Edward Eugene Loomis

Edward Eugene Loomis (April 2, 1864 – July 11, 1937) was President of the Lehigh Valley Railroad from 1917 to 1937.[1][2][3]

Edward Eugene Loomis
Loomis circa 1915
President of the Lehigh Valley Railroad
In office
1917–1937
Personal details
Born(1864-04-02)April 2, 1864
German Flatts, New York
DiedJuly 11, 1937(1937-07-11) (aged 73)
Murray Hill, New Jersey

Biography

He was born on April 2, 1864 in German Flatts, New York to Chester Loomis (1831–1904) and Lydia Esther Norton (1838–1906).[4]

He went to work in the law department of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad. He then worked in the office of the general superintendent of the Erie Railroad. In 1894 he was made superintendent of the Tioga County, Pennsylvania division of the Erie Railroad. He was then manager of the Blossburg Coal Company. In 1898 he was appointed general superintendent of the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway and of the Wilkes-Barre and Eastern Railroad. In 1899 the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad under William Haynes Truesdale was reorganized and Loomis was hired.[2]

He was president of the Lehigh Valley Railroad from 1917 to 1937.[3][2]

He died on July 11, 1937 at his summer home, Holiday Park, in Murray Hill, New Jersey.[1]

Other positions

He was a trustee of the American Surety Company. He was director of three New York banks, Liberty National Bank, the Chatham and Phenix Bank and the Coal and Iron National Bank. An executor of the estate of Samuel L. Clemens. He was president and director of the Mark Twain Company. He was director of the Temple Iron Company and of Prizma. He was treasurer and director of the Moses Taylor Hospital and director of the Playground and Recreation Association of America. He was president and director of the Harlem Transfer Company, vice-president and director of the Morris and Essex Railroad, vice-president and director of the Hoboken Ferry.[2]

Memberships

He was a member of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, the Metropolitan Club, the Recess Club, the Railroad Club of New York, the Westmoreland Club of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, the Scranton Club of Scranton, Pennsylvania, the Country Club of Scranton and of the Baltusrol Golf Club.[2]

References
  1. "E. E. Loomis is Dead. Railroad Leader. President of the Lehigh Valley System Through War, He Recently Retired". The New York Times. July 12, 1937.
  2. "E. E. Loomis Heads Lehigh Valley". Retail Coalman. March 1, 1917. Retrieved 2015-03-06.
  3. Their Gilded Cage: The Jekyll Island Club Members. 2006. ISBN 0-9770912-2-8. Edward Eugene Loomis (1864 -1937), railroad president. He was president of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company and its subsidiaries, including the Lehigh ...
  4. "Life Information". BillionGraves. BillionGraves, LLC. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
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