Lacrosse-Lafayette County WI Archives Biographies.....Looney, A. H. 1830 - 
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A. H. LOONEY, pilot and master; has been steamboating on the Mississippi River 
since 1861, and most of the time for the last fifteen years in the employ of 
P. S. Davidson. He came to La Crosse in April, 1851, and, in 1858, removed to 
Winona Co., Minn. In the spring of 1851, he went to the Rocky Mountains, and 
was engaged in prospecting and mining till April, 1861, when he returned to 
Minnesota and engaged in steamboating. In the fall of 1878, he returned to La 
Crosse to reside, but made no change in his business. He was married, in the 
fall of 1851, to Elizabeth Wright, a native of Washington Co., N. Y., and has 
four children - Frank H., Morrell M., Carrie B. and Lurk May. The two sons - 
F. H. and M. M., aged respectively 27 and 25, were both born in La Crosse; are 
both steamboatmen, and both have pilot's and master's papers. Mr. Looney, was 
born in Randolph Co., Ill., in 1830. His father, John S. Looney, a native of 
Tennessee, came to Wisconsin in 1836; lived in what is now La Fayette Co. till 
1852, then came to La Crosse. In September, 1853, he removed to Minnesota; 
located land in the valley of the Root River, and was the first white settler 
in what is still known as "Looney's Valley." He remained there till the summer 
of 1857, then lived in Hastings and La Crescent till 1866. He then removed to 
Dubuque, Iowa, and now lives in Warren, Ill., with his youngest daughter, in 
the 75th year of his age.

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From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 772.

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