Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Groom, James H. October 5, 1839 - 
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Author: Chapman Brothers

JAMES H. GROOM, farmer, sec. 12, Fork Tp., was born in Saratoga Co., N.Y., 
Oct. 5, 1839, and is the son of 

Milton and Caterine (Butler) Groom.  His parents were natives of the State of 
New York, where they passed 

their entire lives.  The father died when the son was two years of age, and he 
became an inmate of the 

family of Thomas Wagner.  His mother remarried two years later and resumed the 
care and charge of her 

child, retaining her guardianship until he was 13 years of age, when he was 
bound to John Howes and was 

under his supervision six years.

At the age of 19 Mr. Groom set out alone in life to make his record among men 
and secure the reward of 

patient, persistent effort in his struggle with circumstances.  He worked by 
day and month until the 

outbreak of the civil war.  He enlisted in 1861 in the 77th Reg. N.Y. Vol. 
Inf., and was discharged at the 

end of four months on account of disability.  He returned to the home of this 
birth, and two years later 

came to Michigan; remained for a time in Kalamazoo, came thence to Big Rapids, 
and after a short residence 

located a farm of 80 acres in Fork Tp., under the regulations of the homestead 
act.  In politicla faith and 

action Mr. Groom is a Republican.

He was married in 1869, to Nancy M., daughter of Peter and Abigail (Freeman) 
Phenix.  They were natvies of 

Pennsylvania and came to Mecosta County in 1867, where they still reside.  
Mrs. Groom was born in Ohio, May 

29, 1842.

Additional Comments:
1883 Portrait & Bio Album of Mecosta Co.

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