Bureau County IL Archives Biographies.....Bloom, William H.
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Biography for William H. Bloom, Bureau County, Illinois

William H. Bloom, Tiskilwa, was born October 10, 1833, in Eaton, Green 
Co., Ohio.  His father, Peter Bloom, a native of New Jersey, was a 
farmer by occupation and settled on Section 12, near Tiskilwa, where he 
died May 17, 1867.  William Bloom, the grandfather of our subject, came 
from Germany to America about the year 1800.  He first settled in New 
Jersey, but removed to Ohio, where he died.  He reared a family of six 
boys and two girls, and was a farmer and weaver by occupation.  The 
mother of our subject, Jane Hankins, was born at the Blue Ridge in 
Virginia.  Her parents, Thomas and Anna Hankins, were born in Virginia.  
The latter's mother was one of many children captured in Ireland at an 
early day and sent to this country.  Mrs. Jane (Hankins) Bloom died here 
December 12, 1870.  She was the mother of the following children:  Eliza 
A., Mary, Catharine, Elizabeth, Sarah, William H., Martha J., James and 
Francis Bloom.  Mr. Bloom's early life was spent on the farm. He has 
been a grain and lumber merchant in Buda, Ill.  After that he was a 
contractor on the Southwestern Railroad in Iowa one year.  In 1855 he 
returned to Tiskilwa, where he merchandised one year and then farmed.  
At present he resides in  Tiskilwa.  He owns over 500 acres of land in 
this county.  Mr. Bloom also owns a one-sixth interest in a large cattle 
ranch in Colorado and Nebraska.  The company is know as the "Putnam Live 
Stock Company," and has the brightest prospect of success.  Mr. Bloom 
was married December 16, 1856, in Clinton County, Ohio, to Eliza M. 
Hester, born December 16, 1834.   Her parents, David and Mary 
(Vandevort) Hester, were natives of Ohio, and of German descent.  To Mr. 
and Mrs. Bloom the following children were born:  Emery C., David H., 
William C., Jennie, Cora May and Ida Bloom.  Mr. and Mrs. Bloom are 
religiously connected with the Methodist Episcopal ?Church.  
Politically, Mr. Bloom is Independent.  In the stock business he is well 
posted and wide awake.  He is an A. F. & A. M. and is also an I. O. O. 
F.

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