Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Loomis, Carlton W 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

Carlton W. Loomis is a farmer on section 34, Hopkins Township. He is the son 
of Washington and Marcia G. (Burdick) Loomis, of whom a succinct personal 
narration is given on another page. He was born March 24, 1861, in Hopkins 
Township. He obtained as good a common-school education as the public schools 
afforded, which he attended until he was 16 years of age. He then went to 
Valparaiso, Ind., where he attended the Normal School six months. Later he 
entered the Iowa Business College at Cedar Rapids, where he was graduated in 
February, 1878. He is engaged in farming on the homestead of his father, of 
which he is the owner. In political preference he is a Republican. Mr. Loomis 
was married Feb. 22, 1881, in Sterling, to Lydia, daughter of Henry S. and 
Elizabeth (Eshleman) Williams. Her parents are natives of Lancaster Co., Pa., 
and she is one of seven children, born in the following order: Benjamin F., 
Albert A., Jacob E., Lydia, Henry E., Ulysses G. and Minnie E. Mrs. Loomis was 
born March 3, 1864, in Sterling. She is the mother of two children, William W. 
and Charles E.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

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