Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Loftis, John September 8, 1844 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Loftis, John, Frankfort, was born in Frankfort, September 8, 1844, being the
youngest of six children of John and Bridget Loftis, who emigrated to this 
country from the Emerald Isle in the year 1832. The subject of this sketch was 
but three years old when his father died, and the care of leaning and 
educating the children to frugality, respect and usefulness was the sacred 
heritage of their courageous and devoted mother, who, surviving her husband 
for a third of a century, died in 1883, at the golden age of seventy-three 
years. Of this family James and Thomas were volunteers in the Union army, the 
former dying in the service of his country, while the latter now resides at 
Frankfort village. April 22, 1880, John Loftis was united in marriage to 
Catharine McConn, of Utica, N. Y. They have two sons:  Charles W. and James F. 
Loftis. Early in life Mr. Loftis learned the carpenter trade, and for several
years prior to 1867, was occupied as a carriage maker, at which time he 
engaged in the mercantile business as a retail grocer. In 1876 he erected the 
large and commodious building he now occupies, the upper floor of which is 
Loftis Hall. By close attention and strict integrity Mr. Loftis has built up 
an extensive mercantile business, and now is one of the foremost merchants of 
Frankfort village. In politics Mr. Loftis is a Democrat and has served the 
town as supervisor during the years 1886-7-8.

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source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of 
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.

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