The Portland daily press., 1896-07-27
GEORGE 3. LORING.
Sudden Death at Rookland Saturday.

| Sudden Death at Rockland Saturday.
Rookland. July 25.-George B. Lorlng,
senior member of the firm of LoTing,
Short q Harmon of Portland, died sud-
denly In this city at $50 this afternoon.
he arrived in the city on the afternoon
train and walked down she platform
chatting pleasantly with Conductor
Hodgkins. He left the latter and boarded
On electric car, Immediately after taking
seat IN which he expired. The motor.
man noticed that be appeared Ill and
| went inside the car to support him. Drs.
Hitchcock and Hill were summoned and
upon their arrival they pronounced Mr..
l4oring dead, the cause being heart
disease. The remains were taken on a
car to the Barker undertaking rooms
Wbere ehey were cared for and a telegram
Immediately sent to Mrs. Loring who
was at her summer home in Linoolnville.
| Mrs. Loring end son Fred arrived at
nine tonight and made arrangements to
| have the remains taken to Portland on
special train tomorrow morning. Mr.
Loring belonged to Portland Command
cry, K. T.. and Eminent Commander E..
A. Jonas OF Claremont Conmandery OF
this city saw that everything possible
was done. In this city he was assisted
by Herbert M. Lord, whose wife Is a
cousin OF the deceased and by j. M.
Eaatman of Portland, fellow Mason.
| Coroner Judkins examined the body
and decided that an inquest would be un-
necessary.
Saturday evening the sad news Of the
death of Mr. George Bussey Iloring was
received in this city. 1t was great
shocksto those associates and friends who
learned of it during the evening, and will
be equally SO to those who read it this
N orning.
| Mr.. Loring's family have been at their
summer home in Linoolnville and Satur-
day noon be left Portland to spend some
| time with thSm.
| Mr. Loring was about sixty-two year s
Of age, and was born in Thomaston. His
father, Charles Loring, moved to East
port while the son was quite young and
| there enaagsd in the dry goods business.
Later the family moved to Portland.
| Mr. L0ring began his business life in
| Portland at an early age, as clerk for
Francis Blake, the book seller. In that
store he was associated with Mr.. James
Moves, afterwards of the we'll known firm
of Bailey & Noyes. This was before tho
war. During the years of ths war Mr..
| Loring followed the sea, gel with his
uncle, Capt Charles Haskt He went
On several voyages, becomi ! ship IS
| officer, and learning much OF Tile world.
| After leaving the sea ia 1865, be asso
Ciated himself VITA MIR. Leonard O..
| Short under the firm name of Short &
| L0ring. They bought cut the retail store
Of Messrs. Bailey & Noyss at No. Sc Ex-
change street and began business. The
rtuou frnr 81 htvrr cd Nhof ht7r
did not cripple their enterprise. They
continued their business and IN Noyem-
| Der, 1868, admitted a new partner, Mr..
| O. @. Harmon. The firm name then be :
| came Loring, Short & Harmon, name
| destined to acquire wide and solid rep
utation among the business houses of
| New England. 1t ia worthy Of notice in
passing that in the twenty-eight years
since, the three members OF thu firm have
continued their association without
| change and Saturday morning before Mir.
| Loring's death they were able to say that
no other business firm then doing bust
| ness in Portland and containing two or
more MON bers, had existed SO long un-
| changed as Loring, Short & Harmon.
Their place of business for fourteen
years was under the Falmouth hotel and
for the last fourteen years has been in
Lancaster block, on Monument square
MI. Loring was businss man very
enterprising and devoted. He travelled
through the state representing his firm q
| considerable time each year and few if
any Maine men not in public life. We're
so generally known as he He was gen.
ial, companionable, sympathetic and OUT
spoken, making and retaining many
friends. He felt warm companionship
with the commercial travellers of the
state, and was foremost in associations
for the promotion of their interests.
He was also q prominent member OF
various secret and benevolent orders, be-
ing associated with Ligonia Lodge ofOdd
Fellows, Eastern Star Enoampmens, An
Gent Landmark Lodge of Masons, Mt.
Vernon Royal Arch Chapter, Portland
Oommmandery, K: T., and Bramhall
Lodge, knights of Pythias.
! His business and social relations also
made him valued member Of the Board
of Trade, the Bramhall League end the
Portland club.
IDsspolitios he Was an earnest and true
Republican. but he never sought politi-
cal Office.
In religious matters be smypathized
with the Congregationalists, and was an
attendant at High street church.
Mr.. Loring was married in 1866 to
Miss Mary Ellen Carver, of Linoolnville.
Shs survives him with two children, Mr..
Fred I.oring md Miss Addie Loring.
Mr.. Loring's death, while sudden, was
probably not wholly unexpected by those
who knew him best. His health has not
been good for several years. and for the
last four winters he has found 1t neoes-
sary to spend considerable time at the
Barbados Islands, the climate of which
he found very beneficial. The immedi-
ate cause of his death seems to have been
trouble of the heart.
The arrangements for the funeral are
not yet perfected.
The body arrived in Portland on the
40 train Sunday morning.
Frank haskell.
MIR. Frank Haskell. agent and treasur-
err Of the Westbrook Man ufaoturing Com