LOOMIS BUNCE BIOGRAPHY, YATES CO., NY Copyright (c) 1999 by Bonnie Bunce(bmbunce@juno.com). ************************************************************************ USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ************************************************************************ Copy of biographical sketch on p. 574 of History of Yates County, New York edited by Lewis Cass Aldrich, D. Mason & Co., publishers, Syracuse, New York 1892 Bunce, Loomis, was born in Massachusetts, in 1840, and when nineteen years of age came with his father and settled in Barrington, Conn., [sic] His father, Peter Bunce, was a farmer and had eleven children. Loomis was a millwright by trade, and in company with John Spicer carried on that business, building many mills in this and adjacent counties, also carrying on farming extensively. He married Mary, daughter of William Holmes of Steuben County, N. Y., by whom he had two children, Melvin N., who was killed at the battle of Gettysburg in 1863, and Eliza, wife of Hon. Geo. P. Lord, who resides in Dundee. Loomis Bunce died in March, 1878. He was twice married, his first wife dying in 1867, and his second wife, Eunice C. Olney, widow of Rev. D. B. Olney, in 1880.