Loring was born on December 12, 1848, in Boston, Massachusetts to David and Mary Hall Stodder Loring. Inheriting a love of literature from his mother, who died when he was eleven, he quickly gained in stature as an up-and-coming American author
He attended Phillips Academy, Andover, Class of 1866, and then Harvard University, where he first made his mark with contributions to the Harvard Advocate. He graduated in 1870.
He was a fifth great grandson to immigrant Thomas Loring. He also made numerous journalistic and creative contributions to such periodicals as The Atlantic Monthly, Appleton"s Journal, Old and New, The Independent, and Every Saturday during this time. In the spring of 1871, Appleton"s Journal sent Loring as a correspondent on an expedition to Arizona to be led by Lieutenant George M. Wheeler.
I have had a fortnight of horrors.
This morning an Indian fight capped the climax. However, I am well and cheerful." Although they escaped from the valley, his party"s carriage was attacked on 5 November by a band of Yapavai near Wickenburg, Arizona, while on the way to Louisiana Paz in an ambush that came to be known as the The driver, Loring, and four other passengers were killed.
After his death, he was mourned by Charles Reade as having been the most promising of all young American authors. Several of Loring"s poems, such as "In the Old Churchyard at Fredericksburg" and "The Old Professor", were posthumously included in American verse anthologies.
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