California Biographies 

Source:
History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California
by: C M Gidney - Santa Barbara. Benjamin Brooks - San Luis Obispo. 
Edwin M Sheridan - Ventura
Volumes II - Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, ILL., 1917

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THOMAS F. McLOUGHLIN. The vitality and enterprise of some of the old pioneers of Ventura 
County are now continued through their worthy successors, sons and daughters, and no small 
part of the great landed estates in this section are now being actively operated by some men 
who, had circumstances been otherwise, would have been able to carve their destiny by their 
own courage and ability, and as a matter of fact are carrying the heaviest responsibilities of 
citizenship and industry in modern years.
One of these younger men is Thomas F. McLoughlin, who is a son of the late Mark McLoughlin, 
one of the fine old pioneers of Ventura County and whose career is sketched on other pages. 
Thomas F. McLoughlin was born in Ventura County December 9, 1873. He attended public 
schools until the age of eighteen, and then found work on his father's farm up to 1898. Since 
that year he has been an active and independent farmer, and now owns a half interest in a 640-
acre ranch and recently has bought 150 acres from the Patterson Ranch Company. He devotes 
his exclusive attention to the raising of two crops, beans and beets.
Mr. McLoughlin is a democrat, a Catholic, a Knight of Columbus and an Elk, and is a widely 
known and popular citizen of the Oxnard community. On November 8, 1898, he married at Elrio 
Miss Anna Leidle. They are the parents of a vigorous household of ten children: Mark, 
Margaret, Francis, Anna, William, Raymond, James, Thomas F. Jr., Kathryn and Ellen, the last 
two being twins. The oldest child, Mark, is sixteen years of age and attending high school, while 
the younger children of school age are in St. Joseph's Institute.