Lacrosse County WI Archives Biographies.....Stombs, J. H. November 5, 1830 - 
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J. H. STOMBS, mechanical engineer, has been connected with the steamboat 
interests on the Mississippi River since 1846, on the Upper Mississippi since 
1855, and a resident of La Crosse since 1861. He was born in Salem Co., N. J., 
Nov. 5, 1830. His father, John Stombs, removed to Ohio with his family in 
1834, settled in Clermont County, and died there in 1838. Mr. Stombs learned 
his trade in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he resided from 1840 to 1854. He then 
went to St. Louis, Mo., and in May, 1855, removed to Minnesota. He resided in 
St. Paul from 1857 to 1861, and came from there to La Crosse. He is the 
inventor of a balance steam puppet valve, patented in 1872; a balance slide 
steam valve, patented in 1873; also, of an improvement in self-adjusting 
telegraph relays, patented in 1873; also, of an improvement in steam 
governors. He is the present Vice President of the National Marine Engineers' 
Association of the United States. His first wife was Mary A. E. Kinney, of 
Scott Co., Minn. She died in 1876, leaving one son, Joseph A., now in the 
First National Bank of Rock Island, Ill. His present wife was Ella A. Dean, of 
Rock Island.

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From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 797.

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