Rhodora 
JOURNAL OF 
THE NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB 
Vol. 5 May, 1903 No. 53 
LORIN LOW DAME. 
F. S. COLLINS. 
(With Portrait.) 
Lorin Low Dame, the son of Samuel and Mary Anne (Gilman) 
Dame, was born in Newmarket, New Hampshire, March 12, 1838. 
His father was a descendant of Samuel Dame, who settled in Dover 
about 1630; Governors Simon Bradstreet and Thomas Dudley of 
Massachusetts were ancestors of his mother. In 1846 the family 
removed to Lowell, Massachusetts, and Lorin completed the full 
course of the public schools, fitting for college at the High School, 
entering Tufts College in 1856, and graduating at the head of his 
class in 1860. In the same year he became principal of the High 
School at Braintree, Massachusetts, where he taught two years, and 
then resigned the position to begin the study of law. In 1863 he 
was married to Miss Isabel Arnold of Braintree, and in the same 
year he was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Fifteenth 
Massachusetts Battery. He saw active service in the Gulf States 
and in Tennessee, was promoted to First Lieutenant, and mustered 
out in August, 1865; the same year he became principal of the 
Lexington High School, a position which he held for three years. 
He was principal of the Nantucket High School for two years, of the 
Stoneham High School for six years, and in 1876 was chosen prin- 
cipal of the Medford High School, the position which he held for 
the rest of his life. The high standard of efficiency the school has 
attained during his administration and its remarkable equipment, both 
from the material and from the aesthetic point of view, are due very 
largely to his judgment and taste, and to the complete confidence 
felt in him by his pupils and graduates, and indeed, by all with 
