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+FOTE NY Times obituary; June 14, 1908]</ref> He is buried in [[Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester|Mount Hope Cemetery]] in Rochester.<ref name=GRAVE">[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?GRid=2637&page=gr Find A Grave]</ref>
-'''Henry Lomb''' ([[November 28]] [[1848]] - [[June 13]] [[1908]]) was a [[Germans|German]]-[[United States|American]] [[optician]] who co-founded [[Bausch & Lomb]] (with [[John Jacob Bausch]]).
-==Biography==
-Lomb was born in Burgham, [[Hesse-Kassel]], [[Germany]]. He emigrated to the [[United States]] in 1849 and settled in [[Rochester, New York]], where he worked as a cabinet-maker.<ref name="LOMBbio">[http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAlomb.htm Henry Lomb bio]</ref><ref name=GERMAN>[http://www.germanheritage.com/biographies/atol/bausch.html German American Corner]</ref>
-When his friend, [[John Jacob Bausch]], the owner of a retail optical shop in Rochester, needed  additional capital in 1854, he loaned him $60 on Bausch's promise that, if the business ever grew to such an extent that he needed a partner, Lomb would be brought in. The business did grow and together they formed the [[Bausch & Lomb|Bausch & Lomb Company]].<ref name=GERMAN/>
-Lomb enlisted in the New York State Volunteers and fought in the [[American Civil War]] as sergeant, lieutenant and captain. When the war ended, he left the military and returned to the company.<ref name="LOMBbio"/>
-Henry Lomb died suddenly in [[Pittsford, New York]], on [[June 13]] [[1908]].<ref name="LOMBbio"/><ref name=NYTobit">[http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9A04E5DE153EE233A25757C1A9609C946997D6CF&oref=slogin  NY Times obituary; June 14, 1908]</ref> He is buried in [[Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester|Mount Hope Cemetery]] in Rochester.<ref name=GRAVE">[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?GRid=2637&page=gr Find A Grave]</ref>
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