Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Vosper, Benjamin 1926
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Ionia Daily Sentinel Standard, 14 Jul 1926

Benj. Vosper Passes Away At Home Here

Death Ends Long and Active Life of One of Ionia’s Most Prominent Citizens.

Was Local Attorney, Lumberman Many Years.

Funeral Service to Be Held from Home Saturday; Burial at Highland Park.

Benjamin Vosper passed away this morning at his home on East Main street, his
death ending a long illness of heart disease.  He was in his eighty fourth year,
having celebrated his eighty-third birthday May 14.

With the passing of Mr. Vosper, Ionia loses one of its oldest and best loved
citizens, a man who was prominent in all civic enterprises during his long and
active life.

Benjamin Vosper was born May 14, 1844, on a farm in Boston township, the son of
Richard and Margaret Vosper.  He received his elementary education in the
district schools of that neighborhood.  He later went to the Michigan State
Normal school and, after completing the course of study there, entered the law
department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

Graduating from the university in the class of 1867, he opened a law office in
Holland, Mich., where he stayed until 1871.  He then moved to Ionia and engaged
in active practice of law.  Besides his law practice he had extensive lumbering
interests in partnership with his brother James, and was also interested in
mining properties in the upper peninsula.

At the outbreak of the Civil war, Mr. Vosper joined his father and brother in
offering his services in the Union cause, enlisting in 1862 as a sergeant in the
twenty-first Michigan Volunteer infantry.  He . . . [two missing lines] . . .,
and served for more than two years, receiving his discharge on account of
disability.  He returned at once to the university, where he completed his
studies in the law department.

On May 7, 1873, he was united in marriage to Lucia A. Blanchard, of Ionia, the
daughter of John C. and Harriet A. Blanchard.  To this union one child was born,
Blanche M., who is now deceased.  She was the wife of Harry M. Morgan, of
Buffalo, N.Y.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Vosper have been leaders for many years in the study and
practice of practical Christianity in Ionia.  Their home has been the meeting
place each week of a class in divine science.

Surviving him are his widow, his brother James, and one sister, Mrs. Mary Clark
of Grand Rapids.

The funeral service will be held from the home, 267 East Main street, Saturday
afternoon at 3 o’clock.  Burial will be in the Highland Park cemetery.


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