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Souvenir Edition, The Williamstown Courier, Williamstown, Ky, May 30, 

1901, reprinted September 19, 1981 by the Grant County KY Historical
 
Society.


Charlie Loomis.  One of the best and brightest boys who has gone out
 
into the world from Grant County to carve out their own fortune is Dr. 

Charlie Loomis, who is located and doing well at Florence, Indiana.  Dr.

Loomis is a son of  Hon. Ezra Keller Loomis, and was born and raised in

Grant County.  Attending our common and high schools he secured a very 

good education.  Having  an ambition to study medicine he fitted himself

for that profession, and attended college at Louisville for three years,
 
graduating with honors of his class.  Dr. Loomis, armed with a diploma,

located at Florence, Indiana, where he has practiced for well on to
 
two years.  He  has a large and lucrative practice, and is one of the 

leading citizens  of his town.  He is happily married to an excellent 

lady, and has a lovely family around him. 



Souvenir Edition, The Williamstown Courier, Williamstown, Ky, May 30, 
1901, reprinted September 19, 1981 by the Grant County KY Historical 
Society.

Ezra E. LOOMIS.  Like most young men who are making a success of life in
Williamstown, E. E. Loomis, the subject of this sketch, was born and
reared on a farm.  He is the son of Ezra Keller Loomis, of Heekin, and was
born in Grant County.  His life was spent until he was of age on his 
father's farm.  He attended the country schools in winter and followed 
the pursuits of farming in summer.  At the age of 21 he secured a 
teacher's certificate and began teaching school.  He followed that 
calling with great success for three years, after which he attended the 
Commercial College of the Kentucky University, from which school he 
received two diplomas, one in shorthand and the other in bookkeeping, 
graduating from that college in 1899.  This fitted him to fill any 
ordinary position in life, and he was appointed by Circuit Court Clerk 
W. L. Allphin as deputy clerk.  Mr. Alphin's health failing him he was 
placed in charge of the office, and has continued in charge ever since, 
and has reflected great credit on himself by the splendid manner in 
which he has performed the manifold duties that have devolved upon him. 
Every record in his office is in first class order, and all who have 
business there go away pleased with the efficient manner in which he 
performs his duties.  While Mr. Loomis is only 24 years old he is a 
leader in the councils of his party, and for the past two campaigns has 
taken a leading part in getting out the vote and carrying the Democratic
party to victory.  He has so comported himself since his coming to 
Williamstown as to win the applause of all the best people in the town.
While he has not so declared, it is likely that he will be a candidate 
for the office of Circuit Court Clerk two years hence, and his friends 
believe he will win should he make the race.  Mr. Loomis was married 
last January to Miss Musetta Cram, one of the most charming ladies in 
Williamstown. They are now keeping house in his beautiful residence on 
High Street.  Mr. Loomis is a member of the Centurion Lodge of Odd 
Fellows, and is at the present time secretary of that order.  He is
also a member of the Encampment and a Rebukah. 



Souvenir Edition, The Williamstown Courier, Williamstown, Ky, May 30, 
1901, reprinted September 19, 1981 by the Grant County KY Historical 
Society.

DR. John F. LOOMIS of Independence, Kentucky, is the eldest son of 
Ezra Keller
Loomis and Fannie Loomis, and was born near the Grant County line in
Pendleton County, July 27, 1864.  He moved to Grant County with his
father's family when one year of age.  His mother died, and he was left
an orphan at the early age of six years.  His father married again in 
1873 and moved to a farm near Heekin in Grant County, where his 
childhood days were spent on his father's farm and in attending the 
common schools of the neighborhood.  At the age of twenty he entered 
the High School at Crittenden under the tutelage of Rev. N. S. Pettit.  
The next winter he taught a common school in Grant County, and the next 
year attended Georgetown College and the next season the National 
Normal College, where he received the degree of B. D.  Doctor Loomis 
began the study of medicine in 1887, and the same year taught a public 
school at Holbrook, Grant County.  In January, 1888, he entered the 
Kentucky School of Medicine and Surgery at Louisville and graduated 
with the class of 1890, representing the class as valedictorian.  Armed 
with his diploma he went forth into the world to practice his chosen 
profession, and located at Goforth, in Pendleton County, Kentucky.  
After two years of practice he moved to Independence, Kentucky, the 
beautiful little county-seat of Kenton County, and there engaged in the 
practice of his profession, and there he still remains in the enjoyment 
of one of the largest clienteles and the confidence and respect of all 
who happen to know him.  In the few short years he has been at 
Independence he has accumulated some of this world's goods.  He is the 
owner of a fine farm on the outskirts of the town of 140 acres, worth 
$100.00 per acre, and has other paying investments, and is considered 
quite well off in this world's goods.  In August, 1890, he was united 
in marriage to Miss Kate Neal of Winchester, Kentucky, daughter of 
Captain James G. Neal.  Two bright boys have blessed this union--Neal 
M., aged seven years, and E. Russell, aged four years.  The Doctor has 
been a consistent member of the Baptist Church for eighteen years, and 
a deacon in his home church for nine years.  Has been an active member 
of the F. and A. M. for six years and an Odd Fellow for four years.  He 
has been Executive Health Officer of Kenton County for the past four 
years, and has been the chairman of town Board Trustees of Independence 
for the past eight years.  Dr. Loomis is a big-hearted and big-brained 
Kentuckian, and has well merited all of the good fortune that has been 
his portion.  We know him well, and why he has succeeded so abundantly.


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