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Augustus Jacob Loos and Jenny Bell Beaty Loos papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 37-5-3081

Scope and content

Family and other letters, letters describing life at Cornell, Cornell publications and memorabilia, lecture notes, photographs, and a student scrapbook of A.J. Loos. Also, memorials to Susanna Phelps Gage, reunion materials for the Class of 1877, Class of 1877 reunion photographs (1927), and replies to a request for information about the "literary and journalistic activities of Cornell graduates of 1877."

Dates

1868-1932.

Creator

Loos, A. J. (Augustus Jacob), 1853-1926. (Person)
Loos, Jenny Bell Beaty. (Person)

Biographical / Historical

A.J. Loos was born on Staten Island, the son of Prussian immigrants Alexander Loos and Julia Frommann. He entered Cornell in 1873, graduating in 1877. In 1883, he married his classmate, Jenny Bell Beaty of Bennington, Vermont. After graduation, Loos became a reporter for the New York Tribune, but he later established a wholesale firm dealing in oils and naval stores. Cornell University Class of 1877.