Vroom, Adelaide
educator, poet.
She has attained prominence as a successful educator of Missouri; and is the author of a number of meritorious poems which have appeared in western publications and several standard collections. VROOM, GARRET DORSET WALL, lawyer, author, was born Dec. 17, 1843, in Trenton, N. J., and is the son of the late Governor Vroom of New Jersey. Since 1865 he has practiced law in his native city; was city solicitor in 1866-70, and again in 1874-76. In 1870 he was prosecutor of the pleas of Mercer county, and in 1873 was appointed reporter of the supreme court. During 1881-83 he was mayor of Trenton; and became president of the board of public works. He was coeditor of the Revision of the Statutes of New Jersey, and also of the General Statutes of New Jersey.