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From: Patricia{BLOOM}Myers <>
Subject: THOMAS K. BLOOM
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 22:31:28 -0800

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Surname: BLOOM, CHRYST, ROREBECK
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From"History of Page Co. Iowa" page 819.

THOMAS KOOKEN BLOOM

Thomas K. Bloom,an honored and representative citizen of
Morton township,removed to his present farm from Washington
township in the spring of 1890. He came overland by team
from Greene Co. Wisconsin in 1874, and has assisted in the
growth and development of one of the leading counties of the
State of Iowa. He is a native of Pennsylvania, born in Center Co. April
9,1839. His parents,George and Elizabeth
{KOOKEN} Bloom,were also natives of the Keystone state.
When T.K. was a lad of twelve years they removed to Wisconsin and settled
in Green Co, where they were among the pioneer settlers. There our worthy
subject was reared to farm life. He was united in marriage, November 3,1860,
in
Green Co.,Wisconsin, to Catherine CHRYST, who was born in Green Co.,Wisconsin,and
a daughter of John Chryst. Mr.
Chryst was born in Virginia, but spent many years in
Tennessee and Kentucky; he married Jane Douglass,who was
born in Scotland and reared in England.
In 1874 Mr. Bloom brought his family and settled in Washington township,
on section 19,there he set about the task of improving 160 acres of wild
land,and seven years
later he had the satisfaction of placing it upon the market as an improved
farm and realizing a fair price on it.
He then bought a farm of J.B.Van Sandt, one of the first
settlers in the county,and lived on the place until 1890.
He then sold it out to George Cato,Jr.,and purchased a farm in Morton township;
this tract consists of 120 acres,and it
is in a high state of cultivation.There is a comfortable
dwelling pleasantly situated on a natural building site
overlooking the surrounding country, and a orchard and
grove nearby add to the beauty of the landscape. The barns and sheds are
in admirable order,and well united in the
purpose of general farming.
Mr. and Mrs. Bloom are the parents of twelve children:
Elizabeth Jane, wife of Luther Martin;George David,Anna Belle,Sarah Verina,Edith
A.,Ellen O.,Mark M.P.,Frank J.,Amy L.,Grover Cleveland who died at two
years,and James Montgomery,who died at age of nine months,and Floyd T.
Politically our subject is with the Democratic Party.
He and his wife are both consistent members of the Baptist
Church, and assisted in the organization of the first
Baptist society in Washington township;later they were active workers in
the society at Lone Willow. They have
ever given ready support to all efforts to advance the interests of religion
and education,and are numbered among
the leading families in the county.

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