Stephens Croom was born in Mobile, Alabama, in 1906. He graduated from Alabama Polytechnic Institute, later Auburn University, in 1928, and from Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration in 1930. From 1930 to 1934 he was employed by the Alabama Power Company. He became assistant engineer of the Alabama Public Service commission in Montgomery in 1934. He married Velma Leftwich Lassiter in 1941. During World War II, he served with the counter-intelligence corps in New Orleans. He returned to Mobile after the war, and became vice-president of Baumhauer-Croom, Inc., an insurance and real estate company. During the 1960s, he helped work to bring the USS Alabama to Mobile as an historic attraction and served as secretary of the Battleship Commission from 1963 to 1974.
From the description of Papers, 1924-1992. (Auburn University). WorldCat record id: 31878098
