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- HISTORY OF BRADFORD COUNTY 979
SETH LOOMIS, farmer, Franklin township, P.O. West Franklin, was born in Canton, September 26, 1833, and is a son of John and Adeline (Haxton) Loomis, the former of whom was born in Genesee Valley, N. Y., and the latter near Boston, Mass. John Loomis is the son of Augustus, a native of New York State, who came to this county about 1806, when his son was ten years old; he located in Canton on what is now called the "Sellard Place," owned by John Innes, and lived there until he died, in 1841. After his death his son removed to Granville, where, like his father, he followed farming; he resided in this township until his death, in 1866, dying in his sixty-fifth year. He had seven children - four sons and three daughters ? all of whom grew to maturity, and five of whom are now living. The subject of these lines is the second in the family, and always lived and worked on the farm; he was reared and educated at Granville, where
He first began his farm life. He married, at Granville, in 1859, Miss Ann, daughter of Biglow and Martha Fenton, natives of Vermont, and there have been born to them seven children, viz.: Henry, married to Miss Mamie Flemming; Martha, married to Mr. Dwight Vroman; Rose, married to Chenie Preston; Marion H.; John; Adeline and Eva May, all of whom are living. Mr. Loomis removed from Granville to LeRoy, and from LeRoy to Franklin, where he has lived the last four years. In 1862 he entered the army, in Company M, Seventh P. V. C., for the term of three years, and was discharged on account of disabilities, and now draws a pension; he is a member of a G. A. R. Post.
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