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Wash Loomis

Ancestry of
Wash Loomis

Leader of the Loomis Gang

    George Washington "Wash" Loomis

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    • 1st Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 1 
    • Birth Date:
    • ABT 1823 
    • Birth Location:
    • New York 
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    • Death Date:
    • 30 Oct 1865 
    • Death Location:
    • Sangerfield, Oneida, New York 
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    • Notes: 

    • Leader of the notorious Loomis Gang of the Nine Mile Swamp

      The Loomis Gang was a family of outlaws who lived and operated in New York during the early 1800s.

      Wash Loomis met his end when he was murdered at his home in 1865 by masked avengers. It was said that the back of his head was smashed in and his face so disfigured that he was unrecognizable.

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  • Sources for George Washington "Wash" Loomis

    • 1 Federal Census, NY, Oneida County, 1860, Sangerfield, p. 38, Image 6 of 59.
    • 2 Carmer, Carl, Listen for a Lonesome Drum: A York State Chronicle, Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press (1978), 271-280.
    • 3 Loomis, Elisha S., Descendants of Joseph Loomis in America: And His Antecedents in the Old World, Berea, Ohio: unknown (1909), 298.