John Perry Vrooman was an Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

 physician and political figure. He represented Lennox

Lennox (electoral district)

Lennox was a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1904. It was located in the province of Ontario...

 in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario

Legislative Assembly of Ontario

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 as a Liberal member in 1923.

He was born in Centreville, Lennox and Addington County

Lennox and Addington County, Ontario

Lennox and Addington County, Ontario is a county and census division of the Canadian province of Ontario. The county seat is Greater Napanee. It is located in the subregion of Southern Ontario named Eastern Ontario.It includes the following municipalities:...

, Canada West, the son of William H. Vrooman. He practiced in Yarker for 8 years, then moved to Napanee in 1896. He married Rose Elizabeth Catherall. Vrooman was mayor of Napanee in 1903. He was an unsuccessful candidate for a seat in the House of Commons in 1911. Vrooman died in Kingston

Kingston, Ontario

Kingston, Ontario is a Canadian city located in Eastern Ontario where the St. Lawrence River flows out of Lake Ontario. Originally a First Nations settlement called "Katarowki," , growing European exploration in the 17th Century made it an important trading post...

and was buried in Napanee.

External links

• Member's parliamentary history for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
• Pioneer life on the Bay of Quinte, including genealogies of old families ... (1900)
• Mayors of Old Napanee, 1865-1988, Lennox and Addington Historical Society