Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Vose, Orin B. 1840 - 
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         ORIN B. VOSE, the present township clerk of Union Grove township, is an
enterprising and respected farmer residing on section 22. Mr. Vose was born in Waldo
county, Maine, on January 28,1840, and is a son of Edwin and Nancy J. (Custis) Vose.
His mother died when he was eight years old, and for two years he lived with Daniel
Heriman, near Frankfort, Maine. He then went to Montville and lived with Samuel
Dodge for four years, after which for eighteen months he worked for Ames Sprawl. He
then went to Boston, Mass., where he was apprenticed to George Robinson, to learn
the carpenter’s trade, remaining with him three years. He then worked at his trade
for two years, when he had a serious fall while working on an ice house at Linfield,
Mass., which laid him up for six months. When he had recovered sufficiently from his
injuries he found employment driving the horse cars between Chelsea and Boston,
which he followed for a year and a half. He then enlisted in Company H, Fiftieth
Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, for nine months’ service, and was
mustered in on the 29th of September, 1862. After the expiration of his term of
service he was mustered out on the 24th of August, 1863. He then went back to the
horse cars, and serwed as conductor on the line between Roxbury and Boston for two
years and a half. At the end of that time he came to Minnesota, and for one summer
stopped at St. Joseph, Stearns county, In the fall of 1866 he came to Meeker county,
and took a homestead on section 22, Union Grove township, and soon afterward spent
two and a half months in the pineries. He then settled on his homestead, building a
log cabin, but two months later took his family to St. Joseph, Stearns county, and
remained there four months. He then settled again upon his homestead and has since
lived here, wth the exception of one year spent in California.

   Mr. Vose was married on the 11th of September, 1864, to Miss Sarah E. Merrill, a
daughter of John and Mary (Wilson) Merrill, who was born April 2, 1848. Their
marriage has been blessed with one child— Bessie Lynn Vose, who was born September
17, 1881. Mrs. Vose lost one brother, Charles F., in the first battle of Bull Run.
She has three sisters living in Minnesota, and one in Maine, besides one brother in
Maine and one in Ohio. Mr Vose lost one brother, Edwin, in the battle at
Petersburg.

   Mr. Yose has taken an active interest in public affairs, and has been closely
identified with official business of the township. He has held various offices,
including the following: supervisor, one year; constable, eight years; school clerk
ten years, and town clerk since 1884.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from
Illustrated Album of Biography
Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota
1888


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