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HENRY VOGT, the father of William, is a native of Germany, born in Hesse on the 17th of August, 1817; spent his boyhood in Germany, where he obtained a good education in the German; in 1848, he, in company with his brother John, emigrated to America, landing in Baltimore on the 9th of May, after a long and tedious voyage. On the 23d of August, 1848, he celebrated his marriage in Baltimore with Margaret Cohn, who is a native of Germany, born on the 28th of May, 1824; in 1849, they started for the West by rail as far as Cumberland, Md., when his wife took passage on the stage-coach for Pittsburgh, while he walked to Brownsville, a distance of seventy-five miles, where he boarded a steamboat and met his wife in Pittsburgh, and on his arrival he found that their baggage had been left at Cumberland by mistake; so he returned to Cumberland, and obtained the baggage, which he sent through by stage, while he returned to Brownsville on foot, from which he returned to Pittsburgh by steamboat, where he joined his wife, after which they took passage on a steamboat for Cincinnati, Ohio, where she remained one week, while he went to Dayton by stage, from where he walked to Darke County, arriving in Gettysburg on the 13th of April, 1849; his wife came through with his brother-in-law on the 17th; he rented a house, moved in, and commenced housekeeping, he working around by the day and month at all kinds of work for about two years, when he hired to work in the tanyard in Gettysburg by the mouth, receiving $15, and boarded himself; after four months, he then received $20 per month, working for about two years, when his wages were raised to $1 per day; at the expiration of two years, he became a partner in the business, operating till March, 1860, when he traded for the tannery, which he still owns; he now owns 51 acres of land in Sec. 24, Adams Township, but resides in Gettysburg on his own property. Mr. Vogt had but little of this world’s goods when he started in life, but by hard labor, industry and correct business habits, he has accumulated a considerable amount of property, in which he has been nobly assisted by his good and industrious wife; he has been identified with the township offices, viz.: Served as Pike Superintendent one year, Supervisor one year, School Director one year, and a member of the Town Council two years. He and his wife are members of the Lutheran Church; they are the parents of nine children, of whom four are living, viz., Christian H., Augustus H., William, and Louisa.