Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1867-04-06

Patrick Robb died at a quarter before one
o'clock on the morning Of the Goth inst
His disease was consumption, from which he
had been gradually failing for several years
and has been confined to his house since the
FIRST Of last December. His family are not
subject TO consumption, but Mr.. Robb con-
tractsd severe cold while living q: Sioux
City in 1860, which was very much agera-
waited by his labors in stumping the s tate
during tha. exciting canvass. and Gually
brought on q hsmorrhage Of the Iungs.--
Since that time, a. he himself said last Sun
day, he has never seen we'll day, and those
who knew him most intima ,ely can attest to
its truth. Hope is part If the disease Of
consumption, and he I has been confident Of
r. covering his health until on Friday, the
22d inst, when he began to entertain doubts
but it was not until Tuesday, the 10th,
that he finally gave up. Ga Thursday after.
noon hs had a sinking spell from which it
was feared he would not recover He called
his family around him and talked to them
as calmly and pleasantly as he ever did in
his life, thanked them for the love and kind
ness they hal ever borne him, kissed bis
mother and sister, wife and babes, bid them
an aaectionate farewell, and then laid down
to die. And he had not long to wait. He
failed rapidly, and death came to him in the
Still wa chos of the night He said not long
ha{nr he i,1 h,t Ia, y.
it seemed more as though he were returning
to pleasant scenes than otherwise. His bed
side was surrounded by his weeping family
and q few friends who had Volunteered their
sad services at the sick bed and to them j,
was the stern reality of death, but to him i,
seemed only the dawnng of bright immor.
tal'ty reached through q vale Of sufst ring
and tears
Mr. Robb was born in the town of West
Pe"ih, Fulton county, New York, on the 18th
OF March, 1885, and WAS consequently ut the
time Of his death 81 years Of age. Ills
latter was farmer, an influential person of
the vicinity, and person who trained up bis
children to be men and women # whom
any parent might be proud This was his
Oldest son, and manicesting desire for n
LIBERAL education his father early conceived
the purpose TO grant It, and accordingly fitted
hltA for c"ilpgc partly at JohusteHn AMI
partly at kingsborough near home In 1853
he entered the sopho more class at Union
College, where during the first term h. and
the writer of this article rooined togrh her il,
the old 'niddle section, north college, both
being strangers to the college and TO each
o'her He maintained an excellent rsiy.a~
t2n during his entire collegiate year and
graduated among the first in his class in
1856 1t is q matter worthy of note that
one of bis most intimate friends and chums
was his claasmate Fi,zhu ugh Lullow the un
fortunate author who has since acquired
good deal Of reputation.
After he graduated be tauch, in a c'as-
steal school a, Poughkeepse for few
months. Ia January, 1857, he started ives,
to 'se elk his fortune" remained short time
with SEINE friends at South Bend. Indiana
and in May Of that year came to Dubuque,
through the solicitation Of his college friend
the late Capt Sam. s. Newbury. afterwards
OF the 18th regulars, who was billed ct H.
battle Before Petersburg, on the lqh If
August, 1864 Here he read law, and in
the spring Of 1858 went to Sioux CITY, where
he at once entered upon lucrative busiress
During 1859 he edited the Siour Cvfy l?eg-
'ster and 80 we'll wero the people pleased
with mis- ability and popular address that the
democracy took him up and elected him to
the legislature that fall Here his reputa-
ton bad gone before him, and he was placed
upon the committee Of ways and mea,s to
represent the minority, post assigned only
to tho ablest men. So we'll did he aeoui,
himself in the legislature that in 1860 he
was placed upon the state tickle, by the de.
nocrstic state convention for register of the
state land office, but of course was d.fsa,ed
with the balance. In 1861 he attended the
xra session up the breaking out of t, Q
war, and was not only offered bu. personally
solicited by Gov. Kirkwood to take an i'm
portant military command bat he steadily
refused, being averse to it alike from taste
and principle.
In the fall Of 1862 he moved back to Du-
buqe, being actuated in part by the Indian
troubles upon the border. Owing TO the
feeble state Of his health he did not enter
into any active business, until on the LIST of
March, 1864, he bought an interest in this
paper, and assumed The position of editor
The constant and laborious duties of tina,
position were too much for bis enfeebled
condition, and it speedily became evident to
himself as we'll as to his friends, that be
would have to give it up, aud the January
following he accordingly sold ou, and retired
from the profession He soon after went into
the lumber business, FIRST as a member of the
firm Of Peterson & Rpbb, and afterwards of
the firm of Robb & Day, and was engaged
in this At the time of his death. The more
active outdoor exercise of this pursui. had
beneficial effect upon him, and for a while
he was Enthusiastically better, but bis disease
had advanced too far for any permanent
relief
He was appointed by the Produce Elk,
change Of this city to prepare an address. for
the Mississippi Rapids Improvement Con.
vention, which met here 10 February, 1866
showing the advantages of the proposed i'm,
p7ovrmep., and. ~as without. Any exeap.
ton the ablest document that has been pre-.