Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....Voorhees, Russell D. 1892 - 
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

RUSSELL D. VOORHEES.

   It is the progressive, wide-awake young man who makes the real history of a
community. His influence as a potential factor in the community of his residence
is hard to estimate. The examples successful young men furnish of patient
purpose and steadfast integrity illustrate what every young man may accomplish.
There is always a full measure of satisfaction in referring even in a casual way
to the achievements of successful men, because they give strength and solidity
to the institutions which reflect the prosperity of a community. Such a young
man is Russell D. Voorhees, one of the proprietors of the Voorhees Lumber
Company, of Flora, Indiana.

Mr. Voorhees, who is a young man of far more than average ability, has enjoyed
rather exceptional educational advantages. He was born on January 19, 1892, in
Flora, and is the son of Charles and Addie (Roach) Voorhees. The late Charles
Voorhees, who died on July 4, 1913, was a native of Monroe township, born in
1865. He was educated in the district schools and, at the age of nineteen,
became interested in the lumber business and, for some time, was a partner in
the firm of Voorhees Brothers. In 1893 he sold his interest and engaged in the
livery business at Flora for a short time. He then moved to a farm in Monroe
township, but, after living there for eighteen months, sold out and established
a lumber yard at Monon, Indiana, in 1899. After selling the lumber yard at
Monon, he purchased a yard at Gaston, Indiana, in 1901, but left Gaston to
return to Flora, where, with his brother, R. D. Voorhees, he started the
Voorhees Lumber Company. In 1907 he organized the Flora Saw-Mill Company and
three years later engaged in the automobile business, with which he was
connected at the time of his death.

   In 1886 Charles Voorhees was married to Addie Roach, who was a native of
Young America, Cass county, Indiana, and who died on August 18, 1915. To them
were born two children, Mabel, who attended the high school in Monon and is the
wife of Roy Good, of Flora, Indiana; and Russell D., the subject of this sketch.

   Russell D. Voorhees has spent all of his life in Flora, with the exception of
two years, when he was a student at Indiana University at Bloomington.
Previously, he had received a good common-school education and was graduated
from the Flora high school. Mr. Voorhees was one of the most popular students at
the state university during the period of his studentship. He was a member of
the Kappa Sigma fraternity at the university and, since leaving school, has
taken a great interest in the affairs of this fraternity and generally is to be
found at the fraternity banquets.

   In 1912 Russell D. Voorhees engaged in the lumber business with his father.
About one year later, on April 2, 1913, he was married to Pauline V. Wood, who
was educated in the public schools of Montpelier, Indiana.

   Mr. and Mrs. Voorhees are members of the Christian church and Mr. Voorhees is
a trustee in the church. Among his other interests, Mr. Voorhees is the organist
in the Flora Christian church and he is also otherwise active in church affairs.
Fraternally, Russell D. Voorhees is a member of Flora Lodge No. 605, Free and
Accepted Masons. He is also a member of the thirty-second degree Scottish Rite
Masons and a member of Murat Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, at
Indianapolis. He is senior deacon in the Masonic lodge. Mr. Voorhees also
belongs to Fountain City Lodge No. 280, Knights of Pythias. Although nominally
identified with the Democratic party, he has never taken a great interest in
politics. He is energetic in business, personally cordial in his manners,
respected and admired in the town where he resides.


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BIOGRAPHICAL SECTION
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HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA

ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS
BY
JOHN C ODELL
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

ILLUSTRATED
1916
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana


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