Vogt Photo Album

FAMILY RECORD Marriages Page 1: John W. Vogt and Maggie Vassie, married November 21, 1889 at Dunnellon, Florida. Adelaide Bonita Vogt and Claude Watson Thomason, married November 23, 1910 St. John’s Episcopal Church, Jacksonville, Fla. William Vassie Vogt and Helen Ray Heisley, married June 23, 1918, at First Christian Church, Deland. Fla. John Walker Vogt…

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;…

           Copy ofNewspaper Clipping, dated June 28, 1889 LIFE IN FLORIDA by ALBERTUS VOGT THE WITHLACOOCHEE “The water-lily dips its vase of snowOn many a shallow cove along whose graceful edge the purple flowers grow And dappled river beds and tufted sedge,And in the stream beneath their image liesMirrored like beauty in a lover’s eyes.” Almost immediately on…