Description: Letter about 8 1/2" x 11" written on Sheriff of Fresno County stationary by one of the Deputies, E. D. Vogelsang. Here is some info I found on him...EDWARD D. VOGELSANG.— The success attained in life by E. D. Vogelsang, one of the leading ranchers and vineyardists of Fresno County, is due to efficiency, coupled with close application to business. He is a native Californian, born in Calaveras County, April 5, 1863, a son of Henry and Anna (Vennigerholz) Vogelsang, the former came to California in 1852 and the latter in 1856, making the journey via Panama. They were the parents of ten children : Henry, was killed in a railroad accident at Santa Barbara, he left a widow and four children ; Charles A., is connected with the C. A. Hooper Lumber Company of San Francisco ; Alexander T., is Assistant Secretary of the Interior at Washington, D. C. ; Edward D. ; Julius, was in the government civil engineering department and was killed in a landslide while on a tour of inspection. He left a widow and one child; Dorothy, is principal of one of the San Francisco schools ; Carl Theodore, is a captain in the LTnited States Navy, a graduate of Annapolis, now com- mander of the dreadnaught, Idaho ; Nellie, is the wife of F. A. Eckstrom, of Stockton; Emma, is matron at the county hospital at Stockton; Anna, is the widow of William Bechtel and resides in San Francisco. The father died at the age of seventy-eight, and the mother aged sixty-four. Until the age of thirteen Edward D. Vogelsang attended the country schools, and after finishing at the city schools in Stockton, engaged in the manufacture of paper in Stockton, using for the firm name the caption. The California Paper Mill Manufacturers of Newspaper and Wrapping Paper. He was also interested in the real estate and insurance business. Since a young man twenty-four years of age, Fresno County has been the scene of his activities. In the year 1888 he located at Huron, Fresno County, where he erected a grain warehouse and engaged in buying and sell- ing grain, representing ]. D. Peters of Stockton and the Eppinger Company of San Francisco, Cal. He also followed the insurance business, insuring crops, cattle, etc., and was constable of the Sixth Township. During this interval he was interested in raising grain and in buying and selling grain lands in that district. In those early days barley sold as low as forty-five cents and wheat sixty-eight cents per hundred. In 1899 he came to Fresno to make his home and for eight years served as deputy sheriff under J. D. Collins. For the past twenty years E. J. Good- rich has been his partner in grain farming, and at present they are farming 3,000 acres of grain land. In 1907 Mr. Vogelsang left the sheriff's office and has devoted his time to grain farming on the west side. The mule power used in his work in the grain business in early days has been superseded by the caterpillar engine and tractor, with which he now does all his work. His recent record of seeding 4.500 acres of barley in sixty days is well known. Some years his barley crop has yielded as high as thirty-six sacks to an acre. and grain forty sacks to an acre. He is the owner of sixty acres on Chit- 1100 HISTORY OF FRESNO COUNTY tenden Avenue, twenty acres of which are planted to muscat grape-vines, twenty acres to j\Iuir peaches, and twenty acres are a mixed orchard. He also owns 100 acres on Shields Avenue, twenty of which is in muscats and twenty in Muir peaches. "Sir. Vogelsang was one of the original locaters of the Fresno Oil Company, in the Coalinga district in 1889, the first discovery of oil in the county. The venture was unsuccessful. He married Eleanor Toomey, a native of San Joaquin County, Cal. Two children have blessed their union: Margaret and Edward, school children. Fraternally Mr. Vogelsang is a member of the Woodmen of the World. A man of liberal views and generous impulses, he is noteworthy among the self-made, successful men of Fresno County.
Price: 50 USD
Location: Fresno, California
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