[1] He was previously a miner, and used his surveying skills to help lay down the communities of Prescott and Wickenburg.

[2] Groom was born on August 28, 1824, in Clark County, Kentucky, moving to Missouri with his parents when he was three years old.

He stayed in California until the outbreak of the American Civil War, where he formed a party to go to Texas and join the Confederacy.

He was captured and held in Ford Union for ten months before being released because of a letter from U.S.

While in Arizona, he became a mining prospector and surveyor, and was appointed by Governor John Noble Goodwin to lay down the streets of Prescott and later Wickenburg.