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 IN MEMORIAM. 



In obtaining the names of members of the society de- 

 c eased, a list of members was sent to the Trustee in each 

 town and city for revision, requesting date of death d 

 age of each member deceased, with brief notice of each in 

 printing or writing, from which and from others, the fol- 

 lowing has been compiled by your committee : 



Hon. George B. Loring died suddenly at his home in 

 Salem, Sept. 15, 1891, at the age of seventy-four years, 

 six months. He had been sick about ten days but ap- 

 peared to be improving and his friends were encouraged 

 that he would recover, until within a few hours of his 

 death. Dr. Loring was born in North Andover, Mass. 

 His father was for more than forty years the Unitarian 

 clergyman in that town, and was a descendant of John 

 Alden of the Plymouth colony, while his mother was a 

 niece of Samuel Osgood, the first Postmaster General un- 

 der Washington. He was a graduate of Harvard College 

 in the same class with James Russell Lowell, and took his 

 degree in the Harvard Medical School, having been a stu- 

 dent under Oliver Wendell Holmes. Soon after his grad- 

 uation he was appointed surgeon of the Marine Hospital 

 at Chelsea, where he remained in active practice seven 

 years. He then resigned and went to Salem, where he 

 came into possession of the Pickman Farm, which was his 

 home during the remainder of his life. In 1864 he 

 founded the New England Agricultural Society and was 

 its president for nearly a quarter of a century. For four 

 years he was a trustee of the Massachusetts Society for 

 Promoting Agriculture and has for a long time been Vice 

 President of the Essex Agricultural Society, in which he 

 always took a great interest. As an author and public 

 speaker he won distinction, his " Farm Yard Club of 

 Jotham" papers being recognized as a standard in their 

 line and his many contributions to the North American 

 Review and other magazines making his name a household 

 word. At the time of his death he was engaged on a 



