Russel Loomis
Russel Loomis, farmer, P. O. Randolph, was born in Randolph Township, Portage Co., Ohio, April 1, 1830; son of Jason and Marietta Loomis, former a native of Connecticut, latter of Ohio, and who located in Randolph Township, this county, and here remained until the death of the mother in 1852. Jason Loomis mariied for his second wife Rosana Hawn, who died in 1875, and he then went to Indiana, where he died in 1880. Our subject was married November 5, 1854, to Kadijah Hiltabidel, who died November 5, 1879, and on April 27, 1882, he married Eliza Crockett, born March 8, 1837, in Virginia, daughter of James and Sarah Crockett. Our subject is the father of four children: Elmer G., Rolla J., Nettie E. and Nora M. Mr. Loomis, who has been engaged in farming and brick making, owns eighty-three acres on which he has a fine brick residence where he and his family reside, also sixty-five acres of land in Indiana.
From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885