ALBANY. N. Y. AP — John H. Robb. who hiked three miles on his 100th birthday, died Saturday at 105. Robb claimed he established the first taxi business in Upstate New York, at Amsterdam in 1905. He was born at Perth Center, near Amsterdam. Robb had said he never missed a Sunday in church between the ages of 5 and 99. He died in a home for the aged, where he had lived for seven years. His eyesight and hearing had failed recently.
THE KINGSTON DAILY FREEMAN, KINGSTON, N. Y- MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 10, 1959
ALBANY. N. Y. AP — John H. Robb. who hiked three miles on his 100th birthday, died Saturday at 105. Robb claimed he established the first taxi business in Upstate New York, at Amsterdam in 1905. He was born at Perth Center, near Amsterdam. Robb had said he never missed a Sunday in church between the ages of 5 and 99. He died in a home for the aged, where he had lived for seven years. His eyesight and hearing had failed recently.
THE KINGSTON DAILY FREEMAN, KINGSTON, N. Y- MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 10, 1959
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