Charles Morgridge Loring (November 13, 1833 – March 18, 1922) was an American businessman,
miller
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and publicist. Raised in
Maine
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to be a sea captain, Loring instead became a civic leader in
Minneapolis
Minneapolis () is the largest city in Minnesota, United States, and the county seat of Hennepin County. The city is abundant in water, with thirteen lakes, wetlands, the Mississippi River, creeks and waterfalls. Minneapolis has its origins ...
, Minnesota where he was a wealthy flour miller and in
Riverside, California
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where he helped to build the first city hall. He was a popular and generous man who enjoyed many friendships and business associations.
Loring is remembered as the influential commissioner and president of the first Minneapolis park board.
Considered the "Father of the Park System" in Minneapolis, Loring encouraged the city to work with
Horace Cleveland
Horace William Shaler Cleveland (December 16, 1814 – December 5, 1900) was an American landscape architect. His approach to natural landscape design can be seen in projects such as the Grand Rounds in Minneapolis; Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Con ...
, one of the first
landscape architect
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s, and park superintendents William W. Berry and
Theodore Wirth
Theodore Wirth (1863–1949) was instrumental in designing the Minneapolis system of parks. Swiss-born, he was widely regarded as the dean of the local parks movement in America. The various titles he was given included administrator of pa ...
. The city built what has been called, "the best-located, best-financed, best-designed, and best-maintained public open space in America."
Family and early life
Loring's grandfather was a respected teacher in
Portland, Maine
Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maine and the seat of Cumberland County. Portland's population was 68,408 in April 2020. The Greater Portland metropolitan area is home to over half a million people, the 104th-largest metropol ...
known as Master Loring, a descendant of one of the earliest settlers of
Hingham, Massachusetts
Hingham ( ) is a town in metropolitan Greater Boston on the South Shore of the U.S. state of Massachusetts in northern Plymouth County. At the 2020 census, the population was 24,284. Hingham is known for its colonial history and location on B ...
. Charles himself was a fifth great grandson of Hingham immigrant Deacon
Thomas Loring Thomas Loring was an early settler of Hingham and Hull, Massachusetts. He was present at some of the key moments in the earliest history of Hingham, Massachusetts. But later " e large Loring families were prominent in the town f Hull and remain ...
. His mother was Sarah Wiley, a relative of Parson Wiley, a noted clergyman. His father Captain Horace Loring, a seaman who once visited the
West Indies
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, took the young Loring on voyages as far from home as
Cuba
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to prepare him for a life as a sea captain. But Loring disliked the ocean and the isolation and moved to Chicago in 1856 where he worked as a wheat speculator for B. P. Hutchinson and became a successful grain trader.
Loring never enjoyed perfect health,
and when he fell ill in Chicago and moved on doctor's advice to Minneapolis, his friend
Loren Fletcher
Loren Fletcher (April 10, 1833 – April 15, 1919) was a U.S. Representative from Minnesota.
Biography
He was born in Mount Vernon, Kennebec County, Maine and attended the public schools and Maine Wesleyan Seminary, Kents Hill, Maine. Flet ...
helped him become manager of the supply store for
Dorilus Morrison
Dorilus Morrison (December 27, 1814 – June 26, 1897) was an American banker, businessman, and Republican politician. He was the first and third Mayor of Minneapolis and was a member of the Minnesota Senate.
Life and career
Morrison was born i ...
's
lumber
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business. Loring and Emily S. Crosman married in 1855. They had one daughter, Eva Maria, and one son, Albert C. Loring who managed businesses for his father. Emily Loring died on March 13, 1894. Loring remarried on November 28, 1895, to Florence Barton, daughter of A. B. Barton of Minneapolis.
Florence Loring participated in civic affairs and was a quilter whose ''Crazy Quilt'' is in the collection of the
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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.
The Lorings constructed the Florence Barton Loring Shelter in 1906 to protect children, lost animals and the city's
draft horse
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s. Known at different times as the Minneapolis Humane Society, the Animal Rescue League, and the Animal Humane Society of Hennepin County, today's Animal Humane Society (AHS) was located there near
Loring Park
Loring Park is a park in the Loring Park neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
History
Loring Park was established in 1883 after the passage of the Park Act, which first created the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board. The park was first ...
for 40 years.
Florence Loring also built a home for nurses near the hospital in
Riverside, California
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where the Lorings lived in winter.
Flour milling
![Cataract-Holly-Union-Arctic mills-Minneapolis](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/Cataract-Holly-Union-Arctic_mills-Minneapolis.jpg)
Minneapolis was founded at
Saint Anthony Falls
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, the only
waterfall
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on the
Mississippi River
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, because of the potential for energy created by falling, flowing water.
Loring understood the
city's geography—its waterfalls, lakes and river banks—and was able to use these unique aspects of his new home to slowly build his fortune.
In 1861, Loring joined Fletcher in L. Fletcher & Co., a general store specializing in supplies for lumbermen on
Nicollet Avenue
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across from
Minneapolis City Hall
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where they prospered for fifteen years.
They joined with W. F. Cahill to convert the municipal waterworks building into a flour mill run on
hydropower
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, the smallest in the Mississippi west bank milling district. With George Hineline they added three limestone stories and operated it as the W. F. Cahill & Co. Holly mill. During this period, Loring served in the city government, first as road supervisor and in 1872 as a
Minneapolis City Council
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member from the Fifth Ward in the
Near North community.
The group sold the Holly mill in 1872 to W. H. and F. S. Hinkle and purchased the Galaxy mill from W. P. Ankeny.
In 1873 Fletcher and Loring also became principal owners of the Minnetonka Mills Company near
Lake Minnetonka
Lake Minnetonka (Dakota: ''Mní iá Tháŋka'') is a lake located about west-southwest of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Lake Minnetonka has about 23 named bays and areas. The lake lies within Hennepin and Carver counties and is surrounded by 13 inc ...
, in production between 1881 and 1886.
Loring supervised his milling interests until 1880, when his son A. C. Loring took responsibility for their management.
The
Northwestern Consolidated Milling Company
Northwestern Consolidated Milling Company was an American flour milling company that operated about one quarter of the mills in Minneapolis when the city was the flour milling capital of the world. Formed as a business entity, Northwestern produce ...
led by John Martin purchased the Galaxy mill and beginning in 1891 operated nine mills in Minneapolis.
By the early 1900s and until the
Great Depression
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, Washburn-Crosby which became
General Mills
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,
Pillsbury-Washburn, and Northwestern which became part of Standard Milling Company were an oligopoly, holding 97% of the Minneapolis flour market.
Electricity and rail
![Soo Line Railroad-refrigerated car](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Soo_Line_Railroad-refrigerated_car.jpg)
Through his business associations, Loring contributed to major advances in the infrastructure of Minneapolis, to supply electricity, as a director of a railroad, and as chief executive of the North American Telegraph Company.
[ ] In 1881 with
William D. Washburn
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, Joel Bean Bassett, Sumner W. Farnham, James A. Lovejoy and Otis Arkwright Pray, Fletcher and Loring co-founded the Minnesota Electric Light and Electric Motive Power Company, later the Minnesota Brush
Electric Company.
The group ran lines to bars and businesses on
Washington Avenue Washington Avenue may refer to:
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* Washington Avenue (Minneapolis), a major street in Minne ...
and supplied them from the first
hydroelectric
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central power plant in the U.S., thirteen years before the
Niagara Falls
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plant went on line in 1894. In 1883 with Washburn, Martin, H. T. Welles,
Thomas Lowry
Thomas Lowry (February 27, 1843 – February 4, 1909) was an American lawyer, real-estate magnate, and businessman who oversaw much of the early growth of the streetcar lines in the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis, St. Paul, and surrounding com ...
, George R. Newell, Anthony Kelly, Clinton Morrison, J. K. Sidle, W. W. Eastman, William D. Hale,
Charles A. Pillsbury and Charles J. Martin, Loring incorporated the Minneapolis Sault Ste. Marie & Atlantic Railway Company known as the
Soo Line Railroad
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.
Other associations
![Minneapolis-Grain-Exchange-1939-room](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Minneapolis-Grain-Exchange-1939-room.jpg)
Loring also owned real estate and was a director of Syndicate Insurance Co., the Minnesota Title Insurance Co. and the Minnesota Loan and Trust Co. which eventually became part of today's
Wells Fargo
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.
The first Minnesota Flower Show was held July 4, 1863 and was organized by Loring who was a member of the Minnesota Horticultural Society.
He co-founded the Minnesota Homœopathic Medical College which opened in 1886.
Loring acted as president of the Minneapolis Board of Trade in 1875 and from 1886 to 1890 served as president of the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce, renamed the
Minneapolis Grain Exchange
The Minneapolis Grain Exchange (MGEX) is a commodities and futures exchange of grain products. It was formed in 1881 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States as a regional cash marketplace to promote fair trade and to prevent trade abuses in whea ...
.
Loring cofounded the Morgan Machine Co. in
Rochester, New York
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. He served as president of the Minnesota Forestry Association, the National Park and Outdoor Association, the
Lakewood Cemetery
Lakewood Cemetery is a large private, non-sectarian cemetery located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. It is located at 3600 Hennepin Avenue at the southern end of the Uptown area. It is noted for its chapel which is on the National Re ...
Association, and the Sons of Maine and as vice president of the National Board of Trade.
Park board
Despite opposition from the
Knights of Labor
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who eventually became supporters, on January 23, 1883, the Minneapolis Board of Trade passed resolutions to secure legislation to create a Board of Park Commissioners, and the city ratified a Park Act on April 3, 1883. Loring was the natural choice and was appointed the commission's first president. He was reelected each term and served until 1890 when he insisted on resigning because a property in which he held financial interest was under park board consideration.
Horace Cleveland
Horace Cleveland
Horace William Shaler Cleveland (December 16, 1814 – December 5, 1900) was an American landscape architect. His approach to natural landscape design can be seen in projects such as the Grand Rounds in Minneapolis; Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Con ...
made his "crowning achievement" in Minneapolis at the end of his career, in part thanks to "kindred spirits."
William Watts Folwell
William Watts Folwell (February 14, 1833 – September 17, 1929) was an educator, writer and historian who was the first president of the University of Minnesota.
Biography
Folwell was born in 1833 in Romulus, New York. He attended Hobart Coll ...
who was the founding president of the
University of Minnesota
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, and Berry and Loring, both from Maine, were all united in their love for nature. The system Cleveland created is characterized by the use of
indigenous plants in their natural environment and by the linking of open spaces and landmarks across distance with
boulevard
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Boulevards were originally circumferential roads following the line of former city walls.
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s and
parkway
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s. Cleveland had thought about linked public open spaces as early as 1855.
During Loring's tenure, Cleveland designed the
Grand Rounds Scenic Byway
The Grand Rounds National Scenic Byway is a linked series of park areas in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, that takes a roughly circular path through the city. The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board developed the system over many years. ...
and the
Chain of Lakes. In his history of the Minneapolis park system, Loring describes how green space was preserved around every Minneapolis lake. Many donations and acquisitions of property came early enough that the land was affordable. In 1872 for example, the city thought
William S. King's price of $50,000 was too high for the of land around
Lake Harriet. Thirty years later it would have sold for $2,000,000.
Minnehaha Park
Minnehaha Falls
Minnehaha Park is a city park in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, and home to Minnehaha Falls and the lower reaches of Minnehaha Creek. Officially named Minnehaha Regional Park, it is part of the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board syst ...
received pilgrimages from fans of
Longfellow
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's ''
The Song of Hiawatha
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'' by the 1870s. At the same time, business people wanted to harness its power. In 1884 Loring advocated a
Minnesota
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state park at Minnehaha Falls, a goal the state tried and failed to achieve.
In 1888, Cleveland presented ''The Aesthetic Development of the United Cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis'' at the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts and convinced the city to preserve the waterfall and to build a city park there. In the 1890s, Cleveland's Minnehaha Park was annexed to Minneapolis and completed the Grand Rounds. Today Minnehaha Park sees 850,000 visitors each year.
Named by Folwell, the 52-mile (83 km) Grand Rounds circles from
Northeast, Minneapolis
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to
Theodore Wirth Park
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, to the
Chain of Lakes and follows the
Mississippi River
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upstream past Minnehaha Falls to
downtown
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.
Theodore Wirth
At the 1889 meeting of the American Park and Outdoor Art Association, held in Minneapolis, Loring read Cleveland's ''The Influence of Parks on the Character of Children''.
In 1905 Loring learned of
Theodore Wirth
Theodore Wirth (1863–1949) was instrumental in designing the Minneapolis system of parks. Swiss-born, he was widely regarded as the dean of the local parks movement in America. The various titles he was given included administrator of pa ...
and recruited him as park superintendent. Wirth met with Minneapolis neighborhoods to extend Cleveland's work from landmark geographical features to every street.
He wrapped "sixty miles of picturesque parkways around the City like an emerald ribbon."
Wirth planned a playground within the reach of most children and canopies of trees throughout the city.
Each home is within six blocks of a park and as of the U.S. Census in 2000, there are of parkland for each resident.
Minneapolis park assets as of 2004 included the following. 144 of the parks were in place when Wirth retired in 1935.
City of Riverside
In 1889 in his winter home in
Riverside, California
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, Loring constructed an office block with a 1,000-seat theater on the first floor that hosted performers such as
W.C. Fields
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and
Sarah Bernhardt
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. At various times known as the Loring Opera House, Loring Theatre, Fox Riverside, and Golden State Theatre, the theater was destroyed by fire in 1990.
[ and ] The office building was leased to the city for use as its first City Hall, library, jail and municipal courts.
Legacies
![Loring-Lakewood-20100912](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/Loring-Lakewood-20100912.JPG)
Formerly Central Park,
Loring Park
Loring Park is a park in the Loring Park neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
History
Loring Park was established in 1883 after the passage of the Park Act, which first created the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board. The park was first ...
in the
Central
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community is designed by Cleveland on the site of the Joseph Johnson farm. It was dedicated May 5, 1883 and renamed for Loring in or near his final year as park board president.
Loring Lake, formerly Johnson Lake, was also named for Loring as is the Loring Stage House, originally Loring's office.
In California, Loring Drive in
Huntington Park
Huntington Park is a city in the Gateway Cities district of southeastern Los Angeles County, California.
As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 58,114, of whom 97% are Hispanic/Latino and about half were born outside the ...
and Loring's building in Riverside bore his name. In Minneapolis, the Loring Elementary School in the
Camden community,
the Loring Nicollet Alternative School in the
Stevens Square neighborhood, the Loring Pasta Bar in
Dinkytown
Dinkytown is a commercial district within the Marcy-Holmes neighborhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Centered at 14th Avenue Southeast and 4th Street Southeast, the district contains several city blocks occupied by various small businesses, restau ...
as well as other businesses carry his name. The Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board's Charles M. Loring Award
is named in his memory. The
Camp Fire Girls
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planted a
spruce
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tree in his memory on the south shore of
Lake Harriet.
Loring died at his home in Minneapolis at the age of 88. He is buried in
Lakewood Cemetery
Lakewood Cemetery is a large private, non-sectarian cemetery located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. It is located at 3600 Hennepin Avenue at the southern end of the Uptown area. It is noted for its chapel which is on the National Re ...
which he helped to create near
Bde Maka Ska
Bde Maka Ska (, previously named Lake Calhoun, its former official designation) is the largest lake in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, and part of the city's Chain of Lakes. Surrounded by city park land and circled by bike and walking tra ...
in Minneapolis. The City of Riverside declared April 17, 1923 Loring Day and dedicated a plaque to him, inscribed with this memorial:
In honor of
Charles M. Loring
Treelover
And
Civic Enthusiast
Let dead names be eternalized by dead stones
Let living names by living shafts be known:
Plant thou a tree whose griefless leaves shall sing
Thy deed and thee, each fresh unfolding spring
See also
*
History of Minneapolis, Minnesota
Minneapolis is the largest city by population in the U.S. state of Minnesota, and the county seat of Hennepin County. The origin and growth of the city was spurred by the proximity of Fort Snelling, the first major United States military presence ...
Notes
External links
Charles Morgridge Loring in MNopedia, the Minnesota Encyclopedia
Further reading
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*Anfinson, Scott F. (1989). Archaeology of the Central Minneapolis Riverfront
Part 1an
Part 2 Retrieved April 14, 2007.
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