was named for him. To his son, John Lowell,
Jr., is due the gratitude of a Common- wealth for his founding of the Lowell In- stitute in Boston, where he was born, May II, 1799. Robert Traill Spence Lowell, brother of the poet, is remembered as hav- ing, with other members of the family, achieved literary celebrity ; but to none of them has come such versatile and vigorous power as to the poet himself - power loyally used for the good of his country, as well as universal man.
James Russell Lowell was graduated from Harvard College in the class of 1838. He read law in the law department of Harvard University, was admitted to the bar in 1840, and opened an office in Bos- ton. But love of letters was stronger than ambition for legal rewards. He soon left the profession he had chosen, for the oppor- tunity and leisure of indulging his tastes in realms more congenial.
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His first collection of poems, "A Year's Life " (1841) was severely criticised, though the genius slumbering was noticed by Judge Story, who wrote kindly of it at the time. In January, 1843, he with a co-part- ner issued "The Pioneer, A Literary and Critical Magazine," Boston. This was not a financial success.
The years following were spent in giving to the world his inimitable prose sketches,
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