Thurston Rowland Bloom

b. 1822, d. 8 February 1869
  • Thurston Rowland Bloom was born in 1822 in New York.
  • The following appeared on 14 January 1840 in the Macon Georgia Telegraph: List of Acts Passed [by the General Assembly of Georgia] During the Session of 1839. No.53. To authorize the Inferior Court of Bibb county to appoint Thurston Rowland Bloom, a Notary Public.
  • Thurston Rowland Bloom appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Macon, Bibb County, Georgia, living in the Washington Hall Hotel.
  • He married Anne E. Fluker, daughter of Baldwin M. Fluker and Sarah Quentina Campbell, on 28 November 1850 in Bibb County, Georgia.
  • The following appeared on 23 February 1860 in the Macon Daily Telegraph: By virtue of an Order from the Court of Ordinary of Bibb county, I will sell before the Court House door in Bib county, on the first Tuesday in March Next, the following property. . . Sold as the property of Sarah Q. Fluker, deceased, for the benefit of her heirs. Terms on the day of Sale. Nov. 22, 1859. Thurston R. Bloom, Admin'r.
  • Thurston Rowland Bloom and Anne E. Fluker appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Macon, Bibb County, Georgia. Other members of the household included Florence Bloom.
  • He was a commission merchant, according to the 1860 census.
  • The following appeared on 31 January 1862 in the Macon Daily Telegraph: Georgia, Bibb County. Whereas, Thurston R. Bloom applies to the undersigned for letters of Administration upon the Estate of Franklin S. Bloom, late of said county, deceased: These are therefore to cite and admonish all persons concerned, to be and appear in the office of the undersigned, on or before the first Monday in February, 1862, to show cause, if any they have, why Letters of Administration should not be granted to the applicant. (25th January 1861.)
  • The following appeared on 2 June 1862 in the Macon Daily Telegraph: [Private Telegram] Richmond, June 1. T. R. Bloom.--In the battle yesterday and to-day, Phil. Tracy and myself are unhurt.--Campbell Tracy received a flesh wound in the thigh -- not dangerous -- is doing well. Victory ours. A. M. Rowland.
  • The following appeared on 29 September 1862 in the Macon Daily Telegraph: [by telegraph] The following dispatch was received by Mr. T. R. Bloom: Richmond, Sept. 27th.--Lieut. [A. M.] Rowland slightly wounded in the shoulder, Campbell Tracy safe -- Major Phil. Tracy wounded and taken prisoner. R. P. Pullium.
  • His wife Anne E. Fluker became a widow at his death.
  • Thurston Rowland Bloom died on 8 February 1869 in New York, New York County, New York, at Fifth Avenue Hotel.
  • The following appeared on 17 February 1869 in Pomeroy's Democrat (from New York Democrat, Feb. 9): Thousands of our Southern readers will be shocked at the announcement we are pained to make this morning of the death of Thurston R. Bloom, Esq., who died yesterday afternoon at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in this city. /P/ Mr. Bloom was a resident of Macon, Georgia, and a gentleman well known throughout most of the South. He was a native of New York State, but going to Georgia in early boyhood, grew to be largely identified with the commercial and trade interests of the South, especially giving his attention to cotton, its production and sale, and was known as one of the best financiers, as he was a leading business man of the South. Only a few weeks ago, by a fine stroke of financial strategy and foresight, for which he was so well qualified, Mr. Bloom made for himself and two partners nearly a million dollars in one transaction, and while it made for them, it also enhanced the value of the cotton crop at that time in the hands of planters upward of thirty millions of dollars, making the South just so much more wealthy. /P/ Mr. Bloom had been in New York a little more than a week, and was negotiating for the investing of some moneys in Western interests, when he was taken down with the lung fever, which resulted fatally. /P/ His stricken wife, who had been sent for, was at his bedside during his last hours, and she has the earnest sympathy of scores of friends in her affliction. Mr. Bloom was about forty-five years of age, of fine address, indomitable pluck and perseverance, and was possessed of rare business tact. His family consisted of himself, wife, and one child, and they had one of the happiest homes in the whole Southland.
  • The following appeared on 19 February 1869 in the Georgia Weekly Telegraph: On Monday morning, February 15th, the mortal remains of T. R. Bloom, Esq., reached [Macon] from New York, by way of Savannah. They were met at the depot by a number of our citizens. . . [T]he remains were escorted to the Presbyterian church and deposited in front of the pulpit. A large congregation was assembled, and the services, conducted by Rev. Dr. Wills, were very solemn and impressive. . . . /P/ . . . It is only a short time since Mr. Bloom left his home and friends to spend a season in the North, and while there was seized with an attack of pneumonia which, in the face of fine medical skill, soon proved fatal. . . . /P/ Thurston R. Bloom was born in the State of New York, in the year 1822. He came to his place when a comparative youth, and soon won the good will and warm regards of all classes of the community. . . . /P/ His family still remains in New York, his wife being detained by illness from attending his body home. The condolence and good wishes of our citizens are with them.
  • The following appeared on 2 July 1869 in the Georgia Weekly Telegraph: Will be sold before the Court-house door, in the city of Macon, Bibb county, on the 1st Tuesday in August next, between the legal hours of sale, five-sixteenths undivided interest known and distinguished as the town of New Macon, Southwestern Commons, containing sixty lots, saving and excepting Lots No. 55, 56, 57 and 58, which have been sold. One undivided sixth part of land, containing 483 acres, adjoining Winship and others, and formerly belonging to Wm. James and Sallie Rice. Five acres of land, part of lot three hundered and fifty-five, adjoining lands of Brooks, Smith and Cason, in Howard's District. One Wharf Lot--known in the plan of the town of Macon as No. 1--situated on the western bank of the Ocmulgee river. One-tenth undivided interest in Lot and improvements on Court-house Square, known as the Way-Side Home. Sold as the property of Thurston R. Bloom, deceased. W. M. Riley, Administrator.
  • It is an educated, but as yet unsubstantiated, guess that Thurston Rowland Bloom and Isaac B. Rowland had family ties. Both came from Dutchess County, New York.
  • Last Edited: 26 Mar 2012

Family: Anne E. Fluker b. circa 1829, d. between 1869 and 1870