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- NOAH LOOMIS, farmer, of Granville township, P.O. Windfall, was born in Granville, this county, May 9, 1836, and is a son of John and Adeline (Haxton) Loomis. His paternal grandfather, Augustus Loomis, was a pioneer of Canton township, while his father, John, was a native of Geneva county, N. Y., and an early settler of Granville township, this county, and cleared and improved the farm now owned by S. S. Packard, and died there in 1866. His children were Lydia (Mrs. Warren Bagley), Hannah (Mrs. Milo Webster), Seth, Noah, Sherman, John and Angeline (Mrs. Alpha Stone). Noah was reared in Granville, and cleared a part of the farm he now occupies, and made all the improvements in buildings. His wife was Margaret, daughter of Silas and Sally (Ayres) Packard, of Canton township, by whom he had three children: Maude (Mrs. D. H. Stone), Cora and Lylis K. Mr. Loomis enlisted in the Civil War, in Company I, Fifteenth New York Engineers, September 16, 1864, and after nine months? service was honorably discharged; he is a prominent farmer of Granville, and in politics is a Republican.
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