Vogt Photo Album

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…

Excerpts from a personal autobiography of Albertus Vogt, which was printed in the Ocala Banner in 1893. “In my memory there is a sacred picture which I feel is no sacrilege togive the public a glimpse of, for in the main the public heart is right, thebetter nature predominates in the majority of people.  Born with…

           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…

This is taken from a newspaper article, written by Albertus Vogt, and publishedin the Ocala Daily Banner, Wednesday, August 10, 1910. Albertus describes his early family life in Hancock County, Georgia, during theCivil War: “No man is more grateful in his remembrance to the faith of the coloredpeople, kept as slaves to their owners’ families…