Physician and surgeon, Mr. Roome was born in Canada March 15, 1839. In 1863 he came to Michigan, and entered the Ann Arbor medical institute, from which he graduated in the class of '66. He immediately came to Calmar and began the practice of his profession. He married Gertrude Hilliard, who was born in Madison, Wis. Mr. Roome represented Winneshiek county in the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Iowa General Assemblies.

Physician and surgeon, Mr. Roome was born in Canada March 15, 1839. In 1863 he came to Michigan, and entered the Ann Arbor medical institute, from which he graduated in the class of '66. He immediately came to Calmar and began the practice of his profession. He married Gertrude Hilliard, who was born in Madison, Wis. Mr. Roome represented Winneshiek county in the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Iowa General Assemblies.