Pueblo County CO Archives Biographies.....Thombs, Pembroke R. 1840 - 
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Author: R. M. Stevenson (1881)

DR. PEMBROKE R. THOMBS.

    This gentleman is well-known in Southern Colorado and throughout the State
as an eminent physician, and the present Superintendent of the State Hospital
for the Insane at Pueblo. He was born at Yarmouth, Me., in 1840, and received
his education principally at Waterville College. In the spring of 1859, he went
to Chicago, Ill., and there attended lectures at Rush Medical College,
graduating in the spring of 1862. Soon after receiving his diploma, he entered
the United States Army, becoming Assistant Surgeon of the Eighty-ninth Illinois
Infantry. In the spring of 1864, he was promoted to Surgeon of the regiment, and
continued as such to the close of the war. In June, 1865, his regiment being
mustered out, Dr. Thombs returned to Chicago, and soon afterward he received
from the Government a staff appointment as Surgeon of United States Volunteers;
was assigned to Murfreesboro, Tenn., as Post Surgeon, and he remained there
until June, 1866, when, again quitting the service, he returned on a visit to
his old home in Maine. In July following, he came to Colorado, and about the
middle of August located at Pueblo, where he has since resided, practicing his
profession with eminent success. He was married at Pueblo September 30, 1871, to
a Miss Shaw. On May 1, 1879, Dr. Thombs was appointed, by the Governor,
Superintendent and Resident Physician of the Hospital for the Insane at Pueblo,
which position he has since continued to fill to the entire satisfaction of the
State. The institution is one of the most important in the State, and under the
vigilant eye and careful management of Dr. Thombs, it is steadily improving. The
last Legislature made an appropriation of $55,000 for new buildings, which are
now being erected, and which, when completed, will prove a notable credit to the
commonwealth.


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Extracted from:

History of the  Arkansas Valley, Colorado
By J. Harrison Mills

O. L. Baskin & Co.
Chicago
1881


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