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the grandfather of the subject of this record. He settled in Dauphin county, this State and became a farmer.     David Unger, father, was born in Dauphin county, December 31, 1798, and died in the same vicinity in 1848. He was a blacksmith and farmer by avocation; a man of sterling qualities of head and heart. He entered the war of 1812, and for meritorious conduct was promoted to a captaincy. His marriage with Catherine Eisenhower, a daughter of John Eisenhower, a farmer of Dauphin county, resulted in the birth of three sons and two daughters, of which Elias J. was the youngest.     Elias J. Unger was reared upon the farm of his father and secured his education in the public schools. At the age of twenty years he was employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad company three years as route agent, then one year as brakeman, then a conductor on the eastern division of the road, from Harrisburg to Philadelphia for thirteen years. He was then made superintendent of the Company's hotels in the territory extending from Pittsburg to Jersey City, for a period of ten years, at the end of which long and faithful period of service, he voluntarily retired from the employment of that company. Subsequently he became priprietor of that well-known and popular hotel, the Seventh Avenue, of Pittsburg, where he remained ten years. Mr. Unger was president of the South Fork Fishing club, and in 1888, upon retiring from the hotel business, purchased the land upon which he lived until his death in 1896. This farm consisted of 250 acres, and situated upon the banks of what was formerly the lake of the South Fork Fishing club. Upon that farm he lived the remainder of his life, indulging his tastes for the arts of husbandry and enjoying the fruits of an active and successful business career.

Mr. Unger was eminent in Masonic circles, being a thirty-second degree Scottish Right Mason, and was also a member of Dauphin Lodge, No. 160, I. O. O. F., of Harrisburg, of which lodge he was a Past Grand.     December 19, 1854, he married Annie C. Steele, and to this marital union has been one child, Mary, wife of George C. Wilson of Pittsburg. DR. HENSON F. TOMB, of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, is a son of Washington and Mary (Ling) Tomb, and was born December 16, 1861, in Armaugh, Indiana county. This neighborhood has been the birthplace of many of the successful professional men of the neighboring city of Johnstown. The pure air of the country gives the cool brain and robust health so necessary to success in the crowded walks and keen competition of professional life.     Washington Tomb, the father of our subject, was an elder brother of Dr. B. F. Tomb, whose sketch appears elsewhere. He was a son of Hugh and Nancy (Devlin) Tomb, and was born near Armaugh, March 30, 1827. He learned the trade of moulder in the foundry of the Cambria Iron company at Johnstown, and worked at that trade for several years. He abandoned his trade and began farming near Armaugh. He continued farming until recently when he left the farm to younger hands and removed to Armaugh, where he now resides.     On February 28, 1856, Washington Tomb was married to Mary Ling, daughter of William Ling, of Indiana county. To this union were born five children: Agnes, who died in infancy; Alice, wife of James Elder, a farmer of Indiana county; Henson F.; Emma, wife of Frank Conrad, a farmer of Indiana county, and Harry, who lives on the old homestead,

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