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Young John Loop, Henry’s eldest son is presumed to have gone with his father Henry and Henry’s father, into Vermont and to have gone with Henry to Chautauqua. It is known that John came from Chautauqua county into McKean near 1840, for Simon, John’s sixth child, was born in NY, while Fernando, the seventh, was born in 1840 in PA. It was therefore between these two births that John moved in with his family. The later children brought his family group of to twelve. His brother Riverius, called Vere, did even more for his county, his completed numbering 17, with the parents. And the man who had the courage to give so many hostages to the fates, had also the courage to take his family to the farthest west, where they could expand in the open spaces of Washington state.
The strange life of Riverius Hooker, which had already passed through two distant and distinct phases, one in Conn. and one in Maine, entered a third phase here. We find Hookers living near the Loops in 1840. Pliny Aldrich, who seems the wife’s father, with his wife Louise and a daughter Louise lived in the family of Rodolphus Loop, who had only a daughter and a granddaughter, besides his wife to round out his family. Alvin Hooker, presumably son to Riverius, but possibly a nephew from the Stillwater group married Lucinda Loop. John having married Eliza Hooker, the Loop-Hooker connection had become very close.
From Sara Loop Prentiss personally, through the courtesy of Mr. Arch Loop of Eldred, son of Frances, we receive a line from Vermont-Henry through Norra Loop. Norra or Norry Loop is censured with a large family in 1850, as is Riverius, his brother. According to Mrs. Prentiss, Norry had 15 children. He lived in McKean county, and most if not all of his children were born there, when he set out for the far state of Washington where he and his wife rest from life’s labors. This line from Henry is: Riverius, son of Henry, Norry, Addison, Sara Prentiss, and Sara’s children.
Addison Loop was born in 1846, dying in 1919. He married twice, is censused as four years old with Norry’s group in 1850.
John Loop, eldest son of Henry of Eldred, was not born in Vermont. The detailed story of the Hooker family close-tailed to that of the Loops gives us some help at this point. Betsy Drake noted that her mother was Elizabeth Aldrich. It develops that this Elizabeth’s maiden name was Hooker. The Hookers lived in the Saratoga and Albany district not far from Henry-Ensign’s location. It is known that the above John Loop was born in NY state February 26, 1802. (Henry Ensign’s son, Andrew Loop also married Ann Hooker.
Almond, the fourth child, was also born in NY state, Saratoga district. It lay on both sides of the North River, a common name for the Hudson. Rodolphus was born in Vermont. These facts fix Henry’s stay in Vermont as brief, he removing thence between the births of Rodolphus and Almond.
The 1850 census shows John Loop at the age of 48, a farmer born in NY state, living in Eldred with his wife, Eliza, then age 41, and ten children: John-23, Harrison-21, Lucinda-18, Horace-16, Eliza-13, Simon-11, Fernando-10, Amanda-7, Riverias-4, Zelpha-2. Frances still living in Eldred in 1928 states that there were 14 children. Lewis and Almond would make up this number.
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