Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Voorhees, Stephen 1798 - 1880
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

    Stephen Voorhees (deceased) was born in Kentucky in 1798. At the age of
eight years he emigrated to Butler county, Ohio, with his parents, where he
remained until 1827, when he emigrated to Fountain county, settling in Van Buren
township, three miles north of where Veedersburg now stands. He was reared to
farming, which he followed through life. Stephen Voorhees and Rachel Elliott,
native of Ohio, and sister of the noted Arthur Elliott, were married in Ohio in
1822. They raised a family of nine children, all of whom are living: Julia A.,
widow of Charles Stewart, and Eliza J. (Mrs. J. L. Curtis), are residents of
Rantoul, Illinois; Peter, a resident farmer of Vermilion county, Illinois;
Daniel W. is a resident of Terre Haute, Indiana, and United States senator from
Indiana; a graduate of the Asbury University, Greencastle, Indiana, and was
admitted to the bar at Covington, Indiana; Henry C. occupies the old homestead
farm and cares for his aged mother; John M. is a resident of California, engaged
in the business of stock raising; Mary C., wife of John E. Risby, attorney, New
York; Martha E., unmarried, resides in New York. Mr. Voorhees when he first came
to Fountain county entered eighty acres. By his great energy and industry he
accumulated considerable property. He was a very active member of the Methodist
Episcopal church. So is his wife. Some years before he died he united with the
United Brethren church at Sterling, because there was no Methodist Episcopal
society near him, but retained his preference for the first church of his
choosing, and ordered that his funeral should be conducted by the Methodist
Episcopal church. He was not a narrow-hearted, selfish christian, but labored
for the good of religious societies in his community. He died at his home, aged
eighty-two years. The last eight years of his life he resided with son, Henry C.
By his death many friends were left to mourn the irreparable loss of a citizen
whose highest motto and greatest desire was to "do right." Henry C. Voorhees,
the only one of the family now resident of Fountain county, was born in Fountain
county in 1833; was married in 1863 to Rebecca Henshaw, native of this county,
daughter of Solomon and Rebecca Henshaw. They have two children: Rachel J. and
Stephen C. Henry C. takes great interest in the moral upbuilding of society. He
and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Sterling. At
present he is superintendent of the Union Sunday-school at Cool Springs church.
He belongs to the democratic party. His parents on his father's side originally
came from Germany; on his mother's side of the family they came to Ohio from
Maryland.

Additional Comments:
Van Buren Township

Extracted from:

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.

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