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Daniel Wolsey Voorhees (Vigo County, Indiana, U.S. representative and attorney, D.A.)

b. 1827-09-26 d. 1897-04-10

Vigo County, Indiana, attorney and politician. Ohio native. Married to Anna Hardesty Voorhees. Father of Harriet Cecelia Voorhees, Charles S. Voorhees, James P Voorhees, and Reese H Voorhees. Graduated from Indiana Asbury University in Putnam County, Indiana, in 1849. Attorney in Fountain County in 1850. Member of the Democratic Party. United States district attorney for Indiana from 1858 to 1861. Attorney in Vigo County in 1860. Employed Mary Walsh as s domestic servant in Vigo County in 1860. Member of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana from 1861 to February 23, 1866.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Indiana, Fountain County, Covington, p. 60A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Indiana, Vigo County, Terre Haute, Ward 2, p. 675.

John Fiske and James Grant Wilson, ed., Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, vol. 6, (New York: Appleton, 1889), 307.

“ Voorhees, Daniel Wolsey(1827-1897),” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, accessed April 29, 2021, https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/V000116.

“Daniel Wolsey Voorhees (1827-1897)," Find A Grave, Memorial 1716, accessed April 29, 2021, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1716.

Citation

Voorhees, Daniel Wolsey. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32201401 (November 12, 2026).

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