Samuel E. Loughner [John's son], the proprietor of the Michigan Model Airplane Supply Company, is developing a business of large magnitude, which in a measure reflects the growing interest of the country in aviation, and which is also the means of stimulating a greater interest in flying. Mr. Loughner was born in Greensburg, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1888, a son of John and Elizabeth (Sindorf) Loughner, also natives of the Keystone state. The father comes of an old American family, which was established in this country about 1650. John Loughner was an employee of the Pennsylvania Railroad nearly all his active life, but both he and his wife are now deceased. Members of the family fought in both of our country's wars with England and four of John Loughner's brothers were soldiers in the Union Army during the Civil war, all surviving the rigors of that great conflict except one who died from exposure and starvation in the notorious Andersonville prison pen. John Loughner tried to enlist but was rejected because of his youth, being but fifteen years old at the time.
