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WILLIAM H. VOGLE, proprietor of the commodious livery stables located in Cassopolis, Cass County, Mich., is an energetic business man and a leading citizen of his home locality. Furnishing to the local and traveling public excellent facilities for speedy and comfortable conveyance, he enjoys extended patronage and rapidly increasing business. Mr. Vogle was born in Wills Township, La Porte County, Ind., April 12, 1854, and is the only son of George and Mary Ann (Jeffrey) Vogle. The father was a native of Germany, and in the Fatherland was trained to habits of industrious thrift, early becoming manly and self-reliant. When twenty years of age he determined to emigrate to the land of promise beyond the sea, and sailed for America. Arriving safe and sound in the United States, he continued his journey to the Westward and located in Indiana, soon receiving employment in the railroad shops at La Porte. A thorough mechanic and adept in the trade of a blacksmith, he engaged in that line of work and continued in the faithful discharge of daily toil until his death, at thirty-three years. An upright man and an excellent citizen, his loss was mourned by many friends and fellow-employes in the railroad shops.

The mother of our subject was a native of the East, her ancestors being Quakers, and among the highly esteemed residents of New Jersey. Mr. Vogle attended the excellent schools of La Porte and received his education and was reared to mature years in his birthplace. Our subject was twenty-four years of age when he made his home in Michigan in 1878. He located in Edwardsburgh, Cass County, where he remained in business for three years. He then received a position as traveling salesman for A.J. Clelland & Son, selling fanning-mills in Ohio for three years. In 1884 he decided to try the pursuit of agriculture and went on to a farm in Ottawa, where he continued to till the soil until the fall of 1891; he then removed to Cassopolis and profitably engaged in the livery business, which from the first was an assured success. Mr. Vogle has a wide acquaintance among the commercial travelers, who are among his best customers. In May, 1893, our subject purchased the property of the Presbyterian Society, adjoining his business location, which he had owned for some time. He is now about to remove his old barns, and will soon erect upon the fine frontage a handsome and substantial brick structure, which will enable him to accommodate a larger stock of teams, and more fully meet the requirements of his large business.

In 1867, William H. Vogle and Miss Mary E. Sweetland were united in marriage. The estimable wife of our subject is a daughter of Augustus and Lydia (Tanner) Sweetland, of Edwardsburgh, to which place she came when eleven years old, and resided with her uncle, Levi Aldrich. Mr. and Mrs. Sweetland were natives of New York, where they were reared and educated. The very pleasant home of Mr. and Mrs. Vogle has been blessed by the birth of one son, George S. Vogle, named in honor of the paternal grandfather, who passed to his rest so many years ago. Our subject is an ardent Republican, and takes an active interest in National and local affairs. Fraternally, he is connected with Ottawa Lodge No. 49, I. O. O. F., being Past Grand Commander of the same.