BIOGRAPHIES:  Francis Sydney VOSBERGH, Arkansaw, Pepin Co., WI

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Francis Sydney Vosburgh, farmer, P. O. Arkansaw, Pepin county, was born at 
Erin, Chemung county, N. Y., January 11, 1844, a son of Isaac and Betsey 
(Montgomery) Vosburgh.  His paternal grandfather was a native of Holland, and 
his maternal grandfather of Ireland.  Isaac Vosburgh was a mill-wright by trade.  
He was drowned at Saugatuck, Mich., in 1858.  Mrs. Betsey Vosburgh died in 1861.  
Their children's names were David, Lucy, Francis S., Jennie (Mrs. Breece), and 
Edwin.  Francis S. was reared on a farm and received but little schooling.  He 
left home at the age of fourteen, and in his eighteenth year, September 15, 
1861, enlisted in Company A, Eighty-ninth New York volunteer infantry.  He 
first served under Gen. Burnside at Roanoke Island, later in the army of the 
Potomac.  Besides several minor engagements he took part in the battles of 
Roanoke Island, Newburn, Suffolk, South Mountain, Gettysburg, Second 
Fredericksburg, Antietam, Bermuda Hundred, Fair Oaks, Petersburg, Chapin's 
Farm and Chancellorsville.  He also served under Gen. Gilmore in the bombardment 
of Charleston.  At Chancellorsville he received four wounds, one of which 
destroyed the usefulness of his left eye and ear.  Being disabled by his wounds 
he was captured by the enemy and for three months and ten days experienced all 
the horrors of Libby prison.  At the end of that time, he was paroled, and came 
home on a furlough.  He was honorably discharged June 9, 1865.

July 4, 1865, Mr. Vosburgh married Miss Delight York, who bore him five children:  
Eugene, Minnie A., Alla E. (Mrs. E. D. McMahon), Edgar F. and Earl D.  Mrs. 
Vosburgh died October 14, 1884, and he again married, November 4, 1886, his second 
wife being Miss Hattie Ingham, who has borne him two children:  Flossie Dell and 
Hazel Belle.  In 1867 Mr. Vosburgh removed to Charlevoix, Mich., where he engaged 
in farming.  In 1868 he came to Pepin county and bought a farm in Waterville.  In 
1879 he removed to Martin county, Minn., where he homesteaded a farm, which he sold 
the following year, and purchased his present farm in Frankfort Township.  He is a 
republican and has served the town as assessor, supervisor, etc.  He is also a 
member of the G. A. R. Post at Arkansaw.

-Transcribed from the "Historical and Biographical Album of the Chippewa Valley
Wisconsin, 1891-2," pages 770 & 771


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