Biography

10/30/1794 - 02/11/1872

GROOM, Evan, a Representative from Bucks County; born, October 30, 1794 in Southampton, Bucks County, Pa.; captain, Alert Light Infantry Blues, Bucks County, Pennsylvania Militia (1822); captain, Union Rangers, Bucks County, Pennsylvania Militia (1829); stone mason; farmer; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1854 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1855 term; died, February 11, 1872 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, William Penn Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.