Isaac I. Voorheis
{{short description|American politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| birth_date = {{birth date|1799|12|22}}
| birth_place = Virginia, United States
| death_date = {{death date and age|1886|8|2|1799|12|22}}
| death_place = Lapeer, Michigan
| party = Democratic
| state_house1 = Michigan
| district1 = Oakland County
| term_start1 = November 2, 1835
| term_end1 = January 1, 1837
| term_start2 = January 3, 1848
| term_end2 = December 31, 1848
}}
Isaac I. Voorheis, also Voorhees or Voorhies, (December 22, 1799 – August 2, 1886) was an American politician who served two terms in the Michigan House of Representatives.
Biography
Isaac I. Voorheis was born in Virginia
His birthplace is given differently in several sources, and there seems to also be confusion between two places named Somerset in two different states. {{harvnb|Bingham|1888|p=660}}, says Voorheis was born in Somerset, New York. {{harvnb|Crossman|1886|p=92}}, provides more specifics about his early life and says he was born in Virginia, as does a personal friend of his in {{harvnb|Baldwin|1888}}. {{harvnb|Van Voorhis|1888|pp=449}}, says his father lived in Somerset County, New Jersey, but moved to Virginia and later to Ovid, New York.
on December 22, 1799,{{sfn|Baldwin|1888}} the son of Isaac Johannes Voorheis and Sarah Nevius. His father fought in the Revolutionary War as a member of the New Jersey state militia.{{sfn|Van Voorhis|1888|pp=449, 460}} His parents moved the family to Seneca County, New York, in 1804, and in 1818 he moved to Riga, New York, and lived there for six years.{{sfn|Crossman|1886|p=92}}
In May 1824, he moved to Waterford, Michigan, and engaged in farming,{{sfn|Baldwin|1888}} and within a few years became active in politics in the county. He was a Democrat, and was a supervisor in Pontiac in 1833 and 1834 and a delegate to the state's first constitutional convention in 1835. He served a term in the Michigan House of Representatives in 1835 and 1836, and another term in 1848.{{sfn|Bingham|1888|p=660}}
Voorheis sold his farm and moved into nearby Pontiac during the Civil War, then moved to Lapeer, Michigan, in 1866, and died there on August 2, 1886.{{sfn|Bingham|1888|p=660}}
= Family =
Voorheis married Ann Merlin,Also spelled Muerlein {{harv|Van Voorhis|1888|p=460}}. of New York, in 1826. She died in 1864, and in 1869 he married Jane E. Hovey, of Pontiac.{{sfn|Crossman|1886|p=92}}
Notes
{{reflist}}
References
- {{Citation
| last = Baldwin
| first = A. G.
| title = Hon. Isaac I. Voorheis
| work = Pontiac Bill Poster
| date = June 27, 1888
| place = Pontiac, Michigan
| page = 6
| volume = 20
| issue = 52
| url = https://digmichnews.cmich.edu/?a=d&d=OaklandPBP18880627-01.1.6
| via = Central Michigan University
| accessdate = 2018-11-28
}}
- {{Citation
| last = Bingham
| first = Stephen D.
| title = Early History of Michigan: With Biographies of State Officers, Members of Congress, Judges and Legislators
| publisher = Thorp & Godfrey
| place = Lansing
| date = 1888
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=GRMVAAAAYAAJ
| accessdate = 2018-11-28
}}
- {{Citation
| editor-first = Daniel D.
| editor-last = Crossman
| title = Proceedings of the Michigan Legislative Reunion
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=a0xGAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA92
| publisher = E. S. Andrews
| location = Williamston, Michigan
| date = 1886
| accessdate = 2018-11-28
}}
- {{Citation
| title = Michigan Manual
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=CEqIAAAAMAAJ
| edition = 1877–78
| date = 1877
| publisher = W. S. George & Co.
| place = Lansing
| ref = {{harvid|Michigan Manual|1877}}
| accessdate = 2018-11-28
}}
- {{Citation
| last = Van Voorhis
| first = Elias W.
| title = Genealogy of the Van Vorhees Family in America
| publisher = Putnam
| location = New York
| date = 1888
| url = https://archive.org/details/genealogyofvanvo00vanv
| accessdate = 2018-11-28
}}
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Voorheis, Isaac I.}}
Category:Democratic Party members of the Michigan House of Representatives
Category:Delegates to the 1835 Michigan Constitutional Convention