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Portrait and Biographical Album of
Huron County, Michigan
Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884

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           WILLIAM C. M. VAN TROMP, general manager of the Bay Port farm
        of F. CRAWFORD, resident at Caseville, was born May 9, 1835, at
        Taunton, Somersetshire, Eng., and is the son of WILLIAM and
        ELIZABETH (WARREN) VAN TROMP. The former died in August, 1881, and
        was nearly 81 years of age. He was a farmer all his life. The
        mother resides at the old home in Taunton.
           MR. VAN TROMP came to the Dominion of Canada in February, 1879,
        locating on a farm in Chatham Township, Kent County: he afterwards
        managed a farm for Messrs. WALKER & Sons; the place contained 1,100
        acres, with 800 acres improved. He continued to operate there two
        years, and March 14, 1884, came to the county of Huron and entered
        the employ of F. CRAWFORD.
           He was married in 1862, in Kingston Church, Eng., to JANE
       BIFFEN, and they are the parents of three children, born as follows:
       EDITH J., Sept. 9, 1863; MARY E., April 27, 1865; HUBERT J., Dec.
       12, 1863. The mother was born June 9, 1834, in Kingston, Eng., and
       is the daughter of JOHN and CHARLOTTE (WARREN) BIFFEN. Her parents
       have been dead many years.

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