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Note: WWI Draft record
Name: Clinton Brome
City: Omaha
County: Douglas
State: Nebraska
Birth Date: 27 Nov 1884
Race: White
Roll: 1711763
DraftBoard: 5

Age 33
Wife Alletta S Brome

Maj. Clinton Brome.Among those who have contributed materially to the prestige of the City of Omaha as a center of legal talent of an exceptionally high character, mention should be made of Maj. Clinton Brome, of the firm of Brome & Ramsey. Belonging to a family of lawyers, he is by training and education a true son of Omaha, where his success has been achieved and where he has identified himself with a number of movements which have had the support of right-thinking citizens.
Mr. Brome was born November 27, 1884, at Norfolk, Nebraska, and is a son of Harrison Crosby and Elizabeth (Thompson) Brome, and a grandson of Levi Sylvester and Mary (Wheeler) Brome. The Brome family is of English origin and was founded in America by the great-grandfather of Major Brome about the year 1828. Harrison Crosby Brome was born in Sullivan County, New York, March 8, 1856, and in 1878 came to Nebraska, first engaged in the practice of law at Stanton, whence he subsequently moved to Norfolk, and to Omaha in 1885. For more than thirty years he was one of the leading lawyers and highly esteemed citizens of Omaha, but in 1918 removed to Basin, Wyoming, where he and his younger son, Charles L., are now associated in a successful practice. During the early '80s he married in Nebraska Elizabeth Thompson, who was born near Lexington, New York, of English descent, about 1865, her family coming to Nebraska when she was about ten years of age and locating on a homestead near Schuyler, Colfax County. Mr. and Mrs. Brome became the parents of three children: Maj. Clinton, of this review; Charles L., who is engaged in practice with his father at Basin, Wyoming, and Durland, who died at the age of ten years.
Clinton Brome in Omaha passed through the graded schools and spent two years in high school. When he was sixteen years of age he went to Wyoming and during the next two years he resided there, where he followed various out-door occupations, including an experience as a sheep herder. Upon his return to Omaha he secured employment with the firm of M. E. Smith & Company, but at the age of nineteen years entered upon the study of law in the office of his father, and later completed the law course at Creighton University, from which institution he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1908. Admitted to the bar in 1908, he began practice at Omaha, where he has since centered his activities and won success in his calling. He occupies offices at 404 Peters Trust Building as senior member of the firm of Brome & Ramsey, his partner being W. C. Ramsey, a review of whose career will be found elsewhere in this work. Mr. Brome served as assistant city attorney during 1910 and 1911, but otherwise has not sought public office, although a stalwart Republican. He belongs to the Omaha, State and American Bar Associations, and is a member of the council of the Nebraska Bar Association. Fraternally he is a Master Mason and an Elk and belongs also to the University Club and the Omaha Field Club. His chief recreation is found in the game of golf, although he is also greatly fond of camping, fishing and hunting when he can be spared from the pressing duties of a large and important practice. During the World war he was commissioned a captain in the Sixth Nebraska Infantry, and was later promoted to the rank of major, serving at Camp Cody, New Mexico, and at Camp Dix, New Jersey.
On December 30, 1911, Major Brome married Miss Aletta B. Stewart, a daughter of Robert Anan Stewart, who died at Omaha in 1920, Mr. and Mrs. Brome have no children.