LEANDER VOSBURG was born in Peirpoint, Ashtabula County, Ohio, June 14, 1811, being the first white child that was born in that township, and was only four days old when his father participated in opening the first court ever held in that county. He became a voter in 1832, but being sick that fall, did not vote at the presidential election of that year. In the autumn of 1836 he escorted his sister and a younger brother to . . . [a portion of the article is too blurred and damaged to read] . . . his mother had removed after the death of his father, and as the trip had to be made by steamer, canal, boats, and stage, he did not get back in time to vote that year.
In 1840 he voted for Henry Harrison, afterwards voting for the nominees of the Whig party until the birth of the Republican party, when he became and has remained a member of that organization ever since and continues to take an active part and interest in all the current issues of the day.
CONTENT (SALSBURY) VOSBURG was the third child of David and Hannah Salsbury and was born in Genessee, Ontario County, N.Y., May 6th, 1811; while she was a child her parents moved to Erie County, Pa. After the death of her mother, her father with her younger brothers and sisters removed to Elkhart Co., this state, leaving her with an older sister, Mrs. Mary Ferguson who with her husband, George Ferguson were, afterwards, pioneer settlers or West Creek township, in this county.
The subjects of our sketch were married March 11th, 1840, near Lockport, Erie County, Pa., and commenced their married life in Erie, Pa., where Mr. Vosburg followed the ship-carpentering and boat-building business until the fall of 1867, when he turned his dry dock over to his oldest son and removed to Indiana, locating in the vicinity of Lowell, Ind., in February 1868. To this union seven children were born, three dying in infancy, one, John F., was accidently drowned in the bay at Erie, Pa., when he was ten years old. The oldest son, Martin D., died at Erie, Pa., in 1871, which leaves Yates C. and Fannie E. their only surviving children who now reside in Lowell, Ind.
Both sons participated in the war of the Rebellion, Martin serving in 76 Regt. Pa., Vols. and Yates in the U.S. Navy.
This aged couple are quite active considering their old age and are held in high regard by all who know them.
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