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LOBIMER. 461 LORINSER. Shawmut Avenue Church and Tremont Temple, Boston (1870-79); Immanuel Church, Chicago (1879); Tremont Temple, Boston (1891); and Madison Avenue Baptist Church, Xew York (1902). He was for several years associate edi- tor of the Baptist weekly journal, Tlie Watchman, published at Boston. He edited The People's Bible History Prepared in. the Light of Recent In- vestigations ( 1895) ; and among other works pub- lished: Under the Evergreens (1872) ; The Great Conflict (1870) ; Studifis in Hociul Life (1886) ; The Argttment for Christianity (1894) ; Messages of To-Day to the Men of To-Morrow (1897), etc. LOBIMEE, Peter (1812-79). An English Presbyterian. He was born in Edinburgh, and educated in that city, but from 1830 was con- nected with the ministry of the English Presby- terian Church ; he was professor of theology in its college, in London (1844-78), and became principal in 1878. He deserves mention for his important monograph, John Knox and the Church of England (London, 1878), and his translation of Leehter's John Wyclif and His English Pre- cursors (2 vols., London, 1878). LOBING, lo'ring, Ch.bles Greeley (1794- 1808). An American la-ycr, born in Beverly, JIass., and educated at Harvard (class of 1812). He practiced law in Boston, became actuary of the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Com- pany in 1857, and in 1862 entered the State Sen- ate. He wrote Neutral Relations Between the United States and England (1863) and a Life of Williatn Sturgis (1804). He was a man of great oratorical ability and a prominent member of the Massachusetts Historical Society. — His son, Charles Greeley Lorixg (1828-1902), was born in Boston, graduated at Harvard in 1848, served through the Civil War. and in 1805 retired with the rank of brevet major. U. S. V. In 1873 he became a trustee, and in 1876 executive officer of the American Museum of Fine Arts. LOBING, Ellis Gray (1803-58). An Ameri- can lawyer. He was born in Boston, prepared for college at the Boston Latin School, and en- tered Han'ard in 1819, but left before gradu- ation to study law. He was admitted to prac- tice in 1827, and ro.se rapidly to a foremost place at the Boston bar. He openly advocated abolition, in 1833 was one of the twelve founders of the first Anti-Slavery Society in Boston, and the author of its constitution. He offered his legal services freely in defense of fugitive slaves, thereby practically ostracizing himself from the circle of society in which he had been reared. His defense of the slave child 'Med' before the JIassachusetts Supreme Court was his most notable case. In this case he was opposed by Benjamin R. Curtis (q.v.), but succeeded in ob- taining a decision of the court that ever}" slave brought into Massachusetts was by that fact legal- ly free, and presented his argument with such force and eloquence that Curtis himself, after the trial, acknowledged that he had been com- pletely won to Loring's view. Many of his anti- slavery addresses were published. LOBING, George Bailey (1817-91). An American agriculturist. He was born in Massa- chusetts, 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 de- voted 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 presi- dent of the Massachusetts Agricultural Society, was a member of the Republican National Con- vention in 1808 and 1872, and enjoyed a high reputation as a public speaker. He was a mem- ber 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 Jolham (1870). LOBING, William Wing (1818-86). An American soldier, born in Xorth Carolina. He was early taken by his parents to Florida, and at the age of fourteen enlisted in a volunteer company which took part in the Seminole War, attaining the rank of lieutenant at the end of two years of active service. Later he studied for a time at Georgetown (D. C.) College, aud then served as a volunteer in the war for Texan inde- pendence. Having returned to Florida, he was a member of the Territorial Legislature from 1839 to 1842. At the outbreak of the Mexican War he became captain in a regiment of mounted rifles, and later served with distinction under both Gen- eral Taylor and General .Scott. Appointed major, he was assigned in 1849 to command the troops in the Department of Oregon, became a lieuten- ant-colonel in 1851, and served against the In- dians in the Rio Grande country luitil 1850, when he was promoted to be colonel. In 1857- 58 he served under Albert Sidney .Tohnston at the time of the ilormon troubles in Utah. He then traveled in Europe for a year, made a study of Continental military systems, and on his re- turn was appointed to command the Department of New -Mexico. He was strongly opposed to the secession movement, but was a believer in the doctrine of States' rights, and on tlie withdrawal of Florida from the Union he entered the Con- federate service, in which he was at once ajipointed brigadier-general. He Ijecame a major-general in Fel)ruary, 1802; served with distinction in West Virginia, and as a corps conunander in Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee: took part in the Vicksburg and Atlanta campaigns, and in the battles of Franklin and Xashville. in 1804. where he was second in command to (ien. .Tobn B. Hood. Later he served under Gen. .Joseph E. .Johnston in the Carolinas. surrendering with him to Sherman in April, 1805. After sev- eral years in the banking business in New York City, he accepted in 1809 a commission from Ismail. Pasha, the Khedive of Egypt, to reorgan- ize his army. He remained in Egypt for ten years, accomplished his task with gi-eat success, and returned to America in 1870 with the rank of general of division. He published an account of his Egyptian senice imder the title of .1 Con- federate Soldier in Egypt (New York. 1883). LOBINSEB, lo-rln'zer, Karl Ignaz (1796- 1853). . German physician, born at Niemes, Northern Bohemia. After studying at the uni- versities of Prague and Berlin, he was appointed a lecturer at Berlin in 1818, and a member of the College of Medicine at Stettin in 1822. From 1824 to 1850 he was a councilor in the Prus.sian Government service. In the study of epidemics, he traveled through Hungary, Transylvania, and