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Author: L. A. Fritsche

AUGUST VOGEL.

    One of the stanch citizens of Milford township, Brown county, Minnesota, who
has won his way to a pleasing competence from the smallest of beginnings, is
August Vogel, living on his splendid farm of two hundred and sixty-three acres.
Mr. Vogel is a native of Posen, Germany, born on August 27, 1854, a son of
William and Henrietta Vogel. William was a laborer all his life and of the
family of four children, only August and a sister, Jennie, now residing in
Sleepy Eye, this state, came to this country. August was eighteen years of age
when he emigrated to America and located near Laporte, Indiana, where he worked
as a farm hand until 1880 when he came to this county. The following four years
found him still laboring as a farm hand, and then he purchased a tract of one
hundred and seventy-three acres and started farming for himself. He has
wonderfully prospered, due to his good management and tireless energy. All his
land is under cultivation and he puts in on an average of one hundred acres to
grains, meeting with the yield customary to this section. He has his farm well
stocked and although his animals are not purebred, they aire of good grade and
he realizes good returns on them.

    On October 10, 1883, August Vogel was united in marriage with Minnie Gehrke,
born in Germany, a daughter of August and Ernestine (Kreigh) Gehrke. The father
was a laborer and after his death in his native land the enterprising mother
brought her four children, Minnie, Bertha, Emma and August, to America and here
they all became well established. Mr. and Mrs. Vogel are the parents of ten
children, namely: Margaret, Bertha, William, Edwin, Minnie. Emil, August,
Rudolph, Otto and Frieda. Margaret became the wife of Albert Werner and the
mother of three children, Emil, Otto and Gertrude. Bertha married William
Retless and has five children, Herman, Alice, Hilda, Elenora and Edna. Emil
Vogel married Lena Hammerow and has one child, August. Minnie married Otto Moll
and has three children, Harold, Armand and Edgar.

     Both Mr. and Mrs. Vogel are faithful members of the German Lutheran church
and politically he is an independent voter. He is considered one of the stalwart
and substantial citizens of his township and has won his way in life alone and
unaided.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:
HISTORY OF BROWN COUNTY MINNESOTA
ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS

L. A. FRITSCHE. M. D.
Editor

With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records
of Many of the Old Families

VOLUME II
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana


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