CHARLES LORING BRACE (1826-189o)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V04,
Page 358
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also:CHARLES LORING See also:BRACE (1826-189o)
, See also:American philanthropist, was See also:born on the 19th of See also:June 1826 in See also:Litchfield, See also:Connecticut
.
He graduated at Yale in 1846, studied See also:theology there in 1847-1848, and graduated from See also:Union Theological See also:Seminary in 1849
.
From this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he practically devoted his See also:life to socialwork among the poor of New See also:York, and to See also:Christian propaganda among the criminal classes; and he became well known as a social reformer, at See also:home and abroad
.
He started in 1852 to hold " boys' meetings," and in 1853 helped to found the See also:Children's Aid Society, establishing workshops, See also:industrial See also:schools and lodging-houses for newsboys
.
In 1872 he was a delegate to the See also:international See also:prison See also:congress which met in See also:London
.
He died at Campfer, in See also:Tirol, on the 11th of See also:August 189o
.
He published from time to time several volumes embodying his views on See also:practical See also:Christianity and its application to the improvement of social conditions
.
See The Life and Letters of See also:Charles Loring See also:Brace (New York, 1894), edited by his daughter, Emma Brace
.
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