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[Up] [Dromo's Den] George Bailey Loring Biography LORING,
George Bailey (1817-91). An American agriculturist. He was born in
Massachusetts, graduated at Harvard in 1838, and at the Harvard Medical School
in 1842, after which for several years he was physician at the Chelsea (Mass.)
marine hospital. From 1850 on, he devoted himself extensively to the study of
scientific agriculture. Residing in Salem, he several times represented that
city in both branches of the Legislature. He was also for many years president
of the Massachusetts Agricultural Society, was a member of the Republican
National Convention in 1868 and 1872, and enjoyed a high reputation as a public
speaker. He was a member of Congress from the Essex District in 1877-81, United
States Commissioner of Agriculture in 1881-85, and Minister to Portugal in
1889-90. His writings include several public addresses, and The
Farm-Yard Club of Jotham (1876). The New International
Encyclopaedia, Vol. XIV
(New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920)
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