. History of Pomona Valley, California, with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the valley who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present .. . t only a religious zeal andgood scholarship, but an aesthetic sense and love of art which were to enrich bothhis church and his home town. In all this he was most heartily supported by hiswife, and indeed it was probably true that in all these qualities, as well as in thriftand sagacity, she was even more strongly equipped than he. Born of good familiesin New York, the father of Mrs. Sophia
. History of Pomona Valley, California, with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the valley who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present .. . t only a religious zeal andgood scholarship, but an aesthetic sense and love of art which were to enrich bothhis church and his home town. In all this he was most heartily supported by hiswife, and indeed it was probably true that in all these qualities, as well as in thriftand sagacity, she was even more strongly equipped than he. Born of good familiesin New York, the father of Mrs. Sophia (Loomis) Loop was Thomas Loomis,and her mother a Deferriere. For a time before coming to Pomona they lived atSan Gabriel, and there Mrs. Loop became well known and loved as a in the little community by the Mission began the friendship between theBurdicks and Loops which continued throughout their lives, as they became prom-inent in the new town of Pomona. Soon after coming to Los Angeles the Loops bought 160 acres of land eastof San Gabriel and began to plant it in vineyard and orchard. So began theiractive interest in agriculture while still engaged, both of them, in their other HISTORY AND lUOGRAPHY 111 Doubtless it was a revival, rather than a beginning, of a natural instinct,for Air. Loop was born and reared on a farm. His father, David Loop, had beena farmer as well as a physician in St. Lawrence County, N. Y., where CharlesLoop himself was born in 1825. It was probably this fondness for horticulturemore than the pursuit of wealth that led him in 1874 to purchase with Mr. Aleservethe 2,000-acre tract of land in the San Jose \alley. \\ hen they came to the A alley to live, the Aleserves took and occupied theold Palomares adobe, a building which, with some modifications, served them wellas a home till after their children had married and moved away; and the oldhouse is still known best as the jNIeserve place. The Loops chose for theirhome the site of the
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