CHARLES LORING

See also:

• BRACE (through the Fr. from the plural of the Lat. bracchium, the arm)
• CHARLES LORING BRACE (1826-189o)
• BRACE, JULIA (1806-1884)

BRACE (1826-189o)  , American philanthropist, was born on the 19th of June 1826 in Litchfield, Connecticut . He graduated at Yale in 1846, studied theology there in 1847-1848, and graduated from Union Theological Seminary in 1849 . From this time he practically devoted his life to socialwork among the poor of New York, and to Christian propaganda among the criminal classes; and he became well known as a social reformer, at home and abroad . He started in 1852 to hold " boys' meetings," and in 1853 helped to found the Children's Aid Society, establishing workshops, industrial schools and lodging-houses for newsboys . In 1872 he was a delegate to the international prison congress which met in London . He died at Campfer, in Tirol, on the 11th of August 189o . He published from time to time several volumes embodying his views on practical Christianity and its application to the improvement of social conditions . See The Life and Letters of Charles Loring Brace (New York, 1894), edited by his daughter, Emma Brace .