Rush Loomis POPE

                   Alias: Rob /Pope/
Rush Loomis Pope (8) was the fourth child a son of Nathaniel (7) and
Eliza Jane Loomis Pope.
Rush was born at the Pope homestead in Lind.  He was named after is
mother's (Eliza Loomis Pope) brother.  He wasconsidered such a pretty
baby by many he received the nickname of "ROBIN" which was later
shortened to "ROB".  Rob like the rest of the Pope's was educated in the
Lind Center Schools.  After graduation he worked on his father's farm
assisting in stock buying and meat selling.  Later he hauled beef with a
team of horses to Moran Galloway lumber camps in the North.
Rush Loomis "Rob" (8) Pope married Claribel Charlotte Nordeen (born
June 20, 1859 in Lind, Wisc onsin the daughter Peter John Nordeen and
Amelia Price Nordeen) on July 8, 18 81.  From this union in marriage there
were three off springs:
1.)   Amelia Eliza (9) Pope born in Dayton, Wisconsin on August 06,
1882
2.)   Beatrice ( 9)Pope born in Lind, Wisconsin on October 18, 1893
3.)   Paul Nordeen (9) Pop eborn in Lind, Wisconsin on September 1,
1897
After the marriage they staye dwith his father and then in October
set up housekeeping on a farm, that was formerly occupied by Rush and
Alice Pope Loomis, in 1938 known as the Harry Testin farm, near Post
Corners in the town of Dayton.  In February they home burned to the
ground and had to wait until spring to rebuild.  Rob was a farm er onhis
on property and also help out the neighbors by farming for them. Rob
andClaribel lived on this farm until 1892 when they purchased the
Colu mbus Caldwell farm in Lind, Wisconsin.
While on this farm they developed the " FIRST" pure bred Guernsey
herd in Waupaca County.  He actively to part in sto ck burying and
furnished meat to Wisconsin Veterans Home for 10 years, promot ing and
build the co-operative creamery at Lind as well.  1900 he entered int o
the meat market business with John Gordon at Waupaca, Wisconsin under the
firm nameof "Gordon and Pope".  The meat business was later sold and he
pur chased with his brother Gale Poe the H. W. Williams Hardware business
later n aming it the "Pope Hardware Company".  Sometime after the business
was establ ished, their cousin Fred Parish, bought partnership into the
company and late r it was sold to him because of Rush Loomis "ROB" ill
health.
Because of his illness Rush sold his farm in 1904 and moved to
Waupaca, purchasing the Ches ley place at 528 Jefferson Street,
extensively remodeling it and living betwe en the Albert P. Pope farm he
purchased in Lind, until his death, but the Jef ferson Street home is
still occupied in 1938 by his widow Claribel Charlotte Nordeen Pope.
In 1913 he purchased the Albert P. Pope farm in Lind, Wisconsin and
startedanother Guernsey heard.  His son Paul N. Pope still resided on
this farm in June 1938.
Rush Loomis was a member of the Modern Woodmen, Odd F ellows Lodge,
Knights of Pythias and the St. Marks Episcopal Church.  He also was an
expertchecker player taking second place in the State Checker Tourna ment
at Racine, Wisconsin; and an active member of the Waupaca Checker Club.
He was considered a devoted father, kindly husband, a legion of
friends and no enemies, his greatest lifes joy was helping his family and
friends, though tful, quiet, eventempered, cheerful disposition, always
kind and generous to a fault, a deep thinker and conversed with great
knowledge.
Rush Loomis "Ro b" Pope died on June 12, 1936 after a four day fight
with lobar pneumonia.