GEORGE VOORHIES
George Voorhies owes his nativity to Hunterdon county, New Jersey, where he was born on the 16th of June, 1855. He remained in New Jersey until about sixteen years of age, when he came to Cass county, Iowa, and located at Anita, and there clerked in a drug store for five years, when he returned to New Jersey, on a visit. In the spring of 1875 he came to his present location, on section 19, of Atlantic township, where he now owns 186 acres of good land, nearly all under cultivation, and nicely adapted to raising stock. Mr. Voorhies was united in marriage, in 1877, to Miss Lizzie Shuart, who is a native of Ohio. By this union, three children have been born----Henry S., Mary Eliza and Hattie May. Mr. Voorhies' father is now living in New Jersey. His mother died in 1857. Mr. V. is a young man of industry and integrity, and quite successful.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pp. 850.
