OMAHA: THE GATE CITY
               and                     
DOUGLAS COUNTY
NEBRASKA
[STAMPED JAN 6  1965]
A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and
Achievement






ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME II

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GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST
OF LATER-DAY SAINTS]



CHICAGO:

THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1917



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ISAAC NEWTON VOGEL

Isaac Newton Vogel, president and general manager of the Big 4 Realty Company of 
Omaha, was born at Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, in 1874. His father Isaac Sylvester 
Vogel, was born in Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, and his  parents came from 
Germany to the United States. The family home was established in Pennsylvania 
and the father was there residing at the time of outbreak of the Civil war. In 
full sympathy with the Union cause, he enlisted as a soldier of Company D, Fourth 
Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, with which he served from the outbreak of 
hostilities until the close. He was captured at Harpers Ferry and sent to 
Andersonville, where he was incarcerated for nine

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months, and on his release he was mustered out, the war having then been brought 
to a successful termination.  He never recovered from the effects of his 
imprisonment, however.  From 1866 until 1884 he was engaged in the manufacture 
of lumber at Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, and from the latter year until five years 
prior to his death continued in the same line of business at Port Allegany, 
Pennsylvania, his last years being spent in retirement.  He married Miss Emma E. 
Parson, a native of the Keystone state.

It was in the schools of Port Allegany that Isaac N. Vogel pursued his education 
and in July, 1901, when a young man of twenty-seven years, he came to Omaha, 
where for seven years he was engaged in the life insurance business. In 1908 he 
turned his attention to the real estate and fire insurance business under the 
name of the Vogel Realty Agency and operated under that name, negotiating many 
important realty transfers and building up a business which reached large and 
profitable proportions.  On December 11, 1916, he organized the Big 4 Realty 
Company.

Mr. Vogel has been twice married.  On the 26th of December, 1895, in Portville, 
New York, he wedded Miss Mittie Strang, who passed away December 29 1900, leaving 
two children, Helen B. and Millard 0.  On the 22d of March, 1905, in Neligh, 
Nebraska, Mr. Vogel was again married, his second union being with Frances 
Elizabeth Myers, by whom he has three children  Sylvester William, Georgianna 
E. and Gretchen R.

Mr. Vogel belongs to the Woodmen of the World and to the Fraternal Aid Union. 
Politically he maintains an independent course, casting his ballot according to 
the dictates of his judgment.  He is interested in all matters of progressive 
citizenship and cooperates in well defined plans and measures for the public 
good.

[Georgeanna said that: "In presidential elections he would not vote for 
the Republican or Democratic candidate but voted for those candidates who were 
not likely to get many votes. 'Those guys will get enough votes anyway'".]