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Show LOOMIS FAMILY TO HAVEA SCHOOL Hartford, Conn., Oct. 11 A preparatory prep-aratory school with an endowment of $LiHH,0un. making it probably the wealthiest in the Fulled States, is to be founded at Windsor. Conn, with -money left by tlt members of a single sin-gle family, Colon. I John Mason Iyom-is, Iyom-is, of Chicago. James C. Ioeunis, of Rri lgeporl, Conn . Hezeklah and Os-bert Os-bert Loomls of New York and Mrs. Abb.. Hayden. of Windsor. The scho'd will be unkpie among Ameiienn educational institutions in that every one of Its scholars must be a descendant of Joseph and Mary looiuls. who came to America in 10;?S. A study of the family tree shows that more than a hundred thousand persons In the United States are so eligible. The death of ih,, widow of Colonel John Mason Loom is In Chicago last week releases eertaln investments In Chicago real estate, whlrh arc to be u.-e.l for starting the school. i -"Wio Loomis ancestral home at Windsor Wind-sor Is to bo the site for the build- lugs of the institute. |