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and is a farmer and stock-dealer. Mrs. Mary Ling Tomb died December 16, 1866, and Washington Tomb married as his second wife Lizzie Bracken, daughter of Wm. Bracken, of Indiana county August 8, 1867. To this union no children were born.     The subject of this sketch attended the district schools near his home during the winters and a select school at Armagh in the summer. He also attended two terms at Dayton, Armstrong county, preparing for college. In the fall of 1882 he entered Allegheny college at Meadville, Pennsylvania, being a member of the class of 1886, but quit school in his junior year. He taught several winter terms of school before entering college, and one term at Morrellville afterwards. After leaving school he began the study of medicine with his uncle, Dr. R. J. Tomb, at Armagh, and subsequently entered Jefferson Medical college at Philadelphia, from which he graduated in 1887 and located in Morrellville. He practiced at that place for about a year and then moved to Johnstown, where he is at present located and has a growing practice.     Dr. Tomb is a member of Cambria County Medical society and of the Pennsylvania State Medical association, and is one of the board of three pension examiners of Cambria county. He is also examiner for a number of life insurance companies, and a member of the medical staff of the Conemaugh Valley Memorial hospital. Of the latter institution he is one of the incorporators.     Politically Dr. Tomb is a Democrat. In religion he is a Methodist, and is a member of the board of trustees of that church. During the Great Flood he served on the field hospital and did his duty at that trying time, both as a physician and a Christian. He is a member of Council No. 401, Royal Arcanum, and of Johnstown Lodge, No. 538, F. and A. M.

On December 28, 1887, our subject was married to Miss Emma Matthews, a sister of Dr. W. E. Matthews. To this union two children were born: Jessie, born February 18, 1890, and Ralph, born January 24, 1895.     Most of the ancestral history appears under the heading of his uncle, Dr. B. F. Tomb. ROBERT POTTER ROBISON was born near Jenner X Roads, Somerset county, this State, on June 19, 1824, and died in Johnstown, this county, on March 3, 1892. He was a son of John and Rachel (Potter) Robison. He was of sturdy Scotch ancestry, and his father was born on the ocean during the voyage to the United States. The family settled in the vicinity of Jenner X Roads. The elder Mr. Robison died when the subject of this sketch was yet a mere child, and he was denied the privileges of securing more than a knowledge of the mere rudiments of an education. He left school when but twelve years of age. He was one of a family of three boys: John M., who sought his fortunes in California during the gold excitement of 1849, and from which adventure he never returned; William James, a farmer, now living in the state of Iowa.     When a young man, Robert Potter Robison, emigrated west, and located at Cadiz, Ohio, where he learned the trade of a cabinetmaker, and after following that trade some time in the west, returned to Somerset town, and for a time worked at his trade for William B. Coffroth, of that place. In 1850 he came to Johnstown and plied his trade under the employ of B. F. Orr, and then after a short experience as a clerk in Somerset of about two years, he married and again returned to Johnstown, and engaged with the Cambria Iron company as a house contractor and

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