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Narrative History
of
The People of Iowa
with
SPECIAL TREATMENT OF THEIR CHIEF ENTERPRISES IN
EDUCATION, RELIGION, VALOR, INDUSTRY,
BUSINESS, ETC.
by
EDGAR RUBEY HARLAN, LL. B., A. M.
Curator of the
Historical, Memorial and Art Department of Iowa
Volume IV
THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc.
Chicago and New York
1931
MILO M. LOOMIS, physician and surgeon at Manilla, has been honored by his
professional associates with the office of president of the Crawford County
Medical Society, an honor that is indicative of his high standing and prestige
in his work and vocation.
Doctor Loomis was born at Wyoming, Jones County, Iowa, February 20, 1874.
His father, Aaron M. Loomis, was a native of Ohio, who came to Iowa in 1856
and a few years later enlisted in the Twenty-fourth Iowa Infantry, rising to
the rank of captain. He was slightly wounded in the battle of Shiloh. After
the war Captain Loomis conducted a general mercantile store at Wyoming until
his death in 1912, when seventy-eight years of age. Captain Loomis married
Alice Spitzer, a native of Ohio. She passed away in 1923, at the age of
seventy-six. Captain Loomis by a former marriage had two children, one of whom is
living, Mrs. C. S. Shepard, a widow at LaGrange, Illinois. Finney Loomis,
deceased, was formerly a railroad man. One sister, Mrs. Mabel Kirkpatrick, is a
widow living in LaGrange, Illinois.
Milo M. Loomis was educated in the public schools of Wyoming, Iowa, attended
Lenox College of Hopkinton, Iowa, and Oberlin College, at Oberlin, Ohio, and
in 1897 took his degree in medicine at Rush Medical College in Chicago. He
practiced for eight years at Cascade, Iowa, and for ten years in Omaha,
Nebraska. He has been located at Manilla since 1915 and enjoys a fine reputation
for reliability and conscientious devotion to the work of his profession. He
is a member of the Crawford County, Iowa State and American Medical
Association, is a Republican, a Presbyterian, and is affiliated with the Masonic
Lodge. He has served on the Manilla School Board and at the present writing is
president of the board.
Doctor Loomis in 1908, at Omaha, married Nina L. Wood, who was born at
Watertown, New York. Her father was Isaac Wood, also a native of New York. Doctor
and Mrs. Loomis' daughter, Alice, is a high school student.
Mrs.. Loomis' mother was Elizabeth Luelling, who was born at Milwaukee,
Oregon. Her father, Henderson W. Luelling, was a historic character of Iowa and
of the far West. From 1838 to 1847 he conducted a nursery at Salem in Henry
County, Iowa, probably the first commercial nursery in the state. He had read
and heard a great deal about the Oregon country and became the pioneer
nurseryman of the Pacific Coast. In 1846, while travel was passing along the
overland trail in a rising tide, but two years before the discovery of gold
precipitated the tremendous rush to California, he began work in preparation for
his enterprise. He started with six wagons, in tow of which he built strong
boxes, the bottoms covered a foot deep with earth mixed with pulverized
charcoal, in which were set two-year old trees, supported and protected by lattice
work. In April, 1847, the journey started, and ended in November of the same
year. The site for this nursery stock was half a mile north of the present
City of Milwaukee, Oregon, part of the City of Portland. These were the
first grafted fruit trees taken west of the Rocky Mountains. They were known as
the traveling nursery and started the cultivated fruit industry of the
Pacific Coast. There were seven or eight hundred trees, including cherry, apple,
pear, peach and crabapple. As late as 1926 one of these blackheart cherry
trees was still standing, and had been known to bear sixty bushels of cherries
in one crop. His first crop was 100 apples, which he took to San Francisco
and sold to fruit hungry miners in 1849 at five dollars a piece. Luelling
made a great name for himself in the nursery business. The trees planted by him
in 1856 are still standing. As his wagons went across the plains Indians met
them, but as they believed the Great Spirit existed in the trees of the
forest, and seeing the man carrying trees across the plains, concluded he was a
priest of the most high. In 1927 Mr. George M. Himes, curator of the Oregon
Historical Society, sent by a friend to E. R. Harlan, curator of the Historical
and Art Department of Iowa, a cross section of a limb of a backheart cherry
tree, one of the original 800, this particular tree being at that time a
vigorous and aged specimen still standing near Olympia, Washington.
Henderson W. Luelling died in 1878 on his fruit farm near San Jose,
California. One of his children became the mother of Mrs. Milo M. Loomis, of
Manilla, Iowa. One of his nephews was Governor Luelling of Kansas.
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