Lucia Loomis

Lucia Loomis (also known as Lucia Loomis Ferguson and Mrs. Walter Ferguson; March 29, 1887 – February 27, 1962) was an American suffragist and journalist from the U.S. state of Oklahoma.

Loomis was born in Boggy Depot, Indian Territory. She met Walter Ferguson while attending the University of Oklahoma and they married after her graduation in 1908. The couple bought the Cherokee Republican newspaper and managed the paper with her husband. After selling the paper in 1919, she wrote for Elva Shartel Ferguson's Watonga Republican and she wrote the syndicated "A Woman's Viewpoint" column to compete with Edith Cherry Johnson's column in The Daily Oklahoman. She also wrote the "lovelorn" column in the Tulsa Tribune.

Biography Lucia Loomis was born on March 29, 1887, in Boggy Depot, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, (now Oklahoma) to Dr. Enos O. Loomis and Lena Arbogast.

In 1919, the couple sold the paper and moved to Oklahoma City, although she continued to publish the occasional article in Elva Shartel Ferguson's Watonga Republican. In 1922 she started writing the "A Woman's Viewpoint" column for the Oklahoma News to compete with Edith Cherry Johnson's column in The Daily Oklahoman. In 1928, they moved to Tulsa and she started writing the "lovelorn" column for the Tulsa Tribune. Walter died in 1936 and Loomis became active in Tulsa philanthropy. She died in an automobile accident on February 27, 1962, near Cross City, Florida, and was buried at Rose Hill Mausoleum in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She was posthumously inducted into the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame in 1999.