Before Asylum Hill

January 27, 1875

John Brownlee Voorhees was born in Blawenberg, NJ.

October 29, 1900

John Voorhees was ordained a minister in the Reformed Church of America. Rockwell Potter would claim that he and Voorhees, who had met in New York City during their first pastorates, had been ordained in the Reformed Church of American in the same year, 1898. According to Voorhees’s obituary, Voorhees was still attending the New Brunswick Theological Seminary in 1898.

February 6, 1912

John Voorhees and Juliana Denniston Deyo were married in New York City.

June 23, 1912

John Voorhees led the service at the Center Congregational Church in Hartford. According to the Courant, this was Voorhees’s first time preaching in Hartford.