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| Listing : Julia Scott Vrooman |
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| Branch: Red Cross
Unit: Jazz band
Year: 1919-
Station: N/A
Awards: N/A | Conflicts
WWI
| | | | | | Julia Scott Vrooman died at the age of 104, in the same home she was born in on Oct 4, 1876.
She lived and travel from Bloomington to Washington D.C., England, France and Italy. her husband of 69 years, Carl Vrooman, was U.S. Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, under President Wilson, from 1914 to 1919. Julia accompanied her husband to Europe during WWI.
While he was about his business, she would visit our troops, sometimes at the front lines, with her band the Vrooman jazz band. During her life time she was noted as the "most vivacious hostess" during president Wilson's administration.
Julia's noted whole wheat bread recipe was tasted and praised everywhere, including in Appalachia for the poor, and a loaf to Queen Elizabeth. She sold the bread at 25 cents and the proceeds went to the Salvation Army. Her mother Julia and Aunt Letitia started the DAR. Aunt Letitia's husband was Vice president Adlai Stevenson, 1896, under President Cleveland. Elenor Roosevelt was a friend.
Julia's home became a hospital during the flu epidemic during WWI, and housed soldiers and their families during WWII that were attending Illinois Wesleyan University. You can now stay at her beautiful old stately home. It is the Vrooman Mansion Bed and Breakfast,and Hospitality House, Bloomington, Illinois. www.vroomanmansion.com | | | | Send to a Friend: | Click Here to email this listing |
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