Hiram Perkins Vrooman

Hiram Perkins Vrooman (24 July 1828, Schenectady – 8 March 1908, Springfield, Massachusetts was an American pioneer, judge and politician.[1]

Hiram was one of eight children of John Vrooman and Elizabeth Bingham who had both grown up in New York State. John was descended from Hendrick Meese Vrooman,[2]: 3  who was one of the seventeenth century Dutch settlers of Schenectady who had died in the Schenectady massacre.[3] However, in 1837 the family moved to Sylvania, Ohio where John started a farm. This was shortly after the Toledo War had been resolved, with Sylvania being located in the Toledo strip which was absorbed into Ohio.

  1. ^ "Hiram Perkins Vrooman, father of Carl, of the Vrooman family". Council Grove Republican. No. 12 M 1908. 1908. p. 1.
  2. ^ Paulson, Ross E. (1968). Radicalism and Reform: The Vrooman Family and American Social Thought, 1837-1937. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press.
  3. ^ Griggs, Gary. "Third Generation". Descendants of Cornelius Hendrick Vrooman. Retrieved 27 May 2021.