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Personal data Frederick G. (Frederick "Ted" G.) "Ted" Vosburgh 

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Household of Frederick G. (Frederick "Ted" G.) "Ted" Vosburgh

(1) He is married to Doris E. Kennedy.

They got married on January 2, 1929 at Elisabeth, New Jersey, he was 24 years old.Source 9


Child(ren):

  1. (Not public)
  2. Alan F. Vosburgh  1931-1999

The couple are divorced.


(2) He is married to Valerie M. Paterson.

They got married in the year 1949, he was 44 years old.


Notes about Frederick G. (Frederick "Ted" G.) "Ted" Vosburgh

"I did have a wonderful meeting with [Fred, called] Ted, at the National Geographic.  He and his wife took us to lunch at the Press Club and I gave him the idea for the National  Geography Bee."
Email message from his great-niece, Diane Vosburgh Halvorson, Subject: Re: Vosburgh, Date: 1/2/2011, From: (XXXXX@XXXX.XXX).com
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Source Citation: Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Journalists. By William H. Taft. New York: Garland Publishing, 1986. (EncTwCJ)
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Frederick G. Vosburgh
Scrupulous editor of the 'National Geographic'
Friday, 4 March 2005
Frederick G. Vosburgh worked for The National Geographic Magazine for 37 years, starting as an aide to the assistant editor, and ending as Editor, as well as Vice-President of the National Geographic Society. Despite his advancing years, he kept an interested and increasingly concerned eye on current events; a few days before his 100th birthday, he made it clear to his many loved ones that he would not welcome a congratulatory message from President George W. Bush.

Frederick George ("Ted") Vosburgh, writer and editor: born Johnstown, New York 16 September 1904; staff, The National Geographic Magazine 1933-42, 1945-70, Assistant Editor 1951-57, Associate Editor 1957-67, Editor 1967-70; married 1929 Doris Kennedy (died 1986; one son, and one son deceased; marriage dissolved 1948), 1949 Valerie Paterson (died 1997); died Rockville, Maryland 16 February 2005.

Frederick G. Vosburgh worked for The National Geographic Magazine for 37 years, starting as an aide to the assistant editor, and ending as Editor, as well as Vice-President of the National Geographic Society. Despite his advancing years, he kept an interested and increasingly concerned eye on current events; a few days before his 100th birthday, he made it clear to his many loved ones that he would not welcome a congratulatory message from President George W. Bush.

My father, Frederick George Vosburgh, was born in Johnstown in Upstate New York. His mother was a strict Methodist, his father a salesman whose successful inventions included a rubber mushroom-shaped bicycle-tyre plug. Baby Frederick looked so like a teddy bear to his father that he was dubbed "Ted", a nickname he carried for a century.

At 15, after winning a $5 prize in an essay contest sponsored by American Boy Magazine, he was emboldened to create and edit a high-school paper, The Purple and Gold, after the school's colours. "My contributions were more purple than gold," he wrote later, "but the prize and the paper seduced me forever by enabling me to see my own words in print." He was also the editor of the college paper when he attended Syracuse University.

Soon after graduating, he became a professional newspaperman, spending seven years with the Associated Press, first in New York and then in Washington, DC. The National Geographic Magazine was published in Washington, and in 1933 he applied for a job on its editorial staff. After a series of interview-cum-lunches, he was hired. ("I must have used the right fork," was his explanation.) Two years later his first article, "Wonders of the New Washington", was published. For the next seven years he wrote on such disparate subjects as Yellowstone National Park, new metallic alloys and the 17th-century navigator Henry Hudson.

"Reluctant to sit in civilian job while country fighting fateful war." With these words, my 37-year-old father applied to his magazine soon after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, requesting military leave of absence. With me, my younger brother and our mother as dependents, he would hardly have been called up, but he was eager to do his part.

He served, from captain to lieutenant-colonel (1942-45), in the Eighth and Ninth Army Air Forces in England and on the Continent soon after D-Day. For his service as an intelligence officer with the air cover for General George Patton's Third Army in the dash across France, the relief of Bastogne and the final push deep into Germany, he was awarded the Air Medal and the Bronze Star. He returned to his home and to the Geographic on 11 September 1945, five days before his 41st birthday.

Although no one else was involved, his marriage to my mother ended in divorce in 1948. The following year he had the good fortune to meet Valerie ("Pat") Paterson, a journalist who was born in England and raised in Canada. The marriage of Ted and Pat was a supremely happy one, lasting until my stepmother's death in 1997.

Robert M. Poole, in his book Explorers House: National Geographic and the world it made (2004), wrote: "Ted Vosburgh was the steady, decent man who scrutinised every headline, paragraph, phrase and semicolon written for the magazine; he made sure that no mistakes or vagaries of expression appeared in the journal."

Realising that a vital restrictive comma had been omitted from an article that had already gone to press, my father had it inserted, to the tune of $30,000. "It had to be done," he wrote to me, "but I did feel like one of those hard-nosed newspapermen in the movies who dash around yelling 'Stop the presses!' "

During his three years as Editor he published articles on such emerging topics as organic farming and computers. In December 1969 the Geographic made a giant leap for publishing; in addition to its 67-page cover story "First Explorers on the Moon - the Incredible Story of Apollo 11", the edition included "Sounds of the Space Age", a vinyl recording celebrating space travel "from Sputnik to Lunar Landing".

In 1970 he left the Geographic having reached the then compulsory retirement age. His final issue featured the magazine's first major article on saving the environment, "Pollution, Threat to Man's Only Home".

After the death of his cherished Pat, he tried to fill the vacuum by writing his autobiography, "The Century As I Saw It", which was completed on his 96th birthday. (Extracts appeared in the Geographic.) He also emulated his father by indulging in a little inventing: infuriated by squirrels stealing food from his beloved feathered friends, he constructed a feeder which took a bird's weight, but which sent a squirrel hurtling ignominiously to the ground. "The squirrel," he used to say, "is just a rat with a press agent."

For three years my father drove patients to hospitals for the Red Cross and for 10 years, until in his nineties, he took pleasure in delivering Meals on Wheels to what he called "old people". Most of these senior citizens were younger than he, but not nearly so young in heart.

Dick Vosburgh

SOURCE:  Obituary published in The Independent; ; found online at http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/frederick-g-vosburgh-7558 77.html

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Frederick G. Vosburgh

Aaron Vosburgh
1839-1883
Mary Montanye
1844-1918
John R. Vosburgh
1874-> 1930

Frederick G. Vosburgh
1904-2005

(1) 1929

Doris E. Kennedy
± 1905-1986

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Alan F. Vosburgh
1931-1999
(2) 1949

Valerie M. Paterson
1912-1997


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Sources

  1. "http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GED&db=delamontagne," supplied by Stewart, 10 jan 2016., Gedcom : rootsweb, Descendants of Jean Mousnier de la MONTAGNE (1595-1670), compiled by Lois Stewart Society of Descendants of Johannes de la Montagne [(E-ADDRESS) FOR PRIVATE USE\,]
  2. 1910 U.S. Census, Year: 1910; Census Place: Johnstown Ward 4, Fulton, New Yor k; Roll T624_949; Page: 6B; Enumeration District: 31; Image : 223.
    John R Vosburg 35, head, married 9 years, foreman skin [?] mill; Alice B Vosburg 31, wife, married 9 years, 3 births/2 children living;  Edwin B Vosburg 8, son;  Frederick G Vosburg 5, son.
  3. 1920 U.S. Census, Year: 1920;Census Place: Johnstown Ward 4, Fulton, New York ; Roll T625_1113; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 32; Image : 790.
    John R Vosburg 45, head, supervisor of workers skin mill;  Alice B Vosburg 41, wife;
    Edwin B Vosburg 17, son;  Fredrick G Vosburg 15, son;  John R Vosburg 8, son;  Elizabeth Vosburg 6, daughter;  all born New York.
  4. 1930 U.S. Census, Year: 1930; Census Place: Queens, Queens, New York; Roll: 1 590; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 189; Image: 547.0.
    Frederick G Vosburgh 25, head, married at 24, sports writer newspaper;  Doris E Vosburgh 25, wife, married at 24, born New York;  Richard K Vosburgh 9/12, son, born New York
  5. New York Passenger Lists 1820-1957, Records of the U.S. Customs Service, Record Group 36, National Archives, Washington, D.C., Year: 1933; Microfilm Serial: T715; Microfilm Roll: T715_53 59; Line: 24; Page Number: 81.
    Name: Frederick Vosburgh, Birth Date: 16 Sept 1904; Birth Location: Johnstown, New York;  Age: 28 Years 10 Months;  Gender: Male; Address:  2208 38th Street, Washington, D.C., c/o Bureau of Navigation;  Port of Departure: Southampton, England; Port of Arrival: New York, New York;  Arrival Date: 21 Jul 1933; Ship Name: President Roosevelt;
    / online database
  6. Obituary, Newspaper: Watauga Democrat; Publication Date: 4 Mar 2005 ; Publication Place: Boone , NC , USA
    MR. VOSBURGH, FORMER EDITOR OF NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE WAS UNCLE OF ED VOSBURGH
    Frederick "Ted" Vosburgh, a former editor of National Geographic magazine and vice president of the National Geographic Society, died February 16 in Shady Grove, Maryland. He was 100.  Mr. Vosburgh was an occasional visitor to Blowing Rock, where he visited his nephew, Ed Vosburgh. He was the subject of an interview in The Blowing Rocket a number of years ago.
    He was the magazine's editor for three years, retiring in 1970 after 37 years with the organization. He was known for devotion to scrupulous accuracy. According to an internal history of the magazine, his exactitude and precision caused some colleagues to say he had "an instinct for the capillary." When the July 1964 issue was being printed, Vosburgh, then the associate editor halted the presses because a restrictive comma had been omitted from an article. He promptly inserted the punctuation, but the story of the $30,000 comma often would be quoted as an example of his insistence on accuracy. During his editorship, the magazine comprehensively covered the first moon landing and instituted a series of "traveler's maps."  Despite his trepidation over interjecting the magazine into policy debates (the magazine's job was to "hold up the torch, not to apply it," he said), he consented to the call of younger staff members and published the magazine's first extensive environmental report, "Our Ecological Crisis."
    Vosburgh, who was born in Johnstown, N.Y., received early encouragement by winning $5 for an essay in American Boy magazine. He helped start his high school newspaper and at Syracuse University, he was editor of his college yearbook one year and the college newspaper's editor the next year. He graduated in 1925 and shipped out as a sailor to South American ports. After returning, he worked for a year for the Syracuse Post-Standard.  He spent seven years with The Associated Press in New York and Washington and was introduced to then-New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1931. Not fully dressed, Roosevelt greeted two reporters from his berth in a private railroad car. "His polio-wizened legs were plainly visible, with the metal and leather braces that enabled him to stand but not to walk unaided," Vosburgh wrote in a 1997 memo. "Neither newsman even considered reporting this. Such personal details then were off-limits."
    Vosburgh joined National Geographic in 1933. He worked with many of the magazine's famous contributors, including Carl Sandburg, Jacques Cousteau, Jane Goodall, Louis and Richard Leakey, Frank and John Craighead and Roger Tory Peterson.  An avid traveler, he traveled to all seven continents and came within six degrees of the North Pole by air.  A precise speaker with a large and vivid vocabulary, he was inspired to write his memoirs after he told a supermarket cashier of his meeting with Mr. Roosevelt. His unpublished book, "The Century as I Saw It," was excerpted in a National Geographic publication. Even in retirement, Mr. Vosburgh enjoyed dressing well, in collared shirts and ties.
    His marriage to Doris Kennedy Vosburgh ended in divorce. A son from that marriage, Alan F. Vosburgh, died in 1999. His second wife, Valerie "Pat" Paterson Vosburgh, died in 1997.  Survivors include a son from his first marriage, Richard K. Vosburgh of London; a brother John R. Vosburgh of Bethesda; a sister, Elizabeth Peck of Cooperstown, N.Y.; and eleven grandchildren.
    A military funeral is planned at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington D.C. in April. His nephew, Ed Vosburgh and his wife, Tacky, plan to attend the service.
  7. U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca. 1775-2006, National Cemetery Administration, Cemetery: Arlington National Cemetery, Cemetery Address: C/ O Director Arlington, VA 22211, Buried At: Section 8-Bb Ro w 13 Site 1
    Name: Frederick G Vosburgh, Service Info.: LTC US ARMY, Birth Date: 16 Sep 1904, Death Date: 16 Feb 2005
    / online database
  8. Social Security Death Index, Social Security Administration, Number: 579-48-8319;Issue State: District of Columbia;Issu e Date: 1952-1954.
    Name: Federick G. Vosburgh, Born: 16 Sep 1904, Died: 16 Feb 2005; Last Residence: 22041  Falls Church, Fairfax, Virginia
    / MyFamily.com
  9. Newspaper article, The Morning Herald, Gloversville and Johnstown, New York; J anuary 3, 1929
    F. G. VOSBURGH WEDS MISS DORIS KENNEDY
    Miss Doris E. Kennedy of New York City, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Kennedy of Syracuse, and Frederick G. Vosburgh, son of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Vosburgh.
    501 South' Market Street, this city, were united in marriage yesterday in Elisabeth, New Jersey.
    Mies Kennedy has been engaged in newspaper work and Mr. Vosburgh is a member of the New York staff of The Associated Press. Mr. Vosburgh is a graduate of the
    Johnstown High school and tbe Syracuse University.

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Birthday September 16, 1904

  • The temperature on September 16, 1904 was between 9.0 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1904: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.4 million citizens.
    • February 7 » A fire begins in Baltimore, Maryland; it destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
    • February 8 » Aceh War: Dutch Colonial Army's Marechaussee regiment led by General G.C.E. van Daalen launch military campaign to capture Gayo Highland, Alas Highland, and Batak Highland in Dutch East Indies' Northern Sumatra region, which ends with genocide to Acehnese and Bataks people.
    • April 8 » The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
    • April 30 » The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.
    • October 20 » Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.
    • October 27 » The first underground New York City Subway line opens, later designated as the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line.

Day of marriage January 2, 1929

  • The temperature on January 2, 1929 was between -1.3 °C and 0.7 °C and averaged -0.3 °C. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1929: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
    • January 6 » Mother Teresa arrives by sea in Calcutta, India, to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people.
    • April 8 » Indian independence movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest.
    • June 1 » The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.
    • July 24 » The Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it is first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928, by most leading world powers).
    • August 11 » Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.
    • December 24 » A four alarm fire breaks out in the West Wing of the White House in Washington, D.C.

Day of death February 16, 2005

  • The temperature on February 16, 2005 was between -1.9 and 2.4 °C. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 2005: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
    • January 6 » A train collision in Graniteville, South Carolina, United States, releases about 60 tons of chlorine gas.
    • March 28 » An earthquake shakes northern Sumatra with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong), leaving 915–1,314 people dead and 340–1,146 injured.
    • April 23 » The first ever YouTube video, titled "Me at the zoo", was published by co-founder Jawed Karim.
    • October 28 » I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is indicted due to his involvement in the Plame affair.
    • December 7 » Rigoberto Alpizar, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 924 who allegedly claimed to have a bomb, is shot and killed by a team of U.S. federal air marshals at Miami International Airport.
    • December 30 » Tropical Storm Zeta forms in the open Atlantic Ocean, tying the record for the latest tropical cyclone ever to form in the North Atlantic basin.


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