Biographical Sketch of Robert Voss, Franklin County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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Robert Voss, proprietor of the Bazaar Store of Washington, Mo., is the
son of Samuel and Marie (Knecht) Voss, and was born in the province of
Rhein, Prussia, Germany, in 1838.  The parents were natives of the same
province as their son, born in 1803 and 1804, respectively.  The father
was a blacksmith by trade, and in 1849 immigrated to the United States,
and settled in New York, where he resided nine months, after which he
moved to Washington, Mo., and in 1853 returned to New York, where he
passed the remainder of his days.  He died in 1871, and his wife in 
1880.  She was the mother of seven children, Robert being the fifth. He
was eleven years old when his parents moved to America, and therefore
received most of his education in the schools of New York City and in
Washington, Mo.  At the age of fifteen he began learning wood carving
and ornamental wood work, and was a skillful workman.  He served an
apprenticeship of two years and three months, and for eight years was
foreman in a large factory in New York City.  During the war he was a 
strong Union man, was in the Pennsylvania militia, enlisted in Company
D, Fifth Regiment, in 1860, and served but sixty days.  He was in 
service during the battle of Gettysburg.  In 1863 Mr. Voss established
a cabinet shop and wood carving department in the City of New York, and
in March, 1866, was married to Miss Louisa Haury, a native of Switzer-
land, born in 1842 and who came to the United States when but nine 
years of age.  Her parents died while coming across the ocean.  To Mr.
Voss and wife were born four children: Ida, Oscar, Willie, Otto and
Annie, the latter being an adopted child.  Mr. Voss sold out his goods 
in New York City at the end of 1865, and came to Washington, where he
established a general store, which has for the last eleven years, been
the Bazaar Store of Washington.  He carries a first class stock of 
goods, and is doing a successful business.  He is a stanch Republican
in his political views, and cast his first presidential vote for Abra-
ham Lincoln in 1860.  He is a member of the G. A. R. and of the Masonic
Fraternity, and has been a member of the school board several years.

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