[2][3] According to his United States naturalization record, his parents were originally from Persia, and he was born a citizen of that country.

[1] Vramian left America in 1907 and stayed in the Caucasus for some time, then traveled to Van after the restoration of the Ottoman constitution in 1908.

He then returned to Constantinople, where he continued his work in the Western Bureau and joined the editorial staff of the newspaper Azadamard.

[2][5] He moved to Van and was killed at the beginning of the Armenian genocide on the orders of the Ottoman governor Cevdet Bey,[2] who was Vramian's friend and former classmate.

[6] Vramian and ARF leader Aram Manukian were summoned by Cevdet Bey on the morning of 17 April 1915.

He was killed in an area called Arapu Tsor, not far from Bitlis, although the exact location of his death is unknown.