Eben Jenks Loomis
1828–1912
American astronomer. Educated at Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard University, 1851–3. Astronomer in the office of the Nautical Almanac and later senior assistant to the American Ephemeris, 1850–1900. Member of the United States eclipse expedition to the west coast of Africa, 1889.
Sources
AMS
Howe ed. 1904, p. 277
Todd 1913
Bibliography
AMS: American men of science: a biographical directory. Edited by James McKeen Cattell. 2d edition. New York: Science Press. 1910.
Howe, Julia Ward, ed. 1904. Representative women of New England. Boston: New England Historical Publishing Company.
Todd, Millicent. 1913. Eben Jenks Loomis, 11 November 1828 – 2 December 1912. Cambridge, Mass.: Riverside Press.
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