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be encountered before its completion. In- 

 deed so numerous were they that no less 

 than five seasons of field work were re- 

 quired before I could pronounce my series 

 of negatives completed and was able to 

 bring out the Handbook of the Trees of the 

 Northern States and Canada, photo-descrip- 

 tive, which has been recently issued. 



DEATH OF CAPTAIN HENRY LOMB. 



Captain Henry Lomb (of the Bausch & 

 Lomb Optical Company) died at his home 

 in Rochester, N. Y., on Saturday, June 13th, 

 in his eightieth year. 



He had been in poor health for a year, 

 but he had been out among his friends and 

 business associates within a few days of his 

 death, which was due to senility. There 

 was no organic trouble. 



Henry Lomb was born November 24, 1828, 

 at Burghaun, in Hesse-Cassel, Germany, 

 where his father was a prominent lawyer 

 in the district. His mother died when he 

 was five, his father when he was nine years 

 of age, and he had to leave his home when 

 he was twelve years old to live with an 

 uncle. With him he remained about six 

 years, being apprenticed part of this time 

 with a cabinet maker. 



In March, 1849, when about twenty years 

 old, he sailed from Bremerhaven for Ameri- 

 ca, and after a voyage of forty-two days 

 arrived in New York on the 1st of May. He 

 left the same day for Rochester, expecting 

 to meet friends there. Here he worked 

 at his trade of cabinet-maker until 1853, 

 when his friend, J. J. Bausch, offered him a 

 partnership in his optical business which 

 offer he gladly accepted, appreciating, how- 

 ever, that the advantages he could bring to 

 the business would be rather moderate, his 

 financial possessions being limited to $60. 

 The business was conducted as a retail op- 

 tical store, Mr. Bausch and Mr. Lomb mak- 

 ing, besides, occasional trips to the neigh- 

 boring towns, partly for the purpose of sell- 

 ing their goods and especially to make 

 their business better known in the sur- 

 rounding country. 



LONG WAR CAREER. 



In 1861, at the outbreak of the Civil War, 

 he responded to the first call of President 

 Lincoln, and on April 23 enlisted in Company 

 C, Thirteenth New York State Volunteers, 

 for a period of two years. At the first elec- 

 tion of officers he was elected first sergeant, 

 and later during the term of service pro- 

 moted by the State authorities to first lieu- 

 tenant and then captain of the company, 

 serving with his regiment in the Virginia 

 campaign of the Army of the Potomac un- 

 til the expiration of its two years' time of 

 service. Returning with it to Rochester, he 

 was mustered out with his regiment May 13, 

 1863. 



After returning from military service Mr. 

 Lomb resumed his previous business activi- 

 ties. He was married in 1865 to Miss 

 Emilie Klein of this city. In 1866 the firm 

 decided to dispose of its retail business and 



give its entire time and attention to the 

 manufacture of optical goods. The firm at 

 the same time decided to make New York 

 city the selling place for all goods manu- 

 factured, and Mr. Lomb went there as man- 

 ager of the sales department of the business, 

 Mr. Bausch remaining in Rochester as man- 

 ager of the manufacturing department. 

 From June, 1866, Mr. Lomb remained in 

 New York until 1880, when he returned to 

 reside in Rochester, it having then been ar- 

 ranged to concentrate all departments of the 

 business in this city. 



CAPTAIN HENRY B. LOMB. 

 LIVED IN ROCHESTER MANY YEARS. 



He lived in Rochester since then, making 

 himself useful in business where best he 

 could and having the satisfaction of seeing 

 the business grow and prosper, and having 

 in 1903 the exceptionally great satisfaction, 

 granted to so comparatively few, of cele- 

 brating the fiftieth anniversary of forming 

 business connections between the two orig- 

 inal partners, and to have on that occasion 

 the great pleasure of seeing that the firm 

 enjoys the hearty good will of its many em- 

 ployees. 



Outside of his business Mr .Lomb had 

 been mostly interested in matters of health, 

 education, veterans of the Civil War, Grand 

 Army of the Republic and associations affili- 

 ated with the Grand Army, the German- 

 American Society and some other charities. 



The Union and Advertiser (Rochester; 

 says editorially: 



In the death of Capt. Henry Lomb Roch- 

 ester loses one of her most valued and 

 beloved citizens. He was a man of the 

 most nobly unselfish and philanthropic im- 



