From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 772. City of La Crosse 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. [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]