Background
He was born in New York City and graduated from Cornell University in 1935 and obtained his PhD in mathematics from the University of Cincinnati in 1941.
He did mathematically related work for the war effort in a "draft exempt" job but quit in 1943 to enlist in the United States Army. He saw service in India and the Pacific Theater of World War II before being demobilized in 1946. Lorch obtained a teaching position at the City College of New York following the war but was soon fired because of his civil rights work on behalf of African-Americans.
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