Biographie Lahaise Lomer

Cora married Lomer Lahaise in Montana on Apr. 9, 1887.  At a young age in Montana (after Feb 1982 when her mother died), she was sent to a foster family (Laurin) who provided her with a horse (Star) so that she could travel to and from school.   When Cora was 16, the Laurins arranged her marriage to Lomer.  Because Lomer was considerably older than she (by 18 yrs.),  they had to promise that they would wait until she was 18 before having children.  He was a French Canadian catholic born in St. Martin,  Quebec  on the family farm, the 3rd of 6 sons.  After attending McGill University in Montreal, he immigrated to the US.  Upon moving to Boston, they probably stayed with his brother Erasmus who was an accomplished Organ maker.  While staying there Lomer designed and built on the lot next door a huge home for Cora and soon to be family.  Cora’s husband was extremely intelligent and wealthy.  He designed a mathematics table, which he copyrighted and copies hang in the Boston Public Library and the Library of Congress.  At some point he also lent money to the City of Boston.  Together they raised  and educated 9 children.  Lomer passed in 1932 and after some years Cora married a young man by the name of Stanley Charlton and moved to Sunbury, Pa where she lived till her death on July 3, 1950.  During the flu pandemic of 1918-19 she cared for flu victims in her home and contracted the disease from which she would suffer the remainder of her life.  The last 5 years she was bedridden.  The records are not clear; but, she is buried in either Sunbury or Northumberlnd, Pa.