Excerpt from 1895 bio of son Albion F. Lombard, Arnott, Stockton township, Portage county, Wisconsin:

The family of Lombards in this country have descended from three brothers who many generations ago came to the United States from the Island of Corsica, and settled at Scituate, a small fishing town on the coast of Massachusetts. Albion F. was born at Readfield, Kennebec Co., Maine, October 7, 1842.

His father, *James Lombard, was born at Gorham, Maine, December 2, 1796, and the grandfather and great-grandfather were likewise both named James. The father (James) was reared at Gorham, and there apprenticed to a saddler and harness-maker by his stepfather. James Lombard opened a shop at Readfield, Maine, where, September 7, 1817, he married Isabella Currier, born August 31, 1799, at Readfield, daughter of Samuel Currier, the leading physician of that village, whose practice years afterward fell to his son George.
James Lombard's health was failing at his trade, and he took up the study of medicine, preparing himself by a course at Bowdoin College. Practicing successfully at Readfield, Gorham, and Saccarappa, a suburb of Portland, Maine, Dr. Lombard in May, 1851, started with his family for Wisconsin. Coming by rail from Saccarappa to Buffalo, and by the lakes on the old "Wisconsin" from Buffalo to Sheboygan, they drove by team to Plover, where a son, Lewis, had preceded them.

Dr. Lombard was a poor man, and sought a home away from the city where he might rear his large family. His children were James, Charles, Isabel, George, Lewis, Leonidas, Halbert, Orlando, Washington, Horace, Emily, Albion F. and Emma. Of these, George (a farmer of Stockton), Lewis (a farmer of Lanark township), Albion F. and Emma (now Mrs. Sydney Stevens, of Livingston, Mont.), are the only survivors. His first settlement was in Section 32, Stockton township, where Lewis had pre-empted 160 acres before the land was on sale, not receiving his patent until 1858. Dr. Lombard died on that farm in 1858, from the effects of a long-standing complaint. He was buried in a private cemetery on the farm, which in 1891 became public, and is known as "Lombard Cemetery."

Dr. Lombard was an intelligent, well-read man, far above the average of the early settlers. In politics he was a staunch Democrat. By the terms of the will the property was left to Albion F. and James, they to provide for the widowed mother, who survived until April 21, 1881, and was buried by the side of her husband.

Source of biography:
Commemorative Biographical Record of Upper Wisconsin
J.H. Beers & Co., Chicago, 1895, pp 54-56
Contributed by: Stevens Point Area Genealogical Society
Stevens Point, WI

Note: Headstone inscription from 1972 cemetery transcription by Wayne and Alta Guyant.