BIO: Anthony Wayne LOOMIS, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, pages 231-232.
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  LOOMIS, ANTHONY WAYNE, eldest son of Ashbel Loomis and Mary Scott, 
was born April 11, 1806, at Alstead, N. H.  The Loomis family in 
America is descended from Joseph Loomis, who emigrated from Braintree, 
county Essex, England, in 1638, and settled at Windsor, Conn.  One of 
his descendants was Eleazer Loomis, who married Jemima Crandall and 
removed from Tolland, Conn., to Alstead, N. H., in 1783.  He died March 
17, 1822, and his wife in April, 1838, at Alstead.  Their son, Ashbel 
Loomis, born September 16, 1779, married Sarah Scott, daughter of Capt. 
William Scott, one of the first settlers of Petersborough, N. H.  
Captain Scott was born in May, 1733, in Townsend, Mass.; served in the 
French and Indian war from 1756 to 1758 in Canada; was in the war of 
the Revolution, and after the peace of 1783 was a government surveyor 
on the Western lakes.  He died in Litchfield, September 19, 1796, from 
sickness caused by exposure in his surveying expeditions.  Ashbel 
Loomis died August 31, 1824, and his wife, Sarah Scott, September 10, 
1841.  They had four children:  Anthony Wayne, William, Nancy, married 
Horace Hamblit, and Mary, married Lewis Slader.  Anthony W. Loomis came 
to Pennsylvania in 1827, and began teaching.  He first taught a writing 
school at Liverpool, and next year at Harrisburg.  He subsequently 
engaged in the lumber trade near the foot of Berry's mountain (now the 
Wiconisco canal site), and afterwards turned his attention to farming.  
In 1844 he established the Halifax Herald, which he edited and 
published about two years, when he began merchandising, lumbering and 
farming until his death, which occurred at Halifax, August 4, 1864.  He 
was an expert penman, having learned the art under the best masters in 
Boston, and for a third of a century was one of the leading business 
men in the region of Halifax.  Mr. Loomis was twice married; first, 
June 3, 1835, to Maria Brubaker, of Halifax, born March 5, 1814, died 
May 28, 1843, daughter of Joseph and Barbara Brubaker, and there was 
issue; Albert Scott, Daniel Brubaker, Barbara Ann, and William Anthony; 
secondly, April 2, 1844, to Mary Murray, of Middletown, born March 14, 
1818, daughter of Francis Murray and Margaret Snyder, and there was 
issue; Francis Murray, Charles Cass, George Otis, Walter Jefferson, 
Sarah Margaret, and Mary Agnes.