Roome, John Somers 1839 -

ROOME, SOMERS, MCLEAN

Posted By: R. Warden (email)
Date: 8/29/2003 at 09:01:25

John S. Roome, M.D., practicing physician at Calmar, Iowa, was born near Clearville, Kent County, Ontario, November 24, 1839, and is a son of William Frederick and Catherine (McLean) Roome. Abraham Roome, grandfather of our subject, was born in London, England and emigrated to New Brunswick about 1800, being accompanied by his wife and four daughters. He married Catherine Somers and their children were Sarah, Catherine, Mary, Deborah and William Frederick, father of our subject. In 1815, he moved with his family to Orford Township, Ontario, where he located a homestead and died a few years later. His wife survived him by more than thirty years, her death occuring in 1848.

Mr. Roome was a farmer by occupation and was a pioneer in the Province of Ontario, Canada. The maternal grandfather, John McLean, was a Scotish Highlander by birth, who emigratee to Ontario in 1828 where he established a home in Dunwich Township. His children were Agnes, John, Catherine, Mary, Sarah, and Nancy.

William Frederick Roome, father of our subject, was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, May 5, 1807. He was the only son of his parents, ther youngest child in the family, and the only child born in America. He married Catherine McLean March 13, 1836, and to them were born seven children, our subject being the second child. The third child, Dr. William Frederick Roome, resides in London, Ontario, and has served as a member of the House of Commons, the lower branch on the Dominion Parliament, for the past twelve years. Of the other children, Abraham, the eldest in the family, died in Bismack, Ontario, in his forty-fifth year; Dr. C.D. Roome is a practicing physician at Cresco, Iowa; Joseph E. conducts a mercantile business at Glencoe, Ontario; Sarah Catherine, the only daughter, married a merchant of Dutton, Ontario, where she resides; and James H., the youngest child, is a grain dealer in Manitoba, Canada. Mrs. W. F. Roome was born in Argyleshire, Scotland, in 1817, and died on the old home place, in Ontario, May 19, 1861. Her Husband died June 7, 1873, having followed the quiet occupation of farmer all his life.