Caleb William Loring

Born in Boston in 1819, he was the son of lawyer Charles Greely Loring and studied law at Harvard before practicing in Boston. Contemporary and archival sources describe him as an eminent Boston lawyer, and family and biographical records connect him with one of Massachusetts's well-known Loring families.

He is best remembered today for historical and constitutional writing, especially Nullification, Secession, Webster's Argument, and the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions Considered in Reference to the Constitution and Historically. In that book, he revisited the great antebellum arguments over state sovereignty and the Union in a direct, readable style.

Loring also served in business leadership, including as president of the Plymouth Cordage Company. He died in Camden, South Carolina, in 1897.