ELIAS LOOMIS, eldest son of the Rev. Hubbel and Jerusha
(Burt) Loomis, was born in Willmgton, Tolland County, Conn.,Au gust 7, 1811. At the age of 14 he was admitted to College,but owing to feeble health he waited another year before entering For the year after graduation he taught mathematics in Mount Hope Institution, near Baltimore, going thence to the Seminary at Andover, Mass., where he began to study for the ministry.
Being appointed tutor at Yale he abandoned theology, and from May, 1833, when he entered on a tutorship, devoted himself exclusively to teaching. In the spring of 1836 he received the appointment to the chair of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in Western Reserve College, at Hudson, Ohio, with the privilege of first spending a year in Europe. He remained in Hudson until
1844, devoting himself with increased ardor to the scientific studies and observations which he had begun m New Haven. In 1844 he accepted the corresponding chair in the University of the City of New York, and in this new position he devoted a large part of his spare time for some years to the preparation of a series of
mathematical text-books, which met with great success ; the series finally numbered sixteen volumes, of which about 600,000 copies have been sold.
When Professor Henry resigned the professorship of Natural
Philosophy at Princeton College (in 1848), Professor Loomis was offered the vacant chair. He went to Princeton, but at the end of one year was induced to return to his old place in New York. There he continued until 1860, when he was elected to the Munson Professorship of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy m Yale College, made vacant by the death of Professor Olmsted. For the remaining twenty-nine years he labored here, passing away,
in New Haven, after a brief illness, on the 15th of August, 1889,at the age of 78.
He was married, May 14, 1840, to Miss Julia E. Upson, of Tallmadge, Ohio, who died June 13, 1854, leaving two sons (Yale College 1864 and 1875), who survive their father.
Professor Loomis made extended and careful observations and
researches in Terrestrial Magnetism, in Astronomy, and especially in Meteorology, and the results of his labors increased sensibly the sum of human knowledge in these departments.
submitted by Cheryl Cartwright
(Burt) Loomis, was born in Willmgton, Tolland County, Conn.,Au gust 7, 1811. At the age of 14 he was admitted to College,but owing to feeble health he waited another year before entering For the year after graduation he taught mathematics in Mount Hope Institution, near Baltimore, going thence to the Seminary at Andover, Mass., where he began to study for the ministry.
Being appointed tutor at Yale he abandoned theology, and from May, 1833, when he entered on a tutorship, devoted himself exclusively to teaching. In the spring of 1836 he received the appointment to the chair of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in Western Reserve College, at Hudson, Ohio, with the privilege of first spending a year in Europe. He remained in Hudson until
1844, devoting himself with increased ardor to the scientific studies and observations which he had begun m New Haven. In 1844 he accepted the corresponding chair in the University of the City of New York, and in this new position he devoted a large part of his spare time for some years to the preparation of a series of
mathematical text-books, which met with great success ; the series finally numbered sixteen volumes, of which about 600,000 copies have been sold.
When Professor Henry resigned the professorship of Natural
Philosophy at Princeton College (in 1848), Professor Loomis was offered the vacant chair. He went to Princeton, but at the end of one year was induced to return to his old place in New York. There he continued until 1860, when he was elected to the Munson Professorship of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy m Yale College, made vacant by the death of Professor Olmsted. For the remaining twenty-nine years he labored here, passing away,
in New Haven, after a brief illness, on the 15th of August, 1889,at the age of 78.
He was married, May 14, 1840, to Miss Julia E. Upson, of Tallmadge, Ohio, who died June 13, 1854, leaving two sons (Yale College 1864 and 1875), who survive their father.
Professor Loomis made extended and careful observations and
researches in Terrestrial Magnetism, in Astronomy, and especially in Meteorology, and the results of his labors increased sensibly the sum of human knowledge in these departments.
submitted by Cheryl Cartwright
ELIAS LOOMIS, eldest son of the Rev. Hubbel and Jerusha
(Burt) Loomis, was born in Willmgton, Tolland County, Conn.,Au gust 7, 1811. At the age of 14 he was admitted to College,but owing to feeble health he waited another year before entering For the year after graduation he taught mathematics in Mount Hope Institution, near Baltimore, going thence to the Seminary at Andover, Mass., where he began to study for the ministry.
Being appointed tutor at Yale he abandoned theology, and from May, 1833, when he entered on a tutorship, devoted himself exclusively to teaching. In the spring of 1836 he received the appointment to the chair of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in Western Reserve College, at Hudson, Ohio, with the privilege of first spending a year in Europe. He remained in Hudson until
1844, devoting himself with increased ardor to the scientific studies and observations which he had begun m New Haven. In 1844 he accepted the corresponding chair in the University of the City of New York, and in this new position he devoted a large part of his spare time for some years to the preparation of a series of
mathematical text-books, which met with great success ; the series finally numbered sixteen volumes, of which about 600,000 copies have been sold.
When Professor Henry resigned the professorship of Natural
Philosophy at Princeton College (in 1848), Professor Loomis was offered the vacant chair. He went to Princeton, but at the end of one year was induced to return to his old place in New York. There he continued until 1860, when he was elected to the Munson Professorship of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy m Yale College, made vacant by the death of Professor Olmsted. For the remaining twenty-nine years he labored here, passing away,
in New Haven, after a brief illness, on the 15th of August, 1889,at the age of 78.
He was married, May 14, 1840, to Miss Julia E. Upson, of Tallmadge, Ohio, who died June 13, 1854, leaving two sons (Yale College 1864 and 1875), who survive their father.
Professor Loomis made extended and careful observations and
researches in Terrestrial Magnetism, in Astronomy, and especially in Meteorology, and the results of his labors increased sensibly the sum of human knowledge in these departments.
submitted by Cheryl Cartwright
(Burt) Loomis, was born in Willmgton, Tolland County, Conn.,Au gust 7, 1811. At the age of 14 he was admitted to College,but owing to feeble health he waited another year before entering For the year after graduation he taught mathematics in Mount Hope Institution, near Baltimore, going thence to the Seminary at Andover, Mass., where he began to study for the ministry.
Being appointed tutor at Yale he abandoned theology, and from May, 1833, when he entered on a tutorship, devoted himself exclusively to teaching. In the spring of 1836 he received the appointment to the chair of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in Western Reserve College, at Hudson, Ohio, with the privilege of first spending a year in Europe. He remained in Hudson until
1844, devoting himself with increased ardor to the scientific studies and observations which he had begun m New Haven. In 1844 he accepted the corresponding chair in the University of the City of New York, and in this new position he devoted a large part of his spare time for some years to the preparation of a series of
mathematical text-books, which met with great success ; the series finally numbered sixteen volumes, of which about 600,000 copies have been sold.
When Professor Henry resigned the professorship of Natural
Philosophy at Princeton College (in 1848), Professor Loomis was offered the vacant chair. He went to Princeton, but at the end of one year was induced to return to his old place in New York. There he continued until 1860, when he was elected to the Munson Professorship of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy m Yale College, made vacant by the death of Professor Olmsted. For the remaining twenty-nine years he labored here, passing away,
in New Haven, after a brief illness, on the 15th of August, 1889,at the age of 78.
He was married, May 14, 1840, to Miss Julia E. Upson, of Tallmadge, Ohio, who died June 13, 1854, leaving two sons (Yale College 1864 and 1875), who survive their father.
Professor Loomis made extended and careful observations and
researches in Terrestrial Magnetism, in Astronomy, and especially in Meteorology, and the results of his labors increased sensibly the sum of human knowledge in these departments.
submitted by Cheryl Cartwright
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Elias Loomis PROFESSOR OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY AND ASTRONOMY IN YALE UNIVERSITY. Born August 7, 1811, Died August 15, 1889
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