History of North Andover, (Essex County) Massachusetts United States of America

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George Bailey Loring, representative, was born in North Andover, Mass., Nov. 8, 1817, son of the Rev. Bailey Loring. He attended Franklin academy; was graduated from Harvard, A. B. 1838; studied medicine with Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and at Harvard Medical school, and was graduated M.D. 1842. He was appointed surgeon of the U.S. marine hospital at Chelsea, Mass., in 1843 and commissioner to revise the U.S. marine hospital system in 1849. He removed to Salem, Mass., in 1851; was postmaster, 1853-57 and devoted himself to scientific agriculture and to the publication of agricultural literature. He founded the New England Agricultural society in 1864 and was its president, 1864-91. He was a representative in the state legislature, 1866-67; a delegate to the Republican national convention May 20, 1868, June 5, 1872, and June 14, 1876; Massachusetts centennial commissioner in 1872; chairman of the state Republican committee, 1869-76; a representative in the 45th and 46th congresses, 1875-79; U.S. commissioner of agriculture, 1881-85; and U.S. minister to Portugal, 1889-90; and during his term of office the trouble between England and Portugal over the disputed African possessions took place. He was twice married: first, in 1851, to Mary F. Pickman who died in 1878, and secondly, in 1880, to Nina S. Hildreth. He is the author of addresses on The Relation of Agriculture to the State in Time of War (1862); Classical Culture (1866); Eulogy on Louis Agassiz (1873); The Cobden Club and the American Farmer (1880); and an Address to the Atlanta Cotton Convention (1881); and in book form A Year in Portugal (1891). He died in Salem, Mass., Sept. 13, 1891.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Samuel Phillips, philanthropist, was born in North Andover, Mass., Feb. 7, 1750; son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Barnard) Phillips, and grandson of the Rev. Samuel and Hannah (White) Phillips, and of Theodore Barnard. He was graduated at Harvard, A.B., 1771, A.M., 1774; was a member of the Provincial congress at Watertown, Mass., in 1775, and of the state constitutional convention of 1779; a member of the Massachusetts senate, 1780-1800, and president of that body, 1783-1800; judge of the court of common pleas, 1781-98; a commissioner of the state in Shays's insurrection, and lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts, 1801-02. He prevailed upon his father to divert the property which would legally fall to him to the founding of Phillips academy at Andover, which he planned and organized. He also gave it lands, procured endowments from his relatives and left $4000 to the town of Andover, to be added to the fund for maintaining instruction in divinity. He was a founder and fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and received the honorary degree of A.M. from Dartmouth in 1774, and that of LL.D. from Harvard in 1793. He was married, July 6, 1773, to Phebe, daughter of the Hon. Francis Foxcroft of Cambridge, Mass., and after her husband's death she assisted in founding Andover Theological seminary. Mr. Phillips died in Andover, Mass., Feb. 10, 1802.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor