The member of the House from Jones county is Captain A. M. Loomis of Wyoming. He was born in Jefferson county. New York. April 30, 1831, lived in Medina county, Ohio, from 1834 to 1856, and since then at his present home. He attended the common schools of Ohio, and also Oberlin College. In early life he learned the trade of shoe-making, which he followed for twelve years, then worked on a farm for five years, spent three years in the army, and has since the war been in the mercantile business. Captain Loomis has been married twice, his first wife being Jane Briggs, the second Alice A. Spitzer. He has four children, all grown. Mr. Loomis enlisted in the Union army in August, 1862, and was made second lieutenant. When mustered out at the end of the war he held the rank of captain. In private life he has been honored by being chosen by the Republicans to fill a number of local offices, such as mayor, member of the town council, etc. He is also a trustee of Lenox College at Hopkinton. He voted for John C. Fremont in 1856, and has been an active Republican ever since. He has held all the positions within the gift of his local lodge of Odd Fellows. The Presbyterian church is the one to which he belongs. This winter Mr. Loomis will take a special interest in all matters affecting the benevolent institutions of the state, and will work to have better laws enacted for the permanent improvement of the highways. As for the liquor question, he thinks it is a matter that should be largely relegated to the moral and educational forces.