Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Loomis, James W. 1897
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Ionia Standard, 24 Dec 1897

James W. Loomis died Wednesday.  He has been in poor health for three or four 
years, and very bad off for about a year.  For some weeks his condition has 
been critical, and his death has been expected at any time.  As reported, it is 
a case of blood poisoning, with the local trouble in one foot, where gangrene 
set in.  His suffering has been terrible, and death comes as a relief.  Mr. 
Loomis came here from Livingston county, New York, a short time before the war, 
in ’59 or ’60, and settled on the farm in Berlin, two miles south of this city, 
where he died.  He has always been prominent in local social and political 
affairs – has held several township offices, and was register of deeds four 
years in the ‘70s.  He was greatly esteemed by a wide circle of friends, for 
his genial disposition, his intelligence, and his strict probity of character.  
His wife died many years ago.  He leaves three sons, Jessie, asst. bank cashier 
at Cheyenne, Maj. Arthur P., now deputy land commissioner, and formerly private 
secretary to Gov. Rich, and Mortimer, who also held the position of private 
secretary to the governor of South Dakota.  The funeral was held at residence 
on Friday at 1:30 p.m.; services by Rev. Dr. Oxtoby.  Interment in Balcom 
cemetery.


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