Bio of VORSE, William (b.1808) Wright Co., MN
(Partial bio)
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316           HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY 

William Vorse, the pioneer, was born in Chenango county, New York, October 
14, 1808, son of Henry Vorse, who served as a private in the Revolutionary 
war under Colonel Burgess. Will- iam Vorse was reared in his native state, 
and as a young man found his way westward to Ohio, where he married Lois M. 
Hart, a daughter of Randall Wentfield Hart, who had come into the western 
country from Massachusetts. It was in 1855 that the Vorse family left 
McHenry county, Illinois, and started for Minnesota. They made the trip 
overland to Galena, there took a steamer for St. Paul, and then came as far 
as the Boyanton stage house across the Mississippi river from Clearwater, 
by stage. From that point they were ferried across the river by the Winnebago 
Indians, and joined the family of A. M. Dow, who had previously located
there. They at once erected a log cabin on a squatter claim in Clearwater 
township, and started to establish their home in the wilderness. In 1862 
they moved to the village of Clearwater, where William Vorse died in November, 
1883, at the age of seventy-five and his wife in the spring of 1869 at the 
age of fifty-six. Mr. Vorse was a member of the Masonic lodge at Clearwater.