BRACE, CHARLES LORING American philanthropist, was born on June 19, 1826 in Litchfield (Conn.). He graduated at Yale in 1846, and from Union theological semi nary in 1849. From this time he devoted his life to social work among the poor of New York, and to Christian propaganda among the criminal classes,. and he became well known as a social re former, at home and abroad. In 1853 he helped to found the Children's Aid society, establishing workshops, industrial schools and lodging-houses for newsboys. He died at Campfer, in Tirol, on Aug. I1, 1890. His writings, in several volumes, embody his views on practical Christianity and its application to the improve ment of social conditions.
See The Life and Letters of Charles Loring Brace (1894), edited by his daughter, Emma Brace.