Wallace Wakefield Loomis

18 January 1846–1924 (Age 77)
Otis, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States

The Life of Wallace Wakefield

When Wallace Wakefield Loomis was born on 18 January 1846, in Otis, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Norman Loomis, was 36 and his mother, Dency Wilder, was 37. He married Emma Elizabeth Fehler on 3 October 1871, in LaPorte, Indiana, United States. He lived in New Carlisle, Olive Township, St. Joseph, Indiana, United States in 1900 and East Chicago, Lake, Indiana, United States for about 10 years. He died in 1924, in Indiana, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in New Carlisle, Olive Township, St. Joseph, Indiana, United States.

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Wallace Wakefield Loomis
1846–1924
Emma Elizabeth Fehler
1852–1948
Marriage: 3 October 1871

Spouse and Children

MARRIAGE
3 October 1871
LaPorte, Indiana, United States

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World Events (8)

1851 · Constitution of 1851

Age 5

Due to the state’s financial crisis during the previous decade and growing criticism toward state government. Voters approve the Constitution of 1851 which forbade the state government from going into debt.
1863

Age 17

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1867 · Sorry Mr. President, You can't do that.

Age 21

This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from a lost place near Bury in Lancashire, recorded in the Middle Ages as Lumhalghs, and apparently named with the Old English elements lumm ‘pool’ + halh ‘nook’, ‘recess’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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Sources (3)

  • Wallace W Loomis, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Wallace Loomis, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Wallice W Loomis, "United States Census, 1900"

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