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Charles Battell Loomis was born on September 16, 1861 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. He was the son of Charles Battell and Mary (Worthington) Loomis, and brother of Harvey Worthington Loomis, the composer. He was a descendant of Joseph Loomis of Braintree, Essex, England, who emigrated to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1638 and by 1640 was living in Windsor, Connecticut.
Charles attended the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, without graduating.
From 1879 to 1891 Loomis was engaged in clerical work chiefly in Brooklyn. The illness of his eldest child led him in 1891 to leave the city and settle in the Battelle family home, Torringford, Connecticut, where his great-grandfather had lived. Having already contributed jokes and light verse to Puck and other periodicals, he soon found writing more profitable than chicken-farming, and turned definitely to it as a career.
After 1899 the family usually spent the winters at Leonia or some other Jersey suburb, but each spring returned to Torringford. It was from the people around him--Connecticut Yankees, suburbanites, and some city folk--that Loomis drew the kindly, whimsical, everyday characters of his sketches. With a remarkable voice and irresistibly humorous manner--he was by general testimony one of the homeliest and most lovable of men--he also took up public reading, and by the late nineties his success in this field began to keep pace with his reputation as a writer. In 1905 he accompanied Jerome K. Jerome on a platform tour through the United States, and subsequently went with Jerome to England.
His earliest published book was a collection of light verse, Just Rhymes (1899). A Bath in an English Tub (1907) followed his stay in England, and Just Irish (1909) was the outcome of his visit to Ireland the next year. Death came at a hospital in Hartford, Connecticut, from cancer of the stomach, from which he had suffered for nine months. During this time he was writing some of his best work, a series of Irish fairy tales for the Saturday Evening Post, never collected in book form.
Loomis won his chief title to fame as a platform humorist. In the view of Ellis Parker Butler, he was "the most important in his period, and far and away the funniest . .. the last of the great platform humorists and the link between the speaking and reading humorist and the printed humorist that later usurped public favor. " His prose contributions to magazines were published in some fifteen volumes, the best of which were his "Cheerful Americans" (1903) and "A Holiday Touch" (1908).
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Loomis was a member of Salmagundi and Authors clubs of New York.
Loomis was loved for his modesty and warm friendliness. He was in constant demand as an entertainer, possessing both as a reader and afterdinner speaker an unusual ability to sense the spirit of an audience and draw it to him with his first effort. With his audiences he was always very effective, his funereal aspect, skill in impersonation, and quick but never caustic wit adding to his work a quality which in print is hardly conveyed.
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"His writings were mildly amusing, but that was all until he read them, when at once they became the most humorous stories in American literature. He made no gestures; his face, but for the eyes, might have been carved out of wood; his genius was in his marvelous voice. " - Jerome K. Jerome
On February 14, 1888, Loomis married Mary Charlotte Fullerton of Brooklyn, by whom he had two sons and a daughter.
