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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsWilliam Croad LOVERING
(1835-1910)
LOVERING, William Croad, a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in Woonsocket, R.I.,
February 25, 1835; moved with his parents to Taunton, Mass., in
1837; attended the Cambridge High School and the Hopkins Classical
School, Cambridge, Mass.; left school in 1859 for employment in his
father’s mill; during the Civil War served as quartermaster
of Engineers in the Second Massachusetts Brigade, consisting of the
Second and Third Regiments; engaged in cotton manufacturing in
Taunton; first president of the Taunton Street Railway; president
of the American Liability Insurance Co.; interested in several
other business enterprises; president of the New England Cotton
Manufacturers’ Association for two years; member of the State
senate in 1874 and 1875; delegate to the Republican National
Convention in 1880; presided at the Republican State convention in
1892; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fifth and to the six
succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1897, until his
death in Washington, D.C., February 4, 1910; interment in Mount
Pleasant Cemetery, Taunton, Mass.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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