Newton Co., IN Bio Newton County, Iroquois Township. From A History of Warren, Benton, Jasper & Newton Counties, 1883. JOHN L. VOSBURGH, boatman and farmer, and a native of Onondaga County, New York, was born November 15, 1826, and is the eldest of the fourteen children of Henry I. and Martha (Kilby) Vosburgh, the former a native of New York, born August, 1796, the latter of Connecticut, born January 1802, the one dying in 1848, the other in 1857. John L. Vosburgh followed the occupation of boating from 1848 to 1855. December 19, 1852, he married in Lysander, New York, Miss Nancy M., daughter of Seneca and Hannah (Bradway) Allen, natives of New York and Vermont respectively, and aged eighty-three and seventy-nine years; they reside with Mr. Vosburgh, who in 1855 removed to Michigan and e engaged in lumber dealing until 1857, when he located in Illinois, where he worked for a railroad company. After renting land for nine years in Illinois, he purchased eighty acres of his present home in 1869, broke ten acres and located on the same in l870, cultivated and improved; he has a number and variety of shade trees and strawberry grounds, also many fine horses. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submitted By Gerald Born Email - Wizzofozl0@aol.com