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Johannes Loos (1826-1906) was the son of Georg Wilhelm Loos (b.1792) and Maria Elizabetha Eckelmann (1795-1830) of Guntersblum. She was the daughter of Johann Friedrich Eckelmann of Guntersblum. Johannes married Jacobine Kuhn (1827-1891) at Waldülversheim, near Guntersblum. They emigrated to America in 1854 with his brother Adam Loos. Johannes settled north of Milwaukee, Wisconsin in the Kettle Moraine country and Adam Loos settled at Belleville, Illinois. Johannes was a descendant of Velten Loos (1535-1586) of Guntersblum, near Oppenheim in Rhein-Hessen, Germany. Several generations of ancestors and descendants are given.