Mr. Loss stopped conducting the Beloit Seminary and was succeeded by Sereno T. Merrill, who reorganized the seminary (the 1908 passages give the year only).

The evidence

• “Mr. Loss was succeeded in 1846 by Sereno T. Merrill.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/11-beloit-schools.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 268 / book p. 245

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

  Grade A: Found on a page of one of our sources