Maurice Melborne Bloom, Sr.

MM Bloom Sr received his early education in Kansas City MO where he graduated from a business college. He served in the Army Medical Corps during WWI and then was employed by the American Express Co before relocating to Saegertown PA. He was a respected civic leader, having been a member of the Charles N. Stafford Post of the American Legion, Meadville, PA, as well as the Saegerstown Methodist Church, and the Meadville Elks Lodge. Only a few months before his death, he was elected president of the Saegerstown Joint School Authority, the Saegerstown, Hayfield Township, Blooming Valley organization charged with financing a long-range school building program. He served two consecutive four-year terms on the borough council and was a former member of the Saegerstown School Board.
Through his dry cleaning plant, he sponsored an independent basketball team, on which his eldest son, MM Bloom Jr, played.
Bloom and his father, Phillip, came to Meadville from the Midwest in the 1920s as partners in the Wright and Bloom tailor shop/dry cleaningestablishment on Water Street. The Blooms later bought out their parther's interest and then, after the death of his father, MM Bloom opened his own dry cleaning plant at 483 South Street. He and his family resided in Meadville during the first few years in Crawford Co, but later relocated to Saegerstown.

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