Monday, March 18, 2019

What About James Harvey Tomb and William Victor Tomb?


While looking for information on James Hamilton Tomb (and it is not easy to find, let me tell you) I came across the names of two other men involved with the sea and the Navy named Tomb.  One was James Harvey Tomb and the other William Victor Tomb.  Were they his sons?

They were both born in the 1870s, which fit the timing of James H. Tomb, but at Find-A-Grave site, there was only a daughter who died at age three listed for his children.  Was this an oversight?

James Harvey Tomb (1876-1946) was in the U.S. Navy and the Merchant Marine.  He graduated from the USNA and commanded destroyers in the years leading up to World War I and during the war commanded the USS Aroostook laying mines in the North Sea Mine Barrage.

He retired from the Navy in 1925 and later was superintendent of the New York  State Merchant Academy and the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy for a while during World War II.

The Wikipedia article does not mention his childhood.

I'll be writing about him in more detail in my Cooter's History Thing blog.

Was He A Son of James Hamilton Tomb?  --Old B-Runner



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