David Looney
American
Moses and David Looney came from Wales and moved to the western wilderness at a very early date. A pass through the Clinch Mountains was called Looney's Gap marking their presence on the wilderness frontier. Records from the court of Fincastle ' County, Virginia, May 3, 1774, ordered Anthony Bledsoe to report all "tithables" in Captain Moses Looney's militia company.
David Looney was a member of the lower house of the Carolina Assembly of 1784 He was chosen as a delegate from Sullivan County for the 1788 convention called to consider ratification of a national constitution. In 1790 Governor Blount commissioned David Looney as a justice of the-peace under the territorial government. He also represented the county in the first legislature of the state of Tennessee. By 1796 David Looney had moved to Knoxville where he became well known as an innkeeper. - NRHP, 2 February 1977