Finding aid for the Elisha S. Loomis Papers


Repository: Western Reserve Historical Society
Creator: Loomis, Elisha S.
Title: Elisha S. Loomis Papers
Dates: 1890-1939
Extent: 2.80 linear feet (7 containers)
Abstract: Elisha S. Loomis (1852-1940) was a professor of mathematics at Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio, and head of the mathematics department at Cleveland's West High School. The collection consists of correspondence, autobiography, recollections, speeches, genealogical material, scrapbooks, and other papers, relating to education, geometry, mathematics, Sunday schools in Ohio, and Ohio pioneers. Includes biographical account of Dr. Aaron Schuyler, president of Baldwin University, obituary and cemetery records (1904) of Berea, Ohio, and genealogical material on Clara Byrde Loomis and Michael Shire, and the Beall, Benedict, Lawrence, Leete, Le Fevre, Loomis (Lumas), Oberholtzer, Rhoades, Taylor, Trowbridge, and Wright families.
MS Number MS 2500
Location: closed stacks
Language: The records are in English