 Roome graduated from Yale in 1907 and married amateur golfer Florence Newman Ayres in April 1909.In May 1920, Roome won a $4,100 bet by climbing the 47 flights of stairs from the sub-cellar to the cupola of the Equitable Building in New York in 8 minutes, 52 seconds.He later went into the real estate business and lived in Westbury, New York.