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Representative John Somers Roome View All Years

Compiled Historical Information
Date of Death: 2/6/1919
Birth Place: Clearville, Ontario
Birth Country: Canada
Party Affiliation: Republican
Assemblies Served:
House: 28 (1900) - 29 (1902)
Home County: Winneshiek
John Somers Roome
Winneshiek County
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.
Sources:
House District 88
Committees
29th GA (1902)
Legislation Sponsored
29th GA (1902)