Albert P. Voorhees

Albert P. Voorhees - Son of Samuel W. and Maria Loucks Voorhees, was born in Sharon, New York, March 22,1840. When he was nine years of age he, with his parents, moved to Sharon, Walworth County, Wisconsin, where he received his education at the common schools, afterwards taking a course at the Wayland University. He then worked on his father's farm in summer and taught school during the winter. October 25, 1862, he sailed from New York on board the steamer "Old America" to Nicaragua, where he took passage on board the "Moses Taylor," arriving in San Francisco November 27th of the above-named year. He immediately proceeded to the Montezuma Hills, Solano County, where he sojourned a few months, and then accepted a clerkship at the Mare Island Navy Yard, a position he held for five years. In 1868 he began the clothing and gentlemen's furnishing business in Vallejo, which he followed until 1876. During his residence in that place he held the office of City Trustee for a number of years. June 24,1876, he began his present business in Napa under the firm name of Alden & Co., located on the corner of First and Main streets. Mr. Yoorhees was united in marriage in Yallejo, Solano County, December 21, 1870, to Miss D. Annie Farnham, a native of New Brunswick. By this union they had two children: Evelina Jaunita and Albert Leland.

History of Napa and Lake Counties,: San Francisco, Cal.: Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers, 1881
Transcribed by Julie Appletoft, February, 2007 Page 580

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