Carl Schurz Vrooman (October 25, 1872 – April 8, 1966) was the Assistant United States Secretary of Agriculture under

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. He started the

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campaign during

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. Vroomanwas born in

Macon, Missouri Macon is a city in and the county seat of Macon County, Missouri, United States. The population was 5,457 at the 2020 census. History Macon was platted in 1856. Like the county, Macon was named for Nathaniel Macon. A post office called "Macon C ...

, to Judge Hiram Perkins Vrooman and Sarah Buffington.

Walter Vrooman Walter Watkins Vrooman (1869 – 2 December 1909) was an American socialist educationalist who co-founded Ruskin College in Oxford with Charles A. Beard in 1899. He then returned to America, where he set up a second Ruskin College in Trenton, Miss ...

was his elder brother. On December 28, 1896, he married Julia Green Scott, daughter of Matthew T. Scott and Julia Green, in Chenoa, Illinois. As Julia Scott's father had died,

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gave her away at their wedding. He died on April 8, 1966, in

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. His papers are held at the

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Carl and Julia Vrooman
- McLean County Museum of History {{Authority control 1872 births 1966 deaths United States Department of Agriculture officials People from Macon County, Georgia