Loring Augustus Chase
(1839-1906)

Died aged c. 67

Loring A. Chase was born in 1839 in Nashua, New Hampshire and went to work in Boston as a bookkeeper. In 1880 his physician advised him to go south to cure his chronic bronchitis. Arriving in what is now Winter Park, he contacted an old friend, Oliver E. Chapman of Canton, Massachusetts. They purchased 600 acres and laid out a new town, naming it Winter Park. From 1881 to 1885 Chase and Chapman advertised Winter Park as a resort for wealthy northerners, opened streets, planted orange trees and built cottages. In 1885 Chapman sold his interest to Chase and incorporated the Winter Park Company. Chase sold his interest in the Winter Park Company to Francis B. Knowles in 1886 and retired. The following year the Town of Winter Park was incorporated. Loring A. Chase died in 1906.

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