Person:James Bloom (5)

From: Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr., Publ.: Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911 pas 655 & 656

HARVEY BLOOM, a leading citizen of Pike township, residing on his well improved farm of 140 acres, which is situated one mile east of Curwensville, was born in this township, September 18, 1841, and is a son of James A. and a grandson of Isaac Bloom.
James A. Bloom was also born in Pike township, the Bloom family being one of the old and substantial ones of this part of Clearfield county. He settled on the farm now owned by his son, Harvey Bloom, following a short period on a rented farm north of Curwensville, and this remained his permanent home, his death occurring here at the age of eighty-eight years, four months and eight days. He was a member of the Baptist church. In politics he was identified with the Democratic party and he frequently served in township offices, having been constable, collector and supervisor and also overseer of the poor. He married Mary Ann Hile, a daughter of Henry Hile, Sr., and they had eleven children born to them, as follows: Naomi, Frampton, Harvey, Jane, Edward, Amos, Harriet, Mary, Daniel, Julia Ann and Lucy. The mother of the above family died at the age of seventy-six years and both she and the father were buried in the Bloomington cemetery. They were good people in every sense of the word and enjoyed the respect and esteem of those who knew them...