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Nicholas Andrew Voss
March 30, 1847 - December 29, 1922
First, Middle and Last Name: Nicholas Andrew Voss |
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Date of Birth: March 30, 1847 |
Date of Death: December 29, 1922 |
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Birth: Schleswig-Holstein, Germany (according to findagrave) News clipping states Hamburg, Germany |
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Occupation(s): Photographer |
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Residence(s): (1873) Immigrated to U.S.A.; (1878) Hays City, Kansas; (b.) Mt. Allen cemetery |
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Spouse(s): Marie Schultz |
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Children: Eda Lucy Weist (from her 1987 death certificate); Andrew Voss |
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January 11 1894
The Alton Empire, Alton, Kansas, Thursday, January 11, 1894, p. 1
N. A. Voss, of Hays City, is the champion chess player of Kansas, having won eight out of ten games in the recent three-day tournament at Salina.
January 12 1894
The Salina Semi-Weekly Journal, Salina, Kansas, Friday, January 12, 1894, p. 4
State Chess Tournament.
The third and last day's play in the state chess tournament was inaugurated by N. A. Voss and A. T. Reed in a game upon which depended the championship, with this difference in Voss' favor that by either winning or drawing the game he would gain the championship. After seven hours of careful play the game terminated in a draw. The tournament has been highly successful and will be the means of creating additional interest in this, the grandest of all games. Also a permanent state organization has been perfected and we may look forward to a more successful meeting for next year than any yet held. Visiting players expressed themselves as highly pleased with the courtesy of the home club. They also declared themselves in favor of Salina for the next state tournament. Below is the complete score.
January 19 1894
La Crosse Clarion, La Crosse, Kansas, Friday, January 19, 1894, p. 1
N. A. Voss of Hays City won the State championship at the chess tournament at Salina, and the metropolis of Big Creek thinks it has the world by the heels.
February 23 1894
Republican-Gazette, Gove City, Kansas, Friday, February 23, 1894, p. 1
N. A. Voss, of this city, and W. W. Gibson, of Wa Keeney, are the Kansas contestants in what is known as the Continental Chess tournament participated in by seventy players of the United States and Canada. The matches are played by mail, and it may require two years to finish.—Hays Sentinel
January 05 1895
Ellis County News Republican, Hays, Kansas, Saturday, January 05, 1895, p. 1
N. A. Voss is rapidly acquiring a reputation as a chess player. He was recently offered the editorship of a chess column in one of the big dailies.
January 04 1923
Abilene Daily Reflector, Abilene, Kansas, Thursday, January 04, 1923, p. 1
Chess Player Dies
N. A. Voss of Hays, Held Title For Many Years
Hays, Jan. 4.—N. A. Voss, 65, for many years the champion chess player of Kansas, died Tuesday at his home here.
He was a photographer here forty years. Esperanto language was his hobby.
Mr. Voss leaves one daughter, Mrs. C. F. Weist, wife of the Rev. C. F. Weist, a Hays Normal school instructor, and one son, Andrew Voss, a mining engineer in the Rocky mountain region.
Ellis County News, Hays, Kansas, Thursday, January 04, 1923, p. 5
Town's History In Pictures
N. A. Voss Recorded Growth and Development of Hays—End After Long Illness
Another of the early-day residents of Hays answered the final summons Friday, December 29, when N. A. Voss was called.
Since 1878, the year he came to Hays with his family, Mr. Voss had conducted his business of photography here and he had chronicled more vividly in his photographic prints the record of the growth and development not only of Hays but of Ellis county as well than ever can be set down in writing whatever the skill of the historian.
Mr. Voss came to Hays when the town eked out an existence largely because it was a military outpost with United States soldiers quartered in barracks south of Big Creek. There were marauding bands of Indians on the plains in those days and many there were who questioned whether a photographer could master the struggle to exist in so primitive community. He solved this problem however, and it was not long until his reputation for excellence in his calling developed a patronage that extended to distant communities.
With but few exceptions—limited may be to two or three photographs—the early-day pictures of old Fort Hays and of the town of Hays were made by him. He photographed “officer's row,” the best-known photograph of the old fort. Pictures of Hays in residence and business sections of early days are his work. He also made photographs of the first Normal school building and all the new structures on the present site. In his gallery are hundreds of scenes of farm homes and of men at work in harvest. And above all are thousands of prints of men, women and children.
Mr. Voss, who was 75 years old, was born at Hamburg, Germany and came to the United States in 1873. He was married at Milwaukee the year he came to this country to Marie L. Schultz, who survives him. In 1878 Mr. and Mrs. Voss came to Hays. He learned the photographer's art in Milwaukee under a photographer by the name of Stein—a name famous in those days for Stein was then head of the national association of photographers. Mr. Voss, Stein often said, was the best re-toucher in his employ.
Ten years ago, Mr. Voss built a modern gallery which was fitted with the best of equipment. But he found time for recreation along with his work. He gained nation-wide distinction in 1901 when he became a finalist in the tournament of the National Correspondence Chess Association. The year following he again entered the finals but was unable because of lack of time, to enter the play-off for the championship. At a later date he won the midwest sectional championship of this association and also the Kansas State Championship. Hays has produced, at odd times, a few players of more than ordinary ability at chess but no one ever could sit across the board from Mr. Voss and even make the game interesting for him.
Despite an illness that sapped his strength for two years he remained at work until he was stricken and removed to the hospital for treatment. The funeral held from Trinity Lutheran Church Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock, was in charge of the Knights Templar with Rev. H. M. Snyder preaching the sermon. Burial was in Mt. Allen cemetery. The surviving children are Mrs. C F Wiest of Hays and Andrew Voss of Inspiration, Arizona. Three children died in infancy.
Voss, Nicholas Andrew ➦ bio + additional games
March 30, 1847 - December 29, 1922
