He settled near his brother, Moses. He was a farmer and a distiller of brandy (Orcutt).
3462. Oliver Loomis
Removed 1805 to Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
3482. Col. James Loomis
Our roots are deep, running as far back as 1639, when Joseph Loomis and his family first settled at the confluence of the Farmington and Connecticut rivers. Several generations later, the inspiration for our school was born out of family tragedy, when, in the early 1870s, four Loomis brothers and their sister had outlived all their children.
As a memorial to their own offspring, and as a gift to future children, they pooled their considerable estates to found a secondary school. The original 1640 Loomis homestead was chosen as the site where their dream would become reality.James Chaffee Loomis, Hezekiah Bradley Loomis, Osbert Burr Loomis, John Mason Loomis and Abigail Sarah Loomis Hayden broke new educational ground by planning a school that would offer both vocational and college preparatory courses. (Vocational offerings were discontinued during the later development of the school.)
The founders' enlightened and democratic school would have no religious or political admission criteria. And boys and girls would be given as free an education as the endowment would allow.
As The Loomis Institute, we opened our doors in 1914 to 39 boys and five girls. In 1926, our girls’ division broke off to focus more closely on girls’ educational issues and became The Chaffee School.
Both schools continued to expand. The Loomis Institute built several new facilities in 1967, and the two schools reunited in 1970, forming The Loomis Chaffee School. Six years later we began admitting girls as boarders.
Our reunification led to a major revision of our curriculum. The new curriculum combines a demanding basic program with a broad range of electives in art, music, philosophy, religion and other subjects.
We have enjoyed a period of unprecedented growth since the 1970s. We strengthened our endowment to bolster financial aid. We broadened the diversity of our student body. We built dormitories, an enclosed hockey and skating rink, a visual arts center and a new school center.
Daughter of the Reverend Dr. Jarvis of Middletown, Conn.
6318. Sarah Jerusha Loomis
Tombstone Inscription reads: Loomis, Sarah Jerusha, b. 3/12/1814, d. 4/22/1892 (Sec #1&4)
Son of Jeremiah & Temperance (Dodge) Jewett. Stiles reports four children.
Served in Am. Rev. (See Taintor Gen., p 5-7.)
Obituary:
In Orford, April 14th, Deacon Michael Taintor, aged 83. He was the last of the four first deacons of the 1st Church, whose ages averaged more than 85 years. He was born in Colchester, Conn., March 14th, 1749; had been a member of the church fifty-one years and a deacon thirty-two years. He was a pious, good man, and came down to the grave "as a shock of corn cometh in his season, fully ripe." "Let me die the death of the righteous and let my last end be like his."
3495. Judge Beriah Loomis
Resided in Tolland from 1774 - 1779; removed to Thetford, VT, in 1780.
PVT in Cpt. Elihu Kent's company of minute men in Lexington alarm.