Courant Updated on John Voorhees’s Injury

The Courant would receive another update on Voorhees’s condition on June 24, 1918.

Although the dispatch gave Voorhees’s location as “the front northwest of Toul” – and the Courant reprinted the dispatch in full – the Courant wouldn’t give Voorhees’s specific location until after the war was over.

1. “Mrs. Voorhees and the sister of Dr. Voorhees have been trying to get more information from the YMCA Headquarters in New York, but up to late last night no more news was available of the Hartford pastor’s condition.”
2. “Only ten days ago the ‘Courant’ printed some letters from Dr. Voorhees – the first that he had written since his arrival on foreign soil. In the letters the Hartford pastor told of the great work of the YMCA in France and of the wonderful opportunity he had to help.  His last letter closed with the lines:  ‘I am in for wonderful and trying experiences, but however trying they may be, I know I am in the right place and have happiness and peace in that conviction.’”

The Courant published this article on June 23.

Unattributed, “Rev. Dr. Voorhees Wounded in France,” Hartford Courant, June 23, 1918, page 17