Groom, Thomas

GROOM

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 7/5/2021 at 13:54:17

History of Warren County, Iowa; Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns & Etc., by Union Historical Company, 1879, p.729

GROOM, THOMAS, farmer, Greenfield Township, Sec. 22; P. O. Summerset; was born in Ireland, in the year 1826, and came to the United States, in the year 1851, January 6, and first lived in Franklin county, Mass., till he came to this county, in February 1870, except one year that he lived in Des Moines; he was married in Ireland, to Miss Margaret O'Donnell, a native of that country, in 1849; they have a family of four children now living: John, Mary, Ellen, William, and three deceased, James, Margaret, and Thomas; he owns an improved farm of 70 acres.