George Martin Lane (1823-1897) was the son of Martin Lane and Lucretia Swan Lane. He was Harvard College A.B. 1846 and traveled to Germany in 1847 to study classical philology at universities in Berlin, Bonn, Heidelberg, and Göttingen. He received his Ph.D. from Göttingen in 1851. Upon his return to Cambridge, Lane was appointed Harvard University Professor of Latin, and in 1869 became Harvard's Pope Professor of Latin Language and Literature until his retirement in 1894. He is especially known for his Latin Pronunciation (1871) and his posthumously published Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges (1898). The Grammar was completed and published by Lane's pupil, Professor Morris H. Morgan. Lane was married in 1857 to Frances Eliza Gardiner (d.1876) and in 1878 to Fanny Bradford Clark. He had three children with his first wife: Gardiner Martin Lane, Louisa Greenough Lane, and Katherine Ward Lane.
Gardiner Martin Lane (1859-1914) was the son of Frances Eliza Gardiner and George Martin Lane. He was Harvard College A.B. 1881, and married to Emma Louise Gildersleeve Lane in 1898. Their only child was sculptor Katharine Ward Lane Weems (1899-1989). Gardiner worked for the Union Pacific Railway Company, later for Lee, Higginson and Company, and also was president of the Board of Trustees of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
From the guide to the Lane family papers, 1840-1898., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University)
