Hiram K. Jerome, son of Aaron Jerome and Elizabeth Ball, was born on April 13, 1798 in Onondaga County, New York. He began practicing law in Palmyra in 1824. In 1828, he was chosen as a vestryman for the Zion Episcopal Church of Palmyra. On December 4, 1833, Hiram signed the “Testimony of 51 Neighbors,” later printed in Mormonism Unvailed. He ran an import business in the 1830s, located in a large warehouse along the Erie Canal. In 1836, he became a stockholder in the new Palmyra hotel.[1] He served as a judge in Wayne County from 1839 to 1842. Hiram died in December 1879 in Palmyra and was buried in the Palmyra City Cemetery.
[1] Cook, Palmyra and Vicinity, p. 89; Vogel, Early Mormon Documents, 2:54.