Harry N. Loeb was born in Illinois on December 12, 1918. Sometime after 1930, Loeb's family moved from Illinois to Watertown, Wisconsin. He attended college at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, intending to go on and become a lawyer. On December 31, 1944, Loeb joined the military. He trained in Texas and stayed briefly in South Carolina before being shipped out to India, where he served as a medical services NCO. Loeb was stationed at General Hospital 181 in Karachi, India, and alludes to handing out medications and immunizations to people, but no more detail is given. Loeb was stationed in India until mid-1944. On his way home from India, Loeb was granted a leave to visit Palestine and visited many Jewish cultural heritage sites and family members. After returning to the United States, he briefly stayed in New York before going to Chicago to live with his family. Loeb returned to Madison, Wisconsin, getting his law degree, passing the Bar Exam and becoming a lawyer. He lived the rest of his life in Madison and died in 1997.
Family tree: Loeb's parents, Hyman and Sarah, were Russian-born Jews who had immigrated to the United States. They had several children, Maurice, William, Harry, Archie, Leonard and Rose. William often went by Bill and was married to Molly. Maurice, or Maury, was married to Dorothy. Rose, Leonard and Archie all lived at home, then Rose moved to Chicago for school, Archie joined the Army, then Sarah and Leonard moved to Chicago to live with Rose.
