Charles Loring Brace

Charles Loring Brace June 19, 1826 – August 11, 1890 was an American Children's Aid Society.

Early life

Brace was born on June 19, 1826, in Litchfield, Connecticut. He was named after his uncle, the lawyer Charles Greeley Loring, defender of fugitive slave Thomas Sims, His mother died when he was 14, as well as he was raised by his father, a history teacher.

He graduated from Yale College in 1846. He pursued divinity as well as theology graduate studies at Yale, but left to examine at Union Theological Seminary, from which he received his graduate measure in 1849. He was drawn to New York because it was viewed as the center of American Protestantism together with social activity. His best friend and classmate at Yale, Frederick Law Olmsted, the landscape architect, also lived in New York.