G. M. Roome

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G. M. Roome

Source: History Morris County New Jersey, Volume II, Lewis Publishing Co., 1914

G. M. ROOME, engaged in the real estate business at Lincoln Park, Morris county, New Jersey, is one of the representative men of the town, and has probably done more than any other man to advance the interests of this particular community.

The grandfather of G. M. ROOME was Benjamin ROOME, a native of Morris county, New Jersey, who spent his life there. He died at Butler in his ninety-sixth year. He spent his life at surveying and civil engineering and did most of this line of work done at that time in this and adjoining counties. He served as assessor of Pequannock township many years; a Republican in politics. He was one of the consistory of the Reformed church for many years. He was a man whose judgement was regarded as that of sound character and was held in the highest esteem by his acquaintances. He married Ann Berry.

Jacob B. ROOME, the father of G. M. ROOME, was born in Butler, Morris county, New Jersey, where he was a farmer. The last fifty years of his life was spent in this section, where he died at the age of eighty-three years. He married Sophia MANDEVILLE, also a native of Morris county, who died at the age of seventy years. They had children: G. M.; a child who died in infancy; Emily, married John VAN RIPER.

G. M. ROOME was born in Lincoln Park, Morris county, New Jersey, October 28, 1847. He received his preparatory education in the public schools of his township. He then attended the Academy at Germantown, and upon leaving this institution spent one year in the west. The greater part of his life has been spent in farming, at first in association with his father, and upon the death of the latter, independently. For many years he has been greatly interested in developing Lincoln Park and its vicinity, and has been very successful in his efforts. He conducts his real estate business along the most up-to-date manner, and combines the insurance business with it. Mr. ROOME has been weather statistician and crop reporter for this section for twenty-four years for the United States Government. He is also the owner of a number of fine houses. In political matters he is a Republican, has served several terms as a member of the township committee and the school board, and is now a justice of the peace and a commissioner of deeds. He is an attendant of the Dutch Reformed church and a member of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics.

Mr. ROOME married Eletta, daughter of P. I. COOK, of Montville, who is a prominent man of that section. Children: Edward G., married Emma RADCLIFF; Emma, twin of Edward G., married Oscar ANDERSON; Elmer E., a farmer, married Irene WOODRUFF; Oliver P., a jeweler of Newark, married Aritha CLIFF.

Transcribed by John Cresseveur (1949-2003)