Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Vossen, Joseph 1849 - 
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JOSEPH VOSSEN, the merchant of Watkins, came to that village in 1882, and opened a
stock of general merchandise, in company with A. D. Spaulding, in a building 22x10,
which they erected for the purpose. After carrying on the business for about six
months, the partnership was dissolved, Mr. Vossen purchasing Mr. Spaulding’s.
interest. Since that time he continued to operate the business alone.

   Mr. Vossen was born in the Rhine Provinces of the German Empire, on the 17th of
April, 1849, and is the son of Christian and Nella (Koenigs) Vossen. He passed his
early years and received his education ‘neath the genial skies and amid the
vine-clad hills of his native land, but on attaining his thirteenth year commenced
work for himself. In 1861 he came to the United States with his parents, landing at
New York after a voyage of fifty-four days. They settled in Carver county, where
they remained about four years, and then came to Meeker county and settled in Forest
Prairie township, among the first to locate there, where the parents still make
their home.

   Mr. Vossen, of whom we write, was united in marriage with Miss Anna Weinman
January 29, 1877, at Burton, Carver county. She is the daughter of John W. Weinman,
a farmer of that county. By this union there have keen born a family of three
children— Joseph, Nellie and John.

   Mr. Vossen is entirely independent of party lines in discharge of his elective
franchise. He has, however, held the post of town supervisor for eight or nine
years. He is a member of the Roman Catholic Church.


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

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