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Dr. Jackson continued the active practice of his profession, especially 

 as a consulting physician, and also attended annual meetings of societies 

 to which he had been attached, for some time after he had attained the 

 age of fourscore years. In the few last years of his life, under the 

 joint influence of physical and mental decadence, he retired from public 

 view. Yet he died remembered, honored, and regretted, leaving among 

 his numerous acquaintance an appreciative freshness of memory which 

 time had not been able to change or obscure. 



Charles Greely Loring, son of Caleb and Ann (Greely) 

 Loring, was born in Boston on the 2d of May, 1794. His ancestors 

 on his father's side were among the earliest settlers of the colony of 

 Plymouth. Some of the prominent traits of his character indicated 

 his Puritan origin. From his mother, the daughter of a naval hero of 

 the Revolution, he inherited an ardent spirit of patriotism and love of 

 liberty. 



His school-days were passed in Boston. Having completed his 

 preparation for college at the Public Latin School, where he received 

 a Franklin medal for industry and good scholarship, he entered the 

 University in advanced standing in the year 1809, and was graduated 

 with high honors in 1812. Immediately after leaving college, he became 

 a member of the Law School at Litchfield, Connecticut, which, under 

 the charge of Judges Reeve and Gould, was then the leading institu- 

 tion for legal instruction in the United States. He finished his prepar- 

 atory studies for the bar in the office of the Hon. Samuel Hubbai'd in 

 Boston, and was admitted a member of the Suffolk bar in the autumn 

 of 1815. From that time, for nearly forty years, Mr. Loring con- 

 tinued in the active and successful practice of his profession as a 

 lawyer and advocate, rising to be one of the acknowledged leaders of 

 the bar, until in the year 1854, becoming somewhat weary of the con- 

 flicts of the forum and of the constant and pressing cares and labors 

 necessarily attendant on faithful service and devotion to the interests 

 of his clients, which had in some degree impaired a constitution never 

 very robust, he accepted the office of Actuary of the " Massachusetts 

 Hospital Life Insurance Company." He continued in the discharge of 

 the duties of this important trust until his death, which took place at 

 his summer residence in Beverly on the 8th of October, 1867. 



By his first wife, Miss Ann Pierce Brace, of Litchfield, to whom he 

 was married in 1818, Mr. Loring had four children, two sons and 

 two daughters, who survive him. 

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