BIO: VORIS, Col Archibald C., s/o Cornelius R. & Mary (Van Nuys) Voris

Submitted by: Diana Flynn <ivie@tima.com>

VORIS   VAN NUYS   RAWLINS

"HISTORY OF LAWRENCE, ORANGE AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES, INDIANA"  GOODSPEED
BROS. 1884

Col. Archibald C. Voris, of Bedford, Indiana was born in Switzerland 
County, Ind., June 16,1829, one of the eleven children of CORNELIUS R. 
and MARY (VAN NUYS) VORIS.  The parents were natives of Kentucky and 
settled in Indiana in 1824.  Col. Voris received a coommon school 
education in the country schools of his native county, where he was 
raised upon the farm.  In 1851, he began a course in Hanover College 
which he completed in 1855, receiving the degree of A. B. and afterward 
that of A. M.  Immediately after graduation he located in Bedford and 
taught school one year.  In 1856 he was admitted to practice law at the 
Bar of Lawrence County, and in the following year he went to Harvard 
University and attended the Dane Law School at that institution, in which 
he took a full course.  He then returned to Bedford and formed a 
partnership with JUDGE PEARSON in the practice of his profession.  This 
continued until July, 1862, when he was commissioned a Captain by the 
President, and was assigned for duty on the staff of Gen. W. S. HANCOCK, 
where he served until the close of the war.  At the date of his discharge 
in May, 1865, he held the commission of Brevet Lieutenant Colonel,
awarded "for gallant and faithful service on the field."  On November 16,
1858, his marriage with ANTOINETTE RAWLINS was solemnized, and to their
union two children have been born, ony one, JOSEPH R., now living.  Upon 
his return from the army Col. Voris again engaged in the practice of law 
and at the same time studying language, being able to read with fluency 
the Greek, Latin, Hebrew, French and German.  For five years beginning 
in 1867, he was associated with JUDGE FRANCIS WILSON in his profession.  
In religion both he and his wife are influential members of the 
Presbyterian Church at Bedford. In politics, Col. Voris has always been 
an ardent Republican, and was at one time candidate for Circuit Judge 
against BICKNELL, but was defeated on account of the district being 
largely Democratic.  In 1876 he was the candiate of his party for Judge 
of the Supreme Court, but with the State ticket that year was defeated.  
As a delegate to the National Convention at Chicapo in 1860 he was one 
of the active men in securing the nomination of Abraham Lincoln.  In 1882 
he abandoned the practice of law on account of increasing business as a 
member of the dark Hollow Stone Company.
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