| 词条 | John Charles Groome (police officer) |
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| image = John Charles Groome (Pennsylvania).jpg |name=John Charles Groome |caption= |imagesize = 200px |order=1st |office= Commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Police |term_start= |term_end= |predecessor= |successor= Lynn G. Adams |birth_date={{Birth date|1862|3|20}} |birth_place= Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |death_date= {{Death date and age|1930|8|31|1862|3|20}} |death_place= Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |spouse={{marriage|Agnes Price Roberts|1884|1930}} |profession= |party= |age= }}John Charles Groome (March 20, 1862 – August 31, 1930), was the first commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Police from 1905 to 1917. He was the former warden of the Eastern State Penitentiary and a Colonel in World War I.[1] BiographyHe was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 20, 1862 to Samuel William Groome and Nancy Andrew Connelly. He graduated from the Protestant Episcopal Academy in 1878. He became a member of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry in 1882. On April 15, 1884 he married Agnes Price Roberts (1868–1937), and had three children.[2][2] In the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry he was promoted to corporal in 1887, then sergeant in 1889. He was promoted to captain in 1896. He was active in the Homestead Strike in 1892 and the Coal Strike of 1902 in 1902. In 1905 he became the first commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Police.[2] He served as a colonel in World War I.[1] He retired from the Pennsylvania State Police on February 28, 1920 and died August 31, 1930 at the age of 68.[3] References1. ^1 {{cite news |title=John C. Groome Dies; Police Organizer. Head of Pennsylvania State Troop Until 1917. Had Noted World War Record. Relieved Famine In Baltic. Lauded for Prison Management as Warden of Eastern Penitentiary From 1923 to 1928. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1930/09/01/archives/john-c-groome-dies-police-organizer-head-of-pennsylvania-state.html |quote=Colonel John C. Groome, organizer of the Pennsylvania State Police, former warden of the Eastern Penitentiary, distinguished World War veteran and prominent Philadelphia clubman, died at his home in Bryn Mawr today following a long illness. He was in his sixty-ninth [sic] year.|work=New York Times |date=September 1, 1930 |accessdate=2010-08-23 }} {{PSPCommissioners}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Groome, John C.}}2. ^{{cite news |title=Mrs. John C. Groome. Widow of Head of Military Police Overseas During World War |url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0D13FA3E59177A93C4A9178BD95F438385F9 |quote=Mrs. Agnes P. Roberts Groome, widow of Colonel John C. Groome, who headed the American military police overseas during the World War, was a former warden of Eastern State Penitentiary and one-time head of the Pennsylvania State police, died at the age of 69, of a heart attack today at her Bryn Mawr home. |work=New York Times |date= October 6, 1937|accessdate=2010-08-23 }} 3. ^1 2 {{cite web |url=http://www.psp-hemc.org/groome/index.html |title=John C. Groome |accessdate=2010-08-23 |quote=John C. Groome was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 20th, 1862. Groome, one of six children, was born into the wealthy family of Samuel William Groome and Nancy Andrew Connelly. ... |publisher=Pennsylvania State Police }} 7 : 1862 births|1930 deaths|American state police officers|Pennsylvania State Police|People from Philadelphia|Episcopal Academy alumni|American military personnel of World War I |
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