OBIT: Herman ROW, 1880, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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OBITUARY.
Dr. Herman Row, a Prominent Altoona Physician.

  At about 10 o'clock yesterday morning Dr. Herman Row died at his 
residence on Seventh avenue, near Twelfth street, after a long and 
severe illness.  The subject of this sketch was a well-known and most 
excellent physician of the Allopathic school.  He was born about the 
year 1840 and was raised in Indiana, Indiana county, this State.  His 
father, George Row, was editor of the Indiana Register, and the doctor 
and five of his brothers, we believe, were all brought up as printers.  
When about 23 years of age Herman Row formed a romantic attachment for 
and married a young lady named Mary Gompers, residing in the same town.  
At the age of 25 years he entered on his medical studies, and on their 
completion graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, 
one of the best medical schools in the world.  The young doctor first 
located near Hagerstown, Maryland, assisting his brother-in-law, Dr. 
McCormick.  He afterward removed to the home of his childhood, Indiana, 
where he spent several years engaged at his profession.  About 1874 the 
doctor and his family located in Altoona, their present home.  Since he 
has been here, by dint of close application to business, he attained a 
fine reputation as a physician.  His mind was an unusually bright one, 
and his tastes seemed to be of a literary character.  Many a fine and 
interesting sketch has the doctor contributed to our local papers, and 
the reporters always considered it a bonanza to find Dr. Row, for he 
invariably had some item of interest for them, picked up either in 
business or while traveling through the country.  His style of writing 
was polished and free and not encumbered with intricate and heavy 
sentences so common in the literature of the day.  A wife and three 
children are left to care for themselves, the eldest a graduate of 
Altoona High School and at present a teacher in the Eighth ward school.  
Last spring the doctor was attacked with hemorrhage of the bowels and 
had a severe sickness from which he never fully recovered.  About a 
week since his health began more rapidly to break down, resulting 
finally in death.  The arrangements for the funeral have not yet been 
made.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Saturday, November 27, 1880

Died.

ROW - At his residence, on Seventh avenue, at 9:40 A.M. Friday, 
November 26th, Dr. Herman Row, aged 40 years, 4 months and 5 days.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Monday, November 29, 1880

1880 Altoona, Blair County census -
Herman Row, 38 
Mary A. Row, 37 
Sarah M. Row, 16 
Emma V. Row, 10 
Charles G. Row, 8