Joseph W. Looper married Margarette Keith, and they had eleven children: Mary Jane, Margarette Arminda, William Henry (Bill), Darcus Ann, Joseph, Jr., Samuel Taylor, George Keith, Elizabeth Ellen, Sarah Ann, John Anderson, and Jefferson.
Mary Jane married Andrew Jackson Thompson; Margarette Arminda married Preston J. Clark; William Henry married Sarah Hockenhull, then Elvira Burdine, and after the death of Sarah and Elvira, married Isabella Roach; Samuel Taylor married Elizabeth Bailey; George Keith married Elenor Neisler (He was a lawyer, mayor of Gainesville, and Judge in Hall County.); Elizabeth Ellen married Pompy Strickland; Sarah Ann married John Juno Strickland; Darcus Ann married Leonder Simpson Bailey, John Anderson married Mary Jane Stewart of Dalton, Georgia.
John Anderson and Mary Jane had six children: Ruby John, Harry, Edward, Glenn, and Aletha Laurice. Edward was an ear-nose-throat specialist; after graduation from John Hopkins Medical College, practiced at Maryland General Hospital.
Glenn was an inventor - was an honor student and graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1922. He invented the Looper radiometer, a device that replaced the radiator cap on automobiles and indicated the water temperature in the radiator, the thermostat changed colors as the engine got hot.
Glenn learned to be an inventor from a master. As a student at Georgia Tech, he was required to attend a reception honoring Thomas Edison. While there he engaged in a lengthy conversation with a very uncomfortable-looking man. Later he discovered that he had been talking with Thomas Edison. That dialogue initiated the steps which led to his employment by Thomas Edison's New Jersey Laboratories, after graduation.
In 1943 the Georgia State Legislature passed a resolution placing The First Single Needle Chenille Machine in a glass case in the State Capitol Museum. The official document states that it had been invented by Glenn Looper in the Looper Foundries in Dalton. Pictures of Glenn and Max R. Looper of Dawson County, who was in the State Legislature at that time, are still in the glass case in the Capitol. The chenille industry was the forerunner of the carpet industry in Dalton.
Glenn also invented and developed a suspension for a car that would keep it level in curves. Researched and submitted by Betty Anne Looper Bagley, 1820 Pine Ridge Drive, Cumming, GA 30130. |