BRACE, CHARLES LORING (1826-189o)

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BRACE, CHARLES LORING (1826-189o) , American philanthropist, was born on the 19th of June 1826 in

Litchfield

LITCHFIELD

, Connecticut. He graduated at Yale in 1846, studied theology there in 1847-1848, and graduated from Union Theological

Seminary

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in 1849. From this time he practically devoted his life to socialwork among the poor of New

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, 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

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Christianity and its application to the improvement of social conditions.
See The Life and Letters of Charles Loring Brace (New

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, 1894), edited by his daughter, Emma Brace.

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