Biography of Ezra Rohm, pages 1003/1004.  History of DeKalb 
County, Indiana; B. F. Bowen & Company, Inc., Indianapolis, 
1914.



It is not an easy task to describe adequately a man who has 
led an eminently active and busy life, and who has attained 
a position of relative distinction in the community with 
which his interests are allied. But biography finds its 
most perfect justification, nevertheless, in the tracing 
and recording of such a life history. It is, then, with a 
full appreciation of all that is demanded and of the 
painstaking scrutiny that must be accorded each statement, 
and yet with a feeling of satisfaction, that the writer 
essays the task of touching briefly upon the details of 
such a record as has been that of the honored subject of 
this sketch whose eminently honored and successful career 
now comes under review.  Ezra Rohm, one of the successful 
farmers and respected citizens of Grant township, was born 
on July 2, 1873, about one and one-half miles north of 
Waterloo, this county, and is a son of Simon and Mary 
(Harsh) Rohm, who was mentioned elsewhere in this work. 
When Ezra Rohm was about five years old the family moved to 
the present location, which is about half way between 
Auburn and Waterloo, and there he was reared. In about 1896 
he bought a part of the old home farm, and to the operation 
of this tract he has applied his energies continuously 
since with eminent success, and has earned a high 
reputation because of his up-to-date methods and untiring 
energy. He has one of the best improved farms in this 
locality, the substantial and attractive residence, 
commodious and well-arranged barns, well-kept fences and 
the general appearance of the fields evidencing him to be a 
man of good ideas and sound judgement. He carries on a 
general line of farming, raising all the crops common to 
this locality and has met with a gratifying degree of 
success as a result of his efforts. In 1891 Mr. Rohm 
married Amelia Walker, daughter of George W. and Caroline 
(Neidig) Walker, of Feagler’s Corners, Richland township, 
where her parents now reside. She was born in Stark county, 
Ohio. And was about nine years of age when the family 
removed to this county. To Mr. and Mrs. Rohm have been born 
seven children, of whom Iola Pearl died in infancy.  Those 
living are as follows: Edward M., born March 28, 1892, 
married Hazel Husselman, and they have a daughter, Erma 
May; Edward Rohm is operating the Al St. Clair farm; Lillie 
M. Rohm is the wife of Clyde Osborne, and lives in Auburn; 
Luella is the wife of Merritt Sockrider, who is a postal 
telegraph operator, and they have a daughter, Myrtle 
Merrill; Elza Frank, born August 21, 1898; Mildred 
Catherine, born June 15, 1905, and Myrtle Caroline, born 
January 16, 1909. The family moved in the best social 
circles of the community in which they resides and are held 
in high esteem by all who know them.  Mr. Rohm, though 
quiet and unostentatious in his life, has been a definite 
factor in the life of the community, for he has given his 
support at all times to such movements as promise to be for 
the material, social, educational or moral advancement of 
the people, and as a result of his upright life and sturdy 
industry he has gained an enviable standing among his 
fellow citizens.

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