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(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Katharine Peabody Loring
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Katharine Peabody Loring

Beverly, Massachusetts, 1849 - 1943
BiographyKatharine Peabody Loring (May 21, 1849 – August 16, 1943) was an American educator. She was head of the history department at the Society to Encourage Studies at Home, the first correspondence school in the United States, where she developed a lifelong companionship with well-known diarist Alice James.[1][2] She was also a trustee of the Beverly Public Library in Beverly, Massachusetts, and president of the Beverly Historical Society from 1918 to 1941. [DJackson 3/10/2021 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Peabody_Loring]
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