ROBERT
H. MC BROOM one of the intelligent and highly successful farmers of
Mercer county, was born in the township ill which he now lives. West
Salem, August 20, 1845, a son of Samuel McBroom, who was born in West
Virginia in 1808 and died June 3, 1868. Samuel McBroom came to Mercer
county when he was forty-six years of age, locating on the old
Templeton farm, where he lived until 1852. then purchased a farm of one
hundred and forty acres near Greenville where he followed farming
pursuits until his death. He married Margaret Henry. in West Virginia
then Old Virginia . She was born in Brook county, Virginia, in 1812. a
daughter of James Henry and wife Elizabeth (Kidd) Henry, and died in
1883. Samuel McBroom and wife had five children as follows: Sarah, wife
of H. F. Boyd, deceased Mary F., wife of William Fletcher, a farmer of
West Salem township; William H., farmer, deceased: Robert H., of this
memoir; Martha M., deceased.
Robert H. McBroom attended school
until he was seventeen years of age and continued to work on his
father's farm until 1869. He then bought the old homestead of the heirs
and operated this eight sears, when he sold it and leased a farm on
Coal Hill, in West Salem township for two years, and then moved to the
McLaughlin farm, which he operated for five years, at the end of that
time purchasing his present farm, In his political views, Mr. McBroom
is a Democrat, He has held the offices of assessor four terms; has been
road-master and collector two years in West Salem township. He was
married in 1868. to Emma Miller. born March 23. 1845, in West Salem
township. a daughter of David Miller, a carpenter, of Westmoreland
county, Pennsylvania, who died aged eighty-five years. Mrs. McBroom's
mother was before her marriage Prudence Cunningham and she died in
Westmoreland county at the age of fifty-eight. To Mr. and Mrs. McBroom
have been born one daughter, Maud, wife of C. Cole, a farmer of
Trumbull county, Ohio. The grandchildren are George Cole, born in 1900,
and Helen, born 1902.
Source: Twentieth Century History of Mercer County, page 948
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