Hillsdale County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....Loomis, Daniel 
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Cemetery:           Goodrich Cemetery (AKA: Keith Or Lane Cemetery)
Name:               Daniel Loomis

Date Of Photograph: July 2007
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Born: Jan. 12, 1794
Died: July 5, 1852
h/o Caroline B. Seelye, s/o Israel Jr. & Mary (Polly Lee) Loomis, aged 58 
years, 2 mos., 10 days

Row 10 (From West End)

Additional Comments:
[The following was taken from the Hillsdale Standard, Tuesday, January 12, 
1886, p. 8]

In the spring of 1834 he sold this place and with Ozen Keith, started for 
Michigan to find a home. They came to the Bean Creek Valley and settled their 
farm in Pittsford, Hillsdale Co. on section 23, Mr. Keith taking the east half 
and Mr. Loomis taking the northwest quarter

In 1835, Daniel served Pittsford as Poormaster and School Commissioner. In 
1837 he was elected Highway Commissioner, and re-elected in 1841 and 1845. He 
was also one of the founders of the First Presbyterian Church, his wife 
Caroline being one of it's first newly baptised members.

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