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One of the 13 Founding Fathers of the Delphic Fraternity.
Loring Olmsted
May 25, 1856 - Jan. 29, 1931
(digitally designed tombstone)
Loring Olmsted was born on May 25, 1856, in Geneseo New York to Franklin Webster Olmsted and Cornelia Bryan. Soon after his birth, Loring’s family moved to Missouri but later returned to Geneseo.
While attending the Geneseo Normal School, 14-year-old Loring Olmsted became a founding member of the Delphic Society.
In 1873, Loring enlisted as a United States Naval Academy cadet engineer.
In the 1880 U.S. Census, Loring’s occupation is listed as a surveyor and he worked in Colorado. In 1882, Loring traveled to Mexico City where he was employed as a lawyer for the Rochester-Mexican Plantation Company.
Loring married Mary Matilda Benfield on July 23, 1884, in Mexico. The couple had a daughter named Cornelia, born the next year.
The Mexican Mission Papers of John Lind, a U.S. Congressman who played an important role in the Mexican Revolution, notes that Olmsted assisted Lind in his work. The papers describe Olmsted, who managed the British Club in Mexico City, as someone in a position to inform and advise Lind.
The 1907 Annual Report of the American Museum of Natural History lists Olmsted donating 20 snakes from Mexico. Loring Olmsted spent most of his life in Mexico and died on January 29, 1931, at the age of 74.
Sources:
Genealogy of the Olmsted Family in America, by Henry King Olmsted and George K. Ward, p. 366, 1912.
Family Search.Org (1931, Loring Olmsted, “Mexico Distrito Federal, Registro Civil, 1832-2005”).
Annual Register of the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., Volume 24,1873.
New York Supreme Court, Monroe County, in the matter of the Application for a Voluntary Dissolution of the Rochester-Mexican Plantation Co., January 17, 1902.
Annual Report of the American Museum of Natural History, Volumes 38-41,1907.
The Mexican Mission Papers of John Lind, Minnesota Historical Society (January 1, 1971), p. 15.
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