GEORGE H. VOSS. --- From the age of sixteen years, when he decided to enter the drug business, Mr. Voss has been familiar with pharmacy in all of its details and has risen to rank among the capable and efficient druggists of Lake county, where since 1904 he has been identified with the establishment formerly known as the Owl drug store and at that time owned by Mrs. Kate Craig, of Woodland. The interest of this progressive business man in Lakeport is of no desultory order, but appears in the promotion of enterprises and measures that have aided in the civic and material advancement. A substantial man of business and a member of the world's noble army of productive workers, he exemplifies the aggressive spirit that is developing the west and that eventually will bring Lake county into the position which its resources justify. In partnership with his brother-in-law, J. F. Trimble, now a ranchman at Morgan Hill, Santa Clara county, he bought the business from Mrs. Craig in 1904. At the expiration of two years the business of Vos,___k Trimble was acquired by the senior member, who now conducts the store under his own name and as the sole proprietor.
Born in Montreal, Canada, April 5, 1878, and educated in the schools of his native city, George H. Voss at the age of sixteen years entered the drug store of J. A. Nicoll, of Montreal, where later he was with J. E. F__ipp. a druggist of considerable prominence. Desiring to gain a broad knowledge of the business, at the age of eighteen he matriculated in the Montreal College of Pharmacy, from which he was graduated in 1857 at the completion of the regular course of study. Immediately after graduating he took the provincial examination with success and became a registered pharmacist in Canada. April of 1898 found him in California, where he became an employe in the retail pharmacy of Skinner Bros., at Eureka. During the latter part of 1899 he removed to San Jose and engaged with the drug firm of Perrin & Stephenson for two years, thence coming to Lakeport, where he since has made his home.
The marriage of Mr. Voss was solemnized in this city in October, 1910, and united him with Miss Bent Y. Boggs. a daughter of Lilburn H. Boggs and a lineal descendant of the late ex-Governor Lilburn W. Boggs of Missouri, the first alcalde of the northern district of California. Mr. and Mrs. Voss have one son, Robert Boggs Voss. The distinctively social quality of their hospitalities brings them into local leadership and makes them popular in the Eastern Star, of which they are members, as well as in all circles where culture and honorable character form the necessary qualifications for admission. Fraternally Mr. Voss is a Mason in Hartley Lodge, F. & A. M.. No. 199, at Lakeport, in the philanthropies of which he has been an interested contributor. Since he became a member of the county central committee of the Republican party in 1911 he has devoted considerable attention to political afifairs in Lake county and has endeavored to promote the welfare of the party in this section of the state.
