"History of Lawrence, Orange and Washington Co.'s, Indiana"
Goodspeed Bros. and Co., 1884


LORENZO DOW
VOSS, Justice of the Peace, is the youngest of six sons born to
Clement and
May Voss, whose maiden name was Britton. The birth of Mr. Voss
occurred
May 27, 1818, in Lee County, Va. His father was born in Delaware,
and his
mother was of North Carolina nativity. This family is of
German-Welsh
lineage. In 1816 he is parents emigrated from North Carolina
to Virginia,
where they remained a short time, and then removed to Granger
County,
Tenn., and there the family lived until 1833, when they removed to
Monroe
County, Ind. His father died in 1862 in Owen County. In 1839 the
subject
of this brief sketch came to Lawrence County and settled in
Springville,
and immediately engaged in cabinet-making, at which he
continued until 1856
when he removed to his present place of residence, one
mile and a half
south-east of the town, which was so named because of its
numerous springs.
Mr. Voss was in 1841 united in marriage to Miss Elvira
Wilson, a native
of North Carolina, daughter of James and Mary Wilson, whose
maiden name was
Campbell. When Mrs. Voss was about fourteen years of age
she came with her
parents to Owen County, Ind., and this union was blessed
with twelve
children, and those that are living are as follows: Badora A.,
Esther B.,
Amon C., Ellington T., William E., Arthur C., Emery B. and
Lorenzo C. By
occupation our subject is a farmer and stock-raiser. He now
owns 200 acres
of fairly well improved land. Mr. Voss is an ernest
Republican, and cast
his first Presidential vote for Harrison. In 1870 he
was elected Justice
of the Peace for Perry Township, was re-elected in 1878,
and 1884 was
re-elected again. In 1883 he held the same office by
appointment. He was
in the Quartermaster's service during the late war for
fifteen months. Mr.
and Mrs. Voss are leading members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, and
are among the prominent people of Lawrence County.


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