Alvin M. Vroom Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
From: Laura Armetta - FURRY1000@aol.com

Surname: VROOM
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

Page 950

     ALVIN M. VROOM. owner and proprietor of a well equipped black-
smith and wheelwright shop in Exeter. N. H. and a busy and pros-
perous citizen was born in Nova Scotia. in 1857, a son of Isaac and
Ann (Hall) Vroom. Both his parents were natives of Nova Scotia,
where they spent their lives. The father, in early life a farmer, after-
wards entered into mercantile business, in which he had a successful
career. His first wife, Anne, died in 1862, having been the mother of
two children-Alvin M. and Florence. He subsequently contracted a
second marriage. with Serephine Ditmars of which union there was
born a daughter, Mary. Isaac Vroom is now deceased.
     Alvin M. Vroom was but five years old when his mother died. He
was educated in the common schools of Nova Scotia and when sixteen
years of age learned the trade of blacksmith, which he followed in his
native land until 1892 at which time he came to New England. Set-
tling first at Stratham, N. H., he remained there four years and then
came to Exeter, where he has since remained with the exception of
four and a half years which he spent in New York as manager of a
blacksmith and wheelwright plant. An industrious and persevering
man with a thorough knowledge of his trade, he has built up a good
business and is regarded as one of the prosperous citizens of the town.
In politics he is a Republican and his fraternal affiliations are with the
Knights of Pythias.
     Mr. Vroom married Edna Purdy, a native of Nova Scotia, and daugh-
ter of William and Celia (Wright) Purdy, whose other children were
James G. and Solon. Mr. and Mrs. Vroom are the parents of three
children-Mildred, Clifford, and Frederick whose records in brief are
as follows: Mildred is employed in the Exeter public library and as
recorder in the Probate Office. , Clifford, after graduating from Phillips
Exeter Academy, spent two years at Amherst College and was sub-
sequently in the employ of the Exeter Banking Company for three
years. He is now shipping clerk for the New Market Manufacturing
Company. Frederick is now in Cambridge, Mass., taking a special
course in printing and working on the Harvard University Press. Mr.
Vroom and family attend the Congregational Church. They have a
wide acquaintance in Exeter and vicinity and are favorable types of the
best New England citizenship.

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