Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-05
E-JUDGE VROOM
DIES IN TRENTON
ormer Member of New Jersey
Court of Errors and Appeals
Passes Away.

TRENTON, March 5.-Garret Dor
set Vroom, former Judge of the Court
III Errors and Appeals, and one of
me best known lawyers and bankers
m this part of the country, died at
ms home in this city last night from
complication of diseases.
Judge Vroom was large property
owner and for many years a summer
resident of Spring Lake, where
Vroom avenue is named after him.
Carrot Dorset Wall Vroom was the
, son of the late Governor Peter Du-
mont Vroom and grandson of United
states Senator Carrot D. Wall He
was born in Trenton December II.
lS43. After a preparatory course at
the Trenton Academy, he entered
Rutgers College, graduating there
from in the year 1862. Among his
classmates was the late Judge Abram
q. Garretson, justice of the Supreme
Court. After studying law with his
father, Mr. Vroom was admitted to
the bar as an. attorney at the June
term, 1865, and three years later he
was made a 1nselor. He at~once
began the practise of his profession
In Trenton. He was elected city So
licitor of Trenton in 1866, and held
that office until 1870, and again from
1873 to 1876. He was appointed prose-
cutor of the pleas of Mercer County
In May, 1870, to succeed General C. K.
Hall, deceased, which office he re-
signed in December, 1873, on being ap-
pointed reporter of the Supreme
Court, a position he has held ever
since
From 1881 to 1884 Mr.. Vroom was
Mayor of the city of Trenton, and on
the creation of the Board of Public
Works of that city, was appointed a
office of president during its exist
ence. In 1877, in conjunction with the
late John H. Stewart, he prepared for
publication the Revision of the
Statutes of New Jersey" under the
direction of the commissioners, which
publication included the statutes re-
vised as well as the entire body
of the statute laws of the State.
In 1887 Mr. Vroom and Judge
William M. tanning issued the
supplement to the Revision, and in
1894 they were authorized to prepare
a new revision in three volumes, en-
titled 1.-THE General Statutes of New
jersey
Judge Vroom's Career.
Judge Vroom was vice-president of
the General Society of the Sons Of the
Revolution and one of those most in
strumental in the organization of that
body in the State. He was a member
of the national commission to pro-
mote uniformity of laws throughout
the United States. He was a member
of the New Jersey Historical Society
and president of the Trenton Battle
Monument Association, the board Of
managers of the New Jersey State
Hospital at Trenton and the Trenton
Savings Fund Society.
In 1900 Mr. Vroom was offered a
seat on the bench of the Supreme
Court by Governor VOORHEES,, which
he declined. When Judge Hendrick-
son was made a justice of the Su-
preme Court vacancy occurred in
the Court of Errors and Appeals,
which was filled by the nomination of
Mr.. Vroom by Governor Voorhees,.
The nomination was made on Feb
ruary 5, 1901, for a full term of six
wears, and 1t was confirmed by the
Senate on the 18th of the same month
In 1907 he was reappointed by. Gov
nrnor Stokes.
Judge Vroom had always been a
member of the Democratic party, and
ever since he had been q voter, until
recent years, he had been a leader in
its councils and an active participation
in national, State and local cam
paigns. His term would have expired
last year, but he resigned shortly be-
fore on account of ill-health.