Umatilla County OR Archives Biographies.....Froome, John E. 1859 - 
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Author: Colonel William Parsons 

Page 471, 472

John E. Froome
	This popular hotel man and esteemed citizen of Athena is a native of 
Canada, born in the year 1859. When only three years old he was brought by his 
parents to California, in the public schools of which state he received his 
educational discipline. He worked at different occupations for the first 
twelve years after leaving the school room, then, in 1876, came to Walla Walla 
county, where he lived a year. He thereupon went to Milton and in that town he 
had his first experience in the hotel business in his father's hotel, keeping 
an establishment of that kind for a stage company. A short time afterward he 
removed to Athena, and embarked in the hotel business there with his father 
until his death and since he has been running the Athena hotel himself.
	Mr. Froome also owns a half interest in the Athena stables, and a 
block and a half of town property. He is achieving a well earned material 
success and is already to be ranked as one of the well-to-do or moderately 
wealthy citizens of the town, as he is one of the public spirited and 
enterprising.
	In fraternal affiliations our subject is a prominent member of the K. 
of P. and A. O. U. W. orders, having joined these fraternities as much as 
fifteen years ago. His marriage was solemnized in Athena, Oregon, on December 
20, 1892, when Miss Laura Buzan, a daughter of Willis and Jane (Reeder) Buzan, 
became his wife. They have one child, Katherine. Mrs. Froome is a sister of 
George Buzan, present assessor of Umatilla county.


Additional Comments:
An Illustrated History of Umatilla County by Colonel William Parsons and of 
Morrow County by W. S. Shiach with a brief outline of the early history of the 
State of Oregon.  W. H. Lever, Publisher  1902.

	Notice: These biographies were transcribed for the Oregon Biographies 
Project. Unless otherwise stated, no further information is available on the
individual featured in the biographies. 

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