This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Loomis, Mayhew Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lEC.2ACE/1977 Message Board Post: From "History of Grant County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 1043. TOWN OF MOUNT HOPE B. L. LOOMIS, farmer, Sec. 8; P. O. Mt. Hope. The subject of this sketch is one of the pioneers of the region where he lives; he was born in 1824, in Erie Co., N. Y.; was a son of John and Mehitable Loomis; at the age of 10 years, he moved with his parents to Lorain Co., Ohio, where he lived until 1845; then to Dane Co., Wis., where he began doing for himself; then to Grant Co., locating in Mt. Hope, where he has lived since, and the section where he lives has long gone by the name of Loomis' Ridge. He was married in Dane Co. in 1848, to Harriet Mayhew, a daughter of William and Lucy Mayhew; they have had three children - two living - Ora M., Carrie, and Lelia (deceased). He has 94 acres of land. Politics, Republican; is a member of the Catholic Church. Has been Justice of the Peace twenty years, Town Treasurer nine years, Road Overseer ten years and School Clerk twelve years. Enlisted in 1864, and served ten months. [I am not related to this family. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]