JON J. LOOMIS
Jon J. Loomis was born in the town of Vernon, May 6, 1826. He was educated in the district schools and Oneida Castle Academy. He taught school nine terms, was a clerk in a general store for a time, then, in company with a Mr. Burhans, he manufactured sole leather two years in Lewis county. He next went to Brooklyn as a clerk, and was for two years with Potter Palmer, of Chicago; in 1856 he returned to Verona and has been engaged in hop growing and general farming since. In 1859 he married Annice Ferguson, of Otsego county, N. Y., by whom he had one daughter, Lizzie M., who married John S. Leonard, and has one daughter, Annice. Mrs. Loomis died in 1865, and in 1876 he married Jane P. Owen, of Wisconsin, by whom he has one son, John R., who is a student at school. John Loomis, his father, was born in Columbia county in 1789. He married twice, first to Catherine Plass, by whom he had one son, William, who died in 1862. She died in 1814. In 1815 he married Betsey McDonald of his native county, and they had three children: Catherine (died in 1879), Eli (died in 1890), and Jon J. The family came to this county in 1820. Mr. Loomis died April 24, 1873 and his wife October 12, 1882. The grandfather, John Loomis, was born in Connecticut and was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. Mrs. Loomis's father, John R. Owen, was born in Anglesea, North Wales, Great Britain, January 8, 1815, and came to the United States when a young man locating near Rome, in 1836. In 1843 he married Elizabeth Jones, sister of Thomas and Benjamin Jones, of Rome, N.Y., by whom he had two children: William E., who is the largest individual stock dealer and shipper of Wisconsin; and Jane P. Mr. Owen died in 1893 and his wife in 1849. The family are of English, German, Scotch, and Welsh descent.
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