- SAMUEL B. LOOMIS, of Brodhead, Green county, has been a farmer
and a painter during his
- more active life, and is now living in the enjoyment of a
competence acquired by industry and thrift through long and useful
years.
- Mr. LOOMIS was born at Bennington, Vt., Oct. 18, 1826, and
is a son of Jesse and Sarah
- (BLACKMER) LOOMIS, both natives of that place. Jesse LOOMIS
was born July 11, 1794, and died Oct. 21, 1849. His wife was
born March 12, 1799, and died in 1865. They had three children,
two of whom are now living, Samuel B. and Frances H., the latter
the widow of Henry JOHNSON, of Chicago. The father was a stage
proprietor when a young man, and ran all the stages out of Bennington.
In later life he was a hotel keeper at North Bennington. His
father also bore the name of Jesse LOOMIS. He was a native of
England, and came to this country about 1777, and served in the
Revolutionary army, being with Gen. Washington at Valley Forge.
He drew a pension for his services in that great struggle, which
came to his widow after his death at Bennington, at the age of
eighty-eight years. He was a farmer, and had a family of nine
children. The father of Mrs. Sarah B. LOOMIS was a native of
Vermont, and a farmer; he was twice married, and was the father
of eleven children. Samuel B. LOOMIS was reared in a hotel at
Bennington, Vt., until he was about eighteen years old. He then
learned the painter's trade, which was his calling for fifty-five
years. He attended the school at Bennington, and at Hoosick Falls,
N.Y. When he was married he took his wife to Troy, N.Y., where
he lived a year or more, and then came to Wisconsin. He located
at Janesville, where he spent a year, and then bought a farm.
This he tilled one year, and then sold it for double the money
it cost, and returned to Janesville, where he lived five years.
He spent some time in the town of Spring Valley on a farm, and
then came to Brodhead, and this city has been his home for many
years.
- Mr. LOOMIS and Miss S. Lorinda BURDICK were married Aug.
28, 1848. She was the
- daughter of Joseph T. and Eunice (SCRIVEN) BURDICK, and became
the mother of nine children, Frances H., Lilly H., Norman B.,
Willie H., Emma Josephine, George A., Mae B., James Spencer and
Sara E. Frances H. married James T. SMITH, and lives at Tacoma,
Wash., and has two daughters, Maud and Norma. Lilly H. married
James H. HORNE, now deceased; they had six children, Jessie B.
( married Orrin BREWER, and has two children, Rodney and "Bud"),
Alice M. (who married William T. GREEN, and has one son, Orvill),
Robert W., Grace E., Tina M. and Harry; Mrs. HORNE lives in Brodhead.
Norman B. died when twenty-nine years old; he had married Miss
Sarah L. SPENCER, and was the father of one daughter, Bessie
M. Willie H. married Miss Florence WELLER, and lives in South
Dakota, where he is engaged in farming; they are the parents
of four children, Albert Spencer, George, Samuel R., and Lora
Mae. Emma Josephine, who died in 1871, at the age of eleven years
and six month. George A., a graduate of the Brodhead high school,
class of 1880, died in October, 1885, aged twenty three years
and eight months. Mae B., a graduate of the same school, class
of 1884, is a teacher in the high school at Brodhead. James Spencer,
a stationary engineer in a large elevator at Tacoma, Wash., married
Miss Mamie LAUBY, and has two sons, Harry Burdick and Jess. Sara
E., who was graduated from the Brodhead high school in 1887,
and from the Whitewater State Normal in 1899, is a teacher in
Madison, Wisconsin.
- Mr. LOOMIS belongs to the Bicknell Lodge, No. 94, A.F. &
A.M. In politics he is a Democrat.
- His wife owns a farm of twenty acres in the corporate limits
of Brodhead. Her parents, Joseph T. BURDICK and Eunice SCRIVEN
BURDICK, were natives of Rensselaer county, N.Y., where they
spent their entire lives. He died in 1848, at the age of forty-seven.
His widow survived him many years, and died in 1884, at a very
great age. Ten children were born to them. They were both devout
members of the Methodist Church, and he was a farmer and a blacksmith.
His father also bore the name of Joseph BURDICK, and was a native
of New York, but died in Janesville, Wis. He married Elizabeth
SCRIVEN. Mrs. LOOMIS' maternal grandparents were John SCRIVEN
and his wife, Eunice CHANDLER, the former of whom attained a
very great age.
- Mr. LOOMIS had a brother, Norman B., who was an auditor in
the Illinois Central railroad
- service at Chicago for some twenty-five years, and died in
1898, at the age of sixty-nine.
-
- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin,"
(c)1901 Union Publishing; pp. 450-451.
-
- Courtesy of Carol.
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