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EDWIN LOOMIS, farmer, Sec. 5; P. O. Bloomington; born in Medina Co., Ohio, Oct. 16, 1829; his father, Orrin Loomis, was born in 1791; he emigrated to Ohio about the year 1818, where he followed farming until he came to Illinois in 1866; he made his home with Edwin Loomis until his decease, which occurred Dec. 9, 1876. He married Mary Ann Eyler Jan. 14, 1823, in Medina Co., Ohio; she was born in Connecticut in March, 1805; they were the parents of nine children, of whom seven lived to grow up and of whom six are now living. Mrs. Loomis died Nov. 22, 1874. The subject of this memoir obtained a common-school education and was raised to farm labor and assisted his father until 1854; then he commenced farming for himself until the spring of 1865, when he emigrated to Illinois and settled upon Section 5, Old Town Township, McLean Co., where he purchased eighty acres, upon which he settled and where he has since lived. His marriage with Saloma A. Harrington was celebrated Aug. 14, 1854; she was born in Lake Co., Ohio, July 13, 1828; they have one child by this union, having lost one by death, named Gertrude C., born Aug. 14, 1856; she was married Oct. 28, 1875, to John J. Pearson, and died Sept. 26, 1876; the living — William P. — was born Oct. 8, 1865. Mrs. Loomis is a daughter of Otis Harrington; he was born in Berkshire Co., Mass., Feb. 14, 1803; he married Lyma Coming; she was born in New Hampshire in 1806; she died in 1831 in Lake Co., Ohio; Mr. Harrington is now living in McLean Co. at the age of 76 years.