The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 112 HENRY HUNTINGTON LOMBARD. Henry Huntington Lombard is a well known real estate dealer and capitalist of Yakima. Real estate activity in the west has not only included the purchase and sale of property and the promotion of realty transfers for others but has included as well the development of large tracts of land, adding greatly to the prosperity of various regions. Henry Huntington Lombard is the senior partner in the firm of Lombard & Horsley, a firm that was established in 1889 and which has developed its interests until it has won a place among the foremost real estate dealers of the Yakima valley. The width of the continent separates Mr. Lombard from his birthplace, for he is a native of New Bedford, Massachusetts. He was born February 2, 1865, a son of Henry H. and Eunice K. Lombard. The ancestral line is traced back to Thomas Lombard, who arrived at Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in 1623. At the time of the Revolutionary war Colonel Richard Lombard responded to the cause of the colonists and aided in winning American independence. Rev. Solomon Lombard, a Congregational minister, removed to Gorham, Maine, and became the first representative of the ministry in that state. He was the founder of the branch of the family from which Henry Huntington Lombard is descended. Solomon Lombard became a prominent judge in the colony. For generations the family was represented in New England, but in 1869 Henry H. and Eunice K. Lombard removed to Iowa and it was in the public schools of that state their son, Henry H., acquired his education. He was a lad of but four years at the time of the removal to the west and his boyhood and youth were therefore largely passed in Iowa. In 1887, when twenty-two years of age, he went to Topeka, Kansas, and for two years was employed by the Santa Fe Railroad Company. In March, 1889, he arrived in Yakima and it was in the same year that he entered into partnership with Frank Horsley, organizing the firm of Lombard & Horsley. They engaged in the furniture business, buying out the establishment of A. H. Reynolds & Company, and were active in that line until 1909, when they sold out. In 1904 they became actively interested in development work in the construction of the Union Gap ditch and organized the Union Gap Irrigation Company, which purchased the Fowler ditch and developed the Parker Heights district, which they sold in 1909 after expending two hundred and fifty thousand dollars on improvements. They developed over five hundred acres of fruit land and still farm more than four hundred acres of this. They have since sold and developed large tracts of land throughout the district and now have the Beulah tract. They are conducting a general investment and developing business and the interests of Mr. Lombard have reached extensive and gratifying proportions. He has seen the possibility for work along this line and has put forth every effort in his power to promote the growth and settlement of the state through the utilization of its natural resources. Energetic and far-sighted in business, he has carried forward his interests to successful completion and though he started out in life empty-handed, he has made for himself a place among the capitalists of the Yakima valley. On the 26th of June, 1906, Mr. Lombard was married to Miss Aimee Porter, of Roseland, Washington, and their children are George Porter, Henry H., Creede Wilson, Eunice, Janet and Richard. Fraternally Mr. Lombard is connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and he has membership in the Commercial Club. In politics he is a republican and in 1908 he served as mayor of Yakima, giving to the city a businesslike and progressive administration, and at all times he has stood for progress, development and improvement in this section of the state and has contributed much to its growth. ******************************** Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer. Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.