Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . udy of school-houses, secret society and library buildings. Hehas three school-buildings at Melrose, the new highschool-houses at Athol and at Braintree, five inSomerville, besides the Masonic Hall, Odd FellowsHall, and library building in the same city, theUniversalist church in Canton, the library building in Middleton, Divinity Hall at Tufts College, andmany fine residences in Boston and the Loring is a prominent citizen of Somervil
Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . udy of school-houses, secret society and library buildings. Hehas three school-buildings at Melrose, the new highschool-houses at Athol and at Braintree, five inSomerville, besides the Masonic Hall, Odd FellowsHall, and library building in the same city, theUniversalist church in Canton, the library building in Middleton, Divinity Hall at Tufts College, andmany fine residences in Boston and the Loring is a prominent citizen of Somerville, oneof the executive committee of the Central Club, amember of the Masonic order, Odd Fellows, UnitedOrder of American Workmen, and other secretsocieties. While not a politician or office-seeker,he is active in public affairs. Mr. Loring wasmarried in 1878 to Miss Sarah F. Johnson, of Som-erville. LciiHRdP, .-XuiiLSius, the oldest active mason andmaster builder in Boston, was born in this cityFeb. 13, 1823. He learned his trade in 1838, andwas with the old firm of Stand ish & Woodbury forten years, at the end of which time he went into. AUGUSTUS LOTHROP. partnership with William Sayward, under the firmname of Sayward & Lothrop. Ihis firm was dis-solved in 1863, and he has since conducted thebusiness alone. Mr. Lothrop helped lay the foun-dation of the Custom House in 1838, and hasbuilt a great number of large and substantial build-ings, among them the Equitable, Advertiser, andMassachusetts Charitable Mechanic AssociationBuilding, which is six hundred and fifly feet longand three hundred feet wide, the Brattle-squareChurch on Commonwealth avenue, the First Church,and the Hotel Tudor. He also rebuilt the ALasonicTemple for R. H. Stearns & Co. He has been a
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