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

DR. J. F. LOOMIS of Independence, Kentucky, is the eldest son of E. K.
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.

Loomis Pettit Neal
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