Johann Friederich Vogel, Sr.

"United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MN91-MSF : 19 March 2020), Friedrich Vogel, 1870.

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He died on the steamship "Lahn" en route from Europe

• Frederick's birth, biographical, and death information are available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Vogel
• Friedrich Vogel (May 8, 1823 – October 23, 1892), more commonly known by the Americanized version of his name as Frederick Vogel, Sr., was an American tanner and businessman from Milwaukee, Wisconsin who spent a single one-year term as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly. Together with his cousin Guido Pfister, he founded the Pfister & Vogel tannery.

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• From https://researchworks.oclc.org/archivegrid/collection/data/1236905138:
  • "Frederick Vogel and Guido Pfister immigrated separately to the United States from Württemberg, Germany, in the 1840s. They worked for a short time at a tannery owned by J. F. Schoellkopf in Buffalo, New York, before moving to Milwaukee in 1847.
  • "Once there, Pfister established a leather retail store on Market Street Square while Vogel launched a tannery by the Menomonee River. With the help of their former employer Schoellkopf, who invested money and materials, Pfister and Vogel joined together and formed the G. Pfister & Company in 1848. It was later incorporated and renamed the Pfister & Vogel Leather Company in 1872.
  • "The company prospered between the Civil War and World War I, becoming one of the largest leather producers in the world. The 1920s saw a period of decline for the company however, and in 1931 the Pfister & Vogel Leather Company was split up into two successor businesses: Pfister & Vogel Tanning Company and P & V Atlas Industrial Center, Inc. The tannery continued its previous operations on a smaller scale, while P & V Atlas focused on real estate, storage, and leasing land to other businesses that were once part of the tannery.
  • "In 1968, P & V Atlas acquired Graf's Beverages as a way to diversify their assets. Seeing new potential in these types of investments, P & V changed its name to Univest Corporation the following year. By 1980, Univest focused solely on real estate ventures, but by the end of the decade, the last remaining family member, Fred Vogel III, sold his shares and left the business."