Greene County PA Archives Biographies.....Grooms, William August 14, 1828 - ????
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Source: Biographical History of Greene County, Nelson, Rishforth, and Co, Chicago, 1888
Author: Samuel P. Bates

      William Grooms, retired blacksmith, was born in 
Carmichaels, Penna, August 14, 1828.  His parents were 
Benjamin Grooms and Isabella Kerr Grooms, natives of Maryland 
and Pennsylvania respectively, and of English and Scotch 
descent.  His grandfather, William Grooms, was one of the 
early settlers of Greene County.  His father was a farmer 
and carpenter, and had a family of six children of whom 
William is the second of the three living.  He was reared in 
Carmichaels, attended the common schools and Greene Academy, 
and in early life learned the blacksmith trade in which he 
engaged for a number of years.
  
      In 1846 Mr Grooms married Malinda McIlvaine, daughter 
of Moses McIlvaine and Susan Vankirk McIlvaine.  They have 
six children: Susan Grooms, wife of James Lincoln; Elizabeth 
Grooms, wife of George Demain; Arabella Grooms, wife of Levi 
Taylor; William Grooms and B F Grooms, blacksmiths; and 
Eliza Jane Grooms, a teacher.  In politics Mr Grooms is a 
Republican. In 1861 he enlisted in Company I, Eighth 
Pennsylvania Volunteers and served three years.  He 
re-enlisted in Company B, Fifty seventh Volunteer Infantry 
and served till the close of the war.  He has been road 
commissioner and was postmaster at Carmichaels for a number 
of years.  Mr and Mrs Grooms are members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, and he is a member of the G A R Post.

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