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2976 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSlast name at Lithonia and passed through its chairs. He is also a memberof the Bobby Burns Club, and is fond of the companionship of his fellowmen,among whom his whole-souled good fellowship makes him generally popular. When he is able to get away from the exacting duties of his largepractice, the doctor is inclined to spend his vacation in hunting and fishing,although he also frequently visits his fine farm at Rockdale, in addition towhich he owns a handsome home at Lithonia and a number of rental properties.In 1890, at Decatur, Georgia, Doctor Tribble was married to Miss MinnieWing, of Deeatur, daughter of H. L. and Minnie (Berry) Wing. She diedin 1911, at Lithonia, the mother of three children: Elizabeth, who is the wifeof C. M. McGahee, of Dallas, North Carolina; Hiram L., who is engaged in 'the wholesale drug business at Atlanta, but whose home is at Lithonia; andOra Mell, who is a student at Agnes Scott Institute. Doctor Tribble wasagain married in 1912, when he was united with Mrs. Bannie (Chupp) Calanay,of Lithonia, and they have two daughters, Sarah Joe, born April 27,1913, and Mary Blanche, born February 6, 1916.PATRICK J. BLOOMFIELD. A resident of Atlanta since his birth forty-fiveyears ago, Patrick J. Bloomfield at the age of twenty-one entered the profession which has some of the greatest opportunities for kindly and usefulservice, and as a funeral director his name is one of the best known in thecity. For eleven years he has been in business by himself, and his parlorsare located at 84 South Pryor Street.Born August 3, 1870, his birthplace was an old house that stood at thecorner of Hunter and Washington streets, opposite the present state capitol.His father, Michael Bloomfield, and his mother, whose maiden name wasElizabeth Malone, were both natives of Ireland, but did not become acquainteduntil they arrived in Atlanta, where they were married in 1850. MichaelBloomfield was a stone cutter and stone contractor by occupation, and cameto the United States at the age of twenty with his parents. His father, RichardBloomfield, located in New York City and never came to Atlanta. Duringhis many years of residence at Atlanta Michael Bloomfield performed manycontracts, especially in street work, and he also built the first vault in theOakland Cemetery. His death occurred September 27, 1879, while his widowsurvived him twenty-one years, until March 16, 1900. They were theparents of ten children, three sons and seven daughters, Patrick being theyoungest and now the only living son. His two living sisters are Mrs. MaryMargaret Kenny of St. Louis, Missouri, and Mrs. Monica Higgins, wife ofJoseph A. Higgins of Atlanta, assistant general passenger agent of theAtlanta and West Point Railroad. The power of a contagious disease is wellillustrated in the Bloomfield family, since four of the young daughters ofMichael and Elizabeth Bloomfield were taken away by diphtheria in 1868,all four deaths occurring within a period of nine days. Every one of theten Bloomfield children was born on the corner of Washington and EastHunter Street. The house then standing covered the site now occupied byEngine House No. 2 of the Atlanta Fire Department.Patrick J. Bloomfield is of pure Irish descent, though the name Bloomfieldis perhaps more familiarly associated with Dutch, German and Jewishdescendants. However, Bloomfield is not an imcommon name in Ireland, andso far as known there was nothing but Irish blood in all the generations back.Michael Bloomfield came from Dundalk, Queens County, and Elizabeth Malonefrom County Louth, Ireland. As a boy Patrick Bloomfield attended both theparochial and public schools in Atlanta up to the age of fourteen. At thatpoint began his active business career as a wage earner, when he becameclerk and utility boy in a grocery store, and for many days worked fromfour o'clock in the morning until late in the evening. He worked in that linesix or seven years, but since the age of twenty-one has been identified with