Another Coat of Arms

JOHN WALKER VOGT Margaret Vassie’s first husband was a tall, handsome man with blue eyesand black hair, who was known to be a gentle, well-educated man.  As an or-phan boy before his sixth birthday, and who probably did not remember hisparents, he learned to be adjustable.  He was fortunate to be reared and edu-cated by an uncle,…

Below follows an article written by my grandmother, Mary Vogt Duval. I never new I had ancestors from Hamilton, Ontario! A kind, loving, thoughtful, caring lady with a wonderfulsense of humor are the words to describe our grandmother, allfive feet, three inches of her.  She was a brunette with veryfair skin and bright, clear blue eyes,…

From:  The Dunnellon Citizen   C. Y. Miller, Publisher Published Every Friday  Member of the Florida Press Assn.Ore Dollar a Year        Affiliated with the National Editorial Assn. The following was first printed in the Ocala Banner in 1899: A Tribute to a Benefactor Written by L. L. Aiken While you and I differ in politics, it does seem to me…

From The Leesburg Commercial (1904) _____   By    _____ NE South & East Fla. Publishing Co.JOS. H. C. PRATT,  –    –  Editor. We notice by the Bartow Courier-Informant that our friend, Mr. Al-bertus Vogt, the “Duke of Dunnellon”,the man who first discovered phosphatein Florida and made fortunes for him-self and others and built up a greatindustry in the State out of the find;…