Northumberland County PA Archives Biographies.....Bloom, Urias 1848 - living in 1899

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URIAS BLOOM of Sunbury, Northumberland County, formerly was register of wills,

recorder of deeds and clerk of the Orphans' Court of the county. He is a son of

Hiram and Maria (Hileman) Bloom, and was born in Lower Augusta, now Rockefeller

township, Northumberland County, April 1, 1854.



  Our subject's ancestors were pioneers of Northumberland County and for five

generations the family has been prominent and intimately connected with the

growth and history of the county. The first of the family to locate in the

county, Stephen Bloom, settled there prior to 1795 as is demonstrated by his

will. A son of Stephen, Samuel Bloom, was the father of Jacob Bloom, and Jacob

was the parent of Hiram Bloom, the father of our subject. Samuel Bloom was

commissioned a justice of the peace in February, 1809, was county commissioner

from 1813 to 1815, and was county treasurer in 1834-36. He bought the farm on

which he long resided from Martin Raker and wife in 1797 and the property, which

is near the old stone church in Rockefeller township, is now owned by the

subject of our sketch who prizes it highly. Hiram Bloom, father of our subject,

was born in what is now -Rockefeller township, October 22, 1831, and was a son

of Jacob and Julia Ann (Bartholomew) Bloom. He was a carpenter by trade, also

was a farmer, and for some years ran a saw-mill. He married Maria Hileman,

mother of our subject, in 1852. She was a daughter of Daniel Hileman of

Rockefeller township.



  The subject of this sketch, Urias Bloom, is the eldest of nine children, eight

of whom are living. He was educated in the common schools and when sixteen years

old began work as a school teacher, which he continued for four years when he

accepted a clerkship in the office of Lemuel Shipman, then recorder. He served

also under the successor of Mr. Shipman, George D. Bucher, remaining a clerk in

the recorder's office until 1886 when he assumed his duties as register of wills

and recorder of deeds to which office he was elected in 1885 as a Democrat. In

1885, when he first stood for the office, Mr. Bloom's popularity was well

demonstrated by the fact that he ran 250 votes ahead of the other candidates on

the Democratic ticket. He was re-elected in 1888, when he surprised even his

closest friends and all of his admirers by running over 1,200 votes ahead of his

ticket.



  Mr. Bloom was married in Lower Augusta township, November 25, 1879, to Anna M.

Wintersteen and their union has been blessed with four children, Essie Uarda,

Grace Imo-gene, Goldie Edna, and an infant son. Mr. Bloom is a Mason, also an

Odd Fellow, and is a member of the M. E. Church.





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