Charles M. Loring
Businessperson, Deceased Person
1833 – 1922
Who was Charles M. Loring?
Charles Morgridge Loring was an American businessman, miller and publicist. Raised in Maine to be a sea captain, Loring instead became a civic leader in Minneapolis, Minnesota where he was a wealthy flour miller and in Riverside, California where he helped to build the first city hall. He was a popular and generous man who enjoyed many friendships and business associations.
Loring is remembered as the influential commissioner and president of the first Minneapolis park board. Considered the "Father of the Park System" in Minneapolis, Loring encouraged the city to work with Horace Cleveland, one of the first landscape architects, and park superintendents William W. Berry and Theodore Wirth. The city built what has been called, "the best-located, best-financed, best-designed, and best-maintained public open space in America."
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- Born
- Nov 13, 1833
Portland - Also known as
- Charles Loring
- Spouses
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- Portland
- Riverside
- Minneapolis
- Died
- Mar 18, 1922
Minneapolis
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on July 23, 2013
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