Hiram Perkins Vrooman (24 July 1828,

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– 8 March 1908,

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was an

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and

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. Hiram was one of eight children of John Vrooman and Elizabeth Bingham who had both grown up in

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. John was descended from Hendrick Meese Vrooman, who was one of the seventeenth century

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settlers of Schenectady who had died in the

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. However, in 1837 the family moved to

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where John started a farm. This was shortly after the

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had been resolved, with Sylvania being located in the Toledo strip which was absorbed into

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Vrooman, Hiram Perkins 1828 births 1908 deaths People from Schenectady, New York