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work on Spain and Portugal. Dr. Loring was Postmaster 

 of Salem from 1853 to 1858. In 1866-67 he was a member 

 of the Massachusetts house of Representatives. In 1873- 

 4-5-6 he was president of the Massachusetts Senate. In 

 1876 he was elected to Congress from the old fifth District 

 and was reelected in 1878. In 1881 he was appointed 

 Commissioner of Agriculture by President Garfield, receiv- 

 ing his commission and instructions from the President 

 the day before the latter was shot. Soon after his inau- 

 guration President Harrison appointed Dr. Loring as min* 

 ister to Portugal which position he resigned within a year 

 feeling the need of rest. He has since lived quietly at his 

 farm in Salem engaged in literary work. He leaves a 

 widow and one daughter. 



Dr. William Cogswell, who died August 15, 1891, 

 was born in Atkinson, N. H., April 21, 1821. of stock well 

 and highly known, educated in the schools of his native 

 town. He chose medicine as his life study. He was a 

 trustee of the Academy in his native town, President of 

 the State Medical Society for two years, was appointed 

 and served as medical examiner, was elected as a member 

 of the Governor's Council, and served as Surgeon in the 

 50th Massachusetts Regiment. In various ways prompted 

 by a tender heart and generous nature, he endeared him- 

 self to a large circle of friends through a long life, and 

 laid down his work in the way that he himself had desired 

 to lay it down without sufiering, without an interval of 

 inactivity, surrounded by his friends and in his home. In 

 the practice of his chosen profession Dr. Cogswell was 

 faithful to its duties, responding promptly to the call of 

 suffering and offering for its relief all that a kindly heart 

 and an experience valuable, by reason of its variety, could 

 suggest. To the younger members of this society he was 

 a friend and counsellor, ever glad to hear of the success 

 of another, and to aid it generously by advice or personal 

 service. Positive in his convictions, and fearless in his 

 expression of them, he was an active force in the world, 



