Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 8th ed., 1888, Jefferson Co. ISADORE NATHAN BLOOM, A.B., M.D., was born in Louisville, October 27, 1858, and is a son of Nathan and Rosina Bloom. The former was a member of the great dry goods firm of Louisville--Bamberger, Bloom & Co.--was a native of Hesse Darmstadt, Germany. He came to this country in 1849; was married in 1580, and died in Louisville, where he ranked as a most estimable citizen, in 1887, at the age of sixty years. The subject, Dr. Bloom, received his early education in the schools of Louisville, and in 1874, entered Yale College, from which he graduated four years later, with the degree of A. B. He then went to Harvard, where he took a medical course, and graduated as M. D. In 1881 he went abroad, and served on Prof. Kaposi's staff in the dermatological department of the Vienna General Hospital. He returned here in 1883, and practiced medicine for one year, when he again went abroad, occupying the same position in the Vienna Hospital for one year. After returning to Louisville he resumed the practice of medicine, making a specialty of diseases of the skin, in the treatment of which he is very successful. Dr. Bloom married Miss Fannie Corinne Peixotto, daughter of the former United States minister to Roumania, who served eight years under President Grant. They have one child--a daughter. He is the dermatologist of the Louisville City Hospital, secretary of the Louisville Clinical Society, and a member of the Louisville Medical Society, of the Mississippi Valley Medical Society, and the Louisville Surgical Society. Bloom Peixotto = Germany http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/jefferson/bloom.in.txt