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Charles Greely Loring (general)
Charles Greely Loring Jr. (December 26, 1828 – August 18, 1902) was an American military officer who attained the rank of Brevet (military), brevet Major general (United States), major general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, Civil War. He later served as curator and director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Biography Early years Loring was born in Boston in 1828. His father, also named Charles Greely Loring (lawyer), Charles Greely Loring, was a lawyer who served one term in the Massachusetts Senate. The younger Loring was educated at Boston Latin School and then attended Harvard, where he received an undergraduate degree in 1848 and a Master of Arts degree in 1851. Over the next decade, he traveled internationally including visits to Scotland, Spain, Egypt, the Sinai Peninsula, Arabia Petraea, Palestine (region), Palestine, Constantinople, Greece, and Paris. He had at least two bouts of unspecified serious illness, and spent time attending to his family' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston
Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- most populous city in the country. The city boundaries encompass an area of about and a population of 675,647 as of 2020. It is the seat of Suffolk County (although the county government was disbanded on July 1, 1999). The city is the economic and cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area known as Greater Boston, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 4.8 million people in 2016 and ranking as the tenth-largest MSA in the country. A broader combined statistical area (CSA), generally corresponding to the commuting area and including Providence, Rhode Island, is home to approximately 8.2 million people, making it the sixth most populous in the United States. Boston is one of the oldest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
