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He was married February 11. 1857, to Miss Amelia Freeman, who was born in Wilna, daughter of Erastus Freeman and Abi Strickland, natives, respectively, of Wilna and Philadelphia, New York. Her grand- father. Colonel .Alfred Freeman, was a pioneer settler of Wilna, a militia officer, who built the "Checkered House," a hotel which served many years as one of the landmarks of the town. Three of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Loomis survive. Erastus, the first born, died before three years old. The second child was Ralph Clarence. Emma died December 15, 1891. near Gouverneur, being the wife of Frank Parks, aged twenty-nine years. Frances is the wife of Sanford Rice, of West Carthage. Asa was a cheesemaker, and died at home, aged twenty- seven. Rachel married Arthur Woolworth, now a merchant residing in Muskegon, Michigan. Florence S. is the wife of Evan H. Clemons.
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The children were educated in district school and the high school at Carthage. Emma taught some years in Champion.
(VII) Manley, fifth child and eldest son of Alvin and Nancy Loomis, was born September 7. 1817. in Champion, and learned the blacksmith's trade at Albany. New York, which he followed through life. In 1839 he married Rachel Baldwin, who was born July 6, 1821, in Canaan, Connecticut. daughter of Sylvester and Candace (Ives) Baldwin. Her parents settled on a farm near Chenango Forks. this state. Of their thirteen children all lived until after the first was fifty years old, and two are now living. Mrs. Loomis was the fifth.
In October, 1841, Manley Loomis took up his residence in Carth- age, and thereafter made his home on Spring street in that village, where he built a house. During the Civil war he erected a brick house on that street, which is now the home of his daughter. He did a large business in building carriages and all kinds of vehicles, and was a pros- perous business man of his day. Industrious and energetic during busi- ness hours, he spent much time in reading and was a progressive thinker. always in advance of the times. He was an unflinching abolitionist in the days when such a position invited contumely, and promptly joined the Republican party upon its organization. Of radical opinions and outspoken in their expression, he was never popular politically. but that did not annoy him, as he desired no official position. He was firm in support of prohibition and never wavered in his efforts to bring about the abolition of the liquor traffic. His religious faith was represented by the Disciples' church, whose local society he assisted. He died Jan- vary 9. 1896, and was survived by his wife until December 1, 1902. They were the parents of five children. George I., the eldest, served three years as a soldier in the Civil war, whereby his life was shortened, and died in Carthage. September 5. 1894. Stoel W. is further men- tioned on another page. Laura A. resides in Carthage. Lecelia, wife of Franklin Eugene Willes, is in Evansville, Indiana, and Jay A., the youngest, lives on Water street. Chicago. On July 3. 1889, Mr. and Mrs. Loomis celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their wedding, amid a large company of relatives and appreciative friends.
(VII) Ashley Loomis, second son of Horace and Fanny ( Har- ris ) Loomis, was born July 15, 1821, in Champion, and remained on the home farm until twenty-four years of age. He received a fair educa- tion at the local school and academy, and subsequently attended an academy at Evans Mills. At the age of twenty years he began teaching
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winter school and was thus employed in his native town and in Har- risville. Lewis county. In 1845 he went to Felts Mills, and operated a blacksmith shop there. He seemed to have the Yankee gift of turning his hand to various occupations, for we find him later in Henderson, superintending the manufacture of cheese from sixty cows' milk. He became an expert in cheese-making. and was employed two years at Dickinson's landing. Canada, in teaching farmers the art. He was sub- sequently engaged for five years in blacksmithing at Felts Mills. He re- moved to Carthage in 1854, and purchased a sawmill and built a tannery, in partnership with his cousin Israel H. Loomis and with Orlin Hol- comb. After two years I. H. Loomis sold out to his partners, who con- tinued the business until 1869. In that year Ashley Loomis went to Hannibal. Missouri, where he was a dealer in coal until his death, January 6. 1897. His body was brought to Carthage for burial. Mr. Loomis was a lifelong member of the Methodist church, in which he was active and influential. He often filled several official stations in the church, being trustee. steward, class leader and superintendent of the Sunday-school. Being a foe to slavery and all forms of wrong and oppression. he was one of the first to advocate the suppression of slavery in his country, and was a staunch supporter of the Republican party from its inception, but did not desire any official honors.
Mr. Loomis was married May 2, 1844. to Harriet Francis, a native of Champion, born March 29. 1826, daughter of one of the pioneer settlers of that town. Two children were born to this couple, Louise Harriet and Horace Ashley. The former is the wife of Duane Dun- ham, of Antrim. New Hampshire. . \ sketch of the latter appears here- inafter.
(VIII) STOEL WARNER LOOMIS, a veteran of the Civil war and an intelligent and useful citizen of Carthage, is carrying forward the industry planted by his father. Manley Loomis ( mentioned at length on another page), and in which he was associated many years before the retirement of the father. He was born September 2, 1841. in the village of Champion, where his great-grandfather was a pioneer, and was an infant in arms when his parents settled in Carthage. Here he grew up. receiving some mental discipline in the public school and Bush's Academy. AAlways slender, he was not fitted for a laborious occupation, but he inherited his father's ambition, and entered the shop at the age of sixteen years. He became a woodworker, and also did painting and carriage trimming, becoming a very useful man in the
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business. In a country carriage shop, where jobbing forms the larger portion of the business, his versatility is especially desirable.
September 24. 1861, before he was twenty years old, young Loomis enrolled his name among the defenders of the national integrity, and served three years, chiefly in the Army of the Potomac. in doing garri- son duty in the defenses before Washington. He was a member of Company H. Second New York Artillery, so-called, but the regiment was never equipped and was utilized as infantry throughout its service. It was sent out to take part in the second battle of Bull Run, and cov- ered the retreat, in guard of wounded, after that disastrous meeting with "Stonewall" Jackson. While on this service, five companies, including Mr. Loomis', were on continuous duty for three days, while the wounded were being moved, and he fell down, exhausted, in the woods as soon as relieved from duty. There he slept all night, without a guard, and returned to the fortifications in the morning. Going out as a corporal, Mr. Loomis returned as sergeant. When urged to take an examination for a commission, he replied that he had no ambition for a higher office. On account of his superior penmanship he was assistant to the orderly sergeant a year before his promotion from corporal. He was a student of the regulations, and was employed much of the time in drilling raw recruits sent to reinforce the garrisons. At one time, while officer of the guard, he was placed under arrest for alleged failure in duty, but he showed that he had strictly carried out the regulations, and his pro- motion to sergeant followed immediately. While strict in living up to the letter of the military law, he never had any trouble with those in his charge. In 1864 he was detailed as clerk of the general court martial, and so served during the trial of ninety cases at Fort Whipple. He was discharged October 13. 1864, refusing to re-enlist because he had been deceived and compelled to serve as an infantryman, after enlisting as an artilleryman.
Returning to Carthage. Mr. Loomis soon opened a grocery store, which he conducted twelve years, and then joined his father, whose ad- vancing years made the assistance of the son desirable. Together they conducted the carriage and wagon making until death closed the career of the senior. At present he is doing a successful business in jobbing, and built twenty-six wagons in 1902, an output which might be easily increased but for the unsettled condition of the labor market.
Mr. Loomis is fond of his home, and spends little time elsewhere uitside of business hours. For the last thirty years he has resided in
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the house which he erected on Liberty street, West Carthage. He is a reader and keeps abreast of the thought of the day, and is a most agreeable conversationalist. He has never used tobacco, and is a worthy example for the youth of the land.
He was married November 26, 1872, to Ellen L. Frink, who died January 27, 1875, aged thirty-one years. September 8, 1875, Mr. Loo- mis was married to Ellen I. Stark, who was born October 3. 1849, in Champion, a daughter of Allen Newell and Angeline ( Clark) Stark. The only child of Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Loomis, Marion, born April 7, 1880, is the wife of Albert Parker, and mother of Carlyon Parker, born March 22, 1903, residing in West Carthage.
(VIII) Horace Ashley Loomis, D. D. S., son of Ashley and Har- riet ( Frances) Loomis, was born in Carthage, New York. He was educated at an academy at Malone, at Ives Seminary, Antwerp, New York, and by private tutors. He is a student, an intelligent reader, and is among the well informed and useful citizens of his time. He pursued his professional studies at the Philadelphia Dental College, of Philadel- phia, Pennsylvania, and kept up a course of study at the same time in a school of rhetoric and oratory in that city. He graduated in dentistry in 1883, and immediately began practice at Hannibal, Missouri.
In 1885 Dr. Loomis located in New York, and has long enjoyed the clientage of many of the best people of that city, having his office in the vicinity of Fifth avenue and Thirty-fifth street. For the last thirteen years he has been located on Thirty-seventh street, not far from Fifth avenue. His success as a practitioner is testified in more ways than one. While the financial returns have been flattering, he has at- tained a commanding position among his professional brethren. He is a member of the Odontological Society of New York, and is fre- quently called upon to prepare and read papers on dental science by societies with which he holds no membership. In 1904 he was invited to appear before the Dental Society of London, England, but declined to go abroad. Dr. Loomis has always been industrious in application, and his success has been truly earned. He is a charming conversationalist, and his subjects of discussion are not limited to those appertaining to his professional labors. Like all of his blood, he is independent in thought and action. He attends Saint Bartholomew's (Protestant Episcopal) church. and sustains Republican principles, but is not allied with any organizations, other than the scientific one mentioned.
WILBUR HARVEY LOOMIS, a farmer of South Champion, is
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a descendant of Joseph Loomis, who came from England in 1638. the line being separate, after the first generation, from that of others of the same name in the town, elsewhere mentioned.
(II) Deacon John Loomis, fourth child of Joseph, was born in England in 1622. He was admitted to the church at Windsor, Con- necticut. October 11. 1640, and married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Scott, of Hartford, February 3. 1648-9. He was granted a plantation of forty acres May 3. 1643. From 1652 to 1660 he lived in Farmington, and returned to Windsor, where he was long a deacon in the church. He was deputy to the general court in 1666-7, and again from 1675 to 1687. He died September 1, 1688. at his mansion in Windsor. His will, dated August 27, 1688, is signed "Jolin Loomys." and mentions land lying on both sides of the Connecticut river.
(III) Sergeant Daniel Loomis, son of John and Elizabeth, was born June 16, 1657. in Farmington, Connecticut. His first wife, Mary, daughter of Josiah Ellsworth, was born May 7. 1660, and died before 1713. July 9. 1713. he married widow Hannah Drake. He died June 25. 1740.
(IV) Benjamin, son of Daniel and Mary (Ellsworth) Loomis, was born February 7. 1698-9, and died January 2, 1763. He was mar- ried December 9. 1725, to Joanna Alford, who was born March I, 1701.
(V) Serajah, son of Benjamin Loomis, was born December 4, 1740, and died in 1811. in Windsor. He married Sybil Loomis October 21, 1760.
(VI) Horace, son of Serajah Loomis, was born August 4, 1774, in Windsor. He was among the early settlers in Champion, New York, where he died January 3. 1827. He married Ursula Cook, April 22, 1800. She died June 4. 1815, aged thirty-six years and one month. His second wife, Hannah Hine, died August 13, 1824, aged forty-four years. He did not long survive the third marriage, but his widow, Amy (born Clark), lived until 1848. Headstones mark the graves of him- self and first wife, in the field on his farm opposite the house.
(VII) Harvey Loomis, son of Horace and Ursula Loomis, was born in 1815, and his mother's death followed in a few days. He was less than twelve years old when his father died, and he was early com- pelled to rely upon himself. He had a limited district school education and when still young worked as a laborer upon farms. For a few years lie worked at cabinet-making at Smithville, and lived for a time in the town of Denmark. Lewis county. In early life he bought out the other
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heirs to his father's estate, and continued the balance of his life to own and till it. There were originally one hundred fifty acres, and he sold a part and added more, making one hundred eighty acres at the time of his death, May 10. 1887. In his later years this was chiefly devoted to dairy farming. He was a Whig in early life, and became a Repub- lican on the organization of the party, but never desired any official honors. He was devoted to his farm and his family and pre- ferred domestic quiet. In his last years he was a sincere believer in Spiritualistic doctrines.
He married Laura Ann Herrick, who was born March 26, 1831, in the town of LeRay, daughter of Frederick Herrick, of that town. She died October 3, 1903. Like her husband, she was a Spiritualist. They had three children, Ervin, Flora and Wilbur Harvey. The eldest resides at Elkton, Minnesota, and the daughter died on the home farm, being the wife of Charles Clark.
(VIII) Wilbur H. Loomis was born January 31. 18449, on the farm where he now lives, in the southern part of the town of Champion, and where he has always lived. He attended the common school of the district, and early began to aid in the cultivation of the farm, which he purchased upon his father's death. On account of the scarcity of farm labor he has abandoned dairy farming and is giving considerable atten- tion to the growing of cattle for beef. He is industrious and progressive, and may be found at almost all times attending to the duties of the farm. He is still a bachelor. A steadfast Republican he does not fail to express his will at the ballotbox, but leaves the excitement of the political campaign to those who find it congenial.
(III) Joseph Loomis (3), eldest son and second child of Joseph Loomis (2) and his first wife, Sarah Hill. was born July 15, 1649, in Windsor, Connecticut. He was first married April 10, 1681. to Lydia, daughter of John Drake. She died May 7, 1702, and he was married February II, 1703, to (widow) Abigail Birge. Mr. Loomis died Feb- ruary 26, 1715. in his sixty-sixth year. His children were: Joseph (died young). Joseph. Caleb, Lydia. Martha, Rachel. Enoch, Damaris, Isaac and Abigail, the last two being the offspring of the second wife.
(IV) Lydia, fourth child and eldest daughter of Joseph and Lydia ( Drake) Loomis, was born February 17, 1688, and was married January 6. 1714, to Isaac Hinsdale (see Hinsdale, III), as elsewhere noted, and lived in Hartford, Connecticut.
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MICHAEL GLEASON, postmaster at Carthage, is a man of the people, wholly self-made, and popular wherever known. He was born March 4, 1861, in Lyonsdale. Lewis county. New York, a son of Thomas Gleason. The latter named was born in county Tipperary, Ireland, and was bereft of his father when an infant, being the only child of his parents. With his widowed mother he came to America when a child, and was reared at Boonville, New York, where his mother passed the remainder of her lite. She reached a great age. being about one liundred years old at the time of her demise. The son attended the public schools in early youth, and was early compelled to maintain him- selt. He formed habits of industry and thrift which enabled him to rear a family of twelve children to become useful and honorable citizens. He married Mary, daughter of Bernard and Julia ( Eddy ) Mclaughlin, of Horseheads, New York, where Mrs. Gleason was born, and settled in Lewis county, where he became a contractor in getting out stone and other jobbing. He died there in 1891, aged eighty-two years, and did not relax his industrious habits until shortly before his death. A brief record of his children follows: Anna, the eldest, is the wife of Warren. Gilbert. residing at Old Forge, New York. Julia, the second, died un- married, Mary, deceased, formerly of Utica, and John, reside at Low- ville, New York, where the latter is proprietor of the Windsor Hotel. Catherine, wife of Henry Brown, is at Old Forge. Rosa was drowned at the age of fourteen years in Black river. Michael is the seventh, and is further mentioned hereinafter. Lucy died while the wife of Oscar Wood, at Utica. New York. Thomas is a rancher in Oregon. Bernard died while an infant. William is a citizen of Boonville. and Nellie married and lives in lowa.
Michael Gleason passed his tender years at Lyonsdale and received a little schooling there, but most of his education has been acquired in the broad school of experience and contact with the world. At the age of eleven years he went on the canal as a driver, and was gradually pro- moted until he became a steersman, in which capacity he passed the last seven of his twelve years of canal life. During this period he made many trips along the Black River and Erie Canals, going to Albany and New York city. On leaving the canal he became clerk in a hotel at Moose river, where he continued four years, and was next employed in the same capacity for a period of two years at the Levis House in Car- thage. He then leased what was then known as the Dougherty Hotel. now the National, in this village, and conducted it two years. Having
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been weli acquainted with the hotel trade and finding himself popular with the traveling public. Mr Glcason began the erection of the Grand Union Hotel, on State street, Carthage, which he opened as soon as it was ready for occupancy, and operated four years. At the end of this period he was appointed postmaster, and took possession of the office in February, 1898. His popularity is indicated by the fact that he was re-ap- pointed without opposition in 1902. Always a courteous gentleman, those who have business to transact with him find him prompt and efficient. In the ycar ending December 31. 1897. this office did a business of $5.500. In the year ending December 31. 1903. it was over $11,000. and there has been established six rural free delivery routes, and also free delivery service in the village. On February 1. 1903. the interior of this offiee was rebuilt, and the finest and most complete set of fixtures used in the postoffice department was installed. For its size there is now no more complete or handsome office in the country. Postmaster Gleason employs an assistant and three clerks to handle the mail, and a number of carriers.
He was married. May 2. 1889. to Miss Mate, daughter of Edward Bishop, a farmer of Watson, Lewis county, New York, where he died in 1902, and where Mrs. Gleason was born. The first child horn of this marriage, a daughter, Ethel, died at the age of seven years and one month, bringing deep sorrow to the hearts of the parents. Another daugh- ter, Mabel E .. was born January 25. 1904. Mrs. Gleason is a member of the Methodist church, and Mr. Gleason aids in supporting both this and the Presbyterian church, often attending the latter. Always a Re- publican in political principle, he is ever ready to advance any move- ment calculated to promote the general welfare. He is a member of several fraternal organizations, being affiliated with Carthage Lodge No. 158. F. and A. M .: Carthage Chapter No. 259, Royal Arch Ma- sons; Watertown Commandery No. II. K. T .: Media Temple of the Mystic Shrine: Carthage Lodge No. 365. and Oriental Encampment No. 135, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and Knights of Pythias Lodge No. 222, of Watertown. New York. He is also a member of the Royal Arcanum and the Improved Order of Red Men, of Carthage. New York. With a large heart and an open hand for his fellowmen he endeavors to carry out the noble and philanthropic principles inculcated in these orders.
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LYMAN H. DUNLAP, an industrious and successful business man of Carthage, is a son of John W. Dunlap. one of the pioneer busi- ness men of that village.
John W. Dunlap was born in 1810 in Cherry Valley, this state, and was engaged in the tanning business and the operation of a shoe, leather, and harness store at Carthage in 1835, having a partner named Barney. One of the posters announcing the opening of their store is still preserved, and is an interesting exhibit of the advertising methods of that day. Their tannery was located on the island now occupied by the Island Paper Company, in Carthage. In 1842 or 1843 Mr. Dunlap went to Green Bay, Wisconsin, where he established a large tannery. and continued to operate it until his death, which occurred in 1851, at the age of forty-one years. He was a man of much business ability and enterprise, and took an active part in the life of the then frontier town of Green Bay. He was a member of the Masonic order, and a Democrat in politics. His wife, Penelope D., was a daughter of Lyman Holcomb, who operated a brewery and tannery at Champion village in the early days, and she was born there. Mr. Holcomb also owned and operated a tannery at Carthage. the one formerly owned and operated by our subject's father at one time. Mrs. Dunlap was a member of the Epis- copal church, and continued to reside at Green Bay until her death, in December, 1892, at the age of eighty-four years. She was the mother of three children-Gilbert L., Cornelia, and Lyman H. The eldest was employed by the Green Bay, Winona & St. Paul Railroad Company (at first the Green Bay & Western) from its organization, in charge of bridges and wrecking trains, and died February 6, 1902, in Green Bay. The daughter, Cornelia, is the widow of Charles Lyons, residing in Green Bay. Wisconsin.
Lyman H. Dunlap was born July 31, 1848. in Green Bay, Wis- consin, and was deprived of a father before he was three years old. He was reared by an uncle, Orlin Holcomb, of Carthage, a prominent business man of the town and a colonel of state militia. The youth grew up here, attending first the public school of the village, and subsequently the Falley Seminary at Fulton, New York, and the Fairfield Seminary, at Fairfield, Herkimer county. At the age of twenty years he left school and was employed as clerk in various stores in Carthage, among them those of Chester Francis and John L. Norton. He was also a clerk in the private bank of his uncle, Colonel Holcomb, then of the firm of Horr & Holcomb. In 1873 he embarked in the tanning business, being
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for a time associated with Thomas Revell, under the title of Dunlap & Revell. They occupied a tannery in West Carthage, on the site now occupied by the Carthage Sulphite Pulp Company. Subsequently Mr. Dunlap carried on operations at Philadelphia and Constableville, this state, having sold his interest in the West Carthage tannery to his part- ner. About this time he was also largely interested in cattle raising in the Black Hills, and lost heavily through the death of his partner. In common with other tanners of this section, he was a heavy loser through the effort to raise the price of leather by holding stock, and was obliged to abandon the business. Turning his attention to the life insurance business, he became one of the most successful solicitors of the state, and has since continued in that line of endeavor, though he has been successful in other business dealings. For a period of fourteen years he represented the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company up to 1903. For a period of ten years he was engaged in securing title to lands and water rights on Black river, near Great Bend, this county, and this he sold in 1898 to the St. Regis Paper Company, which has erected large mills at that point, now known as Deferet. He is now the owner of similar property on the west branch of the St. Regis river, and is negotiating for its disposal to parties who will improve it. He is thus contributing to the industrial development of this section of the state, at the same time that he is improving his own estate. In 1901, Mr. Dunlap erected the Dunlap Block, on State street, Carthage, which is thoroughly modern, with a frontage of one hundred feet, and contain- ing six stores and numerous offices. His handsome home on Budd street was built by himself in 1885. He is a demitted Mason of the local lodge and chapter, and the council at Utica, and a member in good standing of the First Presbyterian church of Carthage. In politics, he sustains the Republican party, but he is not an office-seeker, and has never accepted a political position.
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